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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 414 414
Rank change year-on-year -131 0 +88
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 84 95 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.34% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 1.36% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 78 85
10th Percentile £380 £268 £402
25th Percentile £406 £314 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £395 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.39% -28.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £537 £495 £650
90th Percentile £568 £550 £765
UK median daily rate £450 £402 £550
% change year-on-year +11.94% -26.91% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 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 9,865 6,963 8,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.26% 25.03% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,473 4,764 5,521
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 163 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.38
25th Percentile £50.56 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.30 £71.60 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +27.30% -14.77% -1.44%

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 11 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 11 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 -82 31 £425 +10.39% 28
Midlands -55 24 £405 +0.75% 7
West Midlands -34 20 £475 -5.00% 3
North of England -67 19 £475 +46.15% 10
Yorkshire -30 12 £413 +30.00% 2
North West -43 7 £537 +65.87% 6
South East -59 7 £450 -10.00% 12
East of England - 5 - -
East Midlands -34 3 £335 -10.67% 4
South West -48 2 - - 3
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 19 (22.62%) Confluence
2 8 (9.52%) Camunda
3 4 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 35 (41.67%) AWS
2 27 (32.14%) OpenShift
3 11 (13.10%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (13.10%) Amazon S3
4 9 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (10.71%) AWS KMS
4 9 (10.71%) Route 53
5 7 (8.33%) GitHub
6 6 (7.14%) Azure
6 6 (7.14%) GCP
7 5 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.95%) Serverless
8 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.76%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (23.81%) Relational Database
3 11 (13.10%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (11.90%) MySQL
4 10 (11.90%) SQL Server
5 9 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (10.71%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (5.95%) Metadata
6 5 (5.95%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.76%) Couchbase
7 4 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.76%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.76%) Power BI
8 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.38%) Redis
9 2 (2.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 58 (69.05%) Jenkins
2 37 (44.05%) Git
3 36 (42.86%) JUnit
4 32 (38.10%) Maven
5 29 (34.52%) Mockito
6 28 (33.33%) SonarQube
7 25 (29.76%) Gradle
8 23 (27.38%) JIRA
9 14 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
10 13 (15.48%) GitLab
11 8 (9.52%) REST Assured
11 8 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (8.33%) DbUnit
13 6 (7.14%) jMock
14 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket
15 3 (3.57%) Cucumber
16 1 (1.19%) Artifactory
16 1 (1.19%) git-flow
16 1 (1.19%) GoCD
16 1 (1.19%) Selenium
General
1 25 (29.76%) Finance
2 23 (27.38%) Social Skills
3 22 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (23.81%) Banking
5 19 (22.62%) Public Sector
6 13 (15.48%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.38%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 67 (79.76%) Developer
2 46 (54.76%) Java Developer
3 21 (25.00%) Senior
4 17 (20.24%) Senior Developer
4 17 (20.24%) Senior Java Developer
5 14 (16.67%) Software Developer
6 11 (13.10%) Lead
7 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Java Engineer
8 7 (8.33%) Lead Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Java Software Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Oracle Developer
11 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL Specialist
11 4 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (80.95%) Spring Boot
2 65 (77.38%) Spring
3 45 (53.57%) JPA
4 34 (40.48%) RESTful
5 33 (39.29%) REST
6 32 (38.10%) Kafka
7 30 (35.71%) React
8 26 (30.95%) Redux
8 26 (30.95%) Web Services
9 23 (27.38%) AngularJS
10 22 (26.19%) SOAP
11 19 (22.62%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (22.62%) Spring Cloud
12 14 (16.67%) HTML
13 13 (15.48%) CSS
14 11 (13.10%) Spring MVC
15 10 (11.90%) Spring Batch
15 10 (11.90%) Spring Integration
16 9 (10.71%) SQLAlchemy
17 7 (8.33%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 14 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 13 (15.48%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.76%) Life Science
6 3 (3.57%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.19%) LIMS
8 1 (1.19%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (63.10%) Agile
2 48 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 48 (57.14%) Microservices
3 36 (42.86%) Scrum
4 34 (40.48%) TDD
5 26 (30.95%) Test Automation
6 24 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 20 (23.81%) DevOps
7 20 (23.81%) Kanban
8 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (20.24%) Code Quality
9 17 (20.24%) User Stories
10 15 (17.86%) SDLC
11 14 (16.67%) Design Patterns
11 14 (16.67%) MVC
12 13 (15.48%) API Development
12 13 (15.48%) Clean Code
12 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (15.48%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (13.10%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 80 (95.24%) Java
2 50 (59.52%) SQL
3 24 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 16 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 12 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.95%) Python
7 4 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.38%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.38%) Scala
9 1 (1.19%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 32 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.90%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 35 (41.67%) Docker
2 5 (5.95%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (23.81%) Grafana
2 17 (20.24%) Prometheus
3 16 (19.05%) Control-M
4 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.38%) Ansible
6 1 (1.19%) Istio
6 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (39.29%) Oracle
2 8 (9.52%) IBM
2 8 (9.52%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (9.52%) Veracode
3 7 (8.33%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.95%) Google
5 3 (3.57%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.19%) Splunk