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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 386 448
Rank change year-on-year -143 +62 +14
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 68 90 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.83% 1.61% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 62 78
10th Percentile £403 £268 £375
25th Percentile £413 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £540
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% -23.24% -1.91%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £636
90th Percentile £630 £538 £756
UK median daily rate £476 £413 £538
% change year-on-year +15.45% -23.26% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £52.75 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -36.00%
75th Percentile £56.88 - -
90th Percentile £57.25 £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -36.00%

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 8,202 5,586 7,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.08% 22.52% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,407 3,877 5,488
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 111 260
10th Percentile £30.50 £32.31 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +25.63% -23.46%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -62 26 £538 +30.07% 3
Midlands -69 21 £475 +15.85%
West Midlands -46 20 £475 -2.56%
North of England -68 12 £425 -7.61% 2
South East -56 9 £438 -12.50%
Yorkshire - 6 £413 - 1
North West -37 4 £478 +33.38% 1
North East -38 2 £451 -2.96%
South West -26 1 £525 -4.55%
East of England - 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 6 (8.82%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) Apache
3 2 (2.94%) Drupal
3 2 (2.94%) WordPress
4 1 (1.47%) Camunda
4 1 (1.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 33 (48.53%) AWS
2 23 (33.82%) Amazon S3
2 23 (33.82%) Amazon SQS
3 22 (32.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 22 (32.35%) Route 53
4 19 (27.94%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (26.47%) AWS KMS
6 11 (16.18%) Azure
6 11 (16.18%) OpenShift
7 8 (11.76%) GitHub
7 8 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (7.35%) GCP
8 5 (7.35%) Serverless
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) DNS
2 3 (4.41%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (33.82%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (33.82%) DynamoDB
3 22 (32.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (19.12%) MySQL
5 7 (10.29%) NoSQL
6 6 (8.82%) Redis
7 4 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (5.88%) Couchbase
7 4 (5.88%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.88%) DocumentDB
7 4 (5.88%) Power BI
7 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.47%) Metadata
9 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (61.76%) Jenkins
2 37 (54.41%) Git
3 30 (44.12%) JUnit
4 25 (36.76%) Maven
5 23 (33.82%) Mockito
6 21 (30.88%) SonarQube
7 14 (20.59%) DbUnit
8 13 (19.12%) jMock
9 12 (17.65%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (16.18%) Gradle
11 9 (13.24%) JIRA
12 8 (11.76%) GitLab
13 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
13 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
13 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 16 (23.53%) Finance
3 11 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.24%) Banking
4 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (69.12%) Developer
2 39 (57.35%) Java Developer
3 13 (19.12%) Senior
4 11 (16.18%) Java Engineer
5 9 (13.24%) Senior Developer
5 9 (13.24%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (13.24%) Software Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Software Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Lead
9 4 (5.88%) Architect
9 4 (5.88%) AWS Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Java Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (88.24%) Spring
2 59 (86.76%) Spring Boot
3 42 (61.76%) JPA
4 34 (50.00%) RESTful
5 29 (42.65%) REST
6 23 (33.82%) Web Services
7 22 (32.35%) Spring Cloud
8 21 (30.88%) SOAP
9 20 (29.41%) Spring Batch
9 20 (29.41%) Spring Integration
10 19 (27.94%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (27.94%) AngularJS
11 16 (23.53%) Kafka
12 13 (19.12%) PowerMock
13 12 (17.65%) Node.js
14 11 (16.18%) Bootstrap
14 11 (16.18%) React
15 10 (14.71%) Redux
16 9 (13.24%) Spring MVC
17 7 (10.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 25 (36.76%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.29%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) LIMS
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.06%) Linux
2 4 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (77.94%) Microservices
2 37 (54.41%) CI/CD
3 33 (48.53%) Agile
4 28 (41.18%) TDD
5 27 (39.71%) DevOps
6 25 (36.76%) Containerisation
6 25 (36.76%) Scrum
7 17 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (23.53%) Kanban
9 15 (22.06%) BDD
9 15 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (19.12%) Design Patterns
11 12 (17.65%) Biometrics
11 12 (17.65%) BPMN
12 11 (16.18%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (16.18%) Open Source
13 9 (13.24%) Decision-Making
13 9 (13.24%) MVC
13 9 (13.24%) Observability
14 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 68 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (69.12%) SQL
3 13 (19.12%) PL/SQL
4 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.94%) C#
6 2 (2.94%) PHP
6 2 (2.94%) Python
7 1 (1.47%) Korn
7 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (45.59%) Security Cleared
2 28 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) AWS Certification
3 5 (7.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.88%) NIST
1 4 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 4 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (54.41%) Docker
2 11 (16.18%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (26.47%) Grafana
2 16 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 9 (13.24%) Control-M
4 7 (10.29%) Terraform
5 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) Ansible
6 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (26.47%) Oracle
2 17 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (20.59%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.88%) Google
5 3 (4.41%) Veracode
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.47%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.47%) IBM
7 1 (1.47%) Okta
7 1 (1.47%) Salesforce