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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 434 497
Rank change year-on-year -24 +63 -20
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 77 58 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 0.98% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 35 36
10th Percentile £313 £356 £473
25th Percentile £347 £445 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £550 £628
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -12.35% +4.58%
75th Percentile £474 £694 £659
90th Percentile £618 £771 £881
UK median daily rate £398 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -22.44% -10.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 6,907 5,900 7,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.19% 21.90% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,609 3,777 5,607
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £674
90th Percentile £738 £788 £757
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 68 164
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.87
25th Percentile £44.75 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.74% -19.70%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +5 36 £468 -5.56% 5
North of England -25 18 £349 -0.29% 2
North West -14 13 £354 -9.81% 1
South East +2 11 £375 -25.00% 6
Midlands -59 10 £429 -26.98% 5
West Midlands -50 9 £429 -26.98% 5
Yorkshire -42 5 £319 -
East Midlands - 1 £385 -
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 9 (11.69%) Apache
2 8 (10.39%) JBoss
2 8 (10.39%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.30%) CICS
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Drupal
3 1 (1.30%) SAS
3 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (71.43%) AWS
2 27 (35.06%) GitHub
3 24 (31.17%) Azure
4 17 (22.08%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (19.48%) GCP
6 13 (16.88%) OpenShift
7 8 (10.39%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (9.09%) Serverless
9 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.49%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 4 (5.19%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (5.19%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.19%) Route 53
10 4 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) DNS
1 4 (5.19%) HTTP
1 4 (5.19%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (49.35%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 17 (22.08%) MySQL
4 15 (19.48%) MongoDB
4 15 (19.48%) Relational Database
5 7 (9.09%) Redis
6 5 (6.49%) Oracle Database
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.19%) DocumentDB
7 4 (5.19%) DynamoDB
7 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.30%) DB2
9 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (53.25%) JUnit
2 37 (48.05%) Git
3 26 (33.77%) Jenkins
4 13 (16.88%) Cucumber
4 13 (16.88%) JMeter
4 13 (16.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (15.58%) Selenium
6 11 (14.29%) GitLab
6 11 (14.29%) Maven
7 10 (12.99%) Mockito
8 8 (10.39%) Eclipse
8 8 (10.39%) IntelliJ
8 8 (10.39%) Postman
9 4 (5.19%) Gradle
9 4 (5.19%) JIRA
10 3 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (3.90%) Subversion
10 3 (3.90%) TestNG
10 3 (3.90%) Xcode
10 3 (3.90%) XCTest
General
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.57%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Banking
4 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 8 (10.39%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (68.83%) Developer
2 44 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 21 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Senior
7 8 (10.39%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.39%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Architect
9 5 (6.49%) Backend Developer
9 5 (6.49%) Java Architect
10 4 (5.19%) Apigee Developer
10 4 (5.19%) AWS Architect
10 4 (5.19%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (3.90%) Kafka Developer
11 3 (3.90%) QA Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 2 (2.60%) Lead Developer
12 2 (2.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (98.70%) Spring
2 43 (55.84%) Spring Boot
3 34 (44.16%) RESTful
4 30 (38.96%) Kafka
5 28 (36.36%) REST
6 25 (32.47%) JPA
7 23 (29.87%) AngularJS
8 18 (23.38%) HTML
8 18 (23.38%) React
9 17 (22.08%) JSON
10 16 (20.78%) XML
11 14 (18.18%) HTML5
12 13 (16.88%) Spring MVC
13 12 (15.58%) J2EE
14 11 (14.29%) CSS
14 11 (14.29%) OAuth
14 11 (14.29%) SOAP
15 10 (12.99%) OAuth2
16 8 (10.39%) J2SE
16 8 (10.39%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.78%) Linux
2 13 (16.88%) Unix
3 1 (1.30%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 51 (66.23%) Microservices
3 36 (46.75%) Agile
4 33 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (40.26%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (29.87%) DevOps
7 20 (25.97%) Test Automation
8 17 (22.08%) Containerisation
8 17 (22.08%) Scrum
9 16 (20.78%) API Design
9 16 (20.78%) Code Quality
9 16 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (20.78%) Observability
10 15 (19.48%) Mentoring
10 15 (19.48%) MVC
11 14 (18.18%) TDD
12 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (16.88%) OO
12 13 (16.88%) OOP
13 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (45.45%) SQL
3 15 (19.48%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.39%) Scala
5 5 (6.49%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.19%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.90%) Groovy
8 2 (2.60%) Bash
8 2 (2.60%) Python
9 1 (1.30%) C#
9 1 (1.30%) COBOL
9 1 (1.30%) JCL
9 1 (1.30%) Korn
9 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) Degree
3 8 (10.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.60%) OCP
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.19%) NIST
2 4 (5.19%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 38 (49.35%) Docker
2 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (44.16%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.18%) Ansible
3 13 (16.88%) Progress Chef
4 8 (10.39%) Puppet
5 6 (7.79%) Terraform
6 1 (1.30%) Control-M
6 1 (1.30%) Kibana
6 1 (1.30%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 19 (24.68%) Oracle
2 13 (16.88%) VMware
3 8 (10.39%) webMethods
4 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.09%) Splunk
5 3 (3.90%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.90%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.60%) Google
7 1 (1.30%) IBM
7 1 (1.30%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.30%) Sybase