Hibernate Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Hibernate
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Hibernate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 113 127
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 +46
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 11 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.69% 0.23% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.12% 1.06% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile £459 £387 £322
25th Percentile £472 £396 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £420 £400
Median % change year-on-year +22.02% +5.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £572 £434 £456
90th Percentile £596 £436 £509
UK median daily rate £385 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -30.00% +7.32% -10.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 353 376 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.16% 21.22% 21.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 241 344
10th Percentile £360 £350 £388
25th Percentile £423 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £552
90th Percentile £625 £675 £626
UK median daily rate £505 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -7.94% -0.26% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £26.07
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
Median % change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £70.07
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%

Hibernate
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hibernate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Hibernate job vacancy trend in Scotland

Hibernate
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Hibernate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Hibernate

Hibernate
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Hibernate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Hibernate

Hibernate
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hibernate within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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
Glasgow +2 11 £513 +22.02% 1
Hibernate
UK

Hibernate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (54.55%) CMS
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JUnit
2 3 (27.27%) Mockito
3 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) Gradle
4 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 9 (81.82%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) Spring
2 10 (90.91%) Spring Boot
3 8 (72.73%) React
4 7 (63.64%) Kafka
5 6 (54.55%) Ext JS
6 5 (45.45%) AngularJS
7 4 (36.36%) JPA
8 2 (18.18%) J2EE
8 2 (18.18%) RESTful
8 2 (18.18%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (9.09%) jQuery
9 1 (9.09%) Middleware
9 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (9.09%) REST
9 1 (9.09%) SOAP
9 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
9 1 (9.09%) Spring MVC
9 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Microservices
1 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (72.73%) Multithreading
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Community of Practice
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Operational Stability
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 1 (9.09%) High Availability
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase
2 1 (9.09%) Thunderhead
2 1 (9.09%) Xceptor