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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 719 423 653
Rank change year-on-year -296 +230 -109
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 86 256 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.52% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 3.07% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 51 32 51
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £63,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £71,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +5.19% -3.57%
75th Percentile £73,125 £74,063 £84,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,750 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.59% +11.54% +13.04%

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 11,830 8,338 15,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 16.87% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,357 5,307 9,772
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +6.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 14 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 10 October 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 -253 58 £60,000 -15.49% 95
UK excluding London -291 57 £59,750 -17.59% 53
London -56 28 £70,000 - 50
Wales - 19 £66,000 - 2
South East -78 15 - - 9
Work from Home -201 10 £57,500 -4.17% 46
North of England -98 9 £57,500 -19.01% 20
North West -62 8 £53,000 -25.35% 10
Scotland -45 7 - - 6
East Midlands -65 5 - - 1
Midlands -97 5 - - 9
East of England -48 1 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland -78 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 - 8

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 6 (6.98%) Camunda
2 5 (5.81%) Apache
3 4 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.16%) Confluence
4 1 (1.16%) JBoss
4 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.16%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.16%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 53 (61.63%) AWS
2 44 (51.16%) Azure
3 32 (37.21%) GCP
4 21 (24.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (17.44%) Serverless
6 14 (16.28%) GitHub
7 12 (13.95%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (13.95%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (12.79%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (10.47%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.98%) Vertex AI
12 5 (5.81%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.81%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (3.49%) ChatGPT
14 3 (3.49%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (47.67%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (34.88%) MySQL
3 27 (31.40%) MongoDB
4 23 (26.74%) NoSQL
5 18 (20.93%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.81%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.33%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.33%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.16%) Db2
9 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.16%) GIS
9 1 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (52.33%) Git
2 28 (32.56%) Jenkins
3 17 (19.77%) JUnit
4 14 (16.28%) Mockito
5 8 (9.30%) Maven
6 7 (8.14%) JMeter
7 5 (5.81%) Eclipse
7 5 (5.81%) GitLab
8 3 (3.49%) Gradle
8 3 (3.49%) Postman
8 3 (3.49%) Selenium
8 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.33%) JIRA
10 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.16%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (1.16%) NetBeans
10 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.16%) Subversion
General
1 34 (39.53%) Public Sector
2 19 (22.09%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (18.60%) Banking
4 15 (17.44%) Social Skills
5 10 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.81%) Finance
7 4 (4.65%) Law
8 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (70.93%) Developer
2 46 (53.49%) Java Developer
3 15 (17.44%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (16.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 14 (16.28%) Senior
4 14 (16.28%) Senior Developer
5 12 (13.95%) Lead
6 11 (12.79%) Java Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Backend Developer
8 6 (6.98%) Architect
9 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.81%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.65%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.65%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (4.65%) Technical Architect
11 2 (2.33%) Junior
11 2 (2.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (91.86%) Spring
2 69 (80.23%) Spring Boot
3 52 (60.47%) JPA
4 42 (48.84%) Kafka
5 36 (41.86%) RESTful
6 32 (37.21%) REST
7 26 (30.23%) RabbitMQ
8 24 (27.91%) Terraform
9 12 (13.95%) Web Services
10 10 (11.63%) HTML
11 9 (10.47%) JWT
11 9 (10.47%) OAuth
11 9 (10.47%) Spring MVC
11 9 (10.47%) Spring Security
12 7 (8.14%) jQuery
12 7 (8.14%) OAuth2
12 7 (8.14%) OpenAPI
12 7 (8.14%) OpenID
12 7 (8.14%) Swagger
12 7 (8.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 36 (41.86%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (31.40%) Cloud Native
3 18 (20.93%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (20.93%) Product Ownership
4 16 (18.60%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (18.60%) Virtual Team
5 11 (12.79%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (5.81%) AI Agents
7 4 (4.65%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.16%) Life Science
9 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (72.09%) CI/CD
1 62 (72.09%) Microservices
2 53 (61.63%) Agile
3 45 (52.33%) DevOps
4 37 (43.02%) Containerisation
5 31 (36.05%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (34.88%) Mentoring
7 29 (33.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (33.72%) Observability
8 28 (32.56%) Scrum
9 26 (30.23%) Secure Coding
9 26 (30.23%) Software Engineering
10 24 (27.91%) API Design
10 24 (27.91%) Decision-Making
11 23 (26.74%) Event-Driven
11 23 (26.74%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 22 (25.58%) Technical Leadership
13 21 (24.42%) SDLC
13 21 (24.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (24.42%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 84 (97.67%) Java
2 24 (27.91%) Python
3 16 (18.60%) JavaScript
4 13 (15.12%) SQL
5 7 (8.14%) C#
5 7 (8.14%) Shell Script
6 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.81%) Kotlin
7 5 (5.81%) Scala
8 2 (2.33%) C++
8 2 (2.33%) Groovy
9 1 (1.16%) Bash
9 1 (1.16%) Perl
9 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (15.12%) Degree
2 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.42%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (70.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (69.77%) Kubernetes
2 19 (22.09%) Grafana
3 18 (20.93%) Prometheus
4 7 (8.14%) Kibana
5 2 (2.33%) Ansible
6 1 (1.16%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (30.23%) Splunk
2 14 (16.28%) Google
3 11 (12.79%) Dynatrace
3 11 (12.79%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.65%) Oracle
5 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.16%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.16%) Okta
6 1 (1.16%) Sybase
6 1 (1.16%) Workday
6 1 (1.16%) YouTube