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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 682 409 537
Rank change year-on-year -273 +128 +65
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 51 294 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.66% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 3.36% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 29 79 153
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £51,050
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,500 £100,200 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.52% +3.57% +16.67%

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 9,437 8,741 21,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.22% 19.77% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,006 5,723 16,222
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,850 £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 11 June 2026.

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 11 June 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 -226 45 £75,000 +11.11% 13
UK excluding London -244 26 £61,250 -15.52% 12
London -43 23 £85,000 +8.76% 4
South East -48 11 - -
Work from Home -170 11 £77,500 +29.17% 10
North of England -73 6 £62,500 -20.70% 6
North West -31 5 £57,500 -27.04% 3
South West -56 3 - - 2
Scotland -48 2 £65,000 -27.78%
West Midlands -52 2 £40,750 -43.79%
Midlands -88 2 £40,750 -32.08%
Wales - 2 £57,500 - 1
Yorkshire -44 1 £67,500 -14.35% 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 (11.76%) JBoss
2 5 (9.80%) WebSphere
3 3 (5.88%) Apache
4 2 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.92%) Confluence
4 2 (3.92%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.96%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 25 (49.02%) AWS
2 14 (27.45%) Azure
3 11 (21.57%) GCP
3 11 (21.57%) Serverless
4 9 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (15.69%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (15.69%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (15.69%) SaaS
6 7 (13.73%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (7.84%) GitHub
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (21.57%) Relational Database
3 7 (13.73%) NoSQL
4 6 (11.76%) MySQL
5 5 (9.80%) RDBMS
6 4 (7.84%) MongoDB
6 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.96%) Db2
8 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) Jenkins
2 13 (25.49%) Git
2 13 (25.49%) JUnit
3 12 (23.53%) Mockito
4 7 (13.73%) JMeter
5 6 (11.76%) Maven
6 5 (9.80%) JIRA
7 4 (7.84%) Gradle
8 2 (3.92%) Subversion
9 1 (1.96%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.96%) git-flow
9 1 (1.96%) GitLab
9 1 (1.96%) NetBeans
9 1 (1.96%) Postman
9 1 (1.96%) Selenium
9 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.49%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.88%) Law
6 1 (1.96%) Games
6 1 (1.96%) iGaming
6 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (62.75%) Developer
2 27 (52.94%) Java Developer
3 13 (25.49%) Senior
4 10 (19.61%) Java Engineer
5 9 (17.65%) Senior Developer
5 9 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (15.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (13.73%) Lead
7 7 (13.73%) Software Engineer
8 5 (9.80%) Architect
8 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (9.80%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (9.80%) Support Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Senior Architect
10 2 (3.92%) Backend Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Java Software Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.92%) React Developer
11 1 (1.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (96.08%) Spring
2 40 (78.43%) Spring Boot
3 21 (41.18%) REST
4 20 (39.22%) JPA
5 17 (33.33%) RESTful
5 17 (33.33%) Web Services
6 12 (23.53%) React
7 11 (21.57%) HTML
7 11 (21.57%) Kafka
8 10 (19.61%) JSON
8 10 (19.61%) WireMock
9 8 (15.69%) jQuery
9 8 (15.69%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (15.69%) XML
10 7 (13.73%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (13.73%) Apache Camel
11 6 (11.76%) SOAP
12 5 (9.80%) .NET
12 5 (9.80%) J2EE
12 5 (9.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (19.61%) Cloud Native
3 8 (15.69%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.84%) DataPower
4 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.96%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (66.67%) Microservices
2 29 (56.86%) CI/CD
3 25 (49.02%) Agile
4 20 (39.22%) DevOps
5 18 (35.29%) Containerisation
6 16 (31.37%) TDD
7 14 (27.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (19.61%) AI
9 10 (19.61%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (17.65%) Event-Driven
10 9 (17.65%) Mentoring
10 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (17.65%) Software Engineering
11 8 (15.69%) BDD
11 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (15.69%) Roadmaps
11 8 (15.69%) SDLC
11 8 (15.69%) SOA
12 7 (13.73%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 50 (98.04%) Java
2 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 15 (29.41%) SQL
3 11 (21.57%) Python
4 7 (13.73%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.96%) C#
6 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.96%) Perl
6 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 29 (56.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (60.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.73%) Kibana
3 2 (3.92%) Terraform
4 1 (1.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Dynatrace
1 8 (15.69%) Splunk
2 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.96%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.96%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) Okta
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle
3 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.96%) Sybase
3 1 (1.96%) Veracode