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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 714 429 513
Rank change year-on-year -285 +84 +63
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 73 288 327
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.58% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 3.35% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 42 62 92
10th Percentile £45,525 £50,000 £51,375
25th Percentile £52,813 £53,750 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,125 £99,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.62% +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 10,695 8,594 16,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 17.31% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,832 5,611 11,555
10th Percentile £40,275 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
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 8 August 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 8 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 -264 52 £70,000 - 46
UK excluding London -280 47 £66,250 -8.62% 27
London -59 26 £77,500 +6.90% 23
South East -63 16 - - 13
Wales - 10 £70,000 - 1
Scotland -40 9 £65,000 -22.99%
North of England -87 9 £57,500 -27.04% 4
Work from Home -202 9 £57,500 -8.00% 16
North West -44 7 £57,500 -27.04% 1
Yorkshire -37 2 £70,000 -11.18% 3
East of England -37 1 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland -74 1 - -
South West -78 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 (8.22%) Camunda
2 4 (5.48%) Apache
2 4 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) JBoss
3 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 43 (58.90%) AWS
2 35 (47.95%) Azure
3 26 (35.62%) GCP
4 14 (19.18%) GitHub
5 13 (17.81%) GitHub Copilot
6 12 (16.44%) Serverless
7 10 (13.70%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (13.70%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (12.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (10.96%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (8.22%) Vertex AI
12 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
14 2 (2.74%) ChatGPT
14 2 (2.74%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (42.47%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (28.77%) MySQL
3 18 (24.66%) MongoDB
4 16 (21.92%) Relational Database
5 14 (19.18%) NoSQL
6 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.85%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.37%) Db2
8 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.37%) GIS
8 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (38.36%) Git
2 25 (34.25%) Jenkins
3 20 (27.40%) JUnit
4 17 (23.29%) Mockito
5 7 (9.59%) JMeter
6 5 (6.85%) Maven
7 4 (5.48%) Eclipse
8 3 (4.11%) Postman
8 3 (4.11%) Selenium
9 2 (2.74%) GitLab
9 2 (2.74%) JIRA
9 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.37%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (1.37%) git-flow
10 1 (1.37%) Gradle
10 1 (1.37%) NetBeans
10 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (27.40%) Public Sector
2 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (10.96%) Finance
5 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Banking
6 4 (5.48%) Law
7 3 (4.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.37%) Games
8 1 (1.37%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 49 (67.12%) Developer
2 37 (50.68%) Java Developer
3 15 (20.55%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (19.18%) Lead
5 12 (16.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (15.07%) Senior
6 11 (15.07%) Senior Developer
7 9 (12.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (8.22%) Architect
8 6 (8.22%) Backend Developer
8 6 (8.22%) Java Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.85%) Support Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Technical Architect
11 3 (4.11%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Architect
12 2 (2.74%) Lead Developer
12 2 (2.74%) React Developer
12 2 (2.74%) Senior Backend Developer
12 2 (2.74%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (97.26%) Spring
2 60 (82.19%) Spring Boot
3 43 (58.90%) JPA
4 32 (43.84%) Kafka
5 30 (41.10%) REST
6 28 (38.36%) RESTful
7 15 (20.55%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (17.81%) Web Services
9 11 (15.07%) JWT
9 11 (15.07%) OAuth
10 10 (13.70%) HTML
10 10 (13.70%) WireMock
11 9 (12.33%) OAuth2
12 8 (10.96%) Spring MVC
12 8 (10.96%) Spring Security
13 7 (9.59%) ActiveMQ
13 7 (9.59%) Apache Camel
13 7 (9.59%) jQuery
13 7 (9.59%) JSON
13 7 (9.59%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 25 (34.25%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (19.18%) Cloud Native
3 11 (15.07%) Product Ownership
4 10 (13.70%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (9.59%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (9.59%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (8.22%) Virtual Team
7 4 (5.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.74%) AI Agents
10 1 (1.37%) Life Science
10 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.37%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (76.71%) Microservices
2 53 (72.60%) CI/CD
3 40 (54.79%) Agile
4 35 (47.95%) DevOps
5 29 (39.73%) Containerisation
6 23 (31.51%) Mentoring
7 19 (26.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (23.29%) API Design
8 17 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (21.92%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (20.55%) API Integration
10 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (20.55%) Observability
10 15 (20.55%) Scrum
10 15 (20.55%) SDLC
10 15 (20.55%) TDD
11 14 (19.18%) AI
11 14 (19.18%) Decision-Making
11 14 (19.18%) Secure Coding
11 14 (19.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (97.26%) Java
2 25 (34.25%) Python
3 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
3 15 (20.55%) SQL
4 7 (9.59%) Shell Script
5 6 (8.22%) C#
5 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.11%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.11%) Scala
7 2 (2.74%) C++
7 2 (2.74%) Groovy
8 1 (1.37%) Bash
8 1 (1.37%) Perl
8 1 (1.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) Degree
2 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (72.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (73.97%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.07%) Terraform
3 7 (9.59%) Kibana
4 6 (8.22%) Grafana
4 6 (8.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.37%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 16 (21.92%) Splunk
2 12 (16.44%) Google
3 10 (13.70%) Dynatrace
4 8 (10.96%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) Sybase
6 1 (1.37%) Workday