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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 627 509
Rank change year-on-year +54 -118 +101
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 76 84 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 0.73% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 43 53 175
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £57,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 7,112 11,568 13,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,285 6,811 11,185
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +51 70 £72,500 +20.83% 34
UK excluding London +7 41 £60,000 - 27
London +69 35 £87,500 +22.81% 5
Work from Home +65 25 £77,500 +29.17% 19
South East +3 15 £75,000 +25.00% 6
North of England +18 12 £61,250 -23.44% 5
North West +28 7 £71,000 -11.25% 4
Midlands +16 6 £42,500 -29.17% 5
South West -1 5 £77,500 +19.23% 10
Yorkshire -8 5 £57,500 -32.55%
West Midlands +20 4 £40,750 -32.08% 5
Scotland +5 3 - -
East Midlands -17 2 £51,250 -14.58%

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 16 (21.05%) Apache
2 12 (15.79%) JBoss
3 11 (14.47%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (14.47%) WebSphere
4 4 (5.26%) Confluence
5 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 50 (65.79%) AWS
2 18 (23.68%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (23.68%) Serverless
3 17 (22.37%) SaaS
4 16 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (21.05%) Azure
5 13 (17.11%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (17.11%) Amazon SQS
6 10 (13.16%) GCP
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.58%) GitHub
8 3 (3.95%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.95%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.32%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.95%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (22.37%) Relational Database
3 12 (15.79%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.63%) MySQL
5 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (26.32%) JUnit
2 19 (25.00%) Git
3 17 (22.37%) Jenkins
4 15 (19.74%) JMeter
5 14 (18.42%) Mockito
6 6 (7.89%) JIRA
7 5 (6.58%) GitLab
8 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.63%) Gradle
9 2 (2.63%) Maven
9 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 24 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.05%) Finance
3 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.95%) Law
5 2 (2.63%) Banking
5 2 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.32%) Games
6 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (61.84%) Developer
2 34 (44.74%) Java Developer
3 18 (23.68%) Senior
4 16 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (19.74%) Architect
6 14 (18.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 11 (14.47%) Backend Developer
7 11 (14.47%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 11 (14.47%) Software Engineer
8 10 (13.16%) Java Engineer
8 10 (13.16%) Senior Architect
9 8 (10.53%) Senior Developer
9 8 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (7.89%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (6.58%) Principal Developer
12 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (3.95%) Junior
12 3 (3.95%) Junior Developer
12 3 (3.95%) Junior Java Developer
12 3 (3.95%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (92.11%) Spring
2 45 (59.21%) Spring Boot
3 28 (36.84%) REST
4 22 (28.95%) React
5 20 (26.32%) HTML
5 20 (26.32%) RESTful
6 18 (23.68%) Web Services
6 18 (23.68%) XML
7 17 (22.37%) JPA
7 17 (22.37%) JSON
8 15 (19.74%) Kafka
9 14 (18.42%) .NET
9 14 (18.42%) jQuery
9 14 (18.42%) SOAP
10 13 (17.11%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (17.11%) Apache Camel
10 13 (17.11%) WireMock
11 11 (14.47%) GraphQL
11 11 (14.47%) Middleware
11 11 (14.47%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 17 (22.37%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (14.47%) DataPower
3 11 (14.47%) Distributed Architecture
3 11 (14.47%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.32%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.32%) NHS
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (64.47%) Microservices
2 48 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 41 (53.95%) Agile
4 25 (32.89%) DevOps
5 23 (30.26%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (28.95%) Containerisation
7 20 (26.32%) Event-Driven
7 20 (26.32%) Performance Optimisation
8 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (19.74%) Roadmaps
9 15 (19.74%) SDLC
9 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
10 14 (18.42%) Clean Code
10 14 (18.42%) Data Pipeline
10 14 (18.42%) TDD
10 14 (18.42%) Workflow
11 13 (17.11%) AI
11 13 (17.11%) Migration
11 13 (17.11%) SOA
11 13 (17.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 75 (98.68%) Java
2 31 (40.79%) Python
3 30 (39.47%) JavaScript
4 26 (34.21%) SQL
5 13 (17.11%) Shell Script
6 8 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.95%) C#
8 2 (2.63%) R
9 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.84%) Degree
3 6 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 40 (52.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (23.68%) Kibana
3 3 (3.95%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Dynatrace
1 13 (17.11%) Splunk
2 5 (6.58%) Atlassian
2 5 (6.58%) Oracle
3 4 (5.26%) Google
4 2 (2.63%) VMware
5 1 (1.32%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.32%) Okta