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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 440 491
Rank change year-on-year -4 +51 +16
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 101 82 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.45% 1.21% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 52 60
10th Percentile £269 £425 £402
25th Percentile £325 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £475 £738 £650
90th Percentile £550 £775 £852
UK median daily rate £395 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -28.18% +7.32% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £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 6,942 6,790 8,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.70% 21.72% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,677 4,330 6,328
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £666 £675
90th Percentile £734 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 102 183
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.98 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%

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 November 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 22 November 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 +5 40 £400 -33.58% 16
Midlands -35 27 £429 -26.98% 1
North of England -26 17 £330 -35.61% 8
West Midlands -37 15 £458 -22.13% 1
South East +2 13 £375 -16.67% 2
North West -16 13 £343 -37.73% 2
East Midlands - 12 £385 -
Yorkshire -36 4 £317 - 4
South West - 3 £550 - 8
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 (8.91%) Apache
2 8 (7.92%) JBoss
2 8 (7.92%) WebLogic
3 7 (6.93%) Confluence
4 2 (1.98%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.98%) Camunda
5 1 (0.99%) CICS
5 1 (0.99%) Drupal
5 1 (0.99%) SAS
5 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (67.33%) AWS
2 29 (28.71%) Azure
3 22 (21.78%) GitHub
4 20 (19.80%) GCP
5 13 (12.87%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (12.87%) OpenShift
6 10 (9.90%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (7.92%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (6.93%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.94%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.94%) AWS KMS
9 6 (5.94%) Route 53
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.96%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (2.97%) Apigee
11 3 (2.97%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.97%) Serverless
12 2 (1.98%) Azure App Service
12 2 (1.98%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.98%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.97%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (44.55%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (17.82%) MongoDB
3 17 (16.83%) Relational Database
4 15 (14.85%) NoSQL
5 13 (12.87%) MySQL
6 11 (10.89%) SQL Server
7 8 (7.92%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (7.92%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (5.94%) DynamoDB
8 6 (5.94%) Oracle Database
9 5 (4.95%) Redis
10 3 (2.97%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.99%) DB2
12 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (59.41%) JUnit
2 50 (49.50%) Git
3 35 (34.65%) Jenkins
4 28 (27.72%) Maven
5 23 (22.77%) Mockito
6 20 (19.80%) Cucumber
7 19 (18.81%) Selenium
7 19 (18.81%) SonarQube
7 19 (18.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (13.86%) JIRA
8 14 (13.86%) JMeter
9 12 (11.88%) GitLab
10 10 (9.90%) Eclipse
10 10 (9.90%) IntelliJ
10 10 (9.90%) Postman
11 9 (8.91%) Bitbucket
12 6 (5.94%) SoapUI
13 5 (4.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (4.95%) Subversion
13 5 (4.95%) XCTest
General
1 37 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.74%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Banking
3 14 (13.86%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.92%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.99%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.99%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (72.28%) Developer
2 66 (65.35%) Java Developer
3 23 (22.77%) Full-Stack Developer
4 19 (18.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 12 (11.88%) Senior
6 11 (10.89%) Java Engineer
6 11 (10.89%) Senior Developer
6 11 (10.89%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Backend Developer
8 6 (5.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Identity Management Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Angular Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Apigee Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Kafka Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Lead
10 3 (2.97%) Lead Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (2.97%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (93.07%) Spring
2 61 (60.40%) Spring Boot
3 39 (38.61%) RESTful
4 38 (37.62%) JPA
4 38 (37.62%) REST
5 29 (28.71%) AngularJS
5 29 (28.71%) HTML
6 28 (27.72%) Kafka
7 22 (21.78%) SOAP
8 21 (20.79%) React
9 20 (19.80%) XML
10 19 (18.81%) CSS
10 19 (18.81%) Web Services
11 18 (17.82%) JSON
12 16 (15.84%) J2EE
13 15 (14.85%) HTML5
14 14 (13.86%) Spring MVC
15 12 (11.88%) OAuth
16 10 (9.90%) Bootstrap
17 9 (8.91%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.98%) PKI
5 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.99%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.80%) Linux
2 16 (15.84%) Unix
3 2 (1.98%) Windows
4 1 (0.99%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (65.35%) CI/CD
1 66 (65.35%) Microservices
2 55 (54.46%) Agile
3 39 (38.61%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (33.66%) TDD
5 33 (32.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (31.68%) DevOps
7 26 (25.74%) Test Automation
8 24 (23.76%) Containerisation
9 23 (22.77%) Scrum
10 22 (21.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (19.80%) Mentoring
12 18 (17.82%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (16.83%) Code Quality
14 15 (14.85%) MVC
15 14 (13.86%) API Design
15 14 (13.86%) Unit Testing
16 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure Automation
16 13 (12.87%) Observability
16 13 (12.87%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (48.51%) SQL
3 26 (25.74%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.92%) Scala
5 6 (5.94%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.95%) Groovy
6 5 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.98%) Bash
7 2 (1.98%) C#
8 1 (0.99%) COBOL
8 1 (0.99%) JCL
8 1 (0.99%) Korn
8 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.99%) PHP
8 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.99%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.91%) Degree
4 8 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.98%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.98%) OCP
6 2 (1.98%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) GDPR
1 8 (7.92%) HIPAA
2 5 (4.95%) QA
3 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (47.52%) Docker
2 6 (5.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.96%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 41 (40.59%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.86%) Ansible
3 13 (12.87%) Progress Chef
4 8 (7.92%) Puppet
4 8 (7.92%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 4 (3.96%) Grafana
5 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.98%) Kibana
7 1 (0.99%) Control-M
7 1 (0.99%) logstash
7 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (19.80%) Oracle
2 15 (14.85%) Microsoft
3 13 (12.87%) VMware
4 9 (8.91%) IBM
5 8 (7.92%) Splunk
5 8 (7.92%) webMethods
6 7 (6.93%) Ping Identity
7 6 (5.94%) Veracode
8 5 (4.95%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (4.95%) Dynatrace
9 4 (3.96%) Atlassian
9 4 (3.96%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.98%) Google
11 1 (0.99%) Sybase