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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 643 509
Rank change year-on-year +68 -134 +86
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 76 81 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 0.65% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 39 50 166
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £55,625 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £70,825
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -15.28% +1.18%
75th Percentile £84,375 £73,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,000 £87,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -4.00% +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 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 6,997 12,391 12,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.95% 21.61% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,268 7,551 10,529
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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
England +82 71 £72,500 +20.83% 33
UK excluding London +32 46 £63,750 +6.25% 22
London +55 35 £90,000 +44.00% 13
Work from Home +74 22 £77,500 +29.17% 15
South East +12 19 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North of England +26 13 £61,250 -23.44% 8
North West +27 8 £71,000 -11.25% 1
Midlands +27 6 £51,250 -14.58% 2
South West +17 5 £77,500 +19.23% 7
Yorkshire -6 5 £57,500 -32.55% 6
West Midlands +27 4 £52,000 -13.33% 1
Scotland +7 3 - -
East Midlands -2 2 £51,250 -14.58% 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 14 (18.42%) Apache
2 10 (13.16%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (11.84%) JBoss
3 9 (11.84%) WebSphere
4 4 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 54 (71.05%) AWS
2 22 (28.95%) Amazon EC2
2 22 (28.95%) Serverless
3 21 (27.63%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (23.68%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (19.74%) Azure
6 13 (17.11%) SaaS
7 11 (14.47%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (14.47%) GCP
8 5 (6.58%) GitHub
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.95%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.95%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (34.21%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (28.95%) Relational Database
3 17 (22.37%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.63%) MySQL
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.32%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (32.89%) JUnit
2 21 (27.63%) Jenkins
3 20 (26.32%) JMeter
4 19 (25.00%) Mockito
5 17 (22.37%) Git
6 6 (7.89%) GitLab
7 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (5.26%) JIRA
8 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.63%) Gradle
8 2 (2.63%) Maven
8 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.32%) Subversion
General
1 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 15 (19.74%) Finance
4 3 (3.95%) Banking
4 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.95%) Law
5 2 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Advertising
6 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.32%) Games
6 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 48 (63.16%) Developer
2 36 (47.37%) Java Developer
3 20 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (23.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 16 (21.05%) Senior
6 14 (18.42%) Architect
6 14 (18.42%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 10 (13.16%) Backend Developer
8 8 (10.53%) Java Engineer
8 8 (10.53%) Senior Architect
8 8 (10.53%) Senior Developer
8 8 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (10.53%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Principal Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Junior
11 3 (3.95%) Junior Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Junior Java Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (93.42%) Spring
2 45 (59.21%) Spring Boot
3 31 (40.79%) REST
4 25 (32.89%) HTML
5 22 (28.95%) Web Services
6 21 (27.63%) XML
7 20 (26.32%) JSON
7 20 (26.32%) React
8 19 (25.00%) RESTful
9 18 (23.68%) ActiveMQ
9 18 (23.68%) Apache Camel
9 18 (23.68%) jQuery
9 18 (23.68%) WireMock
10 15 (19.74%) JPA
11 14 (18.42%) Kafka
12 12 (15.79%) .NET
13 11 (14.47%) SOAP
14 10 (13.16%) Pandas
15 9 (11.84%) GraphQL
15 9 (11.84%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 23 (30.26%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (23.68%) Cloud Native
3 11 (14.47%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (13.16%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (11.84%) DataPower
6 1 (1.32%) IoT
6 1 (1.32%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.32%) Life Science
6 1 (1.32%) NHS
6 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (71.05%) Microservices
2 51 (67.11%) CI/CD
3 46 (60.53%) Agile
4 28 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (31.58%) DevOps
6 21 (27.63%) Containerisation
7 20 (26.32%) TDD
8 19 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 19 (25.00%) SDLC
8 19 (25.00%) Workflow
9 18 (23.68%) BDD
10 17 (22.37%) Event-Driven
10 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (21.05%) Process Management
12 15 (19.74%) Clean Code
13 14 (18.42%) Roadmaps
14 13 (17.11%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering
14 13 (17.11%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (15.79%) AI
Programming Languages
1 75 (98.68%) Java
2 35 (46.05%) JavaScript
2 35 (46.05%) Python
3 22 (28.95%) SQL
4 18 (23.68%) Shell Script
5 8 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.95%) C#
7 2 (2.63%) R
8 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.16%) Degree
3 7 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.95%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 44 (57.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (56.58%) Kubernetes
2 23 (30.26%) Kibana
3 2 (2.63%) Ansible
3 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (23.68%) Dynatrace
1 18 (23.68%) Splunk
2 5 (6.58%) Atlassian
2 5 (6.58%) Oracle
3 4 (5.26%) Google
4 2 (2.63%) VMware