JPA Contracts in England

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JPA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JPA over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 556 557
Rank change year-on-year +91 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing JPA 85 80 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 0.75% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 53 168
10th Percentile £375 £434 £388
25th Percentile £500 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +8.25% -3.00%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £619
90th Percentile £700 £680 £691
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £498
% change year-on-year - +5.53% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £63.25
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £69.00
UK median hourly rate £45.88 - £63.25
% change year-on-year - - +58.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

JPA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,836 10,653 18,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.89% 22.65% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,490 7,931 14,067
10th Percentile £350 £394 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 136 204
10th Percentile £22.73 £32.88 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £76.89
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JPA in England

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JPA in England.

Daily rate trend for JPA in England

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in England

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JPA in England.

Hourly rate trend for JPA in England

JPA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +86 58 £545 -6.24% 11
North of England +36 23 £525 -22.79% 1
North West +28 17 £525 -22.79%
Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 1
South West +1 3 £400 -23.81%
East of England +1 1 £395 +5.33%
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (4.71%) Amazon MSK
2 4 (4.71%) Amazon S3
2 4 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (3.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (3.53%) Azure
4 1 (1.18%) GCP
4 1 (1.18%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.59%) SSH
2 3 (3.53%) HTTP
2 3 (3.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.88%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (25.88%) Relational Database
2 15 (17.65%) Oracle Database
3 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.24%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (8.24%) MySQL
5 4 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.71%) Redis
6 3 (3.53%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.18%) DB2
8 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (40.00%) JUnit
2 33 (38.82%) Git
3 25 (29.41%) JIRA
4 18 (21.18%) Jenkins
5 11 (12.94%) Maven
6 10 (11.76%) Cucumber
7 6 (7.06%) Mockito
8 5 (5.88%) Liquibase
9 4 (4.71%) Gatling
9 4 (4.71%) ScalaTest
10 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket
10 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (2.35%) Artifactory
11 2 (2.35%) Eclipse
11 2 (2.35%) GitLab
11 2 (2.35%) Gradle
11 2 (2.35%) IntelliJ
11 2 (2.35%) JMeter
12 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.18%) Subversion
General
1 22 (25.88%) Public Sector
2 20 (23.53%) Banking
3 16 (18.82%) Finance
4 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Investment Banking
5 8 (9.41%) Social Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Front Office
7 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 74 (87.06%) Developer
2 60 (70.59%) Java Developer
3 12 (14.12%) Oracle Developer
4 11 (12.94%) DBA
4 11 (12.94%) Oracle DBA
5 9 (10.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 9 (10.59%) SQL Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Lead
6 8 (9.41%) Lead Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Lead Java Developer
7 7 (8.24%) SQL DBA
8 6 (7.06%) Junior
8 6 (7.06%) Junior Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Junior Java Developer
9 5 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (5.88%) Senior
10 4 (4.71%) Core Java Developer
10 4 (4.71%) MySQL Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (87.06%) Spring
2 68 (80.00%) Hibernate
3 57 (67.06%) Spring Boot
4 56 (65.88%) REST
5 27 (31.76%) React
6 18 (21.18%) Spring Security
7 14 (16.47%) Web Services
8 12 (14.12%) JSON
8 12 (14.12%) XML
9 10 (11.76%) J2EE
10 9 (10.59%) SOAP
11 7 (8.24%) Spring MVC
12 5 (5.88%) CSS
12 5 (5.88%) HTML
12 5 (5.88%) JDBC
12 5 (5.88%) RESTful
13 4 (4.71%) Akka
13 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
13 4 (4.71%) Play Framework
13 4 (4.71%) spray
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.82%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 9 (10.59%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (7.06%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.71%) Credit Derivative
5 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.71%) Derivative
6 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.18%) Linux
2 15 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (70.59%) Agile
2 48 (56.47%) Microservices
3 44 (51.76%) Scrum
4 33 (38.82%) Front End Development
5 32 (37.65%) CI/CD
5 32 (37.65%) DevOps
6 30 (35.29%) High Availability
6 30 (35.29%) Unit Testing
7 26 (30.59%) Mentoring
8 23 (27.06%) SDLC
8 23 (27.06%) TDD
9 22 (25.88%) Software Engineering
10 18 (21.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 17 (20.00%) BDD
11 17 (20.00%) Observability
12 16 (18.82%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (18.82%) Software Architecture
13 15 (17.65%) Release Management
14 13 (15.29%) Acceptance Criteria
14 13 (15.29%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 85 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (34.12%) SQL
3 25 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.24%) Perl
4 7 (8.24%) Python
5 5 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.88%) Scala
6 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.35%) Bash
7 2 (2.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 43 (50.59%) SC Cleared
1 43 (50.59%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) QA
System Software
1 28 (32.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (34.12%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) Grafana
3 4 (4.71%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.53%) Ansible
5 2 (2.35%) Istio
6 1 (1.18%) Kibana
6 1 (1.18%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (23.53%) Oracle
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.35%) IBM
4 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.18%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.18%) Tradeweb