Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JPA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JPA over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 568 608
Rank change year-on-year +86 +40 -60
Contract jobs citing JPA 94 116 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 0.88% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 80 179
10th Percentile £375 £439 £388
25th Percentile £425 £452 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +9.38% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £790 £653 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £470 £520
% change year-on-year +9.07% -9.64% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £63.25
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £63.25
% change year-on-year - - +58.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JPA is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,897 13,217 23,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.91% 23.20% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 9,648 17,304
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 149 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.70 £81.25 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the UK

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England +92 80 £540 +2.86% 12
London +92 53 £550 -8.33% 12
UK excluding London +46 40 £513 +9.07%
Work from Home +97 26 £550 +10.00% 4
North of England +33 23 £525 +17.98%
North West +20 17 £525 +17.98%
Scotland +45 13 £468 -16.89%
Yorkshire - 6 £550 -
South West +9 3 £400 -23.81%
East of England +7 1 £395 -

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (12.77%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) Apache
2 2 (2.13%) JBoss
2 2 (2.13%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.13%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 31 (32.98%) AWS
2 5 (5.32%) Amazon MSK
2 5 (5.32%) Amazon S3
2 5 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (3.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (2.13%) Azure
5 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) SSH
2 3 (3.19%) HTTP
2 3 (3.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.40%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (23.40%) Relational Database
2 18 (19.15%) Oracle Database
3 7 (7.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.38%) MySQL
5 5 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.26%) Redis
7 3 (3.19%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (35.11%) JUnit
2 30 (31.91%) Git
3 23 (24.47%) JIRA
4 16 (17.02%) Jenkins
5 10 (10.64%) Maven
6 8 (8.51%) Cucumber
7 7 (7.45%) Liquibase
8 5 (5.32%) Mockito
9 4 (4.26%) Gatling
9 4 (4.26%) ScalaTest
10 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket
10 3 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (2.13%) Artifactory
11 2 (2.13%) GitLab
11 2 (2.13%) Subversion
12 1 (1.06%) Eclipse
12 1 (1.06%) IntelliJ
12 1 (1.06%) JMeter
12 1 (1.06%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (1.06%) NeoLoad
General
1 24 (25.53%) Public Sector
2 19 (20.21%) Finance
3 14 (14.89%) Banking
4 12 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.45%) Social Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.19%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 78 (82.98%) Developer
2 63 (67.02%) Java Developer
3 12 (12.77%) Oracle Developer
4 11 (11.70%) DBA
4 11 (11.70%) Oracle DBA
5 10 (10.64%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (10.64%) SQL Developer
6 9 (9.57%) Java Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 8 (8.51%) Full Stack Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Lead
7 8 (8.51%) Lead Developer
7 8 (8.51%) Lead Java Developer
8 7 (7.45%) SQL DBA
9 6 (6.38%) Junior
9 6 (6.38%) Junior Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Junior Java Developer
10 5 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 4 (4.26%) MySQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (88.30%) Spring
2 71 (75.53%) Hibernate
3 67 (71.28%) Spring Boot
4 63 (67.02%) REST
5 26 (27.66%) React
6 18 (19.15%) Spring Security
7 16 (17.02%) AngularJS
8 15 (15.96%) CSS
8 15 (15.96%) HTML
9 11 (11.70%) Web Services
9 11 (11.70%) XML
10 9 (9.57%) JSON
11 7 (7.45%) J2EE
11 7 (7.45%) SOAP
12 6 (6.38%) Spring MVC
13 5 (5.32%) JDBC
13 5 (5.32%) RESTful
14 4 (4.26%) Akka
14 4 (4.26%) Play Framework
14 4 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.96%) Management Information System
2 14 (14.89%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (11.70%) Public Cloud
4 7 (7.45%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.26%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (3.19%) Derivative
7 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.89%) Linux
2 13 (13.83%) Unix
3 1 (1.06%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (74.47%) Agile
2 55 (58.51%) Microservices
3 42 (44.68%) CI/CD
4 40 (42.55%) Scrum
5 34 (36.17%) Front End Development
6 33 (35.11%) SDLC
7 32 (34.04%) DevOps
7 32 (34.04%) Unit Testing
8 31 (32.98%) Software Engineering
9 30 (31.91%) High Availability
10 26 (27.66%) Mentoring
11 22 (23.40%) TDD
12 20 (21.28%) Full Stack Development
13 18 (19.15%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 18 (19.15%) Observability
14 16 (17.02%) BDD
15 14 (14.89%) Software Architecture
16 13 (13.83%) Continuous Integration
16 13 (13.83%) Operational Stability
16 13 (13.83%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (40.43%) SQL
3 35 (37.23%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.38%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.32%) Perl
5 5 (5.32%) Python
6 4 (4.26%) Scala
7 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 45 (47.87%) SC Cleared
1 45 (47.87%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.15%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) QA
2 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.06%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (27.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (30.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.45%) Grafana
3 4 (4.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.19%) Ansible
5 2 (2.13%) Istio
6 1 (1.06%) Kibana
6 1 (1.06%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (23.40%) Oracle
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.13%) IBM
4 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.06%) VMware