Hibernate Job Trends

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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 670 536
Rank change year-on-year +249 -134 +71
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 258 91 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.13% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.31% 0.66% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 37 47 166
10th Percentile £52,300 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £54,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,436
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.00% - -2.28%

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 7,790 13,844 14,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 20.34% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,974 8,397 12,032
10th Percentile £36,750 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,763 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.30% -1.28% +0.88%

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 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 15 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 30 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +208 230 £72,500 +16.00% 21
England +189 197 £72,500 +3.57% 26
Work from Home +194 167 £77,500 +19.23% 19
Scotland - 61 - - 1
Midlands - 61 £72,500 - 2
North of England +33 51 £64,250 +35.26% 1
North West +38 49 £71,000 +49.47%
London +70 39 £77,500 +6.53% 9
South East +53 38 £72,500 +11.54% 9
East Midlands - 36 £51,250 - 1
West Midlands - 25 £72,500 - 1
East of England +27 13 - - 1
South West +32 9 £77,500 +19.23% 7
North East +10 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £57,500 - 1

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
1 169 (65.50%) Confluence
2 15 (5.81%) Apache
3 10 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.16%) JBoss
4 3 (1.16%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 243 (94.19%) AWS
2 171 (66.28%) Azure
3 166 (64.34%) GCP
4 39 (15.12%) Amazon EC2
5 28 (10.85%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (10.85%) Serverless
6 24 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (8.53%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (5.81%) Amazon S3
9 12 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (4.26%) AWS KMS
10 11 (4.26%) Route 53
11 7 (2.71%) SaaS
12 5 (1.94%) GitHub
13 4 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.16%) AWS Fargate
15 2 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (0.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (61.24%) SQL Server
2 41 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (12.79%) Relational Database
4 27 (10.47%) RDBMS
5 12 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.26%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.71%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.55%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.16%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.78%) MySQL
11 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 180 (69.77%) Maven
2 170 (65.89%) JIRA
2 170 (65.89%) SonarQube
3 168 (65.12%) GitLab
4 162 (62.79%) Bitbucket
5 160 (62.02%) Cucumber
5 160 (62.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 159 (61.63%) Selenium
7 49 (18.99%) JUnit
8 47 (18.22%) Jenkins
9 38 (14.73%) Mockito
10 31 (12.02%) Git
11 26 (10.08%) JMeter
12 11 (4.26%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (4.26%) DbUnit
12 11 (4.26%) jMock
13 6 (2.33%) Subversion
14 1 (0.39%) Jasmine
14 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
14 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 185 (71.71%) Finance
2 174 (67.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 173 (67.05%) Banking
4 34 (13.18%) Public Sector
4 34 (13.18%) Social Skills
5 18 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.59%) Law
7 5 (1.94%) Marketing
8 4 (1.55%) Legal
9 3 (1.16%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.39%) Advertising
10 1 (0.39%) Automotive
10 1 (0.39%) Electronics
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 180 (69.77%) Software Engineer
2 63 (24.42%) Developer
3 50 (19.38%) Java Developer
4 24 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (8.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 19 (7.36%) Java Engineer
7 15 (5.81%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 14 (5.43%) Java Software Engineer
8 14 (5.43%) Lead
9 12 (4.65%) Senior
10 10 (3.88%) Backend Developer
11 8 (3.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (3.10%) Lead Developer
11 8 (3.10%) Lead Java Developer
11 8 (3.10%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.10%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (2.71%) Principal Developer
13 6 (2.33%) Architect
14 4 (1.55%) Lead Software Engineer
14 4 (1.55%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (96.90%) Spring
2 221 (85.66%) Spring Boot
3 190 (73.64%) HTML
4 183 (70.93%) JPA
5 182 (70.54%) React
6 179 (69.38%) Kafka
7 166 (64.34%) CSS
8 159 (61.63%) Redux
9 45 (17.44%) Web Services
10 38 (14.73%) REST
11 37 (14.34%) RESTful
12 36 (13.95%) ActiveMQ
13 25 (9.69%) jQuery
14 24 (9.30%) Apache Camel
14 24 (9.30%) WireMock
15 23 (8.91%) AngularJS
15 23 (8.91%) JSON
16 22 (8.53%) XML
17 21 (8.14%) SOAP
18 14 (5.43%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 161 (62.40%) Product Ownership
2 157 (60.85%) Enterprise Software
3 39 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (8.91%) Cloud Native
5 17 (6.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.55%) Equities
8 4 (1.55%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.16%) DataPower
10 2 (0.78%) IoT
10 2 (0.78%) Life Science
10 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.39%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.39%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.53%) Linux
2 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (90.31%) Agile
1 233 (90.31%) Microservices
2 225 (87.21%) CI/CD
3 203 (78.68%) TDD
4 194 (75.19%) SDLC
5 191 (74.03%) Containerisation
5 191 (74.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 189 (73.26%) DevOps
7 187 (72.48%) Software Engineering
8 175 (67.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 175 (67.83%) Performance Optimisation
9 173 (67.05%) Clean Code
10 168 (65.12%) Test Automation
11 160 (62.02%) Front End Development
12 36 (13.95%) BDD
13 30 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (9.69%) Workflow
15 24 (9.30%) Scrum
16 22 (8.53%) Process Management
17 19 (7.36%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 258 (100.00%) Java
2 202 (78.29%) JavaScript
3 181 (70.16%) SQL
4 42 (16.28%) Python
5 25 (9.69%) Shell Script
6 9 (3.49%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.94%) Groovy
8 4 (1.55%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.39%) C#
10 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (12.02%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.10%) Degree
4 7 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (60.85%) QA
System Software
1 219 (84.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 218 (84.50%) Kubernetes
2 31 (12.02%) Kibana
3 3 (1.16%) Grafana
3 3 (1.16%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.78%) Ansible
4 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 157 (60.85%) Solace
2 25 (9.69%) Dynatrace
2 25 (9.69%) Splunk
3 19 (7.36%) Oracle
4 18 (6.98%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.16%) Sybase
7 2 (0.78%) VMware
8 1 (0.39%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.39%) Google
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.39%) Veracode