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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 420 486
Rank change year-on-year -53 +66 -5
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 76 59 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 1.00% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 33 41
10th Percentile £313 £356 £425
25th Percentile £357 £440 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.91% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £511 £713 £650
90th Percentile £598 £773 £875
UK median daily rate £410 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -25.45% -4.35% -4.17%

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 7,106 5,911 7,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.02% 22.35% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,760 3,761 5,667
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £430 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £662
90th Percentile £738 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 78 182
10th Percentile £34.20 £26.25 £26.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +1 33 £505 +6.32% 7
North of England -33 20 £359 +2.57% 8
North West -6 16 £358 -8.79% 5
South East -24 11 £375 -25.00% 8
West Midlands -60 9 £429 -26.98% 3
Midlands -67 9 £429 -26.98% 3
North East -13 2 £451 +28.93% 1
Yorkshire -44 2 £600 - 2
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 (14.47%) Apache
2 8 (10.53%) JBoss
2 8 (10.53%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.63%) Confluence
4 1 (1.32%) Drupal
4 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.32%) SAS
4 1 (1.32%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 52 (68.42%) AWS
2 29 (38.16%) GitHub
3 19 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (23.68%) Azure
5 14 (18.42%) GCP
6 13 (17.11%) OpenShift
7 8 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (7.89%) Serverless
9 5 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.58%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 4 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (5.26%) Apigee
10 4 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.26%) Route 53
10 4 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) DNS
1 4 (5.26%) HTTP
1 4 (5.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (47.37%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (26.32%) NoSQL
3 18 (23.68%) MySQL
4 15 (19.74%) Relational Database
5 14 (18.42%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.89%) Redis
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.26%) DocumentDB
7 4 (5.26%) DynamoDB
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle Database
7 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.95%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (48.68%) JUnit
2 34 (44.74%) Git
3 27 (35.53%) Jenkins
4 13 (17.11%) Cucumber
4 13 (17.11%) JMeter
4 13 (17.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (15.79%) GitLab
6 11 (14.47%) Maven
7 9 (11.84%) Mockito
7 9 (11.84%) Selenium
8 8 (10.53%) Eclipse
8 8 (10.53%) IntelliJ
9 7 (9.21%) Postman
10 6 (7.89%) Gradle
11 4 (5.26%) JIRA
12 3 (3.95%) SonarQube
13 2 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
13 2 (2.63%) SoapUI
13 2 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 27 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.00%) Finance
3 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.84%) Banking
5 8 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (69.74%) Developer
2 43 (56.58%) Java Developer
3 19 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (17.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 13 (17.11%) Java Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Senior
6 7 (9.21%) Senior Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Apigee Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Architect
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Backend Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Java Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Kafka Developer
9 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (2.63%) Kafka Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (97.37%) Spring
2 42 (55.26%) Spring Boot
3 32 (42.11%) RESTful
4 29 (38.16%) Kafka
5 25 (32.89%) JPA
5 25 (32.89%) REST
6 21 (27.63%) AngularJS
7 17 (22.37%) JSON
7 17 (22.37%) React
8 16 (21.05%) HTML
8 16 (21.05%) XML
9 14 (18.42%) Spring MVC
10 12 (15.79%) HTML5
11 11 (14.47%) J2EE
12 10 (13.16%) SOAP
13 9 (11.84%) CSS
13 9 (11.84%) OAuth
13 9 (11.84%) OAuth2
14 8 (10.53%) Play Framework
14 8 (10.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.74%) Linux
2 12 (15.79%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (68.42%) Microservices
2 51 (67.11%) CI/CD
3 35 (46.05%) Agile
4 32 (42.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (25.00%) DevOps
7 17 (22.37%) Containerisation
7 17 (22.37%) Scrum
8 16 (21.05%) MVC
8 16 (21.05%) Test Automation
9 15 (19.74%) API Design
9 15 (19.74%) Observability
10 14 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (17.11%) Code Quality
11 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (17.11%) Mentoring
11 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering
11 13 (17.11%) TDD
12 12 (15.79%) OOP
13 11 (14.47%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 76 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (43.42%) SQL
3 12 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.53%) Scala
5 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.63%) Groovy
6 2 (2.63%) Python
7 1 (1.32%) C#
7 1 (1.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.84%) Degree
3 8 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.63%) OCP
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.26%) NIST
1 4 (5.26%) PCI DSS
1 4 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (52.63%) Docker
2 6 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.42%) Ansible
3 13 (17.11%) Progress Chef
4 8 (10.53%) Puppet
5 6 (7.89%) Terraform
6 1 (1.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (26.32%) Oracle
2 13 (17.11%) VMware
3 8 (10.53%) webMethods
4 6 (7.89%) Splunk
5 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.63%) Google
7 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.32%) Sybase
7 1 (1.32%) Veracode