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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 710 408 526
Rank change year-on-year -302 +118 +32
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 78 287 304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 3.17% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 45 59 85
10th Percentile £45,250 £50,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £92,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% +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 11,928 9,056 17,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.08% 18.16% 20.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,674 5,913 12,190
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,765 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 21 August 2026.

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 21 August 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 -243 56 £70,000 - 19
UK excluding London -290 50 £65,000 -10.34% 18
London -74 28 £77,500 +6.90% 7
South East -61 16 - - 5
Wales - 11 £70,000 - 2
Scotland -42 9 £65,000 -22.99% 1
North of England -87 9 £57,500 -27.04% 5
Work from Home -202 9 £57,500 -14.81% 8
North West -61 7 £57,500 -27.04% 3
Yorkshire -40 2 £70,000 -11.18% 2
East Midlands -53 2 - - 2
Midlands -102 2 - - 3
East of England -29 1 £45,000 -
South West -78 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland -82 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 6 (7.69%) Camunda
2 4 (5.13%) Apache
2 4 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) JBoss
3 1 (1.28%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.28%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.28%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 46 (58.97%) AWS
2 38 (48.72%) Azure
3 27 (34.62%) GCP
4 17 (21.79%) GitHub
5 14 (17.95%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (17.95%) Serverless
6 11 (14.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (12.82%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (7.69%) Vertex AI
11 5 (6.41%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
12 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (3.85%) ChatGPT
13 3 (3.85%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (43.59%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (29.49%) MySQL
3 21 (26.92%) MongoDB
4 17 (21.79%) Relational Database
5 16 (20.51%) NoSQL
6 9 (11.54%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.41%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.56%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.56%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.28%) Db2
9 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.28%) GIS
9 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (41.03%) Git
2 27 (34.62%) Jenkins
3 21 (26.92%) JUnit
4 18 (23.08%) Mockito
5 7 (8.97%) JMeter
5 7 (8.97%) Maven
6 4 (5.13%) Eclipse
6 4 (5.13%) GitLab
7 3 (3.85%) Gradle
7 3 (3.85%) Postman
7 3 (3.85%) Selenium
8 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.56%) JIRA
8 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.28%) Eclipse RCP
9 1 (1.28%) git-flow
9 1 (1.28%) NetBeans
9 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (28.21%) Public Sector
2 15 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.97%) Banking
4 7 (8.97%) Finance
5 4 (5.13%) Law
6 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.28%) Games
7 1 (1.28%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 53 (67.95%) Developer
2 38 (48.72%) Java Developer
3 15 (19.23%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (16.67%) Lead
5 12 (15.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (14.10%) Senior
6 11 (14.10%) Senior Developer
7 9 (11.54%) Backend Developer
7 9 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (10.26%) Java Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Architect
9 6 (7.69%) Technical Leader
10 5 (6.41%) Support Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Technical Architect
12 3 (3.85%) Software Developer
13 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
13 2 (2.56%) Lead Developer
13 2 (2.56%) React Developer
13 2 (2.56%) Senior Backend Developer
13 2 (2.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (94.87%) Spring
2 63 (80.77%) Spring Boot
3 48 (61.54%) JPA
4 36 (46.15%) Kafka
5 33 (42.31%) REST
6 29 (37.18%) RESTful
7 19 (24.36%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (16.67%) Terraform
9 12 (15.38%) Web Services
10 11 (14.10%) JWT
10 11 (14.10%) OAuth
11 10 (12.82%) HTML
11 10 (12.82%) Spring MVC
11 10 (12.82%) Spring Security
12 9 (11.54%) OAuth2
12 9 (11.54%) WireMock
13 8 (10.26%) OpenAPI
13 8 (10.26%) Swagger
14 7 (8.97%) Apache Camel
14 7 (8.97%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 27 (34.62%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (19.23%) Cloud Native
3 11 (14.10%) Product Ownership
4 10 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (8.97%) Virtual Team
7 5 (6.41%) AI Agents
8 4 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.28%) Life Science
10 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.28%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (73.08%) Microservices
2 56 (71.79%) CI/CD
3 43 (55.13%) Agile
4 38 (48.72%) DevOps
5 31 (39.74%) Containerisation
6 23 (29.49%) Mentoring
7 20 (25.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (23.08%) API Design
9 18 (23.08%) Observability
9 18 (23.08%) Scrum
10 17 (21.79%) AI
10 17 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (20.51%) API Integration
11 16 (20.51%) Decision-Making
11 16 (20.51%) Secure Coding
11 16 (20.51%) Software Engineering
11 16 (20.51%) TDD
11 16 (20.51%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (20.51%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 76 (97.44%) Java
2 25 (32.05%) Python
3 15 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 15 (19.23%) SQL
4 7 (8.97%) Shell Script
5 6 (7.69%) C#
5 6 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.41%) Kotlin
6 5 (6.41%) Scala
7 2 (2.56%) C++
7 2 (2.56%) Groovy
8 1 (1.28%) Bash
8 1 (1.28%) Perl
8 1 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) Degree
2 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
2 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.10%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (71.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (73.08%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.54%) Grafana
2 9 (11.54%) Prometheus
3 7 (8.97%) Kibana
4 1 (1.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (21.79%) Splunk
2 13 (16.67%) Google
3 11 (14.10%) OpenAI
4 10 (12.82%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle
6 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.28%) Sybase
7 1 (1.28%) Workday