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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 418 400
Rank change year-on-year -126 -18 +98
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 91 93 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.33% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.93% 1.30% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 75 85
10th Percentile £360 £268 £385
25th Percentile £406 £315 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £385 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -30.00% -2.05%
75th Percentile £537 £488 £650
90th Percentile £575 £550 £765
UK median daily rate £440 £405 £550
% change year-on-year +8.71% -26.41% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £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 9,834 7,150 8,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.26% 25.49% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,464 4,822 5,230
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £448 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 172 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.84 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £54.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% -16.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -85 38 £440 +17.33% 44
Midlands -54 21 £335 -18.29% 8
North of England -64 21 £500 +56.94% 17
West Midlands -39 17 - - 7
Yorkshire -21 12 £413 +30.00% 6
North West -48 9 £537 +66.51% 10
South East -69 8 £450 +1.69% 8
East of England - 4 - -
South West -28 3 £300 -45.45% 4
East Midlands -32 3 £335 -10.67% 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 20 (21.98%) Confluence
2 10 (10.99%) Camunda
3 4 (4.40%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.20%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.46%) AWS
2 29 (31.87%) OpenShift
3 11 (12.09%) Amazon S3
4 10 (10.99%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (8.79%) GitHub
5 8 (8.79%) Serverless
6 7 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (7.69%) Azure
6 7 (7.69%) GCP
7 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.59%) AWS KMS
7 6 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.59%) Route 53
8 5 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (40.66%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (21.98%) Relational Database
3 14 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 11 (12.09%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (10.99%) MySQL
6 7 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (6.59%) DynamoDB
7 6 (6.59%) Metadata
7 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
9 4 (4.40%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (4.40%) Couchbase
9 4 (4.40%) Data Lake
9 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.40%) Oracle Database
9 4 (4.40%) Power BI
10 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (3.30%) Pinecone
10 3 (3.30%) Weaviate
11 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (65.93%) Jenkins
2 39 (42.86%) Git
3 37 (40.66%) JUnit
4 34 (37.36%) Maven
5 30 (32.97%) Mockito
6 29 (31.87%) Gradle
7 27 (29.67%) JIRA
7 27 (29.67%) SonarQube
8 14 (15.38%) GitLab
9 13 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (10.99%) REST Assured
11 9 (9.89%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (5.49%) DbUnit
13 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
13 4 (4.40%) Cucumber
13 4 (4.40%) jMock
14 2 (2.20%) Selenium
15 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
15 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
15 1 (1.10%) GoCD
General
1 29 (31.87%) Finance
2 27 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 24 (26.37%) Banking
4 23 (25.27%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (18.68%) Public Sector
6 13 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Back Office
11 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.10%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 70 (76.92%) Developer
2 47 (51.65%) Java Developer
3 19 (20.88%) Senior
4 15 (16.48%) Senior Developer
4 15 (16.48%) Senior Java Developer
4 15 (16.48%) Software Developer
5 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 9 (9.89%) Java Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Lead
7 8 (8.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL Specialist
10 5 (5.49%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Java Software Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Oracle Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (78.02%) Spring Boot
2 69 (75.82%) Spring
3 48 (52.75%) JPA
4 35 (38.46%) Kafka
4 35 (38.46%) REST
4 35 (38.46%) RESTful
5 33 (36.26%) React
6 28 (30.77%) Redux
7 23 (25.27%) Web Services
8 22 (24.18%) AngularJS
9 19 (20.88%) SOAP
10 18 (19.78%) HTML
11 17 (18.68%) CSS
12 16 (17.58%) ActiveMQ
12 16 (17.58%) Spring Cloud
13 15 (16.48%) Spring MVC
14 10 (10.99%) SQLAlchemy
15 9 (9.89%) JDBC
15 9 (9.89%) Swagger
16 8 (8.79%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.98%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (20.88%) Data Structures
3 14 (15.38%) Cloud Native
4 12 (13.19%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (8.79%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.40%) AI Agents
6 4 (4.40%) Life Science
7 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.20%) Derivative
9 1 (1.10%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.10%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.93%) Agile
2 54 (59.34%) CI/CD
3 51 (56.04%) Microservices
4 39 (42.86%) Scrum
5 34 (37.36%) TDD
6 33 (36.26%) Test Automation
7 25 (27.47%) Containerisation
8 22 (24.18%) DevOps
9 21 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (21.98%) User Stories
11 18 (19.78%) Code Quality
11 18 (19.78%) MVC
11 18 (19.78%) SDLC
12 17 (18.68%) Clean Code
12 17 (18.68%) Design Patterns
12 17 (18.68%) Kanban
13 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
15 13 (14.29%) Computer Science
15 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 85 (93.41%) Java
2 50 (54.95%) SQL
3 24 (26.37%) PL/SQL
4 21 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 14 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.49%) Python
7 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.30%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.30%) Scala
9 1 (1.10%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (41.76%) Security Cleared
2 32 (35.16%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 35 (38.46%) Docker
2 3 (3.30%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Grafana
2 16 (17.58%) Control-M
2 16 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 16 (17.58%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.20%) Ansible
4 1 (1.10%) Istio
4 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (38.46%) Oracle
2 9 (9.89%) IBM
2 9 (9.89%) Veracode
3 6 (6.59%) Google
4 5 (5.49%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.49%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (4.40%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.10%) Splunk
6 1 (1.10%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.10%) webMethods