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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 719 412 640
Rank change year-on-year -307 +228 -95
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 86 268 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.55% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 3.21% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 49 41 58
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £47,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £91,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.69% +11.54% +13.04%

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 11,976 8,354 16,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 17.02% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8,508 5,321 10,078
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 29 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 14 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 29 September 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 -272 59 £67,500 -3.57% 66
UK excluding London -295 57 £57,500 -20.69% 46
London -75 27 £73,750 +5.36% 30
Wales - 17 £70,000 - 2
South East -77 16 - - 10
North of England -110 10 £57,500 -19.01% 14
Work from Home -195 10 £57,500 +9.52% 34
North West -64 8 £53,000 -25.35% 9
Scotland -43 7 - - 5
East Midlands -72 5 - - 2
Midlands -111 5 - - 8
Yorkshire - 2 £70,000 - 5
East of England -43 1 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland -87 1 - - 2

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 (6.98%) Camunda
2 5 (5.81%) Apache
3 4 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.33%) Confluence
5 1 (1.16%) JBoss
5 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.16%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.16%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 52 (60.47%) AWS
2 42 (48.84%) Azure
3 30 (34.88%) GCP
4 19 (22.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (18.60%) Serverless
6 15 (17.44%) GitHub
7 13 (15.12%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (13.95%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (13.95%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (10.47%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (6.98%) Vertex AI
13 5 (5.81%) Amazon S3
13 5 (5.81%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (3.49%) ChatGPT
15 3 (3.49%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (45.35%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (31.40%) MySQL
3 25 (29.07%) MongoDB
4 21 (24.42%) NoSQL
5 18 (20.93%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.98%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.33%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.33%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.16%) Db2
9 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.16%) GIS
9 1 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (50.00%) Git
2 29 (33.72%) Jenkins
3 18 (20.93%) JUnit
4 15 (17.44%) Mockito
5 8 (9.30%) JMeter
6 7 (8.14%) Maven
7 5 (5.81%) Eclipse
7 5 (5.81%) GitLab
8 3 (3.49%) JIRA
8 3 (3.49%) Postman
8 3 (3.49%) Selenium
8 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.33%) Gradle
10 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.16%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (1.16%) NetBeans
10 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (39.53%) Public Sector
2 17 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.44%) Social Skills
4 14 (16.28%) Banking
5 8 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.98%) Finance
7 4 (4.65%) Law
8 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (69.77%) Developer
2 44 (51.16%) Java Developer
3 16 (18.60%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (16.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 14 (16.28%) Senior
4 14 (16.28%) Senior Developer
5 12 (13.95%) Lead
6 11 (12.79%) Java Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Backend Developer
8 6 (6.98%) Architect
8 6 (6.98%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.81%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.49%) Lead Developer
12 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Architect
12 2 (2.33%) Lead Java Developer
12 2 (2.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (91.86%) Spring
2 68 (79.07%) Spring Boot
3 50 (58.14%) JPA
4 40 (46.51%) Kafka
5 34 (39.53%) RESTful
6 33 (38.37%) REST
7 24 (27.91%) RabbitMQ
8 22 (25.58%) Terraform
9 12 (13.95%) Web Services
10 10 (11.63%) HTML
11 9 (10.47%) JWT
11 9 (10.47%) OAuth
11 9 (10.47%) Spring MVC
11 9 (10.47%) Spring Security
12 8 (9.30%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (9.30%) Apache Camel
12 8 (9.30%) jQuery
12 8 (9.30%) WireMock
13 7 (8.14%) OAuth2
13 7 (8.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (40.70%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (29.07%) Cloud Native
3 17 (19.77%) Product Ownership
4 16 (18.60%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (16.28%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (16.28%) Virtual Team
6 11 (12.79%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (5.81%) AI Agents
8 4 (4.65%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.16%) Life Science
10 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (70.93%) CI/CD
1 61 (70.93%) Microservices
2 52 (60.47%) Agile
3 43 (50.00%) DevOps
4 35 (40.70%) Containerisation
5 29 (33.72%) Mentoring
6 28 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (31.40%) Observability
8 25 (29.07%) Scrum
8 25 (29.07%) Secure Coding
9 24 (27.91%) Software Engineering
10 22 (25.58%) API Design
10 22 (25.58%) Decision-Making
10 22 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (25.58%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (24.42%) Event-Driven
11 21 (24.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 20 (23.26%) AI
12 20 (23.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 84 (97.67%) Java
2 25 (29.07%) Python
3 16 (18.60%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.28%) SQL
5 8 (9.30%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.14%) C#
6 7 (8.14%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.81%) Kotlin
7 5 (5.81%) Scala
8 2 (2.33%) C++
8 2 (2.33%) Groovy
9 1 (1.16%) Bash
9 1 (1.16%) Perl
9 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (13.95%) Degree
1 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.09%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (69.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (69.77%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.77%) Grafana
3 16 (18.60%) Prometheus
4 8 (9.30%) Kibana
5 2 (2.33%) Ansible
6 1 (1.16%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (29.07%) Splunk
2 14 (16.28%) Google
3 12 (13.95%) Dynatrace
4 11 (12.79%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.65%) Oracle
6 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.16%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.16%) Okta
7 1 (1.16%) Sybase
7 1 (1.16%) Workday
7 1 (1.16%) YouTube