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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 409 407
Rank change year-on-year -129 -2 +79
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 71 99 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.36% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.84% 1.61% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 78 89
10th Percentile £400 £268 £375
25th Percentile £406 £325 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £402 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -26.91% +1.85%
75th Percentile £525 £479 £650
90th Percentile £538 £538 £766
UK median daily rate £455 £410 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -25.55% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £53.25 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £54.38 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -41.82%
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £56.75 £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -41.82%

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 8,486 6,154 7,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.60% 22.31% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,559 4,231 5,050
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £643 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 151 228
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £23.94
25th Percentile £47.60 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -11.00%
75th Percentile £73.34 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.25
% change year-on-year +18.45% +7.07% -14.58%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -90 23 £414 +3.38% 23
Midlands -71 21 £475 +17.00% 9
West Midlands -52 20 £475 -2.56% 5
North of England -76 13 £431 +27.48% 4
Yorkshire -32 11 £431 +36.47% 3
South East -66 10 £450 -10.00% 14
East of England - 5 - -
South West -34 3 £525 -4.55% 2
North West -47 2 - - 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 5 (7.04%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Camunda
2 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 28 (39.44%) AWS
2 19 (26.76%) OpenShift
3 17 (23.94%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (23.94%) Amazon S3
3 17 (23.94%) Amazon SQS
4 16 (22.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (22.54%) AWS KMS
4 16 (22.54%) Route 53
5 10 (14.08%) Azure
6 6 (8.45%) GCP
7 4 (5.63%) GitHub
7 4 (5.63%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.23%) Serverless
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.41%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.41%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (42.25%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (23.94%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (23.94%) DynamoDB
3 16 (22.54%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (14.08%) MySQL
5 8 (11.27%) Relational Database
6 5 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (5.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (5.63%) Couchbase
7 4 (5.63%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.63%) Power BI
7 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
8 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.82%) Redis
10 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.41%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (1.41%) Metadata
10 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (64.79%) Jenkins
2 36 (50.70%) Git
3 27 (38.03%) JUnit
4 22 (30.99%) Maven
5 21 (29.58%) Mockito
6 20 (28.17%) SonarQube
7 15 (21.13%) Gradle
8 13 (18.31%) Bitbucket Server
9 12 (16.90%) DbUnit
10 11 (15.49%) JIRA
10 11 (15.49%) jMock
11 3 (4.23%) GitLab
12 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.82%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
13 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
13 1 (1.41%) GoCD
General
1 20 (28.17%) Public Sector
2 19 (26.76%) Finance
3 16 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
4 13 (18.31%) Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.23%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 60 (84.51%) Developer
2 43 (60.56%) Java Developer
3 17 (23.94%) Senior
4 13 (18.31%) Senior Developer
4 13 (18.31%) Senior Java Developer
4 13 (18.31%) Software Developer
5 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Java Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Lead
9 4 (5.63%) Backend Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Java Software Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 2 (2.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (84.51%) Spring
2 59 (83.10%) Spring Boot
3 34 (47.89%) JPA
4 32 (45.07%) RESTful
5 29 (40.85%) REST
6 26 (36.62%) Web Services
7 21 (29.58%) Kafka
7 21 (29.58%) SOAP
8 20 (28.17%) AngularJS
8 20 (28.17%) React
9 19 (26.76%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (26.76%) Redux
10 18 (25.35%) Spring Batch
10 18 (25.35%) Spring Cloud
10 18 (25.35%) Spring Integration
11 11 (15.49%) Bootstrap
11 11 (15.49%) Node.js
11 11 (15.49%) PowerMock
12 7 (9.86%) HTML
13 6 (8.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.17%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (19.72%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.45%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.63%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.63%) Life Science
5 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) LIMS
6 1 (1.41%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.31%) Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (63.38%) Microservices
2 42 (59.15%) Agile
3 39 (54.93%) CI/CD
4 29 (40.85%) Scrum
5 26 (36.62%) TDD
6 22 (30.99%) DevOps
7 21 (29.58%) Containerisation
8 16 (22.54%) Kanban
9 13 (18.31%) BDD
9 13 (18.31%) Design Patterns
9 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (15.49%) Open Source
11 10 (14.08%) Biometrics
11 10 (14.08%) BPMN
11 10 (14.08%) Decision-Making
11 10 (14.08%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (14.08%) Software Engineering
11 10 (14.08%) Test Automation
12 9 (12.68%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (73.24%) SQL
3 23 (32.39%) PL/SQL
4 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.04%) Python
6 4 (5.63%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (53.52%) Security Cleared
2 32 (45.07%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.82%) Degree
5 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (43.66%) Docker
2 9 (12.68%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (25.35%) Grafana
2 16 (22.54%) Control-M
3 10 (14.08%) Kubernetes
4 8 (11.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.23%) Ansible
5 3 (4.23%) Terraform
6 1 (1.41%) Istio
6 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (39.44%) Oracle
2 15 (21.13%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (16.90%) Atlassian
4 5 (7.04%) Google
5 2 (2.82%) IBM
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.82%) Veracode
6 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.41%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.41%) Okta
6 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.41%) Splunk