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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 428 468
Rank change year-on-year -70 +40 +3
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 82 51 72
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 0.93% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 32 49
10th Percentile £328 £329 £342
25th Percentile £360 £361 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -23.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £530 £503 £688
90th Percentile £612 £538 £875
UK median daily rate £438 £417 £525
% change year-on-year +4.92% -20.57% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +62.50% -38.46%
75th Percentile £56.88 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +62.50% -38.46%

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 8,001 5,487 7,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.72% 22.52% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,361 3,797 5,387
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 87 156
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.76 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.98 £83.38 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 April 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 April 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 -57 28 £550 +20.35% 5
West Midlands -45 19 £475 +13.10% 1
Midlands -64 19 £475 +18.16% 1
North of England -63 18 £360 -22.16% 3
South East -35 15 £370 -
North West -34 14 £358 -5.79% 3
North East -15 2 £451 -2.96%
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
South West - 1 £525 - 3
East of England - 1 - - 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 (8.54%) Apache
2 6 (7.32%) Confluence
3 4 (4.88%) JBoss
3 4 (4.88%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.44%) Drupal
4 2 (2.44%) WordPress
5 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 52 (63.41%) AWS
2 26 (31.71%) GitHub
3 19 (23.17%) Azure
4 16 (19.51%) Amazon S3
4 16 (19.51%) Amazon SQS
4 16 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (18.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (18.29%) Route 53
6 12 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (14.63%) GCP
7 11 (13.41%) AWS KMS
8 8 (9.76%) OpenShift
9 6 (7.32%) Serverless
10 5 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.10%) Apigee
10 5 (6.10%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.88%) DNS
2 4 (4.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (53.66%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (21.95%) MySQL
2 18 (21.95%) NoSQL
3 16 (19.51%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (19.51%) DynamoDB
3 16 (19.51%) Relational Database
4 15 (18.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (8.54%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.32%) Redis
7 4 (4.88%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.22%) Metadata
9 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 46 (56.10%) Git
2 38 (46.34%) JUnit
3 33 (40.24%) Jenkins
4 20 (24.39%) Maven
5 19 (23.17%) Mockito
6 14 (17.07%) GitLab
7 13 (15.85%) SonarQube
8 9 (10.98%) DbUnit
8 9 (10.98%) JIRA
8 9 (10.98%) jMock
9 8 (9.76%) Cucumber
9 8 (9.76%) JMeter
9 8 (9.76%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (8.54%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (7.32%) Gradle
12 5 (6.10%) Postman
12 5 (6.10%) Selenium
13 4 (4.88%) Eclipse
13 4 (4.88%) IntelliJ
14 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 25 (30.49%) Public Sector
2 19 (23.17%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.63%) Finance
4 7 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.10%) Banking
6 4 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (75.61%) Developer
2 55 (67.07%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (14.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 10 (12.20%) Java Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Senior
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (7.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Lead
8 5 (6.10%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Apigee Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Architect
9 4 (4.88%) AWS Architect
9 4 (4.88%) Backend Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.88%) Java Architect
10 3 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Kafka Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (97.56%) Spring
2 58 (70.73%) Spring Boot
3 50 (60.98%) RESTful
4 36 (43.90%) JPA
5 31 (37.80%) REST
6 25 (30.49%) AngularJS
7 19 (23.17%) Kafka
8 18 (21.95%) SOAP
9 17 (20.73%) Spring Cloud
10 16 (19.51%) Web Services
11 14 (17.07%) React
12 13 (15.85%) Spring Batch
12 13 (15.85%) Spring Integration
12 13 (15.85%) Spring MVC
13 12 (14.63%) ActiveMQ
14 11 (13.41%) JSON
15 10 (12.20%) HTML
15 10 (12.20%) OAuth
15 10 (12.20%) OAuth2
15 10 (12.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.17%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.22%) LIMS
4 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (78.05%) Microservices
2 56 (68.29%) CI/CD
3 43 (52.44%) Agile
4 28 (34.15%) Containerisation
5 26 (31.71%) Scrum
6 25 (30.49%) DevOps
7 22 (26.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (26.83%) TDD
8 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (20.73%) API Design
10 14 (17.07%) MVC
11 13 (15.85%) API Development
11 13 (15.85%) Code Quality
11 13 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (15.85%) Observability
11 13 (15.85%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (14.63%) Test Automation
13 11 (13.41%) Open Source
13 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (43.90%) SQL
3 8 (9.76%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.88%) Scala
5 2 (2.44%) C#
5 2 (2.44%) PHP
5 2 (2.44%) Python
6 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (32.93%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.98%) Degree
4 8 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.66%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.44%) OCP
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.88%) NIST
1 4 (4.88%) PCI DSS
1 4 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 49 (59.76%) Docker
2 8 (9.76%) Postfix
3 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (41.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.63%) Grafana
3 9 (10.98%) Ansible
4 8 (9.76%) Progress Chef
5 7 (8.54%) Terraform
6 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.88%) Puppet
7 1 (1.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) Oracle
2 11 (13.41%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (10.98%) Atlassian
4 8 (9.76%) VMware
5 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.88%) Splunk
5 4 (4.88%) webMethods
6 2 (2.44%) Google
6 2 (2.44%) Veracode
7 1 (1.22%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.22%) Okta
7 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.22%) Sybase