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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 410 430
Rank change year-on-year -143 +20 +45
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 66 100 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 1.65% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 75 84
10th Percentile £400 £268 £375
25th Percentile £406 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -25.45% -3.93%
75th Percentile £538 £490 £650
90th Percentile £596 £539 £767
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 8,486 6,048 7,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.25% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,581 4,154 5,423
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £430 £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 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.70% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 140 256
10th Percentile £30.20 £31.20 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.94 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -10.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 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 16 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 -85 24 £513 +32.26% 11
Midlands -75 21 £475 +15.85% 2
West Midlands -47 20 £475 -2.56%
North of England -84 10 £413 -4.29% 5
South East -60 9 £438 -12.50% 10
Yorkshire - 8 £413 - 4
South West -28 3 £525 -4.55%
East of England - 3 - - 2
North West -57 2 £500 +49.03% 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 7 (10.61%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) Camunda
2 2 (3.03%) Drupal
2 2 (3.03%) WordPress
3 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 28 (42.42%) AWS
2 19 (28.79%) Amazon EC2
2 19 (28.79%) Amazon S3
2 19 (28.79%) Amazon SQS
3 18 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (27.27%) AWS KMS
3 18 (27.27%) Route 53
4 16 (24.24%) OpenShift
5 11 (16.67%) Azure
6 5 (7.58%) GCP
6 5 (7.58%) GitHub
7 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.52%) Apigee
9 1 (1.52%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (48.48%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (28.79%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (28.79%) DynamoDB
3 18 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (15.15%) MySQL
5 6 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (6.06%) Couchbase
6 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
6 4 (6.06%) Power BI
6 4 (6.06%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.03%) Redis
9 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.52%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (1.52%) Metadata
9 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (68.18%) Jenkins
2 37 (56.06%) Git
3 32 (48.48%) JUnit
4 26 (39.39%) Maven
5 24 (36.36%) Mockito
6 22 (33.33%) SonarQube
7 16 (24.24%) Gradle
8 14 (21.21%) DbUnit
9 13 (19.70%) Bitbucket Server
9 13 (19.70%) jMock
10 10 (15.15%) JIRA
11 5 (7.58%) GitLab
12 2 (3.03%) REST Assured
12 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
13 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
13 1 (1.52%) GoCD
General
1 18 (27.27%) Finance
1 18 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 13 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Banking
3 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 52 (78.79%) Developer
2 42 (63.64%) Java Developer
3 13 (19.70%) Senior
4 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 9 (13.64%) Java Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 9 (13.64%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (13.64%) Software Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Lead
8 4 (6.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Java Software Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Lead Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (86.36%) Spring Boot
2 55 (83.33%) Spring
3 40 (60.61%) JPA
4 31 (46.97%) RESTful
5 27 (40.91%) REST
6 24 (36.36%) Web Services
7 21 (31.82%) SOAP
8 20 (30.30%) Spring Batch
8 20 (30.30%) Spring Integration
9 19 (28.79%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (28.79%) AngularJS
10 18 (27.27%) Spring Cloud
11 17 (25.76%) Kafka
11 17 (25.76%) React
12 16 (24.24%) Redux
13 13 (19.70%) Node.js
13 13 (19.70%) PowerMock
14 11 (16.67%) Bootstrap
15 8 (12.12%) Spring MVC
16 7 (10.61%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.79%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.03%) Life Science
4 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (68.18%) Microservices
2 37 (56.06%) CI/CD
3 36 (54.55%) Agile
4 30 (45.45%) TDD
5 26 (39.39%) Scrum
6 24 (36.36%) DevOps
7 21 (31.82%) Containerisation
8 16 (24.24%) Kanban
9 15 (22.73%) BDD
10 12 (18.18%) Biometrics
10 12 (18.18%) BPMN
10 12 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (16.67%) Open Source
11 11 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (15.15%) Design Patterns
13 9 (13.64%) Decision-Making
13 9 (13.64%) MVC
14 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 66 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (74.24%) SQL
3 17 (25.76%) PL/SQL
4 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.06%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.55%) Python
7 2 (3.03%) C#
7 2 (3.03%) PHP
8 1 (1.52%) Korn
8 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 30 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) AWS Certification
3 5 (7.58%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.03%) Degree
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (43.94%) Docker
2 11 (16.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (27.27%) Grafana
2 13 (19.70%) Control-M
3 7 (10.61%) Kubernetes
4 5 (7.58%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.03%) Ansible
5 2 (3.03%) Terraform
6 1 (1.52%) Istio
6 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (36.36%) Oracle
2 17 (25.76%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (21.21%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.06%) Google
4 4 (6.06%) Veracode
5 2 (3.03%) IBM
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.52%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.52%) Okta
6 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.52%) Splunk