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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 433 483
Rank change year-on-year -71 +50 -24
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 79 51 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 0.93% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 32 48
10th Percentile £331 £274 £338
25th Percentile £361 £358 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £417 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -23.49% -9.17%
75th Percentile £529 £491 £691
90th Percentile £596 £538 £875
UK median daily rate £438 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +6.06% -21.43% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +62.50% -37.25%
75th Percentile £56.88 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +62.50% -37.25%

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 8,012 5,473 7,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.48% 22.48% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,358 3,800 5,346
10th Percentile £358 £365 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 89 163
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £35.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.36
90th Percentile £78.90 £83.17 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +1.56% +38.59% -28.95%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -76 25 £550 +32.85% 5
West Midlands -50 20 £475 +13.10% 1
Midlands -57 20 £475 +18.16% 1
North of England -56 18 £360 -22.16% 3
North West -18 14 £358 -5.79% 3
South East -41 14 £373 -
North East -18 2 £451 -2.96%
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
South West - 1 £525 - 3
East of England - 1 - - 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 7 (8.86%) Apache
2 6 (7.59%) Confluence
3 4 (5.06%) JBoss
3 4 (5.06%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.53%) Drupal
4 2 (2.53%) WordPress
5 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 50 (63.29%) AWS
2 24 (30.38%) GitHub
3 18 (22.78%) Azure
4 17 (21.52%) Amazon S3
4 17 (21.52%) Amazon SQS
5 16 (20.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 16 (20.25%) Route 53
6 14 (17.72%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (16.46%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (15.19%) AWS KMS
9 11 (13.92%) GCP
10 6 (7.59%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.59%) Serverless
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (6.33%) Apigee
11 5 (6.33%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (5.06%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 4 (5.06%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (5.06%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.86%) HTTPS
2 4 (5.06%) DNS
2 4 (5.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (54.43%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (22.78%) MySQL
3 17 (21.52%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (21.52%) DynamoDB
3 17 (21.52%) NoSQL
4 16 (20.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (18.99%) Relational Database
6 6 (7.59%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.59%) Redis
7 4 (5.06%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.27%) Metadata
9 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (58.23%) Git
2 36 (45.57%) JUnit
3 32 (40.51%) Jenkins
4 20 (25.32%) Maven
4 20 (25.32%) Mockito
5 14 (17.72%) GitLab
5 14 (17.72%) SonarQube
6 9 (11.39%) DbUnit
6 9 (11.39%) JIRA
6 9 (11.39%) jMock
7 7 (8.86%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (7.59%) Cucumber
8 6 (7.59%) JMeter
8 6 (7.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (6.33%) Gradle
9 5 (6.33%) Postman
9 5 (6.33%) Selenium
10 4 (5.06%) Eclipse
10 4 (5.06%) IntelliJ
11 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (32.91%) Public Sector
2 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.66%) Finance
4 7 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Banking
5 4 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (75.95%) Developer
2 53 (67.09%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.99%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (15.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (11.39%) Java Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Senior
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (7.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Lead
8 5 (6.33%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Apigee Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Architect
9 4 (5.06%) AWS Architect
9 4 (5.06%) Backend Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (5.06%) Java Architect
10 3 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (97.47%) Spring
2 58 (73.42%) Spring Boot
3 48 (60.76%) RESTful
4 36 (45.57%) JPA
5 31 (39.24%) REST
6 25 (31.65%) AngularJS
7 19 (24.05%) SOAP
8 18 (22.78%) Spring Cloud
9 17 (21.52%) Web Services
10 16 (20.25%) Kafka
11 14 (17.72%) Spring Batch
11 14 (17.72%) Spring Integration
12 13 (16.46%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (16.46%) React
12 13 (16.46%) Spring MVC
13 11 (13.92%) JSON
14 10 (12.66%) HTML
14 10 (12.66%) OAuth
14 10 (12.66%) OAuth2
14 10 (12.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.05%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.27%) LIMS
4 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.25%) Linux
2 4 (5.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (81.01%) Microservices
2 54 (68.35%) CI/CD
3 44 (55.70%) Agile
4 28 (35.44%) Containerisation
5 27 (34.18%) Scrum
6 26 (32.91%) DevOps
7 23 (29.11%) TDD
8 20 (25.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (20.25%) API Design
11 14 (17.72%) MVC
11 14 (17.72%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (15.19%) API Development
13 12 (15.19%) Code Quality
13 12 (15.19%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (15.19%) Observability
14 11 (13.92%) Open Source
14 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 79 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (46.84%) SQL
3 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.06%) Scala
5 2 (2.53%) C#
5 2 (2.53%) PHP
5 2 (2.53%) Python
6 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (35.44%) Security Cleared
2 21 (26.58%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.39%) Degree
4 8 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.53%) OCP
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.06%) NIST
1 4 (5.06%) PCI DSS
1 4 (5.06%) QA
System Software
1 49 (62.03%) Docker
2 8 (10.13%) Postfix
3 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (41.77%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.46%) Grafana
3 7 (8.86%) Ansible
3 7 (8.86%) Terraform
4 6 (7.59%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.06%) Puppet
6 1 (1.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (17.72%) Oracle
2 12 (15.19%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (11.39%) Atlassian
4 6 (7.59%) VMware
5 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.06%) Splunk
5 4 (5.06%) webMethods
6 2 (2.53%) Google
6 2 (2.53%) Veracode
7 1 (1.27%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.27%) Okta
7 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.27%) Sybase