JPA Contracts in England

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 555 556
Rank change year-on-year +86 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing JPA 82 87 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.18% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 0.80% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 58 162
10th Percentile £375 £438 £388
25th Percentile £481 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +9.38% -1.54%
75th Percentile £603 £635 £616
90th Percentile £715 £686 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £490
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £62.44
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £64.13
75th Percentile - - £68.19
90th Percentile - - £68.75
UK median hourly rate £45.88 - £63.25
% change year-on-year - - +58.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 advertised in England 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 7,629 10,818 18,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.77% 22.66% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,384 8,061 14,269
10th Percentile £350 £400 £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 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 131 200
10th Percentile £22.50 £30.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +12.23%
75th Percentile £66.50 £75.00 £67.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +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 3 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 3 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 +94 55 £540 -10.00% 16
North of England +46 23 £525 -22.79%
North West +23 17 £525 -22.79%
Yorkshire - 6 £550 -
South West +8 3 £400 -23.81% 1
East of England +2 1 £395 +5.33% 1
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 (12.20%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.95%) AWS
2 4 (4.88%) Amazon MSK
2 4 (4.88%) Amazon S3
2 4 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (3.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (1.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.98%) SSH
2 3 (3.66%) HTTP
2 3 (3.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (26.83%) Relational Database
2 15 (18.29%) Oracle Database
3 9 (10.98%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.54%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (7.32%) MySQL
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.88%) Redis
7 3 (3.66%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (40.24%) JUnit
2 32 (39.02%) Git
3 25 (30.49%) JIRA
4 17 (20.73%) Jenkins
5 10 (12.20%) Cucumber
5 10 (12.20%) Maven
6 5 (6.10%) Liquibase
6 5 (6.10%) Mockito
7 4 (4.88%) Gatling
7 4 (4.88%) ScalaTest
8 3 (3.66%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.44%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.44%) GitLab
10 1 (1.22%) Gradle
10 1 (1.22%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.22%) NeoLoad
10 1 (1.22%) Postman
10 1 (1.22%) Serenity BDD
General
1 22 (26.83%) Public Sector
2 18 (21.95%) Banking
3 14 (17.07%) Finance
4 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Investment Banking
5 8 (9.76%) Social Skills
6 4 (4.88%) Front Office
7 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 72 (87.80%) Developer
2 58 (70.73%) Java Developer
3 12 (14.63%) Oracle Developer
4 11 (13.41%) DBA
4 11 (13.41%) Oracle DBA
5 9 (10.98%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 9 (10.98%) SQL Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Lead
6 8 (9.76%) Lead Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Lead Java Developer
7 7 (8.54%) SQL DBA
8 6 (7.32%) Junior
8 6 (7.32%) Junior Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Junior Java Developer
9 5 (6.10%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Core Java Developer
10 4 (4.88%) MySQL DBA
10 4 (4.88%) MySQL Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Senior
10 4 (4.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (87.80%) Spring
2 67 (81.71%) Hibernate
3 55 (67.07%) REST
3 55 (67.07%) Spring Boot
4 26 (31.71%) React
5 17 (20.73%) Spring Security
6 13 (15.85%) Web Services
7 11 (13.41%) JSON
7 11 (13.41%) XML
8 9 (10.98%) J2EE
8 9 (10.98%) SOAP
9 7 (8.54%) Spring MVC
10 5 (6.10%) JDBC
11 4 (4.88%) Akka
11 4 (4.88%) CSS
11 4 (4.88%) HTML
11 4 (4.88%) Play Framework
11 4 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (4.88%) RESTful
11 4 (4.88%) spray
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (18.29%) Management Information System
3 9 (10.98%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (6.10%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.88%) Credit Derivative
5 4 (4.88%) Derivative
6 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.73%) Linux
2 14 (17.07%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (70.73%) Agile
2 45 (54.88%) Microservices
3 44 (53.66%) Scrum
4 33 (40.24%) Front End Development
5 30 (36.59%) DevOps
5 30 (36.59%) High Availability
6 29 (35.37%) CI/CD
6 29 (35.37%) Unit Testing
7 26 (31.71%) Mentoring
8 23 (28.05%) SDLC
8 23 (28.05%) TDD
9 22 (26.83%) Software Engineering
10 18 (21.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 17 (20.73%) BDD
11 17 (20.73%) Observability
12 16 (19.51%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (19.51%) Software Architecture
13 15 (18.29%) Release Management
14 13 (15.85%) Acceptance Criteria
14 13 (15.85%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 82 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (35.37%) SQL
3 24 (29.27%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.54%) Perl
4 7 (8.54%) Python
5 5 (6.10%) PL/SQL
5 5 (6.10%) Scala
6 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.44%) Bash
7 2 (2.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 43 (52.44%) SC Cleared
1 43 (52.44%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.95%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) QA
System Software
1 26 (31.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (32.93%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.54%) Grafana
3 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.66%) Ansible
5 2 (2.44%) Istio
6 1 (1.22%) Kibana
6 1 (1.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (23.17%) Oracle
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.22%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.22%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.22%) Tradeweb