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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 446 492
Rank change year-on-year -33 +46 -5
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 87 43 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 0.74% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 22 46
10th Percentile £313 £325 £425
25th Percentile £356 £356 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £425 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -30.61% +2.08%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £678
90th Percentile £630 £538 £875
UK median daily rate £423 £440 £575
% change year-on-year -3.98% -23.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £56.88 - -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 7,566 5,809 7,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.50% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,080 3,770 5,493
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £534
% change year-on-year -2.57% -1.50% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 74 189
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.56 £43.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year +2.40% +14.55% -16.06%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -29 33 £528 +15.30% 9
North of England -41 20 £359 -11.36% 4
North West -14 16 £358 -8.79% 2
South East -14 16 £373 - 10
West Midlands -41 16 £430 +1.78% 7
Midlands -49 16 £430 +2.38% 8
North East -12 2 £451 +11.42% 1
Yorkshire -51 2 £600 - 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 11 (12.64%) Apache
2 8 (9.20%) JBoss
2 8 (9.20%) WebLogic
3 5 (5.75%) Confluence
4 2 (2.30%) Drupal
4 2 (2.30%) WordPress
5 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 59 (67.82%) AWS
2 30 (34.48%) GitHub
3 20 (22.99%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (20.69%) Azure
5 13 (14.94%) GCP
5 13 (14.94%) OpenShift
6 10 (11.49%) Amazon S3
6 10 (11.49%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (10.34%) Route 53
8 8 (9.20%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.90%) Serverless
10 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.75%) Apigee
10 5 (5.75%) AWS KMS
10 5 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.75%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (4.60%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.60%) DNS
2 4 (4.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (50.57%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (22.99%) NoSQL
3 18 (20.69%) MySQL
4 15 (17.24%) Relational Database
5 13 (14.94%) MongoDB
6 10 (11.49%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (11.49%) DynamoDB
7 9 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (5.75%) Redis
9 4 (4.60%) DocumentDB
10 3 (3.45%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
11 2 (2.30%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 44 (50.57%) Git
1 44 (50.57%) JUnit
2 33 (37.93%) Jenkins
3 18 (20.69%) Maven
4 15 (17.24%) Mockito
5 13 (14.94%) Cucumber
5 13 (14.94%) GitLab
5 13 (14.94%) JMeter
5 13 (14.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (10.34%) JIRA
6 9 (10.34%) Selenium
7 8 (9.20%) Eclipse
7 8 (9.20%) Gradle
7 8 (9.20%) IntelliJ
7 8 (9.20%) SonarQube
8 6 (6.90%) Postman
9 4 (4.60%) DbUnit
9 4 (4.60%) jMock
10 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
10 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Public Sector
3 17 (19.54%) Finance
4 8 (9.20%) Banking
4 8 (9.20%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (72.41%) Developer
2 52 (59.77%) Java Developer
3 19 (21.84%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (16.09%) Java Engineer
5 13 (14.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Senior
6 7 (8.05%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Apigee Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Architect
8 4 (4.60%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Java Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Backend Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Lead
9 3 (3.45%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (96.55%) Spring
2 53 (60.92%) Spring Boot
3 41 (47.13%) RESTful
4 33 (37.93%) JPA
5 32 (36.78%) REST
6 28 (32.18%) Kafka
7 23 (26.44%) AngularJS
8 16 (18.39%) JSON
8 16 (18.39%) React
8 16 (18.39%) SOAP
9 15 (17.24%) HTML
9 15 (17.24%) XML
10 14 (16.09%) Spring MVC
11 11 (12.64%) HTML5
11 11 (12.64%) Spring Cloud
11 11 (12.64%) Web Services
12 10 (11.49%) J2EE
13 9 (10.34%) OAuth
13 9 (10.34%) OAuth2
14 8 (9.20%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.99%) Linux
2 10 (11.49%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (73.56%) Microservices
2 59 (67.82%) CI/CD
3 41 (47.13%) Agile
4 30 (34.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (28.74%) Scrum
7 24 (27.59%) DevOps
8 22 (25.29%) Containerisation
9 18 (20.69%) TDD
10 17 (19.54%) API Design
10 17 (19.54%) Test Automation
11 16 (18.39%) MVC
11 16 (18.39%) Observability
12 15 (17.24%) Mentoring
13 14 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (16.09%) Design Patterns
13 14 (16.09%) OOP
13 14 (16.09%) Software Engineering
14 13 (14.94%) API Development
14 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 87 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (41.38%) SQL
3 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.20%) Scala
5 2 (2.30%) C#
5 2 (2.30%) PHP
5 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.15%) Groovy
6 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.15%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.34%) Degree
4 8 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.30%) OCP
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.60%) NIST
1 4 (4.60%) PCI DSS
1 4 (4.60%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 46 (52.87%) Docker
2 6 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.45%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 35 (40.23%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.94%) Ansible
2 13 (14.94%) Progress Chef
3 8 (9.20%) Puppet
4 7 (8.05%) Terraform
5 6 (6.90%) Grafana
6 1 (1.15%) Kibana
6 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (20.69%) Oracle
2 13 (14.94%) VMware
3 8 (9.20%) webMethods
4 5 (5.75%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (5.75%) Splunk
5 4 (4.60%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.60%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.30%) Google
6 2 (2.30%) Veracode
7 1 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.15%) Sybase