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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 430 485
Rank change year-on-year -80 +55 -7
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 80 43 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 0.77% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 23 50
10th Percentile £325 £356 £346
25th Percentile £358 £360 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £420 £573
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -26.64% -4.58%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £648
90th Percentile £606 £562 £853
UK median daily rate £436 £420 £525
% change year-on-year +3.87% -20.00% -9.68%
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% -38.46%
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% -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 7,855 5,582 7,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.94% 22.63% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,279 3,807 5,359
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £793 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 86 182
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.30 £20.87
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £82.53 £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 22 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 22 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 -42 30 £530 +6.00% 5
Midlands -51 17 £475 +13.10% 1
West Midlands -57 17 £475 +13.10% 1
North of England -64 17 £360 -16.47% 3
South East -36 15 £370 -
North West -16 14 £358 -10.95% 3
North East -13 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 7 (8.75%) Apache
2 6 (7.50%) Confluence
3 4 (5.00%) JBoss
3 4 (5.00%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.50%) Drupal
4 2 (2.50%) WordPress
5 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 50 (62.50%) AWS
2 25 (31.25%) GitHub
3 20 (25.00%) Azure
4 15 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (17.50%) Amazon S3
5 14 (17.50%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (16.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (16.25%) Route 53
7 12 (15.00%) GCP
8 10 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (11.25%) AWS KMS
10 8 (10.00%) OpenShift
11 6 (7.50%) Serverless
12 5 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (6.25%) Apigee
12 5 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 4 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) HTTPS
2 4 (5.00%) DNS
2 4 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (51.25%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (23.75%) NoSQL
3 17 (21.25%) MySQL
4 14 (17.50%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (17.50%) DynamoDB
4 14 (17.50%) Relational Database
5 13 (16.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (8.75%) MongoDB
7 5 (6.25%) Redis
8 4 (5.00%) DocumentDB
9 2 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (56.25%) Git
2 37 (46.25%) JUnit
3 32 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 19 (23.75%) Maven
5 18 (22.50%) Mockito
6 13 (16.25%) GitLab
7 12 (15.00%) SonarQube
8 10 (12.50%) JIRA
9 8 (10.00%) Cucumber
9 8 (10.00%) JMeter
9 8 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (8.75%) DbUnit
10 7 (8.75%) jMock
11 6 (7.50%) Gradle
11 6 (7.50%) Postman
12 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (6.25%) Selenium
13 4 (5.00%) Eclipse
13 4 (5.00%) IntelliJ
14 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 23 (28.75%) Public Sector
2 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.25%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Banking
5 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (76.25%) Developer
2 54 (67.50%) Java Developer
3 14 (17.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (13.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 10 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Senior
6 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Apigee Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Architect
8 4 (5.00%) AWS Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Backend Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Java Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Lead
8 4 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Kafka Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (97.50%) Spring
2 56 (70.00%) Spring Boot
3 46 (57.50%) RESTful
4 34 (42.50%) JPA
5 31 (38.75%) REST
6 23 (28.75%) AngularJS
7 20 (25.00%) Kafka
8 17 (21.25%) SOAP
9 15 (18.75%) Spring Cloud
9 15 (18.75%) Web Services
10 14 (17.50%) Spring MVC
11 13 (16.25%) React
12 11 (13.75%) HTML
12 11 (13.75%) JSON
12 11 (13.75%) Spring Batch
12 11 (13.75%) Spring Integration
13 10 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (12.50%) XML
14 9 (11.25%) OAuth
14 9 (11.25%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (78.75%) Microservices
2 54 (67.50%) CI/CD
3 42 (52.50%) Agile
4 26 (32.50%) Containerisation
5 24 (30.00%) Scrum
6 23 (28.75%) DevOps
7 21 (26.25%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (26.25%) TDD
8 17 (21.25%) API Design
9 15 (18.75%) MVC
10 13 (16.25%) Code Quality
10 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (16.25%) Test Automation
11 12 (15.00%) API Development
11 12 (15.00%) Observability
11 12 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (13.75%) Design Patterns
12 11 (13.75%) Front End Development
13 10 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 80 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (43.75%) SQL
3 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.00%) Scala
5 2 (2.50%) C#
5 2 (2.50%) PHP
5 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.25%) Groovy
6 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.25%) Python
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.25%) Degree
4 8 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.50%) OCP
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.00%) NIST
1 4 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 4 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 47 (58.75%) Docker
2 6 (7.50%) Postfix
3 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.50%) Grafana
3 9 (11.25%) Ansible
4 8 (10.00%) Progress Chef
5 7 (8.75%) Terraform
6 4 (5.00%) Puppet
7 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) Oracle
2 9 (11.25%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (10.00%) VMware
4 7 (8.75%) Atlassian
5 5 (6.25%) Splunk
6 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.00%) webMethods
7 2 (2.50%) Google
7 2 (2.50%) Veracode
8 1 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.25%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.25%) Okta
8 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.25%) Sybase