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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 729 409 570
Rank change year-on-year -320 +161 -22
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 78 280 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.57% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.66% 3.30% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 44 51 67
10th Percentile £43,325 £50,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,625 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £84,375
90th Percentile £91,875 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% +13.64%

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 11,772 8,494 16,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 17.29% 21.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8,468 5,422 10,741
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £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 15 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 15 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 -263 54 £70,000 -3.45% 125
UK excluding London -284 51 £62,500 -13.79% 80
London -67 26 £77,500 +6.90% 65
South East -71 15 - - 16
Wales - 14 £70,000 - 2
North of England -97 9 £57,500 -27.04% 23
Work from Home -201 9 £57,500 -27.04% 70
Scotland -53 7 - - 10
North West -60 7 £57,500 -27.04% 10
East Midlands -59 4 - - 5
Midlands -109 4 - - 15
Yorkshire -44 2 £70,000 -11.18% 9
East of England -40 1 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland -80 1 - - 6

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 2 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (1.28%) JBoss
4 1 (1.28%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.28%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.28%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 46 (58.97%) AWS
2 38 (48.72%) Azure
3 26 (33.33%) GCP
4 15 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (19.23%) GitHub
4 15 (19.23%) Serverless
5 12 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (15.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (14.10%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (7.69%) Vertex AI
11 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
11 5 (6.41%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (3.85%) ChatGPT
13 3 (3.85%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (43.59%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (29.49%) MySQL
3 22 (28.21%) MongoDB
4 17 (21.79%) NoSQL
5 16 (20.51%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.97%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.69%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.56%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.56%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.28%) Db2
9 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.28%) GIS
9 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (46.15%) Git
2 27 (34.62%) Jenkins
3 17 (21.79%) JUnit
4 15 (19.23%) Mockito
5 8 (10.26%) JMeter
6 7 (8.97%) Maven
7 5 (6.41%) GitLab
8 4 (5.13%) Eclipse
9 3 (3.85%) JIRA
9 3 (3.85%) Postman
9 3 (3.85%) Selenium
10 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.56%) Gradle
10 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.28%) Eclipse RCP
11 1 (1.28%) NetBeans
11 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (37.18%) Public Sector
2 14 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.10%) Banking
5 7 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.69%) Finance
7 4 (5.13%) Law
8 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (67.95%) Developer
2 39 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 14 (17.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 13 (16.67%) Senior
4 13 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 11 (14.10%) Lead
6 10 (12.82%) Java Engineer
6 10 (12.82%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (11.54%) Backend Developer
8 6 (7.69%) Architect
8 6 (7.69%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.41%) Support Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Technical Architect
11 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (2.56%) Lead Developer
11 2 (2.56%) Senior Backend Developer
11 2 (2.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (92.31%) Spring
2 61 (78.21%) Spring Boot
3 46 (58.97%) JPA
4 37 (47.44%) Kafka
5 33 (42.31%) REST
6 28 (35.90%) RESTful
7 21 (26.92%) RabbitMQ
8 18 (23.08%) Terraform
9 11 (14.10%) Web Services
10 10 (12.82%) HTML
11 9 (11.54%) JWT
11 9 (11.54%) OAuth
11 9 (11.54%) Spring MVC
11 9 (11.54%) Spring Security
12 8 (10.26%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (10.26%) Apache Camel
12 8 (10.26%) jQuery
12 8 (10.26%) WireMock
13 7 (8.97%) OAuth2
13 7 (8.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 31 (39.74%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (25.64%) Cloud Native
3 14 (17.95%) Product Ownership
4 12 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (14.10%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (14.10%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (14.10%) Virtual Team
6 5 (6.41%) AI Agents
7 4 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.28%) Life Science
9 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Unix
2 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (71.79%) Microservices
2 55 (70.51%) CI/CD
3 46 (58.97%) Agile
4 37 (47.44%) DevOps
5 30 (38.46%) Containerisation
6 26 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 24 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (29.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (29.49%) Observability
9 21 (26.92%) Scrum
9 21 (26.92%) Secure Coding
9 21 (26.92%) Software Engineering
10 19 (24.36%) AI
10 19 (24.36%) API Design
10 19 (24.36%) Decision-Making
10 19 (24.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (24.36%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (24.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 17 (21.79%) API Integration
11 17 (21.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 76 (97.44%) Java
2 24 (30.77%) Python
3 16 (20.51%) JavaScript
4 14 (17.95%) SQL
5 8 (10.26%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.69%) C#
8 5 (6.41%) Kotlin
8 5 (6.41%) Scala
9 2 (2.56%) C++
9 2 (2.56%) Groovy
10 1 (1.28%) Bash
10 1 (1.28%) Perl
10 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) Degree
2 11 (14.10%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.23%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (69.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.67%) Grafana
2 13 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 8 (10.26%) Kibana
4 1 (1.28%) Ansible
4 1 (1.28%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Splunk
2 13 (16.67%) Google
3 11 (14.10%) Dynatrace
3 11 (14.10%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.13%) Oracle
5 1 (1.28%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.28%) Okta
5 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.28%) Sybase
5 1 (1.28%) Workday
5 1 (1.28%) YouTube