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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 400 448
Rank change year-on-year -147 +48 +23
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 64 96 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.36% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 1.62% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 71 85
10th Percentile £400 £268 £375
25th Percentile £406 £341 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -25.00% -5.38%
75th Percentile £538 £490 £650
90th Percentile £581 £538 £787
UK median daily rate £475 £410 £550
% change year-on-year +15.85% -25.45% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £52.75 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -36.00%
75th Percentile £56.88 - -
90th Percentile £57.25 £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -36.00%

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 8,356 5,921 7,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.00% 22.48% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,509 4,079 5,534
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 126 264
10th Percentile £30.25 £30.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.44 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £80.51 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -80 23 £525 +30.84% 12
Midlands -71 21 £475 +15.85%
West Midlands -55 20 £475 -2.56%
North of England -74 12 £425 -1.39% 4
South East -56 9 £438 -12.50% 3
Yorkshire - 6 £413 - 1
North West -44 4 £478 +42.32% 2
North East -37 2 £451 -2.96% 1
South West -34 1 £525 -4.55% 1
East of England - 1 - - 2
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 6 (9.38%) Confluence
2 3 (4.69%) Apache
3 2 (3.13%) Drupal
3 2 (3.13%) WordPress
4 1 (1.56%) Camunda
4 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) AWS
2 20 (31.25%) Amazon S3
2 20 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
3 19 (29.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 19 (29.69%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (29.69%) Route 53
4 18 (28.13%) AWS KMS
5 12 (18.75%) OpenShift
6 11 (17.19%) Azure
7 5 (7.81%) GCP
7 5 (7.81%) GitHub
7 5 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.13%) Serverless
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.56%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (46.88%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (31.25%) DynamoDB
3 19 (29.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (14.06%) MySQL
5 4 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (6.25%) Couchbase
5 4 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.25%) Power BI
5 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.69%) Redis
6 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.56%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.56%) Metadata
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 36 (56.25%) Git
3 30 (46.88%) JUnit
4 24 (37.50%) Maven
5 23 (35.94%) Mockito
6 21 (32.81%) SonarQube
7 14 (21.88%) DbUnit
8 13 (20.31%) jMock
9 12 (18.75%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (17.19%) Gradle
11 9 (14.06%) JIRA
12 5 (7.81%) GitLab
13 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
13 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
13 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (35.94%) Public Sector
2 16 (25.00%) Finance
3 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
5 8 (12.50%) Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (73.44%) Developer
2 39 (60.94%) Java Developer
3 12 (18.75%) Senior
4 11 (17.19%) Java Engineer
5 9 (14.06%) Software Engineer
6 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 8 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Software Developer
8 5 (7.81%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Lead
9 4 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 2 (3.13%) Backend Developer
11 2 (3.13%) Java Applications Developer
11 2 (3.13%) Java Software Developer
11 2 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (87.50%) Spring
2 55 (85.94%) Spring Boot
3 38 (59.38%) JPA
4 30 (46.88%) RESTful
5 26 (40.63%) REST
6 23 (35.94%) Web Services
7 21 (32.81%) SOAP
8 20 (31.25%) Spring Batch
8 20 (31.25%) Spring Integration
9 19 (29.69%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (29.69%) AngularJS
9 19 (29.69%) Spring Cloud
10 13 (20.31%) Kafka
10 13 (20.31%) PowerMock
11 12 (18.75%) Node.js
11 12 (18.75%) React
12 11 (17.19%) Bootstrap
12 11 (17.19%) Redux
13 8 (12.50%) Spring MVC
14 6 (9.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) LIMS
6 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.44%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (75.00%) Microservices
2 34 (53.13%) Agile
3 33 (51.56%) CI/CD
4 28 (43.75%) TDD
5 24 (37.50%) DevOps
5 24 (37.50%) Scrum
6 23 (35.94%) Containerisation
7 16 (25.00%) Kanban
8 15 (23.44%) BDD
9 13 (20.31%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (18.75%) Biometrics
10 12 (18.75%) BPMN
10 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (17.19%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (17.19%) Open Source
12 10 (15.63%) Design Patterns
13 9 (14.06%) Decision-Making
14 8 (12.50%) MVC
15 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (10.94%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (70.31%) SQL
3 14 (21.88%) PL/SQL
4 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.13%) C#
6 2 (3.13%) PHP
7 1 (1.56%) Korn
7 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.56%) Python
7 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (45.31%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) AWS Certification
3 5 (7.81%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 33 (51.56%) Docker
2 11 (17.19%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (28.13%) Grafana
2 13 (20.31%) Kubernetes
3 10 (15.63%) Control-M
4 5 (7.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.69%) Terraform
6 1 (1.56%) Ansible
6 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (29.69%) Oracle
2 17 (26.56%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (21.88%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.25%) Google
5 3 (4.69%) Veracode
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.56%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.56%) IBM
7 1 (1.56%) Okta
7 1 (1.56%) Salesforce