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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 443 491
Rank change year-on-year -47 +48 -28
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 86 42 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 0.75% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 23 54
10th Percentile £326 £332 £359
25th Percentile £359 £357 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £420 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £513 £650
90th Percentile £599 £538 £868
UK median daily rate £429 £420 £540
% change year-on-year +2.14% -22.22% -10.00%
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 7,879 5,583 7,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.40% 22.60% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,280 3,772 5,403
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £790 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 87 197
10th Percentile £35.05 £27.34 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.78 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £83.38 £75.00
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 14 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 14 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 -51 32 £528 +23.54% 3
Midlands -46 20 £435 +3.57% 6
West Midlands -51 20 £435 +3.57% 4
North of England -55 17 £360 -10.45% 2
South East -35 16 £373 -
North West -24 14 £358 -5.79% 2
North East -12 2 £451 -1.90%
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
South West - 1 £525 - 4
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 (12.79%) Apache
2 8 (9.30%) JBoss
2 8 (9.30%) WebLogic
3 6 (6.98%) Confluence
4 2 (2.33%) Drupal
4 2 (2.33%) WordPress
5 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.12%) AWS
2 27 (31.40%) GitHub
3 20 (23.26%) Azure
4 17 (19.77%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (16.28%) Amazon S3
5 14 (16.28%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (15.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (15.12%) Route 53
7 12 (13.95%) GCP
8 10 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (11.63%) OpenShift
9 9 (10.47%) AWS KMS
10 8 (9.30%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (6.98%) Serverless
12 5 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (5.81%) Apigee
12 5 (5.81%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.65%) DNS
2 4 (4.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (22.09%) NoSQL
3 18 (20.93%) MySQL
4 14 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (16.28%) DynamoDB
4 14 (16.28%) Relational Database
5 13 (15.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (12.79%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.81%) Redis
8 4 (4.65%) DocumentDB
9 2 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 49 (56.98%) Git
2 43 (50.00%) JUnit
3 34 (39.53%) Jenkins
4 19 (22.09%) Maven
5 18 (20.93%) Mockito
6 13 (15.12%) GitLab
7 12 (13.95%) SonarQube
8 10 (11.63%) Cucumber
8 10 (11.63%) JIRA
8 10 (11.63%) JMeter
8 10 (11.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (10.47%) Selenium
10 8 (9.30%) Eclipse
10 8 (9.30%) IntelliJ
11 7 (8.14%) DbUnit
11 7 (8.14%) jMock
12 6 (6.98%) Gradle
12 6 (6.98%) Postman
13 5 (5.81%) Bitbucket Server
14 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 27 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.74%) Public Sector
3 14 (16.28%) Finance
4 8 (9.30%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (8.14%) Banking
6 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (74.42%) Developer
2 55 (63.95%) Java Developer
3 16 (18.60%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (13.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 12 (13.95%) Java Engineer
5 7 (8.14%) Senior
5 7 (8.14%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Apigee Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Architect
8 4 (4.65%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Java Architect
9 3 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Kafka Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Lead
9 3 (3.49%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (97.67%) Spring
2 55 (63.95%) Spring Boot
3 46 (53.49%) RESTful
4 34 (39.53%) REST
5 33 (38.37%) JPA
6 23 (26.74%) AngularJS
7 22 (25.58%) Kafka
8 20 (23.26%) SOAP
9 15 (17.44%) HTML
9 15 (17.44%) JSON
9 15 (17.44%) Spring Cloud
9 15 (17.44%) Web Services
10 14 (16.28%) Spring MVC
10 14 (16.28%) XML
11 13 (15.12%) React
12 11 (12.79%) HTML5
13 10 (11.63%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (11.63%) Spring Batch
13 10 (11.63%) Spring Integration
14 9 (10.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.77%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.09%) Linux
2 9 (10.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (76.74%) Microservices
2 60 (69.77%) CI/CD
3 47 (54.65%) Agile
4 28 (32.56%) Scrum
5 27 (31.40%) DevOps
6 26 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 26 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (27.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (24.42%) TDD
9 17 (19.77%) API Design
9 17 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (18.60%) MVC
11 14 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (16.28%) Mentoring
11 14 (16.28%) Observability
11 14 (16.28%) Software Engineering
11 14 (16.28%) Test Automation
12 13 (15.12%) Code Quality
12 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (15.12%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (44.19%) SQL
3 10 (11.63%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.30%) Scala
5 2 (2.33%) C#
5 2 (2.33%) PHP
5 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.16%) Groovy
6 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.16%) Python
6 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.47%) Degree
4 8 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.49%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.33%) OCP
6 2 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.65%) NIST
1 4 (4.65%) PCI DSS
1 4 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 51 (59.30%) Docker
2 6 (6.98%) Postfix
3 4 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (40.70%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.79%) Ansible
3 10 (11.63%) Grafana
3 10 (11.63%) Progress Chef
4 8 (9.30%) Puppet
5 7 (8.14%) Terraform
6 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Oracle
2 10 (11.63%) VMware
3 9 (10.47%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (9.30%) webMethods
5 7 (8.14%) Atlassian
6 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
6 5 (5.81%) Splunk
7 2 (2.33%) Google
7 2 (2.33%) Veracode
8 1 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.16%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.16%) Okta
8 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.16%) Sybase