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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 409 413
Rank change year-on-year -131 +4 +87
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 91 98 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.35% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% 1.38% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 81 86
10th Percentile £350 £268 £388
25th Percentile £406 £316 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £385 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.96% -30.00% -0.05%
75th Percentile £537 £475 £650
90th Percentile £575 £550 £765
UK median daily rate £440 £410 £550
% change year-on-year +7.45% -25.55% +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 9,923 7,112 8,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 25.53% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,524 4,834 5,399
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 172 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.56 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.85 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.51% -10.96% +2.67%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -97 36 £425 +13.33% 47
Midlands -57 23 £335 -18.29% 7
North of England -55 20 £500 +55.04% 16
West Midlands -31 19 - - 5
Yorkshire -29 12 £413 +30.00% 6
North West -53 8 £537 +69.00% 9
South East -71 8 £450 +1.69% 12
East of England - 5 - -
East Midlands -32 3 £335 -10.67% 2
South West -37 3 £300 -45.45% 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 20 (21.98%) Confluence
2 9 (9.89%) Camunda
3 4 (4.40%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.20%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 36 (39.56%) AWS
2 28 (30.77%) OpenShift
3 12 (13.19%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (13.19%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (9.89%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (8.79%) AWS KMS
5 8 (8.79%) GitHub
5 8 (8.79%) Route 53
6 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.69%) Azure
6 7 (7.69%) GCP
6 7 (7.69%) Serverless
7 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (21.98%) Relational Database
3 12 (13.19%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (13.19%) SQL Server
4 11 (12.09%) MySQL
5 8 (8.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (8.79%) DynamoDB
6 7 (7.69%) Metadata
7 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
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%) 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%) Redis
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%) SonarQube
7 27 (29.67%) Gradle
8 26 (28.57%) JIRA
9 15 (16.48%) GitLab
10 14 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (9.89%) REST Assured
11 9 (9.89%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (6.59%) DbUnit
13 5 (5.49%) jMock
14 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
14 4 (4.40%) Cucumber
15 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
15 1 (1.10%) git-flow
15 1 (1.10%) GoCD
15 1 (1.10%) Selenium
General
1 28 (30.77%) Finance
2 25 (27.47%) Social Skills
3 22 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (24.18%) Banking
4 19 (20.88%) Public Sector
5 13 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.10%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 71 (78.02%) Developer
2 48 (52.75%) Java Developer
3 20 (21.98%) Senior
4 16 (17.58%) Senior Developer
4 16 (17.58%) Senior Java Developer
5 15 (16.48%) Software Developer
6 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 10 (10.99%) Lead
8 8 (8.79%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (7.69%) Java Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (6.59%) Lead Developer
10 6 (6.59%) Lead Java Developer
10 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL Specialist
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%) REST
4 35 (38.46%) RESTful
5 34 (37.36%) Kafka
6 32 (35.16%) React
7 27 (29.67%) Redux
8 25 (27.47%) Web Services
9 23 (25.27%) AngularJS
10 21 (23.08%) SOAP
11 18 (19.78%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (19.78%) Spring Cloud
12 16 (17.58%) HTML
13 15 (16.48%) CSS
14 13 (14.29%) Spring MVC
15 11 (12.09%) SQLAlchemy
16 9 (9.89%) JDBC
16 9 (9.89%) Swagger
17 8 (8.79%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.98%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (18.68%) Data Structures
3 15 (16.48%) Cloud Native
4 14 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.40%) AI Agents
6 4 (4.40%) Life Science
7 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.10%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.10%) Derivative
8 1 (1.10%) LIMS
8 1 (1.10%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (64.84%) Agile
2 53 (58.24%) CI/CD
3 51 (56.04%) Microservices
4 39 (42.86%) Scrum
5 35 (38.46%) TDD
6 29 (31.87%) Test Automation
7 25 (27.47%) Containerisation
8 22 (24.18%) DevOps
9 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (20.88%) Kanban
10 19 (20.88%) User Stories
11 18 (19.78%) Code Quality
12 17 (18.68%) SDLC
13 16 (17.58%) MVC
14 15 (16.48%) Clean Code
14 15 (16.48%) Design Patterns
15 14 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
16 13 (14.29%) API Development
16 13 (14.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 85 (93.41%) Java
2 51 (56.04%) SQL
3 24 (26.37%) PL/SQL
4 18 (19.78%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.29%) 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 40 (43.96%) Security Cleared
2 34 (37.36%) 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 5 (5.49%) QA
System Software
1 37 (40.66%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (21.98%) Grafana
2 17 (18.68%) Prometheus
3 16 (17.58%) Control-M
3 16 (17.58%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.20%) Ansible
5 1 (1.10%) Istio
5 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (38.46%) Oracle
2 9 (9.89%) IBM
2 9 (9.89%) Veracode
3 7 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (6.59%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.59%) Google
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