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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 708 426 517
Rank change year-on-year -282 +91 +44
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 78 288 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 3.18% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 44 60 84
10th Percentile £45,250 £50,000 £51,625
25th Percentile £51,875 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,875 £91,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +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 11,955 9,066 17,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.12% 18.17% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,688 5,930 12,241
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year - +7.51% -6.99%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,050 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 15 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 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 -252 56 £70,000 - 30
UK excluding London -277 51 £65,000 -10.34% 22
London -67 27 £77,500 +6.90% 15
South East -58 17 - - 5
Wales - 11 £70,000 - 2
Scotland -54 9 £65,000 -22.99% 2
North of England -78 9 £57,500 -27.04% 5
Work from Home -193 9 £57,500 -13.21% 14
North West -55 7 £57,500 -27.04% 4
Yorkshire -33 2 £70,000 -11.18% 1
East Midlands -59 2 - - 2
Midlands -89 2 - - 4
East of England -32 1 £45,000 - 1
South West -80 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland -83 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 (7.69%) Camunda
2 4 (5.13%) Apache
2 4 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) JBoss
3 1 (1.28%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.28%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.28%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 46 (58.97%) AWS
2 38 (48.72%) Azure
3 28 (35.90%) GCP
4 16 (20.51%) GitHub
5 14 (17.95%) GitHub Copilot
6 13 (16.67%) Serverless
7 11 (14.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (12.82%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (7.69%) Vertex AI
13 5 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (5.13%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (3.85%) ChatGPT
15 3 (3.85%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (43.59%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (29.49%) MySQL
3 21 (26.92%) MongoDB
4 17 (21.79%) Relational Database
5 16 (20.51%) NoSQL
6 9 (11.54%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.41%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.28%) Db2
8 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.28%) GIS
8 1 (1.28%) Pinecone
8 1 (1.28%) Redis
8 1 (1.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (39.74%) Git
2 26 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 21 (26.92%) JUnit
4 18 (23.08%) Mockito
5 7 (8.97%) JMeter
6 6 (7.69%) Maven
7 4 (5.13%) Eclipse
8 3 (3.85%) GitLab
8 3 (3.85%) Postman
8 3 (3.85%) Selenium
9 2 (2.56%) Gradle
9 2 (2.56%) JIRA
9 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.28%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (1.28%) git-flow
10 1 (1.28%) NetBeans
10 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (28.21%) Public Sector
2 15 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (10.26%) Finance
5 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.97%) Banking
6 4 (5.13%) Law
7 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.28%) Games
8 1 (1.28%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 52 (66.67%) Developer
2 38 (48.72%) Java Developer
3 15 (19.23%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (17.95%) Lead
5 12 (15.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (14.10%) Senior
6 11 (14.10%) Senior Developer
7 9 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (10.26%) Backend Developer
8 8 (10.26%) Java Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Architect
9 6 (7.69%) Technical Leader
10 5 (6.41%) Support Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Technical Architect
12 3 (3.85%) Software Developer
13 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
13 2 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 2 (2.56%) Lead Developer
13 2 (2.56%) Senior Backend Developer
13 2 (2.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (94.87%) Spring
2 63 (80.77%) Spring Boot
3 48 (61.54%) JPA
4 35 (44.87%) Kafka
5 32 (41.03%) REST
6 30 (38.46%) RESTful
7 18 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (16.67%) Terraform
8 13 (16.67%) Web Services
9 11 (14.10%) JWT
9 11 (14.10%) OAuth
10 10 (12.82%) HTML
10 10 (12.82%) WireMock
11 9 (11.54%) OAuth2
11 9 (11.54%) Spring MVC
11 9 (11.54%) Spring Security
12 7 (8.97%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (8.97%) jQuery
12 7 (8.97%) JSON
12 7 (8.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (34.62%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (19.23%) Cloud Native
3 12 (15.38%) Product Ownership
4 10 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (8.97%) Virtual Team
7 4 (5.13%) AI Agents
7 4 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.28%) Life Science
9 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.28%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (74.36%) Microservices
2 56 (71.79%) CI/CD
3 43 (55.13%) Agile
4 38 (48.72%) DevOps
5 31 (39.74%) Containerisation
6 24 (30.77%) Mentoring
7 21 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (23.08%) API Design
10 17 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (21.79%) Observability
10 17 (21.79%) Scrum
10 17 (21.79%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (20.51%) AI
11 16 (20.51%) API Integration
11 16 (20.51%) Decision-Making
11 16 (20.51%) Secure Coding
11 16 (20.51%) Software Engineering
11 16 (20.51%) TDD
12 15 (19.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 76 (97.44%) Java
2 25 (32.05%) Python
3 15 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 15 (19.23%) SQL
4 7 (8.97%) Shell Script
5 6 (7.69%) C#
5 6 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.13%) Kotlin
6 4 (5.13%) Scala
7 2 (2.56%) C++
7 2 (2.56%) Groovy
8 1 (1.28%) Bash
8 1 (1.28%) Perl
8 1 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Degree
2 9 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 9 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (71.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (73.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.26%) Grafana
2 8 (10.26%) Prometheus
3 7 (8.97%) Kibana
4 1 (1.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (21.79%) Splunk
2 13 (16.67%) Google
3 10 (12.82%) Dynatrace
3 10 (12.82%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.28%) Sybase
6 1 (1.28%) Workday