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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 713 408 543
Rank change year-on-year -305 +135 +46
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 65 292 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.59% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 3.27% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 39 71 140
10th Percentile £47,250 £50,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,250
Median % change year-on-year - -0.36% +8.08%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,751 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +7.41% +12.50%

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 10,165 8,925 20,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 18.16% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 7,600 5,903 15,100
10th Percentile £40,975 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 12 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 July 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 -242 49 £72,500 +3.57% 26
UK excluding London -273 40 £68,750 -5.17% 23
London -55 25 £85,000 +13.33% 11
South East -39 14 - - 9
Work from Home -182 10 £57,500 -4.17% 12
North of England -73 9 £57,500 -27.04% 5
Wales - 8 £70,000 - 1
North West -42 7 £57,500 -27.04% 1
Scotland -42 7 £65,000 -22.99% 3
Yorkshire -34 2 £70,000 -11.18% 4
East of England -24 1 £45,000 - 2
South West -65 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 5 (7.69%) Camunda
2 3 (4.62%) JBoss
2 3 (4.62%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.54%) Apache
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.54%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 35 (53.85%) AWS
2 29 (44.62%) Azure
3 22 (33.85%) GCP
4 13 (20.00%) GitHub
4 13 (20.00%) Serverless
5 12 (18.46%) GitHub Copilot
6 9 (13.85%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (12.31%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (12.31%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (12.31%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (7.69%) Vertex AI
11 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
11 3 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.62%) SaaS
12 2 (3.08%) ChatGPT
12 2 (3.08%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (41.54%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (26.15%) MySQL
3 15 (23.08%) MongoDB
3 15 (23.08%) Relational Database
4 11 (16.92%) NoSQL
5 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.69%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.54%) Db2
7 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.54%) GIS
7 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (33.85%) Git
2 21 (32.31%) Jenkins
3 17 (26.15%) JUnit
4 16 (24.62%) Mockito
5 7 (10.77%) JMeter
6 5 (7.69%) Maven
7 3 (4.62%) GitLab
7 3 (4.62%) JIRA
7 3 (4.62%) Postman
7 3 (4.62%) Selenium
8 2 (3.08%) Eclipse
8 2 (3.08%) Gradle
8 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.54%) Eclipse RCP
9 1 (1.54%) git-flow
9 1 (1.54%) NetBeans
9 1 (1.54%) Subversion
General
1 15 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Finance
4 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Banking
6 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.54%) Games
7 1 (1.54%) iGaming
7 1 (1.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (66.15%) Developer
2 36 (55.38%) Java Developer
3 14 (21.54%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (20.00%) Lead
5 12 (18.46%) Senior
6 11 (16.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (15.38%) Senior Developer
7 10 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (10.77%) Java Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Architect
9 5 (7.69%) Support Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Technical Leader
10 3 (4.62%) Backend Developer
10 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (3.08%) Java Software Engineer
11 2 (3.08%) Lead Developer
11 2 (3.08%) React Developer
11 2 (3.08%) Senior Architect
12 1 (1.54%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (95.38%) Spring
2 53 (81.54%) Spring Boot
3 37 (56.92%) JPA
4 31 (47.69%) REST
5 26 (40.00%) Kafka
6 25 (38.46%) RESTful
7 15 (23.08%) Web Services
8 14 (21.54%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (15.38%) HTML
9 10 (15.38%) JWT
9 10 (15.38%) OAuth
9 10 (15.38%) WireMock
10 8 (12.31%) JSON
10 8 (12.31%) OAuth2
10 8 (12.31%) Spring Security
11 7 (10.77%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (10.77%) Apache Camel
11 7 (10.77%) jQuery
11 7 (10.77%) React
11 7 (10.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (35.38%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (16.92%) Cloud Native
3 9 (13.85%) Product Ownership
4 7 (10.77%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (6.15%) Virtual Team
7 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
8 2 (3.08%) AI Agents
8 2 (3.08%) DataPower
9 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.54%) Life Science
9 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 49 (75.38%) Microservices
3 36 (55.38%) Agile
4 32 (49.23%) DevOps
5 23 (35.38%) Containerisation
6 18 (27.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (26.15%) Mentoring
8 16 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (24.62%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (23.08%) AI
9 15 (23.08%) TDD
10 14 (21.54%) API Design
10 14 (21.54%) Scrum
11 13 (20.00%) SDLC
11 13 (20.00%) Software Engineering
12 12 (18.46%) API Integration
12 12 (18.46%) Decision-Making
12 12 (18.46%) Observability
12 12 (18.46%) Performance Optimisation
12 12 (18.46%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 64 (98.46%) Java
2 20 (30.77%) Python
3 17 (26.15%) SQL
4 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.77%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.62%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.62%) Scala
8 2 (3.08%) C++
8 2 (3.08%) Groovy
9 1 (1.54%) Bash
9 1 (1.54%) C#
9 1 (1.54%) Perl
9 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Degree
2 6 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (70.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.85%) Terraform
3 7 (10.77%) Kibana
4 4 (6.15%) Grafana
4 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.54%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (21.54%) Splunk
2 10 (15.38%) Dynatrace
3 8 (12.31%) Google
4 7 (10.77%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.54%) Sybase
6 1 (1.54%) Veracode