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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 430 491
Rank change year-on-year -30 +61 -13
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 79 58 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 0.98% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 34 41
10th Percentile £313 £356 £425
25th Percentile £351 £443 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -7.56% -0.83%
75th Percentile £494 £703 £650
90th Percentile £611 £772 £875
UK median daily rate £402 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -23.43% -8.70% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 7,019 5,943 7,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.07% 22.12% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 3,796 5,638
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £634 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 77 173
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.75
25th Percentile £46.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.05 £74.61 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.60% +13.64% -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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +3 34 £485 -3.00% 7
North of England -33 22 £358 +2.29% 13
North West -14 15 £358 -8.79% 8
South East -12 11 £375 -25.00% 20
West Midlands -58 9 £429 -26.98% 6
Midlands -66 9 £429 -26.98% 7
Yorkshire -45 5 £319 - 2
North East -12 2 £451 +28.93% 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 12 (15.19%) Apache
2 8 (10.13%) JBoss
2 8 (10.13%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.27%) Confluence
3 1 (1.27%) Drupal
3 1 (1.27%) SAS
3 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (67.09%) AWS
2 27 (34.18%) GitHub
3 22 (27.85%) Azure
4 17 (21.52%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (17.72%) GCP
6 13 (16.46%) OpenShift
7 8 (10.13%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (8.86%) Serverless
9 5 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.33%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.06%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 4 (5.06%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (5.06%) Apigee
10 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.06%) Route 53
10 4 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
1 4 (5.06%) HTTP
1 4 (5.06%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (45.57%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (26.58%) NoSQL
3 17 (21.52%) MySQL
4 15 (18.99%) Relational Database
5 14 (17.72%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.59%) Redis
7 4 (5.06%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.06%) DocumentDB
7 4 (5.06%) DynamoDB
7 4 (5.06%) Oracle Database
7 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (49.37%) JUnit
2 36 (45.57%) Git
3 25 (31.65%) Jenkins
4 13 (16.46%) Cucumber
4 13 (16.46%) JMeter
4 13 (16.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (15.19%) Selenium
6 11 (13.92%) GitLab
7 9 (11.39%) Maven
8 8 (10.13%) Eclipse
8 8 (10.13%) IntelliJ
8 8 (10.13%) Mockito
9 7 (8.86%) Postman
10 4 (5.06%) Gradle
11 3 (3.80%) JIRA
11 3 (3.80%) TestNG
12 2 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.53%) Subversion
12 2 (2.53%) Xcode
General
1 27 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.58%) Finance
3 14 (17.72%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.39%) Banking
5 8 (10.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (68.35%) Developer
2 44 (55.70%) Java Developer
3 20 (25.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (17.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 13 (16.46%) Java Engineer
6 9 (11.39%) Senior
7 8 (10.13%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.13%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) Architect
9 5 (6.33%) Backend Developer
9 5 (6.33%) Java Architect
10 4 (5.06%) Apigee Developer
10 4 (5.06%) AWS Architect
10 4 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (5.06%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.80%) Kafka Developer
11 3 (3.80%) Lead
11 3 (3.80%) QA Engineer
11 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (98.73%) Spring
2 43 (54.43%) Spring Boot
3 34 (43.04%) RESTful
4 29 (36.71%) Kafka
5 27 (34.18%) REST
6 23 (29.11%) JPA
7 21 (26.58%) AngularJS
8 18 (22.78%) React
9 17 (21.52%) HTML
9 17 (21.52%) JSON
10 16 (20.25%) XML
11 13 (16.46%) HTML5
12 12 (15.19%) Spring MVC
13 11 (13.92%) J2EE
14 10 (12.66%) CSS
14 10 (12.66%) OAuth
14 10 (12.66%) OAuth2
14 10 (12.66%) SOAP
15 8 (10.13%) Play Framework
15 8 (10.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.99%) Linux
2 12 (15.19%) Unix
3 1 (1.27%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (69.62%) CI/CD
1 55 (69.62%) Microservices
2 37 (46.84%) Agile
3 33 (41.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (39.24%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (29.11%) DevOps
6 20 (25.32%) Test Automation
7 19 (24.05%) Containerisation
8 17 (21.52%) Scrum
9 16 (20.25%) API Design
9 16 (20.25%) Observability
10 15 (18.99%) Code Quality
10 15 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (17.72%) Mentoring
11 14 (17.72%) MVC
12 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (16.46%) OO
12 13 (16.46%) OOP
12 13 (16.46%) Software Engineering
13 12 (15.19%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 79 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (41.77%) SQL
3 13 (16.46%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.13%) Scala
5 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.53%) Groovy
7 2 (2.53%) Python
8 1 (1.27%) Bash
8 1 (1.27%) C#
8 1 (1.27%) Korn
8 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.39%) Degree
3 8 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.59%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.53%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.53%) OCP
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) QA
2 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.06%) NIST
2 4 (5.06%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (53.16%) Docker
2 6 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (48.10%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.72%) Ansible
3 13 (16.46%) Progress Chef
4 8 (10.13%) Puppet
5 6 (7.59%) Terraform
6 1 (1.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Oracle
2 13 (16.46%) VMware
3 8 (10.13%) webMethods
4 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.59%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.53%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) Sybase