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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 407 404
Rank change year-on-year -162 -3 +70
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 64 94 124
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 1.55% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 74 92
10th Percentile £400 £268 £375
25th Percentile £406 £320 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £401 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -27.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £516 £479 £650
90th Percentile £538 £547 £766
UK median daily rate £450 £402 £550
% change year-on-year +11.94% -26.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -41.82%
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -41.82%

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 8,457 6,078 7,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.49% 22.01% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,528 4,153 5,023
10th Percentile £366 £350 £359
25th Percentile £431 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 158 216
10th Percentile £28.58 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £45.94 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% -2.33%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.45% -0.23% -8.33%

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 August 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 August 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 -85 23 £425 +10.39% 32
Midlands -70 16 £475 +17.00% 8
West Midlands -40 15 £475 -5.00% 5
North of England -80 13 £431 +27.48% 11
Yorkshire -36 11 £431 +36.47% 3
South East -76 7 £450 -10.00% 7
East of England - 5 - - 1
South West -41 3 £525 -4.55% 3
North West -53 2 - - 6
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 5 (7.81%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) Camunda
2 2 (3.13%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.06%) AWS
2 19 (29.69%) OpenShift
3 13 (20.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 13 (20.31%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (20.31%) Amazon S3
3 13 (20.31%) Amazon SQS
3 13 (20.31%) AWS KMS
3 13 (20.31%) Route 53
4 9 (14.06%) Azure
5 6 (9.38%) GCP
6 5 (7.81%) GitHub
7 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.69%) Serverless
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.56%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.06%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (20.31%) Amazon Aurora
2 13 (20.31%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (20.31%) DynamoDB
3 10 (15.63%) MySQL
4 9 (14.06%) Relational Database
5 5 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (6.25%) Couchbase
6 4 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.25%) Oracle Database
6 4 (6.25%) Power BI
6 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.13%) Redis
8 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.56%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (1.56%) Metadata
8 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (65.63%) Jenkins
2 30 (46.88%) Git
3 23 (35.94%) JUnit
4 18 (28.13%) Maven
5 17 (26.56%) Mockito
5 17 (26.56%) SonarQube
6 15 (23.44%) Gradle
7 11 (17.19%) Bitbucket Server
8 10 (15.63%) DbUnit
9 9 (14.06%) JIRA
9 9 (14.06%) jMock
10 3 (4.69%) GitLab
11 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
11 2 (3.13%) REST Assured
11 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
12 1 (1.56%) GoCD
General
1 19 (29.69%) Finance
2 17 (26.56%) Public Sector
3 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 15 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (20.31%) Banking
6 7 (10.94%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.13%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 55 (85.94%) Developer
2 38 (59.38%) Java Developer
3 18 (28.13%) Senior
4 14 (21.88%) Senior Developer
4 14 (21.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 13 (20.31%) Software Developer
6 10 (15.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Java Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Software Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Lead
9 4 (6.25%) Backend Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Java Software Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Lead Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 2 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
11 2 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (82.81%) Spring
2 52 (81.25%) Spring Boot
3 30 (46.88%) JPA
4 28 (43.75%) RESTful
5 23 (35.94%) REST
6 21 (32.81%) Kafka
7 20 (31.25%) React
7 20 (31.25%) Web Services
8 19 (29.69%) Redux
9 17 (26.56%) AngularJS
10 16 (25.00%) SOAP
11 15 (23.44%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (21.88%) Spring Batch
12 14 (21.88%) Spring Cloud
12 14 (21.88%) Spring Integration
13 9 (14.06%) Bootstrap
13 9 (14.06%) PowerMock
14 8 (12.50%) Node.js
15 7 (10.94%) HTML
16 6 (9.38%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (20.31%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.25%) Life Science
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) LIMS
6 1 (1.56%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.63%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (57.81%) Microservices
2 36 (56.25%) Agile
3 35 (54.69%) CI/CD
4 23 (35.94%) Scrum
5 22 (34.38%) TDD
6 19 (29.69%) DevOps
7 18 (28.13%) Containerisation
8 14 (21.88%) Kanban
9 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (18.75%) BDD
10 12 (18.75%) Design Patterns
11 9 (14.06%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (14.06%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (14.06%) Decision-Making
11 9 (14.06%) MVC
11 9 (14.06%) Open Source
11 9 (14.06%) Software Engineering
11 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
12 8 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (76.56%) SQL
3 23 (35.94%) PL/SQL
4 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.81%) Python
6 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 36 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 30 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (42.19%) Docker
2 8 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (25.00%) Control-M
2 14 (21.88%) Grafana
3 11 (17.19%) Kubernetes
4 8 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.69%) Ansible
5 3 (4.69%) Terraform
6 1 (1.56%) Istio
6 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (45.31%) Oracle
2 12 (18.75%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (15.63%) Atlassian
4 5 (7.81%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) IBM
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.13%) Veracode
6 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.56%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.56%) Okta
6 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.56%) Splunk