Hibernate Contract Job Trends in England

Hibernate
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Hibernate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 424 444
Rank change year-on-year -74 +20 +38
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 81 51 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 0.93% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 33 65
10th Percentile £331 £280 £375
25th Percentile £363 £358 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £420 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -23.64% -7.56%
75th Percentile £536 £488 £650
90th Percentile £596 £538 £850
UK median daily rate £440 £413 £533
% change year-on-year +6.67% -22.61% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +62.50% -36.00%
75th Percentile £56.88 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +62.50% -36.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Hibernate 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 7,966 5,484 7,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.21% 22.39% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,329 3,802 5,345
10th Percentile £358 £365 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 89 180
10th Percentile £34.00 £28.76 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £37.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

Hibernate
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hibernate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Hibernate job vacancy trend in England

Hibernate
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hibernate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hibernate

Hibernate
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hibernate in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hibernate in England

Hibernate
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hibernate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hibernate

Hibernate
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 Hibernate within the England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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 -44 27 £540 +30.43% 8
West Midlands -50 22 £475 +13.10%
Midlands -57 22 £475 +18.16%
North of England -59 18 £360 -22.58% 4
North West -37 14 £358 -10.95%
South East -31 13 £375 - 7
North East -15 2 £451 -2.96% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 3
South West - 1 £525 - 5
East of England - 1 - -
Hibernate
UK

Hibernate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.64%) Apache
2 6 (7.41%) Confluence
3 4 (4.94%) JBoss
3 4 (4.94%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.47%) Drupal
4 2 (2.47%) WordPress
5 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 51 (62.96%) AWS
2 23 (28.40%) GitHub
3 19 (23.46%) Amazon S3
3 19 (23.46%) Amazon SQS
3 19 (23.46%) Azure
4 18 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (22.22%) Route 53
5 15 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (17.28%) AWS KMS
7 13 (16.05%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (13.58%) GCP
9 6 (7.41%) Serverless
10 5 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.17%) Apigee
10 5 (6.17%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (6.17%) OpenShift
11 4 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (4.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 4 (4.94%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (4.94%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.64%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.94%) DNS
2 4 (4.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (54.32%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (23.46%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (23.46%) DynamoDB
3 18 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (22.22%) MySQL
4 17 (20.99%) NoSQL
5 15 (18.52%) Relational Database
6 6 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.41%) Redis
7 4 (4.94%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.23%) Metadata
9 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (59.26%) Git
2 37 (45.68%) JUnit
3 33 (40.74%) Jenkins
4 22 (27.16%) Maven
4 22 (27.16%) Mockito
5 16 (19.75%) SonarQube
6 14 (17.28%) GitLab
7 11 (13.58%) DbUnit
7 11 (13.58%) jMock
8 9 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 9 (11.11%) JIRA
9 5 (6.17%) Cucumber
9 5 (6.17%) Gradle
9 5 (6.17%) JMeter
9 5 (6.17%) Postman
9 5 (6.17%) Selenium
9 5 (6.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (4.94%) Eclipse
10 4 (4.94%) IntelliJ
11 2 (2.47%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (34.57%) Public Sector
2 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Finance
4 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.94%) Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (76.54%) Developer
2 55 (67.90%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (14.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Lead
8 5 (6.17%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Apigee Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Architect
9 4 (4.94%) AWS Architect
9 4 (4.94%) Backend Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.94%) Java Architect
9 4 (4.94%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (97.53%) Spring
2 61 (75.31%) Spring Boot
3 51 (62.96%) RESTful
4 38 (46.91%) JPA
5 33 (40.74%) REST
6 27 (33.33%) AngularJS
7 21 (25.93%) SOAP
8 20 (24.69%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (23.46%) Web Services
10 16 (19.75%) Spring Batch
10 16 (19.75%) Spring Integration
11 15 (18.52%) ActiveMQ
11 15 (18.52%) Kafka
12 13 (16.05%) React
12 13 (16.05%) Spring MVC
13 11 (13.58%) JSON
13 11 (13.58%) PowerMock
14 10 (12.35%) HTML
14 10 (12.35%) OAuth
14 10 (12.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.93%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.23%) LIMS
4 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.99%) Linux
2 4 (4.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (82.72%) Microservices
2 54 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 46 (56.79%) Agile
4 30 (37.04%) Containerisation
5 29 (35.80%) Scrum
6 28 (34.57%) DevOps
7 26 (32.10%) TDD
8 19 (23.46%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (19.75%) API Design
11 15 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (17.28%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (17.28%) MVC
13 13 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (16.05%) Open Source
13 13 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (14.81%) API Development
14 12 (14.81%) Code Quality
14 12 (14.81%) Kanban
15 11 (13.58%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 81 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (49.38%) SQL
3 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.94%) Scala
5 2 (2.47%) C#
5 2 (2.47%) PHP
5 2 (2.47%) Python
6 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.11%) Degree
4 8 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.94%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.94%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.47%) OCP
6 2 (2.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.94%) NIST
1 4 (4.94%) PCI DSS
1 4 (4.94%) QA
System Software
1 51 (62.96%) Docker
2 10 (12.35%) Postfix
3 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.52%) Grafana
3 7 (8.64%) Terraform
4 6 (7.41%) Ansible
5 5 (6.17%) Progress Chef
5 5 (6.17%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.94%) Puppet
7 1 (1.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Jaspersoft
1 14 (17.28%) Oracle
2 11 (13.58%) Atlassian
3 5 (6.17%) VMware
4 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.94%) Splunk
4 4 (4.94%) webMethods
5 2 (2.47%) Google
5 2 (2.47%) Veracode
6 1 (1.23%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.23%) Okta
6 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) Sybase