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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 422 444
Rank change year-on-year -93 +22 +18
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 67 59 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 1.08% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 37 75
10th Percentile £343 £269 £375
25th Percentile £397 £363 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £540
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -21.30% -8.47%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £650
90th Percentile £630 £538 £810
UK median daily rate £475 £420 £533
% change year-on-year +13.10% -21.20% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £52.75 £51.00 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -36.00%
75th Percentile £56.88 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £57.25 £65.00 -
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 7,919 5,465 7,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.48% 22.40% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,270 3,787 5,310
10th Percentile £363 £368 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 102 223
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.55 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.25 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -53 23 £540 +18.16% 6
West Midlands -47 18 £475 +13.10%
Midlands -69 18 £475 +15.57% 1
North of England -52 17 £402 -13.55% 3
North West -34 13 £359 -10.70% 2
South East -49 8 £393 -21.50% 4
North East -21 2 £451 -2.96%
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
South West - 1 £525 - 6
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 5 (7.46%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) Apache
3 2 (2.99%) Drupal
3 2 (2.99%) WordPress
4 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 41 (61.19%) AWS
2 19 (28.36%) Amazon S3
2 19 (28.36%) Amazon SQS
3 18 (26.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (26.87%) GitHub
3 18 (26.87%) Route 53
4 15 (22.39%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (20.90%) AWS KMS
5 14 (20.90%) Azure
6 11 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (10.45%) GCP
8 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (7.46%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (7.46%) Serverless
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) HTTPS
2 4 (5.97%) DNS
3 2 (2.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (59.70%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (28.36%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (28.36%) DynamoDB
3 18 (26.87%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (25.37%) MySQL
5 12 (17.91%) NoSQL
6 11 (16.42%) Relational Database
7 6 (8.96%) Redis
8 4 (5.97%) DocumentDB
9 2 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.49%) Metadata
10 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (59.70%) Git
2 29 (43.28%) Jenkins
2 29 (43.28%) JUnit
3 22 (32.84%) Mockito
4 21 (31.34%) Maven
5 16 (23.88%) SonarQube
6 13 (19.40%) GitLab
7 11 (16.42%) DbUnit
7 11 (16.42%) jMock
8 9 (13.43%) Bitbucket Server
9 8 (11.94%) JIRA
10 5 (7.46%) Gradle
11 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
11 3 (4.48%) Cucumber
11 3 (4.48%) JMeter
11 3 (4.48%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (2.99%) Postman
13 1 (1.49%) Babel
13 1 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 27 (40.30%) Public Sector
2 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Finance
4 4 (5.97%) Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (74.63%) Developer
2 44 (65.67%) Java Developer
3 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) Senior Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Java Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Lead
6 5 (7.46%) Lead Developer
6 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Architect
7 4 (5.97%) AWS Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Java Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (2.99%) Java Applications Developer
9 2 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (97.01%) Spring
2 54 (80.60%) Spring Boot
3 43 (64.18%) RESTful
4 34 (50.75%) JPA
5 29 (43.28%) REST
6 22 (32.84%) AngularJS
7 20 (29.85%) Spring Cloud
8 19 (28.36%) Web Services
9 17 (25.37%) SOAP
10 16 (23.88%) Spring Batch
10 16 (23.88%) Spring Integration
11 15 (22.39%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (17.91%) Kafka
13 11 (16.42%) PowerMock
13 11 (16.42%) Spring MVC
14 10 (14.93%) Node.js
15 9 (13.43%) Bootstrap
16 8 (11.94%) OAuth
16 8 (11.94%) OAuth2
16 8 (11.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.34%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.49%) LIMS
4 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (83.58%) Microservices
2 41 (61.19%) CI/CD
3 36 (53.73%) Agile
4 28 (41.79%) Containerisation
5 26 (38.81%) TDD
6 24 (35.82%) DevOps
7 21 (31.34%) Scrum
8 15 (22.39%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (19.40%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (17.91%) API Design
10 12 (17.91%) Kanban
10 12 (17.91%) MVC
11 11 (16.42%) API Development
11 11 (16.42%) BDD
11 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (14.93%) Biometrics
12 10 (14.93%) BPMN
12 10 (14.93%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (14.93%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 67 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (44.78%) SQL
3 7 (10.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.99%) C#
4 2 (2.99%) PHP
4 2 (2.99%) Python
5 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (41.79%) Security Cleared
2 22 (32.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) Degree
4 6 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) OCP
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.97%) NIST
1 4 (5.97%) PCI DSS
1 4 (5.97%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (64.18%) Docker
2 10 (14.93%) Postfix
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (40.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (22.39%) Grafana
3 7 (10.45%) Terraform
4 5 (7.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.97%) Ansible
6 3 (4.48%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (17.91%) Oracle
3 11 (16.42%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.48%) VMware
5 2 (2.99%) Google
5 2 (2.99%) Splunk
5 2 (2.99%) Veracode
6 1 (1.49%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.49%) Okta
6 1 (1.49%) Salesforce