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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 427 417
Rank change year-on-year -130 -10 +88
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 80 95 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.34% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 1.38% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 78 85
10th Percentile £380 £268 £402
25th Percentile £406 £314 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £395 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.08% -28.18% +3.77%
75th Percentile £528 £495 £650
90th Percentile £538 £550 £765
UK median daily rate £450 £402 £550
% change year-on-year +11.94% -26.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 9,871 6,904 8,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.31% 25.02% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,481 4,728 5,472
10th Percentile £380 £356 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
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 269 162 177
10th Percentile £29.81 £31.29 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.20% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £71.80 £74.65
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.80
% change year-on-year +27.62% -15.05% -1.12%

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 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 9 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 -95 30 £425 +10.39% 44
Midlands -59 22 £405 +0.75% 10
West Midlands -35 18 £475 -5.00% 5
North of England -66 18 £475 +46.15% 13
Yorkshire -26 12 £413 +30.00% 4
South East -69 7 £450 -10.00% 14
North West -54 6 £537 +65.87% 5
East of England - 5 - -
East Midlands -36 3 £335 -10.67% 5
South West -48 2 - - 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 17 (21.25%) Confluence
2 8 (10.00%) Camunda
3 3 (3.75%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.00%) AWS
2 27 (33.75%) OpenShift
3 11 (13.75%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (13.75%) Amazon S3
4 9 (11.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (11.25%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (11.25%) AWS KMS
4 9 (11.25%) Route 53
5 7 (8.75%) GitHub
6 6 (7.50%) Azure
6 6 (7.50%) GCP
7 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.25%) Serverless
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.75%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (41.25%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (22.50%) Relational Database
3 11 (13.75%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (12.50%) MySQL
4 10 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (11.25%) DynamoDB
6 5 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (5.00%) Couchbase
7 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.00%) Metadata
7 4 (5.00%) Oracle Database
7 4 (5.00%) Power BI
8 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.50%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.50%) Redis
9 2 (2.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 55 (68.75%) Jenkins
2 34 (42.50%) Git
2 34 (42.50%) JUnit
3 30 (37.50%) Maven
4 27 (33.75%) Mockito
5 26 (32.50%) SonarQube
6 25 (31.25%) Gradle
7 21 (26.25%) JIRA
8 14 (17.50%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (16.25%) GitLab
10 8 (10.00%) REST Assured
10 8 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (8.75%) DbUnit
12 6 (7.50%) jMock
13 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
13 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
14 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
14 1 (1.25%) git-flow
14 1 (1.25%) GoCD
14 1 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 25 (31.25%) Finance
2 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 20 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (25.00%) Banking
4 17 (21.25%) Public Sector
5 11 (13.75%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.50%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 65 (81.25%) Developer
2 44 (55.00%) Java Developer
3 20 (25.00%) Senior
4 16 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 16 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 14 (17.50%) Software Developer
6 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 9 (11.25%) Lead
8 7 (8.75%) Java Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Lead Developer
9 6 (7.50%) Lead Java Developer
9 6 (7.50%) Software Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Java Software Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
12 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL Specialist
12 3 (3.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (82.50%) Spring Boot
2 62 (77.50%) Spring
3 43 (53.75%) JPA
4 32 (40.00%) Kafka
4 32 (40.00%) RESTful
5 31 (38.75%) REST
6 29 (36.25%) React
7 26 (32.50%) Redux
8 24 (30.00%) Web Services
9 21 (26.25%) AngularJS
10 20 (25.00%) SOAP
11 17 (21.25%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (21.25%) Spring Cloud
12 14 (17.50%) HTML
13 13 (16.25%) CSS
14 10 (12.50%) Spring Batch
14 10 (12.50%) Spring Integration
14 10 (12.50%) Spring MVC
15 8 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
16 7 (8.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (16.25%) Data Structures
2 13 (16.25%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (15.00%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.00%) Life Science
6 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.25%) LIMS
8 1 (1.25%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (61.25%) Agile
2 46 (57.50%) CI/CD
2 46 (57.50%) Microservices
3 34 (42.50%) Scrum
4 32 (40.00%) TDD
5 24 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 22 (27.50%) Containerisation
7 20 (25.00%) DevOps
8 18 (22.50%) Kanban
9 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (18.75%) Code Quality
10 15 (18.75%) User Stories
11 14 (17.50%) Design Patterns
12 13 (16.25%) Clean Code
12 13 (16.25%) MVC
12 13 (16.25%) SDLC
13 11 (13.75%) API Development
13 11 (13.75%) BDD
13 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (13.75%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 77 (96.25%) Java
2 50 (62.50%) SQL
3 24 (30.00%) PL/SQL
4 15 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.25%) Python
7 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.50%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.50%) Scala
9 1 (1.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 36 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
System Software
1 32 (40.00%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (22.50%) Grafana
2 16 (20.00%) Control-M
3 15 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 12 (15.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.50%) Ansible
6 1 (1.25%) Istio
6 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (41.25%) Oracle
2 8 (10.00%) IBM
2 8 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (10.00%) Veracode
3 7 (8.75%) Atlassian
4 5 (6.25%) Google
5 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.25%) Splunk