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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 453 488
Rank change year-on-year -14 +35 -12
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 85 40 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 0.69% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 18 46
10th Percentile £313 £321 £438
25th Percentile £356 £356 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £425 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -30.61% +2.08%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £678
90th Percentile £630 £547 £875
UK median daily rate £423 £440 £575
% change year-on-year -3.98% -23.48% -4.17%
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 7,435 5,802 7,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.86% 22.49% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,993 3,760 5,549
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £533 £534
% change year-on-year -3.92% -0.11% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 74 180
10th Percentile £34.80 £26.80 £22.75
25th Percentile £50.81 £51.56 £44.90
Median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.20 £76.37 £77.50
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 16 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 16 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 -28 32 £528 +19.89% 6
North of England -45 20 £359 -11.36% 4
North West -15 16 £358 -8.79% 2
South East -17 15 £373 - 9
West Midlands -42 15 £430 +1.18% 8
Midlands -48 15 £430 +1.78% 9
North East -12 2 £451 +11.42% 1
Yorkshire -56 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 (12.94%) Apache
2 8 (9.41%) JBoss
2 8 (9.41%) WebLogic
3 5 (5.88%) Confluence
4 2 (2.35%) Drupal
4 2 (2.35%) WordPress
5 1 (1.18%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 58 (68.24%) AWS
2 30 (35.29%) GitHub
3 20 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (21.18%) Azure
5 13 (15.29%) GCP
5 13 (15.29%) OpenShift
6 9 (10.59%) Amazon S3
6 9 (10.59%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (9.41%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (9.41%) Route 53
8 6 (7.06%) Serverless
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (5.88%) Apigee
9 5 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (4.71%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.71%) DNS
2 4 (4.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (50.59%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (23.53%) NoSQL
3 18 (21.18%) MySQL
4 15 (17.65%) Relational Database
5 13 (15.29%) MongoDB
6 9 (10.59%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (10.59%) DynamoDB
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (5.88%) Redis
9 4 (4.71%) DocumentDB
10 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
11 2 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 43 (50.59%) JUnit
2 42 (49.41%) Git
3 32 (37.65%) Jenkins
4 17 (20.00%) Maven
5 14 (16.47%) Mockito
6 13 (15.29%) Cucumber
6 13 (15.29%) GitLab
6 13 (15.29%) JMeter
6 13 (15.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (10.59%) Selenium
8 8 (9.41%) Eclipse
8 8 (9.41%) Gradle
8 8 (9.41%) IntelliJ
8 8 (9.41%) JIRA
9 7 (8.24%) SonarQube
10 6 (7.06%) Postman
11 3 (3.53%) DbUnit
11 3 (3.53%) jMock
12 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
13 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.18%) Public Sector
3 17 (20.00%) Finance
4 8 (9.41%) Banking
4 8 (9.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (71.76%) Developer
2 50 (58.82%) Java Developer
3 19 (22.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (16.47%) Java Engineer
5 13 (15.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (8.24%) Senior
6 7 (8.24%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.24%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Apigee Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Architect
8 4 (4.71%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Java Architect
8 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Backend Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Lead
9 3 (3.53%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (96.47%) Spring
2 51 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 39 (45.88%) RESTful
4 32 (37.65%) JPA
5 30 (35.29%) REST
6 28 (32.94%) Kafka
7 22 (25.88%) AngularJS
8 16 (18.82%) JSON
8 16 (18.82%) React
9 15 (17.65%) HTML
9 15 (17.65%) SOAP
9 15 (17.65%) XML
10 14 (16.47%) Spring MVC
11 11 (12.94%) HTML5
12 10 (11.76%) J2EE
12 10 (11.76%) Spring Cloud
13 9 (10.59%) OAuth
13 9 (10.59%) OAuth2
13 9 (10.59%) Web Services
14 8 (9.41%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.35%) Linux
2 10 (11.76%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (72.94%) Microservices
2 58 (68.24%) CI/CD
3 39 (45.88%) Agile
4 30 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (28.24%) DevOps
7 23 (27.06%) Scrum
8 21 (24.71%) Containerisation
9 17 (20.00%) API Design
9 17 (20.00%) TDD
10 16 (18.82%) MVC
10 16 (18.82%) Observability
10 16 (18.82%) Test Automation
11 15 (17.65%) Mentoring
12 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (16.47%) OOP
12 14 (16.47%) Software Engineering
13 13 (15.29%) API Development
13 13 (15.29%) Code Quality
13 13 (15.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 85 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (41.18%) SQL
3 12 (14.12%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.41%) Scala
5 2 (2.35%) C#
5 2 (2.35%) PHP
5 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.18%) Groovy
6 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (21.18%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.59%) Degree
4 8 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.35%) OCP
6 2 (2.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.71%) NIST
1 4 (4.71%) PCI DSS
1 4 (4.71%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (52.94%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.53%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 35 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.29%) Ansible
2 13 (15.29%) Progress Chef
3 8 (9.41%) Puppet
4 7 (8.24%) Terraform
5 5 (5.88%) Grafana
6 1 (1.18%) Kibana
6 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (21.18%) Oracle
2 13 (15.29%) VMware
3 8 (9.41%) webMethods
4 5 (5.88%) Splunk
5 4 (4.71%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.53%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.35%) Google
7 2 (2.35%) Veracode
8 1 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.18%) Sybase