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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 413 425
Rank change year-on-year -140 +12 +52
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 73 101 108
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.86% 1.66% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 80 79
10th Percentile £396 £268 £375
25th Percentile £406 £349 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £406 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.61% -26.18% -0.09%
75th Percentile £534 £485 £650
90th Percentile £586 £541 £774
UK median daily rate £469 £410 £550
% change year-on-year +14.47% -25.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £53.50 £52.00 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -41.82%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £56.50 £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -41.82%

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 8,528 6,100 7,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.89% 22.26% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,589 4,204 5,195
10th Percentile £363 £351 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £807
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 139 237
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £23.92
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.36%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -14.00%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -80 25 £460 +16.46% 15
Midlands -68 22 £475 +17.00% 4
West Midlands -44 21 £475 -2.56% 3
South East -66 12 £438 -12.50% 13
North of England -81 11 £413 +8.55% 7
Yorkshire -42 10 £413 +32.32% 4
East of England - 4 - -
South West -31 3 £525 -4.55%
North West -59 1 - - 3
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 7 (9.59%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) Camunda
2 2 (2.74%) Drupal
2 2 (2.74%) WordPress
3 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 30 (41.10%) AWS
2 19 (26.03%) Amazon EC2
2 19 (26.03%) Amazon S3
2 19 (26.03%) Amazon SQS
3 18 (24.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (24.66%) AWS KMS
3 18 (24.66%) Route 53
4 17 (23.29%) OpenShift
5 12 (16.44%) Azure
6 6 (8.22%) GCP
7 5 (6.85%) GitHub
8 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.74%) Serverless
11 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.37%) Azure App Service
11 1 (1.37%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (45.21%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (26.03%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (26.03%) DynamoDB
3 18 (24.66%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (13.70%) MySQL
5 9 (12.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (5.48%) Couchbase
6 4 (5.48%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.48%) Power BI
6 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.74%) Redis
9 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.37%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (1.37%) Metadata
9 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (61.64%) Jenkins
2 41 (56.16%) Git
3 31 (42.47%) JUnit
4 25 (34.25%) Maven
5 23 (31.51%) Mockito
6 22 (30.14%) SonarQube
7 15 (20.55%) Gradle
8 14 (19.18%) DbUnit
8 14 (19.18%) JIRA
9 13 (17.81%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (17.81%) jMock
10 4 (5.48%) GitLab
11 2 (2.74%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
12 1 (1.37%) GoCD
General
1 21 (28.77%) Public Sector
2 19 (26.03%) Finance
3 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
4 14 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (16.44%) Banking
6 5 (6.85%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 61 (83.56%) Developer
2 46 (63.01%) Java Developer
3 16 (21.92%) Senior
4 12 (16.44%) Senior Developer
4 12 (16.44%) Senior Java Developer
4 12 (16.44%) Software Developer
5 11 (15.07%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Java Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Lead
9 4 (5.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Java Software Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Backend Developer
10 3 (4.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 3 (4.11%) Oracle Developer
11 2 (2.74%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (86.30%) Spring Boot
2 62 (84.93%) Spring
3 40 (54.79%) JPA
4 34 (46.58%) RESTful
5 33 (45.21%) REST
6 28 (38.36%) Web Services
7 22 (30.14%) SOAP
8 21 (28.77%) AngularJS
9 20 (27.40%) ActiveMQ
9 20 (27.40%) Spring Batch
9 20 (27.40%) Spring Integration
10 19 (26.03%) Kafka
10 19 (26.03%) Spring Cloud
11 18 (24.66%) React
12 17 (23.29%) Redux
13 13 (17.81%) Node.js
13 13 (17.81%) PowerMock
14 11 (15.07%) Bootstrap
15 7 (9.59%) HTML
16 6 (8.22%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.51%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (17.81%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.85%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.85%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.11%) Life Science
5 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) LIMS
6 1 (1.37%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.55%) Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (68.49%) Microservices
2 43 (58.90%) Agile
3 42 (57.53%) CI/CD
4 31 (42.47%) Scrum
5 30 (41.10%) TDD
6 26 (35.62%) DevOps
7 22 (30.14%) Containerisation
8 17 (23.29%) Kanban
9 15 (20.55%) BDD
9 15 (20.55%) Design Patterns
10 12 (16.44%) Biometrics
10 12 (16.44%) BPMN
10 12 (16.44%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (15.07%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (15.07%) Open Source
11 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (13.70%) Decision-Making
12 10 (13.70%) Test Automation
13 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 73 (100.00%) Java
2 51 (69.86%) SQL
3 20 (27.40%) PL/SQL
4 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.48%) Python
5 4 (5.48%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.74%) C#
6 2 (2.74%) PHP
6 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.37%) Korn
7 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 39 (53.42%) Security Cleared
2 34 (46.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (43.84%) Docker
2 11 (15.07%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (26.03%) Grafana
2 14 (19.18%) Control-M
3 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
4 7 (9.59%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.48%) Terraform
6 3 (4.11%) Ansible
7 1 (1.37%) Istio
7 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (35.62%) Oracle
2 17 (23.29%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (19.18%) Atlassian
4 5 (6.85%) Google
5 3 (4.11%) Veracode
6 2 (2.74%) IBM
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.37%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.37%) Okta
7 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.37%) Splunk