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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 419 408
Rank change year-on-year -118 -11 +97
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 86 100 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.36% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 1.42% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 82 86
10th Percentile £362 £268 £388
25th Percentile £406 £317 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £401 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.10% -27.09% +0.92%
75th Percentile £537 £495 £650
90th Percentile £568 £550 £765
UK median daily rate £440 £410 £550
% change year-on-year +7.45% -25.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £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 9,806 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,437 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 169 179
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £51.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.35% -11.20% -1.44%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -81 32 £425 +10.39% 57
Midlands -58 23 £335 -18.29% 10
West Midlands -36 19 - - 6
North of England -60 19 £475 +47.29% 18
Yorkshire -29 12 £413 +30.00% 8
South East -63 8 £450 +1.69% 16
North West -50 7 £537 +69.00% 7
East of England - 5 - -
South West -35 3 £300 -45.45% 8
East Midlands -36 3 £335 -10.67% 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 19 (22.09%) Confluence
2 8 (9.30%) Camunda
3 4 (4.65%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.16%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.86%) AWS
2 27 (31.40%) OpenShift
3 12 (13.95%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (13.95%) Amazon S3
4 10 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (11.63%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (10.47%) AWS KMS
5 9 (10.47%) Route 53
6 7 (8.14%) GCP
6 7 (8.14%) GitHub
7 6 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.98%) Azure
7 6 (6.98%) Serverless
8 5 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.49%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (43.02%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (23.26%) Relational Database
3 12 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (12.79%) MySQL
4 11 (12.79%) SQL Server
5 9 (10.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (10.47%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (5.81%) Metadata
6 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.65%) Couchbase
7 4 (4.65%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.65%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.65%) Power BI
8 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.33%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.33%) Redis
9 2 (2.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 59 (68.60%) Jenkins
2 39 (45.35%) Git
3 36 (41.86%) JUnit
4 33 (38.37%) Maven
5 29 (33.72%) Mockito
5 29 (33.72%) SonarQube
6 25 (29.07%) Gradle
6 25 (29.07%) JIRA
7 14 (16.28%) Bitbucket Server
8 13 (15.12%) GitLab
9 8 (9.30%) REST Assured
9 8 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (8.14%) DbUnit
11 6 (6.98%) jMock
12 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
13 3 (3.49%) Cucumber
14 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
14 1 (1.16%) git-flow
14 1 (1.16%) GoCD
14 1 (1.16%) Selenium
General
1 27 (31.40%) Finance
2 24 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 23 (26.74%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (24.42%) Banking
5 19 (22.09%) Public Sector
6 13 (15.12%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.49%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.16%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 68 (79.07%) Developer
2 46 (53.49%) Java Developer
3 21 (24.42%) Senior
4 17 (19.77%) Senior Developer
4 17 (19.77%) Senior Java Developer
5 15 (17.44%) Software Developer
6 10 (11.63%) Lead
6 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 7 (8.14%) Java Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.98%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.98%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (4.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Java Software Developer
10 4 (4.65%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL Specialist
10 4 (4.65%) Senior Java Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (80.23%) Spring Boot
2 67 (77.91%) Spring
3 46 (53.49%) JPA
4 36 (41.86%) RESTful
5 35 (40.70%) REST
6 32 (37.21%) Kafka
7 31 (36.05%) React
8 26 (30.23%) Redux
8 26 (30.23%) Web Services
9 24 (27.91%) AngularJS
10 22 (25.58%) SOAP
11 19 (22.09%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (22.09%) Spring Cloud
12 15 (17.44%) HTML
13 14 (16.28%) CSS
14 12 (13.95%) Spring MVC
15 9 (10.47%) Spring Batch
15 9 (10.47%) Spring Integration
15 9 (10.47%) SQLAlchemy
16 7 (8.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.26%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 15 (17.44%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (16.28%) Data Structures
4 7 (8.14%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.65%) Life Science
6 3 (3.49%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.16%) Derivative
8 1 (1.16%) LIMS
8 1 (1.16%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Linux
2 4 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (63.95%) Agile
2 51 (59.30%) CI/CD
3 50 (58.14%) Microservices
4 38 (44.19%) Scrum
5 34 (39.53%) TDD
6 27 (31.40%) Test Automation
7 24 (27.91%) Containerisation
8 21 (24.42%) DevOps
9 20 (23.26%) Kanban
9 20 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (19.77%) Code Quality
10 17 (19.77%) User Stories
11 16 (18.60%) SDLC
12 15 (17.44%) Design Patterns
12 15 (17.44%) MVC
13 14 (16.28%) Sprint Planning
14 13 (15.12%) API Development
14 13 (15.12%) Clean Code
14 13 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (13.95%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (95.35%) Java
2 51 (59.30%) SQL
3 24 (27.91%) PL/SQL
4 17 (19.77%) JavaScript
5 13 (15.12%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.81%) Python
7 4 (4.65%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.33%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 32 (37.21%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (12.79%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 36 (41.86%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (23.26%) Grafana
2 17 (19.77%) Prometheus
3 16 (18.60%) Control-M
4 14 (16.28%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.33%) Ansible
6 1 (1.16%) Istio
6 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (39.53%) Oracle
2 8 (9.30%) IBM
2 8 (9.30%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (9.30%) Veracode
3 7 (8.14%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.98%) Google
5 3 (3.49%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.16%) Splunk
6 1 (1.16%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.16%) webMethods