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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 654 527
Rank change year-on-year +98 -127 +71
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 102 95 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 0.70% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 43 52 168
10th Percentile £42,400 £41,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,000 £87,250 £98,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £61,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.10% -2.00% +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 7,365 13,663 13,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.88% 20.33% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,261 8,209 11,302
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +117 88 £71,000 +11.37% 39
UK excluding London +60 65 £70,500 +15.10% 22
London +51 45 £77,500 +14.81% 19
South East +33 24 £72,500 +18.37% 4
Work from Home +71 17 £77,500 +29.17% 28
North of England +37 12 £57,500 -4.17% 6
Scotland +15 12 - - 2
Midlands +74 10 £68,750 +14.58% 1
North West +33 10 £71,000 +32.09%
South West +28 9 £77,500 +19.23% 9
West Midlands - 8 £71,250 - 1
East Midlands +25 2 £51,250 -14.58%
Yorkshire +8 2 £57,500 -32.55% 4

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 18 (17.65%) Apache
2 13 (12.75%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (8.82%) Confluence
4 6 (5.88%) JBoss
4 6 (5.88%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 82 (80.39%) AWS
2 31 (30.39%) Amazon EC2
3 26 (25.49%) Amazon EKS
3 26 (25.49%) Serverless
4 22 (21.57%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (18.63%) Amazon SQS
6 16 (15.69%) Azure
7 11 (10.78%) GCP
8 10 (9.80%) SaaS
9 9 (8.82%) Amazon S3
10 6 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.90%) AWS KMS
11 5 (4.90%) GitHub
11 5 (4.90%) Route 53
12 4 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.94%) OpenShift
14 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) AMQP
1 1 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (31.37%) Relational Database
3 25 (24.51%) RDBMS
4 7 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.86%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (4.90%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.94%) MySQL
9 1 (0.98%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.98%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.98%) Redis
9 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (39.22%) JUnit
2 39 (38.24%) Jenkins
3 31 (30.39%) Git
4 30 (29.41%) Mockito
5 24 (23.53%) JMeter
6 18 (17.65%) Maven
7 10 (9.80%) JIRA
8 9 (8.82%) GitLab
9 7 (6.86%) SonarQube
9 7 (6.86%) Subversion
10 5 (4.90%) Bitbucket
10 5 (4.90%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (4.90%) DbUnit
10 5 (4.90%) jMock
11 3 (2.94%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.94%) Gradle
11 3 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (1.96%) Selenium
13 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 30 (29.41%) Finance
3 27 (26.47%) Public Sector
4 18 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (17.65%) Law
5 15 (14.71%) Banking
6 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.90%) Marketing
8 4 (3.92%) Legal
9 3 (2.94%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.96%) Retail
11 1 (0.98%) Advertising
11 1 (0.98%) Automotive
11 1 (0.98%) Electronics
11 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.98%) Games
11 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (59.80%) Developer
2 46 (45.10%) Java Developer
3 23 (22.55%) Full-Stack Developer
3 23 (22.55%) Software Engineer
4 21 (20.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 19 (18.63%) Java Engineer
6 15 (14.71%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 14 (13.73%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (13.73%) Senior
8 13 (12.75%) Backend Developer
9 10 (9.80%) Architect
9 10 (9.80%) Lead
10 8 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (7.84%) Principal Developer
11 7 (6.86%) Senior Architect
11 7 (6.86%) Senior Developer
11 7 (6.86%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Junior Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Junior Java Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (92.16%) Spring
2 61 (59.80%) Spring Boot
3 35 (34.31%) RESTful
3 35 (34.31%) Web Services
4 34 (33.33%) REST
5 33 (32.35%) HTML
6 27 (26.47%) ActiveMQ
6 27 (26.47%) React
7 26 (25.49%) Kafka
8 24 (23.53%) JPA
9 23 (22.55%) jQuery
9 23 (22.55%) JSON
10 22 (21.57%) Apache Camel
10 22 (21.57%) WireMock
11 21 (20.59%) XML
12 17 (16.67%) SOAP
13 15 (14.71%) AngularJS
14 13 (12.75%) Pandas
15 11 (10.78%) CSS
16 8 (7.84%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 34 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (28.43%) Cloud Native
3 17 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 14 (13.73%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.88%) DataPower
6 5 (4.90%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.92%) Equities
7 4 (3.92%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.98%) IoT
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.98%) Life Science
8 1 (0.98%) NHS
8 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (70.59%) Microservices
2 71 (69.61%) CI/CD
3 70 (68.63%) Agile
4 36 (35.29%) SDLC
5 35 (34.31%) TDD
6 34 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (32.35%) DevOps
8 32 (31.37%) Containerisation
9 31 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (29.41%) Software Engineering
11 28 (27.45%) BDD
12 23 (22.55%) Workflow
13 22 (21.57%) Performance Optimisation
14 20 (19.61%) Process Management
15 19 (18.63%) Event-Driven
16 18 (17.65%) Clean Code
16 18 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (17.65%) Fintech
17 17 (16.67%) Scrum
18 15 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 102 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (46.08%) JavaScript
3 44 (43.14%) Python
4 24 (23.53%) SQL
5 23 (22.55%) Shell Script
6 10 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.90%) Groovy
7 5 (4.90%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.96%) C#
8 2 (1.96%) R
9 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.80%) Degree
2 10 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 60 (58.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 62 (60.78%) Kubernetes
2 29 (28.43%) Kibana
3 2 (1.96%) Ansible
3 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.98%) Grafana
4 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Dynatrace
1 23 (22.55%) Splunk
2 19 (18.63%) Oracle
3 12 (11.76%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.94%) Google
4 3 (2.94%) Sybase
5 2 (1.96%) VMware
6 1 (0.98%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.98%) Veracode