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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 411 446
Rank change year-on-year -135 +35 +40
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 65 95 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.36% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 1.59% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 71 85
10th Percentile £400 £268 £375
25th Percentile £406 £341 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -25.00% -5.38%
75th Percentile £538 £490 £650
90th Percentile £581 £538 £787
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 8,412 5,963 7,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.44% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,545 4,100 5,535
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £428 £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 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 129 266
10th Percentile £30.30 £30.65 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -0.94% -10.31%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.42 £80.20 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 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 7 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 -92 23 £525 +30.84% 12
Midlands -73 21 £475 +15.85%
West Midlands -52 20 £475 -2.56%
North of England -69 12 £425 -1.39% 2
South East -65 9 £438 -12.50% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £413 - 1
North West -46 4 £478 +42.32% 1
South West -34 2 £525 -4.55%
North East -39 2 £451 -2.96%
East of England - 1 - - 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 6 (9.23%) Confluence
2 3 (4.62%) Apache
3 2 (3.08%) Drupal
3 2 (3.08%) WordPress
4 1 (1.54%) Camunda
4 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) AWS
2 20 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 20 (30.77%) Amazon SQS
3 19 (29.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 19 (29.23%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (29.23%) Route 53
4 18 (27.69%) AWS KMS
5 12 (18.46%) OpenShift
6 11 (16.92%) Azure
7 5 (7.69%) GCP
7 5 (7.69%) GitHub
7 5 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.08%) Serverless
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.54%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (30.77%) DynamoDB
3 19 (29.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (13.85%) MySQL
5 4 (6.15%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (6.15%) Couchbase
5 4 (6.15%) Data Lake
5 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.15%) Power BI
5 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.62%) Redis
6 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.54%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.54%) Metadata
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (63.08%) Jenkins
2 37 (56.92%) Git
3 31 (47.69%) JUnit
4 25 (38.46%) Maven
5 23 (35.38%) Mockito
6 21 (32.31%) SonarQube
7 14 (21.54%) DbUnit
8 13 (20.00%) jMock
9 12 (18.46%) Bitbucket Server
9 12 (18.46%) Gradle
10 9 (13.85%) JIRA
11 5 (7.69%) GitLab
12 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.54%) GoCD
12 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
12 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (35.38%) Public Sector
2 17 (26.15%) Finance
3 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 9 (13.85%) Banking
6 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (73.85%) Developer
2 40 (61.54%) Java Developer
3 13 (20.00%) Senior
4 11 (16.92%) Java Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) Senior Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Software Engineer
6 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 6 (9.23%) Lead
7 6 (9.23%) Software Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (6.15%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 2 (3.08%) Backend Developer
11 2 (3.08%) Java Applications Developer
11 2 (3.08%) Java Software Developer
11 2 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (87.69%) Spring
2 56 (86.15%) Spring Boot
3 39 (60.00%) JPA
4 30 (46.15%) RESTful
5 27 (41.54%) REST
6 23 (35.38%) Web Services
7 21 (32.31%) SOAP
8 20 (30.77%) Spring Batch
8 20 (30.77%) Spring Integration
9 19 (29.23%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (29.23%) AngularJS
9 19 (29.23%) Spring Cloud
10 13 (20.00%) Kafka
10 13 (20.00%) Node.js
10 13 (20.00%) PowerMock
10 13 (20.00%) React
11 12 (18.46%) Redux
12 11 (16.92%) Bootstrap
13 8 (12.31%) Spring MVC
14 6 (9.23%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (33.85%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.31%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.08%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (75.38%) Microservices
2 35 (53.85%) Agile
3 34 (52.31%) CI/CD
4 29 (44.62%) TDD
5 25 (38.46%) Scrum
6 24 (36.92%) DevOps
7 23 (35.38%) Containerisation
8 16 (24.62%) Kanban
9 15 (23.08%) BDD
10 13 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (18.46%) Biometrics
11 12 (18.46%) BPMN
11 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (16.92%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (16.92%) Open Source
13 10 (15.38%) Design Patterns
14 9 (13.85%) Decision-Making
15 8 (12.31%) MVC
16 7 (10.77%) Multithreading
16 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (70.77%) SQL
3 14 (21.54%) PL/SQL
4 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.08%) C#
6 2 (3.08%) PHP
7 1 (1.54%) Korn
7 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.54%) Python
7 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (50.77%) Security Cleared
2 29 (44.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 5 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
2 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 33 (50.77%) Docker
2 11 (16.92%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Grafana
2 13 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (15.38%) Control-M
4 5 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.62%) Terraform
6 2 (3.08%) Ansible
7 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Oracle
2 17 (26.15%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (21.54%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.15%) Google
5 3 (4.62%) Veracode
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.54%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.54%) IBM
7 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.54%) Okta
7 1 (1.54%) Salesforce