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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 398 450
Rank change year-on-year -137 +52 +17
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 59 72 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% 1.35% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 75
10th Percentile £379 £293 £375
25th Percentile £413 £358 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £420 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% -22.22% -8.09%
75th Percentile £575 £490 £634
90th Percentile £638 £538 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £413 £535
% change year-on-year +21.21% -22.90% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £52.75 £51.50 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -36.00%
75th Percentile £56.88 £58.13 -
90th Percentile £57.25 £63.75 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -36.00%

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 8,025 5,331 7,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.37% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,694 5,379
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £789 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 95 235
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.54 £22.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -74 24 £538 +29.83% 2
Midlands -67 21 £475 +18.16% 1
West Midlands -53 20 £475 -
North of England -72 9 £435 -5.95% 6
North West -36 6 £435 +14.47% 3
South East -57 5 £325 -35.00% 1
North East -30 2 £451 -2.96%
South West -24 1 £525 -4.55% 1
East of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
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 6 (10.17%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) Apache
3 2 (3.39%) Drupal
3 2 (3.39%) WordPress
4 1 (1.69%) Camunda
4 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 36 (61.02%) AWS
2 23 (38.98%) Amazon S3
2 23 (38.98%) Amazon SQS
3 22 (37.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 22 (37.29%) Route 53
4 19 (32.20%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (30.51%) AWS KMS
6 12 (20.34%) Azure
7 8 (13.56%) GitHub
7 8 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (8.47%) Serverless
9 4 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (6.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (6.78%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (6.78%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.39%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) DNS
2 3 (5.08%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (59.32%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (38.98%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (38.98%) DynamoDB
3 22 (37.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (16.95%) MySQL
5 9 (15.25%) NoSQL
6 6 (10.17%) Redis
7 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
8 4 (6.78%) DocumentDB
9 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.69%) Metadata
10 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (57.63%) Git
2 29 (49.15%) Jenkins
3 27 (45.76%) JUnit
4 25 (42.37%) Maven
5 23 (38.98%) Mockito
6 21 (35.59%) SonarQube
7 14 (23.73%) DbUnit
8 13 (22.03%) jMock
9 12 (20.34%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (15.25%) JIRA
11 8 (13.56%) GitLab
12 6 (10.17%) Gradle
13 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
13 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
13 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (44.07%) Public Sector
2 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Banking
4 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (69.49%) Developer
2 35 (59.32%) Java Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Senior
4 8 (13.56%) Java Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Senior Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Lead
5 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Architect
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Java Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Backend Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Java Applications Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (94.92%) Spring
2 49 (83.05%) Spring Boot
3 39 (66.10%) JPA
4 36 (61.02%) RESTful
5 29 (49.15%) REST
6 23 (38.98%) AngularJS
6 23 (38.98%) Web Services
7 22 (37.29%) Spring Cloud
8 21 (35.59%) SOAP
9 20 (33.90%) Spring Batch
9 20 (33.90%) Spring Integration
10 19 (32.20%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (22.03%) PowerMock
12 12 (20.34%) Node.js
13 11 (18.64%) Bootstrap
14 9 (15.25%) Kafka
15 7 (11.86%) OAuth
16 6 (10.17%) OAuth2
16 6 (10.17%) OpenID
16 6 (10.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (42.37%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.86%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.69%) LIMS
4 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (86.44%) Microservices
2 32 (54.24%) Agile
2 32 (54.24%) CI/CD
3 28 (47.46%) TDD
4 26 (44.07%) DevOps
4 26 (44.07%) Scrum
5 25 (42.37%) Containerisation
6 17 (28.81%) Performance Tuning
7 16 (27.12%) Kanban
8 15 (25.42%) BDD
8 15 (25.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (20.34%) Biometrics
9 12 (20.34%) BPMN
10 11 (18.64%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (18.64%) Design Patterns
10 11 (18.64%) Open Source
11 9 (15.25%) Decision-Making
11 9 (15.25%) Observability
12 7 (11.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 59 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (61.02%) SQL
3 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.39%) C#
4 2 (3.39%) PHP
4 2 (3.39%) Python
5 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (45.76%) Security Cleared
2 25 (42.37%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.47%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) OCP
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.78%) NIST
1 4 (6.78%) PCI DSS
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (62.71%) Docker
2 11 (18.64%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (30.51%) Grafana
2 16 (27.12%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.86%) Terraform
4 5 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.69%) Ansible
5 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (23.73%) Atlassian
3 7 (11.86%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) Veracode
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.69%) IBM
6 1 (1.69%) Okta
6 1 (1.69%) Salesforce