Hibernate Contracts

Hibernate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Hibernate skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hibernate over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 485 487
Rank change year-on-year +39 +2 -39
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 73 115 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 1.28% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 86 167
10th Percentile £292 £375 £425
25th Percentile £385 £403 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.83% -2.45% -
75th Percentile £500 £636 £700
90th Percentile £538 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £411 £525 £470
% change year-on-year -21.71% +11.73% -10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £55.75 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -36.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £64.38 - £63.75
90th Percentile £66.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% -36.00% +4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Hibernate
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hibernate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hibernate.

Daily rate trend for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hibernate over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hibernate.

Hourly rate trend for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hibernate within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +22 56 £420 -22.22% 61
UK excluding London +53 36 £411 -21.71% 46
London -6 28 £457 -16.91% 16
Work from Home +35 22 £410 -22.00% 37
Midlands +36 15 £402 -10.67% 9
West Midlands +22 9 £420 -6.67% 6
North of England +12 9 £465 -11.43% 12
East Midlands - 6 £326 - 3
South East +47 5 £500 - 11
Scotland +7 5 - - 3
North West -2 5 £402 -23.43% 8
North East - 4 £465 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 1

Hibernate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.85%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.74%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.37%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (1.37%) Camunda
4 1 (1.37%) CMS
4 1 (1.37%) JBoss
4 1 (1.37%) nginx
4 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 40 (54.79%) AWS
2 15 (20.55%) Azure
3 12 (16.44%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (13.70%) Amazon S3
5 9 (12.33%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (9.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (9.59%) AWS KMS
6 7 (9.59%) Kong
6 7 (9.59%) Route 53
7 6 (8.22%) Serverless
8 4 (5.48%) GCP
9 3 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.11%) GitHub
10 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.74%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (2.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (56.16%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (26.03%) MySQL
3 17 (23.29%) MongoDB
4 16 (21.92%) NoSQL
5 15 (20.55%) Relational Database
6 10 (13.70%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (13.70%) DynamoDB
7 8 (10.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (6.85%) RDBMS
8 5 (6.85%) Redis
9 3 (4.11%) DB2
9 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.37%) Big Data
11 1 (1.37%) CockroachDB
11 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.37%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 36 (49.32%) JUnit
2 35 (47.95%) Jenkins
3 33 (45.21%) Maven
4 26 (35.62%) Git
5 22 (30.14%) Mockito
6 15 (20.55%) SonarQube
7 12 (16.44%) GitLab
8 9 (12.33%) Gradle
8 9 (12.33%) JIRA
8 9 (12.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (9.59%) Artifactory
9 7 (9.59%) gulp
9 7 (9.59%) IntelliJ
10 6 (8.22%) Selenium
10 6 (8.22%) Subversion
11 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (5.48%) DbUnit
11 4 (5.48%) HP UFT
11 4 (5.48%) jMock
11 4 (5.48%) NetBeans
General
1 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.03%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.33%) Banking
3 9 (12.33%) Finance
4 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.11%) Back Office
6 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 59 (80.82%) Developer
2 41 (56.16%) Java Developer
3 13 (17.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (12.33%) Lead
4 9 (12.33%) Senior
5 8 (10.96%) Senior Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Lead Developer
6 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Architect
7 6 (8.22%) Lead Java Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (6.85%) AWS Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Angular Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Data Architect
9 3 (4.11%) Digital Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (2.74%) Java Software Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Junior
10 2 (2.74%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.74%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (93.15%) Spring
2 54 (73.97%) Spring Boot
3 30 (41.10%) AngularJS
4 27 (36.99%) REST
5 24 (32.88%) JPA
5 24 (32.88%) Web Services
6 22 (30.14%) HTML
7 19 (26.03%) Kafka
7 19 (26.03%) RESTful
8 14 (19.18%) Node.js
8 14 (19.18%) React
9 11 (15.07%) Bootstrap
9 11 (15.07%) CSS
9 11 (15.07%) jQuery
10 10 (13.70%) SOAP
10 10 (13.70%) Spring Cloud
10 10 (13.70%) Spring Integration
11 9 (12.33%) ActiveMQ
11 9 (12.33%) Mongoose
12 7 (9.59%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.85%) PKI
3 4 (5.48%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.48%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Linux
2 3 (4.11%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (72.60%) Microservices
2 35 (47.95%) Agile
3 27 (36.99%) TDD
4 18 (24.66%) Open Source
4 18 (24.66%) Scrum
5 17 (23.29%) CI/CD
6 16 (21.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (20.55%) DevOps
8 14 (19.18%) Event-Driven
8 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.07%) BDD
9 11 (15.07%) SDLC
9 11 (15.07%) SOLID
9 11 (15.07%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.07%) Unit Testing
10 10 (13.70%) Containerisation
10 10 (13.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (13.70%) Front End Development
10 10 (13.70%) Kanban
10 10 (13.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 70 (95.89%) Java
2 44 (60.27%) SQL
3 26 (35.62%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.96%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.85%) Python
6 4 (5.48%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.74%) Groovy
8 1 (1.37%) Bash
8 1 (1.37%) C#
8 1 (1.37%) COBOL
8 1 (1.37%) JCL
8 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (32.88%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.51%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) Degree
4 6 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) OCP
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.74%) Sun Certification
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (34.25%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) Postfix
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (24.66%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.70%) Terraform
3 9 (12.33%) Prometheus
4 8 (10.96%) Grafana
5 4 (5.48%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.48%) Puppet
6 3 (4.11%) Ansible
6 3 (4.11%) Kibana
7 1 (1.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Oracle
2 6 (8.22%) CA Agile Central
2 6 (8.22%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (6.85%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.85%) Splunk
4 4 (5.48%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.11%) Google
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.74%) Veracode
7 1 (1.37%) Adobe
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) Sybase