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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 425 411
Rank change year-on-year -130 -14 +91
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 92 94 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% 1.31% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 76 85
10th Percentile £344 £268 £385
25th Percentile £404 £318 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £385 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -30.00% -3.93%
75th Percentile £537 £481 £650
90th Percentile £575 £550 £765
UK median daily rate £440 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -27.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -

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 9,997 7,191 7,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.34% 25.54% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,576 4,855 5,186
10th Percentile £381 £358 £361
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £53.90 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -83 38 £440 +17.33% 5
North of England -60 22 £475 +49.09% 2
Midlands -59 20 £335 -18.79% 1
West Midlands -38 16 - - 1
Yorkshire -32 12 £413 +30.00% 1
North West -46 10 £537 +66.51% 1
South East -68 9 £450 +16.88% 1
East of England - 4 - -
East Midlands -29 3 £335 -10.67%
South West -37 3 £300 -45.45% 2
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 20 (21.74%) Confluence
2 10 (10.87%) Camunda
3 4 (4.35%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.04%) AWS
2 29 (31.52%) OpenShift
3 10 (10.87%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.78%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (8.70%) Azure
5 8 (8.70%) GCP
5 8 (8.70%) GitHub
5 8 (8.70%) Serverless
6 6 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.43%) AWS KMS
7 5 (5.43%) Route 53
8 4 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (4.35%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (21.74%) Relational Database
3 14 (15.22%) SQL Server
4 10 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (10.87%) MySQL
5 6 (6.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (6.52%) Metadata
5 6 (6.52%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.43%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.43%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.35%) Couchbase
7 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.35%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.35%) Pinecone
7 4 (4.35%) Power BI
7 4 (4.35%) Weaviate
8 3 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (65.22%) Jenkins
2 40 (43.48%) Git
3 36 (39.13%) JUnit
4 34 (36.96%) Maven
5 29 (31.52%) Gradle
5 29 (31.52%) Mockito
6 28 (30.43%) JIRA
7 26 (28.26%) SonarQube
8 14 (15.22%) GitLab
9 12 (13.04%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (10.87%) REST Assured
11 9 (9.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket
12 4 (4.35%) Cucumber
12 4 (4.35%) DbUnit
13 3 (3.26%) jMock
14 2 (2.17%) Selenium
15 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
15 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
15 1 (1.09%) GoCD
General
1 29 (31.52%) Finance
2 27 (29.35%) Social Skills
3 24 (26.09%) Banking
4 22 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (17.39%) Public Sector
6 13 (14.13%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.35%) Aerospace
8 4 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Back Office
10 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.09%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 70 (76.09%) Developer
2 47 (51.09%) Java Developer
3 19 (20.65%) Senior
4 15 (16.30%) Senior Developer
4 15 (16.30%) Senior Java Developer
4 15 (16.30%) Software Developer
5 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 9 (9.78%) Java Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Lead
7 8 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.70%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL Specialist
9 5 (5.43%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (4.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Java Software Developer
10 4 (4.35%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (78.26%) Spring Boot
2 70 (76.09%) Spring
3 48 (52.17%) JPA
4 36 (39.13%) Kafka
4 36 (39.13%) REST
4 36 (39.13%) RESTful
5 33 (35.87%) React
6 28 (30.43%) Redux
7 24 (26.09%) Web Services
8 21 (22.83%) AngularJS
9 18 (19.57%) HTML
9 18 (19.57%) SOAP
10 17 (18.48%) CSS
11 16 (17.39%) Spring MVC
12 15 (16.30%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (16.30%) Spring Cloud
13 10 (10.87%) SQLAlchemy
14 9 (9.78%) JDBC
14 9 (9.78%) Swagger
15 8 (8.70%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.74%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (20.65%) Data Structures
3 14 (15.22%) Cloud Native
4 12 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (9.78%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (5.43%) AI Agents
7 4 (4.35%) Life Science
8 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.17%) Derivative
10 1 (1.09%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
10 1 (1.09%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Linux
1 4 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (66.30%) Agile
2 56 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 52 (56.52%) Microservices
4 40 (43.48%) Scrum
5 34 (36.96%) Test Automation
6 33 (35.87%) TDD
7 24 (26.09%) Containerisation
8 22 (23.91%) DevOps
9 21 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (21.74%) User Stories
11 19 (20.65%) MVC
11 19 (20.65%) SDLC
12 18 (19.57%) Code Quality
12 18 (19.57%) Design Patterns
13 17 (18.48%) Clean Code
14 16 (17.39%) Kanban
15 15 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (16.30%) Sprint Planning
16 13 (14.13%) Computer Science
16 13 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 86 (93.48%) Java
2 50 (54.35%) SQL
3 25 (27.17%) PL/SQL
4 21 (22.83%) JavaScript
5 14 (15.22%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.52%) Python
7 4 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.26%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.26%) Scala
9 1 (1.09%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (14.13%) Degree
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) QA
System Software
1 35 (38.04%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 17 (18.48%) Grafana
1 17 (18.48%) Kubernetes
2 16 (17.39%) Control-M
3 15 (16.30%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (1.09%) Istio
5 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (38.04%) Oracle
2 9 (9.78%) IBM
2 9 (9.78%) Veracode
3 6 (6.52%) Google
4 5 (5.43%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.35%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.09%) Splunk
6 1 (1.09%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.09%) webMethods