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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 435 503
Rank change year-on-year -7 +68 -18
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 95 81 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 1.20% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 51 57
10th Percentile £268 £425 £409
25th Percentile £323 £456 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £438 £738 £650
90th Percentile £550 £775 £864
UK median daily rate £385 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -30.00% +2.80% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £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 6,968 6,730 8,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.69% 21.72% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,693 4,269 6,227
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -5.16%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £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 174 105 179
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +22.64% -18.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +19.13% -12.93%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +18 38 £400 -33.67% 5
North of England -27 22 £343 -33.02% 5
Midlands -40 19 £415 -29.36% 1
North West -13 17 £344 -37.45% 1
South East +6 12 £375 -16.67% 4
West Midlands -41 10 £430 -26.89% 1
East Midlands - 9 £375 -
Yorkshire -24 5 £319 - 3
South West - 2 £513 - 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 (9.47%) Apache
2 8 (8.42%) JBoss
2 8 (8.42%) WebLogic
3 7 (7.37%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.05%) Camunda
4 1 (1.05%) CICS
4 1 (1.05%) Drupal
4 1 (1.05%) SAS
4 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (64.21%) AWS
2 29 (30.53%) Azure
3 23 (24.21%) GitHub
4 18 (18.95%) GCP
5 13 (13.68%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (13.68%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.42%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (4.21%) Apigee
9 3 (3.16%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.16%) Serverless
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.11%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.11%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.11%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.05%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (42.11%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (17.89%) MongoDB
2 17 (17.89%) NoSQL
2 17 (17.89%) Relational Database
3 13 (13.68%) MySQL
4 11 (11.58%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.32%) Oracle Database
6 5 (5.26%) Redis
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.05%) DB2
9 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (56.84%) JUnit
2 46 (48.42%) Git
3 30 (31.58%) Jenkins
4 23 (24.21%) Maven
5 20 (21.05%) Cucumber
5 20 (21.05%) Mockito
6 19 (20.00%) Selenium
6 19 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (14.74%) JMeter
7 14 (14.74%) SonarQube
8 13 (13.68%) GitLab
8 13 (13.68%) JIRA
9 11 (11.58%) Postman
10 10 (10.53%) Eclipse
10 10 (10.53%) IntelliJ
11 8 (8.42%) Bitbucket
12 6 (6.32%) SoapUI
13 5 (5.26%) REST Assured
13 5 (5.26%) Subversion
13 5 (5.26%) XCTest
General
1 34 (35.79%) Social Skills
2 26 (27.37%) Finance
3 13 (13.68%) Banking
4 11 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.42%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (72.63%) Developer
2 59 (62.11%) Java Developer
3 25 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (18.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (11.58%) Java Engineer
6 10 (10.53%) Senior
7 9 (9.47%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.47%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (7.37%) Backend Developer
9 6 (6.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Apigee Developer
10 4 (4.21%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Identity Management Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) Angular Developer
11 3 (3.16%) Kafka Developer
11 3 (3.16%) QA Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 2 (2.11%) Kafka Engineer
12 2 (2.11%) Lead
12 2 (2.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (92.63%) Spring
2 57 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 35 (36.84%) RESTful
4 32 (33.68%) JPA
5 31 (32.63%) REST
6 29 (30.53%) Kafka
7 28 (29.47%) HTML
8 27 (28.42%) AngularJS
9 24 (25.26%) React
10 20 (21.05%) XML
11 19 (20.00%) CSS
11 19 (20.00%) JSON
12 17 (17.89%) SOAP
13 16 (16.84%) J2EE
14 15 (15.79%) HTML5
15 14 (14.74%) Spring MVC
16 13 (13.68%) Web Services
17 10 (10.53%) OAuth
18 9 (9.47%) EJB
18 9 (9.47%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.05%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.05%) PKI
4 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.05%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.89%) Linux
2 16 (16.84%) Unix
3 2 (2.11%) Windows
4 1 (1.05%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (67.37%) CI/CD
2 62 (65.26%) Microservices
3 50 (52.63%) Agile
4 39 (41.05%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (30.53%) DevOps
6 29 (30.53%) TDD
7 27 (28.42%) Test Automation
8 20 (21.05%) Containerisation
9 19 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 19 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 18 (18.95%) Scrum
11 16 (16.84%) API Design
11 16 (16.84%) MVC
12 15 (15.79%) OO
13 14 (14.74%) Unit Testing
14 13 (13.68%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (13.68%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 95 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (48.42%) SQL
3 26 (27.37%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.42%) Scala
5 6 (6.32%) Shell Script
5 6 (6.32%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.26%) Groovy
7 2 (2.11%) Bash
7 2 (2.11%) C#
8 1 (1.05%) COBOL
8 1 (1.05%) JCL
8 1 (1.05%) Korn
8 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.05%) PHP
8 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.58%) Degree
3 9 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.11%) OCP
6 2 (2.11%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) GDPR
1 5 (5.26%) HIPAA
1 5 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (43.16%) Docker
2 6 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.74%) Ansible
3 13 (13.68%) Progress Chef
4 8 (8.42%) Puppet
5 5 (5.26%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 2 (2.11%) Kibana
7 1 (1.05%) Control-M
7 1 (1.05%) Grafana
7 1 (1.05%) logstash
7 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (22.11%) Oracle
2 13 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.68%) VMware
3 9 (9.47%) Splunk
4 8 (8.42%) webMethods
5 6 (6.32%) IBM
5 6 (6.32%) Veracode
6 5 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (5.26%) Dynatrace
6 5 (5.26%) Ping Identity
7 2 (2.11%) Google
8 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.05%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (1.05%) Sybase