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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 421 436
Rank change year-on-year -111 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 61 68 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 1.26% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 45 74
10th Percentile £348 £285 £375
25th Percentile £402 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £413 £540
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -23.61% -8.28%
75th Percentile £556 £480 £647
90th Percentile £630 £538 £814
UK median daily rate £489 £410 £540
% change year-on-year +19.35% -24.17% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £52.75 £51.00 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -36.00%
75th Percentile £56.88 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £57.25 £65.00 -
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 7,925 5,396 7,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.28% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,251 3,732 5,333
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 100 231
10th Percentile £30.55 £33.25 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.13 £50.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -66 22 £550 +32.85% 4
Midlands -59 21 £475 +22.27% 1
West Midlands -46 20 £475 +13.10%
North of England -64 13 £425 -8.11% 9
North West -33 9 £402 +5.79% 4
South East -57 5 £325 -35.00% 1
North East -25 2 £451 -2.96% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 3
South West - 1 £525 - 6
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 5 (8.20%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) Apache
3 2 (3.28%) Drupal
3 2 (3.28%) WordPress
4 1 (1.64%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 37 (60.66%) AWS
2 23 (37.70%) Amazon S3
2 23 (37.70%) Amazon SQS
3 22 (36.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 22 (36.07%) Route 53
4 19 (31.15%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (29.51%) AWS KMS
6 12 (19.67%) Azure
7 10 (16.39%) GitHub
8 8 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (8.20%) Serverless
10 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (6.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 4 (6.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (6.56%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (4.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) DNS
1 4 (6.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (59.02%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (37.70%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (37.70%) DynamoDB
3 22 (36.07%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (19.67%) MySQL
5 9 (14.75%) NoSQL
6 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
7 6 (9.84%) Redis
8 4 (6.56%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.64%) Metadata
9 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (60.66%) Git
2 29 (47.54%) Jenkins
3 26 (42.62%) JUnit
4 24 (39.34%) Maven
5 22 (36.07%) Mockito
6 20 (32.79%) SonarQube
7 14 (22.95%) DbUnit
8 13 (21.31%) jMock
9 11 (18.03%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (14.75%) GitLab
11 8 (13.11%) JIRA
12 5 (8.20%) Gradle
13 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
13 1 (1.64%) Postman
General
1 27 (44.26%) Public Sector
2 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Finance
4 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (70.49%) Developer
2 37 (60.66%) Java Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Senior
3 8 (13.11%) Senior Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 7 (11.48%) Java Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Lead
6 5 (8.20%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Lead Developer
6 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Architect
7 4 (6.56%) AWS Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Java Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Applications Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Java Applications Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (96.72%) Spring
2 51 (83.61%) Spring Boot
3 39 (63.93%) RESTful
4 37 (60.66%) JPA
5 28 (45.90%) REST
6 23 (37.70%) Web Services
7 22 (36.07%) AngularJS
7 22 (36.07%) Spring Cloud
8 21 (34.43%) SOAP
9 20 (32.79%) Spring Batch
9 20 (32.79%) Spring Integration
10 19 (31.15%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (21.31%) PowerMock
12 12 (19.67%) Node.js
13 11 (18.03%) Bootstrap
14 8 (13.11%) Kafka
15 7 (11.48%) OAuth
15 7 (11.48%) OAuth2
16 6 (9.84%) Spring MVC
16 6 (9.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (39.34%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.84%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) LIMS
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (24.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (86.89%) Microservices
2 33 (54.10%) CI/CD
3 32 (52.46%) Agile
4 28 (45.90%) TDD
5 26 (42.62%) Containerisation
6 24 (39.34%) DevOps
6 24 (39.34%) Scrum
7 17 (27.87%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (26.23%) Kanban
9 15 (24.59%) BDD
9 15 (24.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (19.67%) Biometrics
10 12 (19.67%) BPMN
11 11 (18.03%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (18.03%) Open Source
12 10 (16.39%) Design Patterns
13 9 (14.75%) Decision-Making
13 9 (14.75%) Observability
14 8 (13.11%) API Design
14 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 61 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (55.74%) SQL
3 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.28%) C#
4 2 (3.28%) PHP
4 2 (3.28%) Python
5 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (45.90%) Security Cleared
2 25 (40.98%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.20%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.92%) Degree
5 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.64%) OCP
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.56%) NIST
1 4 (6.56%) PCI DSS
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (65.57%) Docker
2 11 (18.03%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Grafana
1 18 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.48%) Terraform
3 5 (8.20%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (22.95%) Atlassian
3 8 (13.11%) Oracle
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.28%) Veracode
5 1 (1.64%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.64%) Okta
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk