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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 658 510
Rank change year-on-year +101 -148 +79
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 92 100 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 0.71% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 39 57 172
10th Percentile £49,600 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,000 £87,500 £99,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% +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 7,241 14,109 13,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 20.53% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5,243 8,586 11,375
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £106,289
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 23 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 23 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 +101 80 £71,000 +11.37% 17
UK excluding London +88 58 £68,750 +14.58% 14
London +64 42 £77,500 +14.81% 4
South East +35 22 £72,500 +20.83% 1
Work from Home +88 17 £77,500 +29.17% 12
North of England +29 11 £57,500 -28.13% 6
Scotland +29 10 - - 1
Midlands +69 9 £67,500 +12.50% 1
North West +44 9 £71,000 +18.33% 1
South West +31 8 £77,500 +19.23% 5
West Midlands - 7 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands +31 2 £51,250 -14.58%
Yorkshire +14 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 17 (18.48%) Apache
2 12 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (8.70%) Confluence
4 6 (6.52%) JBoss
4 6 (6.52%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 73 (79.35%) AWS
2 28 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (27.17%) Amazon EKS
3 25 (27.17%) Serverless
4 21 (22.83%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (16.30%) Azure
7 10 (10.87%) GCP
7 10 (10.87%) SaaS
8 7 (7.61%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.43%) GitHub
10 4 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.26%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (3.26%) AWS KMS
11 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.26%) OpenShift
11 3 (3.26%) Route 53
12 2 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) AMQP
1 1 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (31.52%) Relational Database
3 23 (25.00%) RDBMS
4 7 (7.61%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (7.61%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.17%) MySQL
8 1 (1.09%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.09%) Redis
8 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (39.13%) JUnit
2 34 (36.96%) Jenkins
3 27 (29.35%) Mockito
4 26 (28.26%) Git
5 23 (25.00%) JMeter
6 13 (14.13%) Maven
7 9 (9.78%) GitLab
7 9 (9.78%) JIRA
8 5 (5.43%) Bitbucket
8 5 (5.43%) SonarQube
8 5 (5.43%) Subversion
9 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (3.26%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.26%) DbUnit
9 3 (3.26%) jMock
9 3 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.17%) Gradle
10 2 (2.17%) Selenium
11 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.09%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.26%) Finance
3 24 (26.09%) Public Sector
4 14 (15.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (15.22%) Law
5 12 (13.04%) Banking
6 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.35%) Marketing
8 3 (3.26%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.26%) Legal
9 2 (2.17%) Retail
10 1 (1.09%) Advertising
10 1 (1.09%) Automotive
10 1 (1.09%) Electronics
10 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.09%) Games
10 1 (1.09%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 56 (60.87%) Developer
2 42 (45.65%) Java Developer
3 23 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 21 (22.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 19 (20.65%) Software Engineer
6 16 (17.39%) Java Engineer
7 15 (16.30%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 14 (15.22%) Senior
9 12 (13.04%) Backend Developer
10 11 (11.96%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (10.87%) Architect
12 8 (8.70%) Lead
13 7 (7.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (7.61%) Principal Developer
13 7 (7.61%) Senior Architect
13 7 (7.61%) Senior Developer
13 7 (7.61%) Senior Java Developer
14 3 (3.26%) Lead Developer
14 3 (3.26%) Lead Java Developer
14 3 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (91.30%) Spring
2 55 (59.78%) Spring Boot
3 32 (34.78%) REST
4 31 (33.70%) HTML
5 30 (32.61%) Web Services
6 29 (31.52%) RESTful
7 24 (26.09%) ActiveMQ
7 24 (26.09%) React
8 23 (25.00%) JSON
8 23 (25.00%) Kafka
9 22 (23.91%) jQuery
10 21 (22.83%) Apache Camel
10 21 (22.83%) JPA
10 21 (22.83%) WireMock
10 21 (22.83%) XML
11 14 (15.22%) SOAP
12 12 (13.04%) Pandas
13 11 (11.96%) AngularJS
14 10 (10.87%) CSS
15 8 (8.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (32.61%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (28.26%) Cloud Native
3 15 (16.30%) Distributed Architecture
4 13 (14.13%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (6.52%) DataPower
6 4 (4.35%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.26%) Equities
7 3 (3.26%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.26%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.09%) IoT
8 1 (1.09%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.09%) Life Science
8 1 (1.09%) NHS
8 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.30%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (71.74%) Microservices
2 65 (70.65%) CI/CD
3 62 (67.39%) Agile
4 33 (35.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (34.78%) SDLC
6 31 (33.70%) TDD
7 29 (31.52%) DevOps
8 27 (29.35%) Containerisation
9 26 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (27.17%) BDD
10 25 (27.17%) Software Engineering
11 22 (23.91%) Workflow
12 20 (21.74%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (20.65%) Process Management
14 18 (19.57%) Event-Driven
15 16 (17.39%) Clean Code
15 16 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (17.39%) Fintech
16 14 (15.22%) Code Quality
16 14 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 92 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (47.83%) JavaScript
3 42 (45.65%) Python
4 22 (23.91%) Shell Script
5 21 (22.83%) SQL
6 10 (10.87%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.35%) Groovy
7 4 (4.35%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.17%) C#
8 2 (2.17%) R
9 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.78%) Degree
3 7 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 54 (58.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (60.87%) Kubernetes
2 28 (30.43%) Kibana
3 2 (2.17%) Ansible
3 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (23.91%) Dynatrace
1 22 (23.91%) Splunk
2 16 (17.39%) Oracle
3 10 (10.87%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.26%) Google
5 2 (2.17%) Sybase
5 2 (2.17%) VMware
6 1 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.09%) Veracode