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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 435 487
Rank change year-on-year -31 +52 -22
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 82 45 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 0.77% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 22 44
10th Percentile £313 £328 £449
25th Percentile £357 £370 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -26.53% +2.08%
75th Percentile £528 £560 £659
90th Percentile £626 £586 £875
UK median daily rate £416 £468 £585
% change year-on-year -10.96% -20.09% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £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 7,262 5,823 7,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.82% 22.38% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,871 3,732 5,612
10th Percentile £358 £363 £355
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 75 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.35 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.38 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £76.26 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -26 35 £530 +15.85% 10
North of England -39 20 £359 -11.36% 7
North West -8 16 £358 -8.79% 5
South East -14 13 £373 - 10
Midlands -52 11 £429 -14.20% 7
West Midlands -53 11 £429 -14.20% 6
North East -14 2 £451 +11.42% 1
Yorkshire -57 2 £600 - 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 11 (13.41%) Apache
2 8 (9.76%) JBoss
2 8 (9.76%) WebLogic
3 5 (6.10%) Confluence
4 3 (3.66%) Drupal
4 3 (3.66%) WordPress
5 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.22%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 56 (68.29%) AWS
2 30 (36.59%) GitHub
3 20 (24.39%) GitHub Actions
4 19 (23.17%) Azure
5 13 (15.85%) GCP
5 13 (15.85%) OpenShift
6 8 (9.76%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (7.32%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (7.32%) Route 53
7 6 (7.32%) Serverless
8 5 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.10%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (4.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (4.88%) Apigee
9 4 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.88%) DNS
2 4 (4.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (24.39%) NoSQL
3 18 (21.95%) MySQL
4 16 (19.51%) Relational Database
5 13 (15.85%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (7.32%) DynamoDB
6 6 (7.32%) Redis
7 4 (4.88%) DocumentDB
7 4 (4.88%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (50.00%) JUnit
2 40 (48.78%) Git
3 30 (36.59%) Jenkins
4 15 (18.29%) Maven
5 13 (15.85%) Cucumber
5 13 (15.85%) GitLab
5 13 (15.85%) JMeter
5 13 (15.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (14.63%) Mockito
7 9 (10.98%) Selenium
8 8 (9.76%) Eclipse
8 8 (9.76%) Gradle
8 8 (9.76%) IntelliJ
8 8 (9.76%) JIRA
9 7 (8.54%) Postman
10 6 (7.32%) SonarQube
11 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.44%) DbUnit
11 2 (2.44%) SoapUI
11 2 (2.44%) Xcode
General
1 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.95%) Finance
3 16 (19.51%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.98%) Banking
5 8 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (70.73%) Developer
2 47 (57.32%) Java Developer
3 19 (23.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (15.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 12 (14.63%) Java Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Apigee Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Architect
8 4 (4.88%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Java Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Kafka Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (2.44%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (96.34%) Spring
2 48 (58.54%) Spring Boot
3 36 (43.90%) RESTful
4 31 (37.80%) JPA
5 29 (35.37%) Kafka
5 29 (35.37%) REST
6 21 (25.61%) AngularJS
7 17 (20.73%) JSON
8 16 (19.51%) HTML
8 16 (19.51%) React
8 16 (19.51%) XML
9 15 (18.29%) Spring MVC
10 12 (14.63%) HTML5
10 12 (14.63%) SOAP
11 11 (13.41%) J2EE
12 9 (10.98%) CSS
12 9 (10.98%) OAuth
12 9 (10.98%) OAuth2
13 8 (9.76%) Play Framework
13 8 (9.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.73%) Linux
2 11 (13.41%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (71.95%) Microservices
2 55 (67.07%) CI/CD
3 37 (45.12%) Agile
4 30 (36.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (28.05%) DevOps
7 19 (23.17%) Containerisation
7 19 (23.17%) Scrum
8 17 (20.73%) Mentoring
8 17 (20.73%) MVC
8 17 (20.73%) Observability
8 17 (20.73%) TDD
9 16 (19.51%) API Design
9 16 (19.51%) Test Automation
10 15 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (17.07%) OOP
12 13 (15.85%) API Development
12 13 (15.85%) Code Quality
12 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (15.85%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (40.24%) SQL
3 14 (17.07%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.76%) Scala
5 3 (3.66%) C#
5 3 (3.66%) PHP
5 3 (3.66%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.44%) Groovy
6 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.98%) Degree
4 8 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.44%) OCP
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.88%) NIST
1 4 (4.88%) PCI DSS
1 4 (4.88%) QA
2 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (53.66%) Docker
2 6 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 37 (45.12%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.85%) Ansible
2 13 (15.85%) Progress Chef
3 8 (9.76%) Puppet
3 8 (9.76%) Terraform
4 2 (2.44%) Grafana
5 1 (1.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (23.17%) Oracle
2 13 (15.85%) VMware
3 8 (9.76%) webMethods
4 6 (7.32%) Splunk
5 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.44%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.44%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.44%) Google
6 2 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (2.44%) Veracode
7 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.22%) Sybase