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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 426 491
Rank change year-on-year -25 +65 -5
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 92 80 72
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 1.21% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 50 53
10th Percentile £268 £418 £425
25th Percentile £322 £453 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £435 £738 £688
90th Percentile £554 £778 £885
UK median daily rate £375 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -31.82% -4.35% -
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 6,879 6,604 8,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.43% 21.76% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,628 4,204 6,174
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -5.09%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 98 175
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.43 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% +22.64% -18.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -14.62% +19.13% -15.74%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +9 37 £400 -33.58% 5
North of England -34 22 £343 -33.02% 8
Midlands -36 19 £415 -29.36% 1
North West -12 17 £344 -37.45% 4
South East +1 11 £375 -16.67% 4
West Midlands -45 10 £430 -26.89% 1
East Midlands - 9 £375 -
Yorkshire -30 5 £319 - 4
South West - 1 £475 - 4
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 (9.78%) Apache
2 8 (8.70%) JBoss
2 8 (8.70%) WebLogic
3 7 (7.61%) Confluence
4 1 (1.09%) CICS
4 1 (1.09%) Drupal
4 1 (1.09%) SAS
4 1 (1.09%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (63.04%) AWS
2 29 (31.52%) Azure
3 23 (25.00%) GitHub
4 18 (19.57%) GCP
5 13 (14.13%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (14.13%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.43%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.35%) Apigee
9 3 (3.26%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.26%) Serverless
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.17%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) HTTP
1 4 (4.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (41.30%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (18.48%) NoSQL
3 16 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 16 (17.39%) Relational Database
4 12 (13.04%) MySQL
5 11 (11.96%) SQL Server
6 7 (7.61%) Oracle Database
7 5 (5.43%) Redis
8 3 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.09%) DB2
10 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (58.70%) JUnit
2 44 (47.83%) Git
3 28 (30.43%) Jenkins
4 23 (25.00%) Maven
5 20 (21.74%) Cucumber
5 20 (21.74%) Mockito
6 19 (20.65%) Selenium
6 19 (20.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (15.22%) JMeter
8 13 (14.13%) GitLab
8 13 (14.13%) SonarQube
9 12 (13.04%) JIRA
10 11 (11.96%) Postman
11 10 (10.87%) Eclipse
11 10 (10.87%) IntelliJ
12 8 (8.70%) Bitbucket
13 6 (6.52%) SoapUI
14 5 (5.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (5.43%) Subversion
14 5 (5.43%) Xcode
General
1 34 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.26%) Finance
3 14 (15.22%) Banking
4 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (71.74%) Developer
2 57 (61.96%) Java Developer
3 24 (26.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (18.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (11.96%) Java Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Senior
7 8 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Backend Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Apigee Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Identity Management Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Angular Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Kafka Developer
10 3 (3.26%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 2 (2.17%) Lead Developer
11 2 (2.17%) Principal Developer
11 2 (2.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (92.39%) Spring
2 53 (57.61%) Spring Boot
3 35 (38.04%) RESTful
4 31 (33.70%) JPA
5 29 (31.52%) REST
6 28 (30.43%) HTML
6 28 (30.43%) Kafka
7 27 (29.35%) AngularJS
8 24 (26.09%) React
9 20 (21.74%) CSS
10 19 (20.65%) JSON
10 19 (20.65%) XML
11 17 (18.48%) SOAP
12 16 (17.39%) HTML5
12 16 (17.39%) J2EE
13 14 (15.22%) Spring MVC
14 12 (13.04%) Web Services
15 10 (10.87%) OAuth
16 9 (9.78%) EJB
16 9 (9.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.09%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.48%) Linux
2 16 (17.39%) Unix
3 2 (2.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.09%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (68.48%) CI/CD
2 58 (63.04%) Microservices
3 50 (54.35%) Agile
4 40 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (36.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (31.52%) DevOps
7 28 (30.43%) TDD
8 27 (29.35%) Test Automation
9 19 (20.65%) Code Quality
9 19 (20.65%) Containerisation
9 19 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (19.57%) Mentoring
11 17 (18.48%) Scrum
12 16 (17.39%) API Design
12 16 (17.39%) MVC
13 15 (16.30%) OO
14 13 (14.13%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (14.13%) OOP
14 13 (14.13%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 92 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (50.00%) SQL
3 27 (29.35%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.70%) Scala
5 6 (6.52%) Shell Script
5 6 (6.52%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.43%) Groovy
7 2 (2.17%) Bash
7 2 (2.17%) C#
8 1 (1.09%) COBOL
8 1 (1.09%) JCL
8 1 (1.09%) Korn
8 1 (1.09%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.09%) PHP
8 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.96%) Degree
3 9 (9.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.17%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.17%) OCP
6 2 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) GDPR
1 5 (5.43%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (43.48%) Docker
2 6 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 35 (38.04%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.22%) Ansible
3 13 (14.13%) Progress Chef
4 8 (8.70%) Puppet
5 5 (5.43%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 2 (2.17%) Kibana
7 1 (1.09%) Control-M
7 1 (1.09%) Grafana
7 1 (1.09%) logstash
7 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (23.91%) Oracle
2 13 (14.13%) VMware
3 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.78%) Splunk
5 8 (8.70%) webMethods
6 6 (6.52%) IBM
6 6 (6.52%) Veracode
7 5 (5.43%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (5.43%) Dynatrace
7 5 (5.43%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.17%) Google
9 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.09%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (1.09%) Sybase