Hibernate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Hibernate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 396 517
Rank change year-on-year -272 +121 +94
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 59 281 403
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.65% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.66% 3.27% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 37 87 165
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £51,600
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -22.58% +19.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +23.35%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,937 8,584 20,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.86% 19.73% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,550 6,277 15,757
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Hibernate
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Hibernate job vacancy trend in the UK

Hibernate
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hibernate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hibernate

Hibernate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hibernate over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hibernate within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -189 52 £72,500 +20.83% 24
UK excluding London -251 27 £65,000 +8.33% 17
London -39 24 £77,500 +3.33% 5
Work from Home -157 19 £77,500 +29.17% 16
North of England -101 10 £65,000 -17.52% 6
South East -54 8 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire -52 5 £65,000 -17.52% 1
North West -58 5 £63,500 -19.43% 4
South West -50 4 - - 5
West Midlands -56 2 £40,750 -32.08%
Scotland -64 2 £65,000 -17.52%
Midlands -103 2 £40,750 -32.08% 1
Wales - 1 £45,000 -

Hibernate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (16.95%) JBoss
2 9 (15.25%) WebSphere
3 8 (13.56%) Apache
4 6 (10.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (5.08%) Confluence
6 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.76%) AWS
2 14 (23.73%) Azure
3 12 (20.34%) GCP
3 12 (20.34%) SaaS
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (13.56%) Serverless
6 5 (8.47%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (5.08%) GitHub
9 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.39%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.69%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.69%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.86%) Relational Database
3 6 (10.17%) MySQL
3 6 (10.17%) NoSQL
4 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
4 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.78%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Git
2 11 (18.64%) JUnit
3 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.25%) Mockito
4 6 (10.17%) Maven
5 5 (8.47%) Gradle
5 5 (8.47%) JIRA
6 4 (6.78%) JMeter
7 2 (3.39%) GitLab
7 2 (3.39%) Subversion
8 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.69%) git-flow
8 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (27.12%) Finance
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.78%) Law
5 1 (1.69%) Games
5 1 (1.69%) iGaming
5 1 (1.69%) Legal
5 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (57.63%) Developer
2 24 (40.68%) Java Developer
3 17 (28.81%) Senior
4 11 (18.64%) Architect
5 10 (16.95%) Senior Developer
5 10 (16.95%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (15.25%) Java Engineer
6 9 (15.25%) Software Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) Lead
7 7 (11.86%) Senior Architect
8 6 (10.17%) Backend Developer
8 6 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (10.17%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Support Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Java Software Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Junior Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Junior Java Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Principal Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (94.92%) Spring
2 41 (69.49%) Spring Boot
3 24 (40.68%) REST
4 21 (35.59%) JPA
5 18 (30.51%) RESTful
5 18 (30.51%) Web Services
6 15 (25.42%) React
7 12 (20.34%) Kafka
7 12 (20.34%) SOAP
8 11 (18.64%) .NET
8 11 (18.64%) JSON
9 10 (16.95%) Middleware
9 10 (16.95%) XML
10 9 (15.25%) GraphQL
10 9 (15.25%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (13.56%) HTML
12 7 (11.86%) WireMock
13 6 (10.17%) Pandas
14 5 (8.47%) J2EE
14 5 (8.47%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Cloud Native
2 9 (15.25%) DataPower
2 9 (15.25%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (10.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.69%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (64.41%) Microservices
2 31 (52.54%) CI/CD
3 25 (42.37%) Agile
4 24 (40.68%) DevOps
5 21 (35.59%) Containerisation
6 16 (27.12%) Event-Driven
7 14 (23.73%) AI
7 14 (23.73%) Performance Optimisation
7 14 (23.73%) SOA
7 14 (23.73%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (20.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (20.34%) Roadmaps
8 12 (20.34%) TDD
9 11 (18.64%) Integration Patterns
10 10 (16.95%) Clean Code
10 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
11 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
12 8 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (13.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 57 (96.61%) Java
2 23 (38.98%) SQL
3 14 (23.73%) Python
4 12 (20.34%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.78%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.39%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.69%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 31 (52.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (52.54%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) Kibana
3 1 (1.69%) Ansible
3 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.78%) Dynatrace
1 4 (6.78%) Splunk
2 3 (5.08%) Google
2 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.69%) Okta
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle
3 1 (1.69%) Veracode