Hybrid/Remote Hibernate Contract Job Trends

Hibernate
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Hibernate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 288 362
Rank change year-on-year -1 +74 +85
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 29 28 29
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.28% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 0.94% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 25
10th Percentile £280 £356 £375
25th Percentile £351 £451 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £765 £500
Median % change year-on-year -51.63% +53.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £429 £800 £650
90th Percentile £510 £900 £900
UK median daily rate £375 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -31.82% -4.35% -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,671 2,983 4,341
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.23% 24.59% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,962 3,140
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 28 48
10th Percentile £31.00 £21.78 £40.22
25th Percentile £40.56 £32.88 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -7.55% +1.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - £89.38 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

Hibernate
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hibernate and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Hibernate job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Hibernate
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hibernate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hibernate

Hibernate
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hibernate over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hibernate daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Hibernate
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hibernate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hibernate

Hibernate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (10.34%) Apache
1 3 (10.34%) JBoss
1 3 (10.34%) WebLogic
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Azure
3 7 (24.14%) GitHub
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (17.24%) OpenShift
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (10.34%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.45%) Apigee
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
1 1 (3.45%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (51.72%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (20.69%) MongoDB
2 6 (20.69%) NoSQL
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database
3 4 (13.79%) Redis
4 3 (10.34%) MySQL
4 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.45%) DB2
Development Applications
1 20 (68.97%) JUnit
2 16 (55.17%) Git
3 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
4 9 (31.03%) Maven
4 9 (31.03%) Mockito
5 7 (24.14%) Cucumber
5 7 (24.14%) Selenium
5 7 (24.14%) SonarQube
5 7 (24.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (20.69%) JIRA
7 5 (17.24%) GitLab
7 5 (17.24%) JMeter
7 5 (17.24%) Postman
8 4 (13.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (13.79%) REST Assured
8 4 (13.79%) SoapUI
8 4 (13.79%) Subversion
8 4 (13.79%) Xcode
8 4 (13.79%) XCTest
9 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) Developer
2 15 (51.72%) Java Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Java Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Kafka Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Kafka Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) QA Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.45%) COBOL Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Java Software Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Lead Web Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Mainframe Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Messaging Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (89.66%) Spring
2 14 (48.28%) Spring Boot
3 11 (37.93%) JPA
4 10 (34.48%) HTML
4 10 (34.48%) Kafka
4 10 (34.48%) REST
4 10 (34.48%) RESTful
5 8 (27.59%) CSS
5 8 (27.59%) SOAP
6 7 (24.14%) HTML5
6 7 (24.14%) J2EE
6 7 (24.14%) Web Services
7 6 (20.69%) AngularJS
7 6 (20.69%) Spring MVC
8 5 (17.24%) JSON
8 5 (17.24%) Swagger
9 4 (13.79%) Material-UI
9 4 (13.79%) Node.js
9 4 (13.79%) React
9 4 (13.79%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
1 7 (24.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 17 (58.62%) Microservices
3 16 (55.17%) Agile
4 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (34.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (34.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (34.48%) Test Automation
6 9 (31.03%) DevOps
6 9 (31.03%) TDD
7 8 (27.59%) Mentoring
7 8 (27.59%) Unit Testing
8 7 (24.14%) Code Quality
8 7 (24.14%) Front End Development
8 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (24.14%) MVC
9 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
10 5 (17.24%) Concurrent Programming
10 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (17.24%) Scrum
10 5 (17.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (51.72%) SQL
3 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
5 4 (13.79%) Groovy
6 3 (10.34%) Scala
7 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.45%) Bash
8 1 (3.45%) COBOL
8 1 (3.45%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Ansible
2 5 (17.24%) Progress Chef
3 3 (10.34%) Puppet
4 1 (3.45%) Control-M
4 1 (3.45%) Kibana
4 1 (3.45%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) Splunk
2 5 (17.24%) VMware
3 4 (13.79%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) webMethods
5 2 (6.90%) IBM
5 2 (6.90%) Veracode
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) Ping Identity