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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 436 488
Rank change year-on-year -30 +52 -3
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 80 64 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 1.04% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 39 40
10th Percentile £309 £356 £439
25th Percentile £333 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% -10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £443 £675 £659
90th Percentile £561 £767 £876
UK median daily rate £385 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -28.37% -6.52% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 7,055 6,163 7,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.31% 21.84% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,714 3,944 5,695
10th Percentile £352 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £633 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £759
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 72 162
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.30
25th Percentile £45.00 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.40 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 -7 36 £400 -23.81% 28
North of England -38 21 £344 -16.61% 23
North West -12 16 £349 -26.53% 10
South East -6 11 £375 -21.05% 23
Midlands -61 10 £429 -26.98% 12
West Midlands -47 9 £429 -26.98% 6
Yorkshire -40 5 £319 - 10
East Midlands - 1 £385 - 6
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 9 (11.25%) Apache
2 8 (10.00%) JBoss
2 8 (10.00%) WebLogic
3 3 (3.75%) Confluence
4 1 (1.25%) CICS
4 1 (1.25%) Drupal
4 1 (1.25%) SAS
4 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (65.00%) AWS
2 28 (35.00%) Azure
3 23 (28.75%) GitHub
4 15 (18.75%) GCP
5 13 (16.25%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (16.25%) OpenShift
6 8 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (5.00%) Apigee
9 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.75%) Serverless
10 2 (2.50%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) HTTP
1 4 (5.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (45.00%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (21.25%) NoSQL
3 16 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 16 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 13 (16.25%) MySQL
5 7 (8.75%) Oracle Database
5 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.25%) Redis
7 3 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.25%) DB2
9 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (58.75%) JUnit
2 41 (51.25%) Git
3 25 (31.25%) Jenkins
4 17 (21.25%) Maven
5 15 (18.75%) Cucumber
5 15 (18.75%) Mockito
5 15 (18.75%) Selenium
5 15 (18.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (17.50%) JMeter
7 11 (13.75%) Postman
8 10 (12.50%) Eclipse
8 10 (12.50%) IntelliJ
9 9 (11.25%) GitLab
10 8 (10.00%) JIRA
11 7 (8.75%) SonarQube
12 6 (7.50%) SoapUI
13 5 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (6.25%) Gradle
13 5 (6.25%) Subversion
13 5 (6.25%) Xcode
General
1 32 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (31.25%) Finance
3 12 (15.00%) Banking
4 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 8 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (73.75%) Developer
2 50 (62.50%) Java Developer
3 22 (27.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (18.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (13.75%) Java Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Senior
7 9 (11.25%) Senior Developer
7 9 (11.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Backend Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Apigee Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Angular Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Kafka Developer
10 3 (3.75%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Kafka Engineer
11 2 (2.50%) Lead
11 2 (2.50%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Principal Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (96.25%) Spring
2 45 (56.25%) Spring Boot
3 30 (37.50%) RESTful
4 28 (35.00%) Kafka
5 27 (33.75%) REST
6 26 (32.50%) AngularJS
6 26 (32.50%) JPA
7 24 (30.00%) HTML
8 20 (25.00%) React
9 18 (22.50%) JSON
9 18 (22.50%) XML
10 16 (20.00%) CSS
10 16 (20.00%) HTML5
11 15 (18.75%) J2EE
11 15 (18.75%) Spring MVC
12 13 (16.25%) SOAP
13 9 (11.25%) EJB
14 8 (10.00%) J2SE
14 8 (10.00%) Play Framework
14 8 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.00%) Linux
2 15 (18.75%) Unix
3 2 (2.50%) Windows
4 1 (1.25%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 52 (65.00%) Microservices
3 41 (51.25%) Agile
4 36 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (28.75%) Test Automation
7 22 (27.50%) DevOps
8 20 (25.00%) TDD
9 18 (22.50%) Code Quality
9 18 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (22.50%) Mentoring
10 17 (21.25%) MVC
10 17 (21.25%) Scrum
11 16 (20.00%) API Design
11 16 (20.00%) Containerisation
12 14 (17.50%) OO
13 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (16.25%) OOP
14 12 (15.00%) Front End Development
14 12 (15.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (47.50%) SQL
3 22 (27.50%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.00%) Scala
5 6 (7.50%) Shell Script
5 6 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.25%) Groovy
7 2 (2.50%) Bash
7 2 (2.50%) C#
8 1 (1.25%) COBOL
8 1 (1.25%) JCL
8 1 (1.25%) Korn
8 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.25%) PHP
8 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.50%) Degree
3 9 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.50%) OCP
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 35 (43.75%) Docker
2 6 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.50%) Ansible
3 13 (16.25%) Progress Chef
4 8 (10.00%) Puppet
5 2 (2.50%) Kibana
6 1 (1.25%) Control-M
6 1 (1.25%) logstash
6 1 (1.25%) Terraform
6 1 (1.25%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 22 (27.50%) Oracle
2 13 (16.25%) VMware
3 9 (11.25%) Splunk
4 8 (10.00%) webMethods
5 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
6 5 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (6.25%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.50%) Google
7 2 (2.50%) IBM
7 2 (2.50%) Veracode
8 1 (1.25%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.25%) Sybase