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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 422 409
Rank change year-on-year -127 -13 +91
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 69 92 124
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 1.35% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 75 92
10th Percentile £396 £268 £375
25th Percentile £406 £317 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -27.27% +2.80%
75th Percentile £534 £478 £650
90th Percentile £538 £546 £765
UK median daily rate £455 £402 £550
% change year-on-year +13.18% -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 9,776 6,836 8,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.77% 24.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,442 4,706 5,575
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £437 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
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 262 163 187
10th Percentile £29.16 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.70 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -11.77% -4.62%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.88 £75.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.07% -13.56% -2.22%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -85 24 £425 +10.39% 52
North of England -66 17 £500 +47.80% 16
Midlands -70 15 £405 -0.25% 11
Yorkshire -41 11 £431 +36.47% 5
West Midlands -46 11 £475 -5.00% 6
South East -57 7 £450 -10.00% 8
North West -47 6 £537 +60.06% 8
East of England - 5 - -
East Midlands -36 3 £335 -10.67% 5
South West -42 3 £525 -4.55% 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 8 (11.59%) Confluence
2 6 (8.70%) Camunda
3 3 (4.35%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.78%) AWS
1 24 (34.78%) OpenShift
2 9 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (13.04%) Amazon S3
2 9 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
2 9 (13.04%) AWS KMS
2 9 (13.04%) Route 53
3 6 (8.70%) Azure
3 6 (8.70%) GCP
4 5 (7.25%) GitHub
5 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.80%) Serverless
6 3 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (15.94%) Relational Database
3 10 (14.49%) MySQL
4 9 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (13.04%) DynamoDB
5 8 (11.59%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (7.25%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.80%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (5.80%) Couchbase
7 4 (5.80%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.80%) Oracle Database
7 4 (5.80%) Power BI
8 3 (4.35%) Metadata
9 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.90%) Redis
10 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (62.32%) Jenkins
2 27 (39.13%) Git
3 23 (33.33%) JUnit
4 20 (28.99%) Gradle
5 19 (27.54%) Maven
6 18 (26.09%) SonarQube
7 17 (24.64%) Mockito
8 12 (17.39%) Bitbucket Server
8 12 (17.39%) JIRA
9 9 (13.04%) GitLab
10 7 (10.14%) DbUnit
11 6 (8.70%) jMock
11 6 (8.70%) REST Assured
11 6 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
13 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
13 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
13 1 (1.45%) git-flow
13 1 (1.45%) GoCD
13 1 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 24 (34.78%) Finance
2 17 (24.64%) Banking
3 16 (23.19%) Social Skills
4 13 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (18.84%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.90%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 56 (81.16%) Developer
2 36 (52.17%) Java Developer
3 17 (24.64%) Senior
4 13 (18.84%) Senior Developer
4 13 (18.84%) Senior Java Developer
4 13 (18.84%) Software Developer
5 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Java Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Lead
6 6 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Java Software Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (78.26%) Spring Boot
2 53 (76.81%) Spring
3 31 (44.93%) JPA
4 27 (39.13%) RESTful
5 26 (37.68%) Kafka
5 26 (37.68%) React
6 23 (33.33%) Redux
7 21 (30.43%) REST
8 18 (26.09%) Web Services
9 14 (20.29%) AngularJS
9 14 (20.29%) SOAP
10 12 (17.39%) HTML
11 11 (15.94%) ActiveMQ
11 11 (15.94%) CSS
12 10 (14.49%) Spring Batch
12 10 (14.49%) Spring Cloud
12 10 (14.49%) Spring Integration
13 7 (10.14%) Spring MVC
13 7 (10.14%) SQLAlchemy
14 6 (8.70%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.84%) Distributed Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (14.49%) Data Structures
3 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.80%) Life Science
5 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) LIMS
6 1 (1.45%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Linux
2 4 (5.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.97%) Agile
2 39 (56.52%) Microservices
3 36 (52.17%) CI/CD
4 23 (33.33%) Scrum
5 22 (31.88%) TDD
6 18 (26.09%) DevOps
7 16 (23.19%) Containerisation
8 14 (20.29%) Test Automation
9 13 (18.84%) Design Patterns
9 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (15.94%) Kanban
11 10 (14.49%) BDD
11 10 (14.49%) Clean Code
11 10 (14.49%) MVC
12 9 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
13 8 (11.59%) Code Quality
13 8 (11.59%) Observability
14 7 (10.14%) Decision-Making
14 7 (10.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 67 (97.10%) Java
2 50 (72.46%) SQL
3 23 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 13 (18.84%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.25%) Python
6 4 (5.80%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 33 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 27 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (37.68%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Control-M
2 12 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 10 (14.49%) Grafana
4 7 (10.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.90%) Ansible
6 1 (1.45%) Istio
6 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (43.48%) Oracle
2 8 (11.59%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (10.14%) Atlassian
4 6 (8.70%) IBM
4 6 (8.70%) Veracode
5 5 (7.25%) Google
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.45%) Splunk