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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 445 475
Rank change year-on-year -25 +30 +7
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 91 40 70
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 0.69% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 20 47
10th Percentile £319 £324 £425
25th Percentile £358 £356 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £423 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -32.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £694
90th Percentile £612 £541 £875
UK median daily rate £427 £440 £595
% change year-on-year -2.95% -26.05% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £56.88 - -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

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 7,673 5,786 7,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.67% 22.66% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,149 3,814 5,491
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -1.95% -1.69% -6.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 79 213
10th Percentile £35.13 £26.98 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £40.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £66.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £81.23 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -30 34 £535 +21.59% 5
West Midlands -36 20 £435 +3.57% 6
Midlands -40 20 £435 +3.57% 7
North of England -43 19 £358 -22.17% 2
South East -20 16 £373 - 6
North West -25 16 £358 -8.79% 1
North East -11 2 £451 -1.90%
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 1
South West - 1 £525 - 7
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 (12.09%) Apache
2 8 (8.79%) JBoss
2 8 (8.79%) WebLogic
3 6 (6.59%) Confluence
4 2 (2.20%) Drupal
4 2 (2.20%) WordPress
5 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 62 (68.13%) AWS
2 30 (32.97%) GitHub
3 20 (21.98%) Azure
3 20 (21.98%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 14 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (14.29%) GCP
5 13 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 13 (14.29%) Route 53
6 10 (10.99%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (9.89%) AWS KMS
8 8 (8.79%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (5.49%) Apigee
9 5 (5.49%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (5.49%) Serverless
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.40%) DNS
2 4 (4.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (50.55%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (21.98%) NoSQL
3 18 (19.78%) MySQL
4 15 (16.48%) Relational Database
5 14 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (15.38%) DynamoDB
6 13 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (13.19%) MongoDB
8 5 (5.49%) Redis
9 4 (4.40%) DocumentDB
10 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
11 2 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
12 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 50 (54.95%) Git
2 47 (51.65%) JUnit
3 37 (40.66%) Jenkins
4 21 (23.08%) Maven
5 18 (19.78%) Mockito
6 13 (14.29%) Cucumber
6 13 (14.29%) GitLab
6 13 (14.29%) JMeter
6 13 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (13.19%) SonarQube
8 10 (10.99%) JIRA
9 9 (9.89%) Selenium
10 8 (8.79%) Eclipse
10 8 (8.79%) Gradle
10 8 (8.79%) IntelliJ
11 7 (7.69%) DbUnit
11 7 (7.69%) jMock
12 6 (6.59%) Postman
13 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket Server
14 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.27%) Public Sector
3 18 (19.78%) Finance
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (74.73%) Developer
2 57 (62.64%) Java Developer
3 19 (20.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 13 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 8 (8.79%) Senior
5 8 (8.79%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.79%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Apigee Developer
7 4 (4.40%) Architect
7 4 (4.40%) AWS Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Java Architect
8 3 (3.30%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Kafka Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Lead
8 3 (3.30%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (97.80%) Spring
2 58 (63.74%) Spring Boot
3 45 (49.45%) RESTful
4 35 (38.46%) JPA
4 35 (38.46%) REST
5 28 (30.77%) Kafka
6 26 (28.57%) AngularJS
7 20 (21.98%) SOAP
8 16 (17.58%) JSON
8 16 (17.58%) React
9 15 (16.48%) HTML
9 15 (16.48%) Spring Cloud
9 15 (16.48%) Web Services
9 15 (16.48%) XML
10 14 (15.38%) Spring MVC
11 11 (12.09%) HTML5
12 10 (10.99%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (10.99%) Spring Batch
12 10 (10.99%) Spring Integration
13 9 (9.89%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.68%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.18%) Linux
2 9 (9.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (74.73%) Microservices
2 63 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 47 (51.65%) Agile
4 29 (31.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 29 (31.87%) Scrum
5 27 (29.67%) Containerisation
5 27 (29.67%) DevOps
5 27 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (24.18%) TDD
7 17 (18.68%) API Design
8 16 (17.58%) MVC
8 16 (17.58%) Observability
8 16 (17.58%) Test Automation
9 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (16.48%) Mentoring
10 14 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (15.38%) Design Patterns
10 14 (15.38%) OOP
10 14 (15.38%) Software Engineering
11 13 (14.29%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 91 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (42.86%) SQL
3 10 (10.99%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.79%) Scala
5 2 (2.20%) C#
5 2 (2.20%) PHP
5 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.10%) Groovy
6 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.10%) Python
6 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.89%) Degree
4 8 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.20%) OCP
6 2 (2.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.40%) NIST
1 4 (4.40%) PCI DSS
1 4 (4.40%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (56.04%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) Postfix
2 6 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.38%) Ansible
3 13 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 10 (10.99%) Grafana
5 8 (8.79%) Puppet
6 7 (7.69%) Terraform
7 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (18.68%) Oracle
2 13 (14.29%) VMware
3 9 (9.89%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (8.79%) webMethods
5 7 (7.69%) Atlassian
6 5 (5.49%) Splunk
7 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.20%) Google
8 2 (2.20%) Veracode
9 1 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.10%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.10%) Okta
9 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.10%) Sybase