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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 511 508
Rank change year-on-year -143 -3 +93
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 65 127 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.30% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 1.47% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 43 91 182
10th Percentile £40,500 £50,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £54,375 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -22.58% +19.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £94,688
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +25.00%

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 8,712 8,652 20,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 20.69% 21.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,364 6,536 15,697
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -134 58 £75,000 +25.00% 20
UK excluding London -150 29 £57,500 -4.17% 14
London -22 28 £85,000 +13.33% 7
Work from Home -27 25 £77,500 +29.17% 8
North of England -56 11 £61,250 -22.28% 2
South East -70 8 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North West -25 6 £52,000 -34.02%
Yorkshire -59 5 £65,000 -17.52% 1
South West -49 4 - - 5
West Midlands -39 3 £36,500 -39.17%
Midlands -53 3 £36,500 -39.17%
Scotland -27 2 £65,000 -17.52%
Wales - 1 £45,000 -

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 13 (20.00%) JBoss
2 12 (18.46%) WebSphere
3 10 (15.38%) Apache
4 8 (12.31%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (4.62%) Confluence
6 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 32 (49.23%) AWS
2 17 (26.15%) Azure
3 15 (23.08%) GCP
3 15 (23.08%) SaaS
4 12 (18.46%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (12.31%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (12.31%) Serverless
6 5 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.62%) GitHub
9 2 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.54%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.15%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.31%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.77%) MySQL
4 6 (9.23%) NoSQL
5 5 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.15%) RDBMS
7 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (26.15%) Git
2 11 (16.92%) JUnit
3 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.85%) Mockito
4 6 (9.23%) Gradle
4 6 (9.23%) Maven
5 5 (7.69%) JIRA
6 4 (6.15%) JMeter
7 3 (4.62%) Subversion
8 2 (3.08%) GitLab
9 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.54%) git-flow
9 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.69%) Finance
3 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (9.23%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Games
6 1 (1.54%) iGaming
6 1 (1.54%) Legal
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (56.92%) Developer
2 25 (38.46%) Java Developer
3 17 (26.15%) Senior
4 16 (24.62%) Architect
5 10 (15.38%) Senior Architect
6 9 (13.85%) Software Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Backend Developer
8 7 (10.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (10.77%) Java Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) Senior Developer
8 7 (10.77%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (9.23%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) Lead
10 4 (6.15%) Junior
10 4 (6.15%) Junior Developer
10 4 (6.15%) Junior Java Developer
10 4 (6.15%) Technical Architect
11 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 3 (4.62%) Principal Developer
12 2 (3.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (95.38%) Spring
2 41 (63.08%) Spring Boot
3 24 (36.92%) JPA
4 23 (35.38%) REST
5 21 (32.31%) RESTful
6 16 (24.62%) .NET
6 16 (24.62%) React
6 16 (24.62%) Web Services
7 15 (23.08%) SOAP
8 13 (20.00%) Kafka
8 13 (20.00%) Middleware
9 12 (18.46%) GraphQL
10 11 (16.92%) JSON
11 10 (15.38%) XML
12 9 (13.85%) HTML
12 9 (13.85%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (12.31%) Pandas
14 7 (10.77%) WireMock
15 5 (7.69%) jQuery
15 5 (7.69%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.46%) DataPower
3 9 (13.85%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (13.85%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (12.31%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (64.62%) Microservices
2 35 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 30 (46.15%) Agile
4 27 (41.54%) DevOps
5 26 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 21 (32.31%) Event-Driven
7 19 (29.23%) Performance Optimisation
8 17 (26.15%) SOA
9 16 (24.62%) AI
9 16 (24.62%) Integration Patterns
9 16 (24.62%) Roadmaps
9 16 (24.62%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (21.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (18.46%) Clean Code
11 12 (18.46%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (18.46%) TDD
12 11 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 10 (15.38%) Migration
13 10 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (96.92%) Java
2 27 (41.54%) SQL
3 16 (24.62%) Python
4 13 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.15%) C#
5 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 35 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.69%) Kibana
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
3 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.69%) Google
2 4 (6.15%) Dynatrace
2 4 (6.15%) Splunk
3 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.54%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.54%) Okta
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle
4 1 (1.54%) Veracode