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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 433 506
Rank change year-on-year -23 +73 -32
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 87 73 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 1.15% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 48 42
10th Percentile £281 £404 £427
25th Percentile £324 £459 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £628
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% -12.35% +4.58%
75th Percentile £430 £744 £725
90th Percentile £546 £783 £888
UK median daily rate £375 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -31.82% -4.35% -0.95%
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 6,997 6,338 8,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.33% 21.83% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,682 4,059 5,962
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £630 £666 £675
90th Percentile £731 £800 £770
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 85 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.75 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

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 16 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 16 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 +1 37 £400 -33.50% 10
North of England -28 21 £344 -32.88% 5
Midlands -47 17 £415 -29.36% 1
North West -21 16 £349 -36.55% 1
South East -12 11 £375 -16.67% 2
West Midlands -48 9 £429 -26.98% 1
East Midlands - 8 £380 -
Yorkshire -39 5 £319 - 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 9 (10.34%) Apache
2 8 (9.20%) JBoss
2 8 (9.20%) WebLogic
3 4 (4.60%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) CICS
4 1 (1.15%) Drupal
4 1 (1.15%) SAS
4 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 56 (64.37%) AWS
2 30 (34.48%) Azure
3 23 (26.44%) GitHub
4 19 (21.84%) GCP
5 13 (14.94%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (14.94%) OpenShift
6 8 (9.20%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.75%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.60%) Apigee
9 3 (3.45%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.45%) Serverless
10 2 (2.30%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.15%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) HTTP
1 4 (4.60%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (42.53%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (19.54%) NoSQL
2 17 (19.54%) Relational Database
3 16 (18.39%) MongoDB
4 13 (14.94%) MySQL
5 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
6 7 (8.05%) Oracle Database
7 5 (5.75%) Redis
8 3 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.15%) DB2
10 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (55.17%) JUnit
2 42 (48.28%) Git
3 25 (28.74%) Jenkins
4 17 (19.54%) Maven
5 16 (18.39%) Cucumber
5 16 (18.39%) Mockito
5 16 (18.39%) Selenium
5 16 (18.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (16.09%) JMeter
7 11 (12.64%) Postman
8 10 (11.49%) Eclipse
8 10 (11.49%) GitLab
8 10 (11.49%) IntelliJ
9 9 (10.34%) JIRA
10 8 (9.20%) SonarQube
11 6 (6.90%) SoapUI
12 5 (5.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (5.75%) Bitbucket
12 5 (5.75%) Subversion
12 5 (5.75%) Xcode
General
1 35 (40.23%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.89%) Finance
3 13 (14.94%) Banking
4 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.20%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (71.26%) Developer
2 53 (60.92%) Java Developer
3 23 (26.44%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (18.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (12.64%) Java Engineer
6 9 (10.34%) Senior
7 8 (9.20%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.20%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Backend Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Apigee Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Identity Management Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Angular Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Kafka Developer
10 3 (3.45%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 2 (2.30%) Lead Developer
11 2 (2.30%) Principal Developer
11 2 (2.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (95.40%) Spring
2 48 (55.17%) Spring Boot
3 33 (37.93%) RESTful
4 28 (32.18%) Kafka
5 27 (31.03%) AngularJS
5 27 (31.03%) JPA
5 27 (31.03%) REST
6 24 (27.59%) HTML
7 22 (25.29%) React
8 19 (21.84%) JSON
8 19 (21.84%) XML
9 16 (18.39%) CSS
9 16 (18.39%) HTML5
9 16 (18.39%) J2EE
10 15 (17.24%) SOAP
11 14 (16.09%) Spring MVC
12 10 (11.49%) OAuth
12 10 (11.49%) Web Services
13 9 (10.34%) EJB
14 8 (9.20%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.39%) Linux
2 15 (17.24%) Unix
3 2 (2.30%) Windows
4 1 (1.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 53 (60.92%) Microservices
3 45 (51.72%) Agile
4 40 (45.98%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (37.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (27.59%) DevOps
6 24 (27.59%) Test Automation
7 22 (25.29%) TDD
8 20 (22.99%) Code Quality
9 19 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (20.69%) Containerisation
10 18 (20.69%) Mentoring
11 16 (18.39%) API Design
11 16 (18.39%) MVC
11 16 (18.39%) Scrum
12 14 (16.09%) OO
13 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (14.94%) OOP
13 13 (14.94%) SDLC
13 13 (14.94%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 87 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (45.98%) SQL
3 24 (27.59%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.20%) Scala
5 6 (6.90%) Shell Script
5 6 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.75%) Groovy
7 2 (2.30%) Bash
7 2 (2.30%) C#
8 1 (1.15%) COBOL
8 1 (1.15%) JCL
8 1 (1.15%) Korn
8 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.15%) PHP
8 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.15%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Degree
1 11 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.45%) OCP
4 3 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) GDPR
1 5 (5.75%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.60%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (43.68%) Docker
2 6 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (40.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (16.09%) Ansible
3 13 (14.94%) Progress Chef
4 8 (9.20%) Puppet
5 5 (5.75%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 2 (2.30%) Kibana
7 1 (1.15%) Control-M
7 1 (1.15%) logstash
7 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (26.44%) Oracle
2 13 (14.94%) VMware
3 12 (13.79%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.34%) Splunk
5 8 (9.20%) webMethods
6 6 (6.90%) IBM
7 5 (5.75%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (5.75%) Dynatrace
7 5 (5.75%) Ping Identity
8 3 (3.45%) Veracode
9 2 (2.30%) Google
10 1 (1.15%) Sybase