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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 725 416 564
Rank change year-on-year -309 +148 -13
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 79 282 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.57% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% 3.27% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45 53 69
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £50,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.69% +16.00% +8.70%

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 11,823 8,620 16,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.43% 17.38% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8,520 5,518 10,914
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 12 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 12 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 -262 54 £70,000 -3.45% 59
UK excluding London -304 52 £57,500 -20.69% 41
London -63 26 £77,500 +6.90% 29
South East -64 15 - - 12
Wales - 15 £70,000 - 2
North of England -95 10 £57,500 -27.04% 10
Work from Home -201 9 £57,500 -27.04% 151
North West -59 8 £57,500 -27.04% 6
Scotland -48 7 - - 5
East Midlands -67 3 - - 4
Midlands -99 3 - - 8
Yorkshire -49 2 £70,000 -11.18% 2
East of England -39 1 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland -78 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 (7.59%) Camunda
2 4 (5.06%) Apache
2 4 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.53%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) JBoss
4 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.27%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.27%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 47 (59.49%) AWS
2 39 (49.37%) Azure
3 27 (34.18%) GCP
4 15 (18.99%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (18.99%) GitHub
4 15 (18.99%) Serverless
5 12 (15.19%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (15.19%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (13.92%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (12.66%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (11.39%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (7.59%) Vertex AI
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
11 5 (6.33%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (3.80%) ChatGPT
13 3 (3.80%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (44.30%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (30.38%) MySQL
3 23 (29.11%) MongoDB
4 18 (22.78%) NoSQL
5 16 (20.25%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.86%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.59%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.53%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.53%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.27%) Db2
9 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.27%) GIS
9 1 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (46.84%) Git
2 28 (35.44%) Jenkins
3 17 (21.52%) JUnit
4 15 (18.99%) Mockito
5 8 (10.13%) JMeter
5 8 (10.13%) Maven
6 5 (6.33%) GitLab
7 4 (5.06%) Eclipse
8 3 (3.80%) Gradle
8 3 (3.80%) JIRA
8 3 (3.80%) Postman
8 3 (3.80%) Selenium
9 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.27%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (1.27%) NetBeans
10 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (36.71%) Public Sector
2 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.92%) Banking
5 7 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.59%) Finance
7 4 (5.06%) Law
8 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (69.62%) Developer
2 41 (51.90%) Java Developer
3 14 (17.72%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (17.72%) Senior
3 14 (17.72%) Senior Developer
4 13 (16.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Lead
5 11 (13.92%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (11.39%) Backend Developer
6 9 (11.39%) Java Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Architect
7 6 (7.59%) Technical Leader
8 5 (6.33%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 2 (2.53%) Lead Developer
11 2 (2.53%) React Developer
11 2 (2.53%) Senior Backend Developer
11 2 (2.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (93.67%) Spring
2 63 (79.75%) Spring Boot
3 46 (58.23%) JPA
4 37 (46.84%) Kafka
5 33 (41.77%) REST
6 29 (36.71%) RESTful
7 21 (26.58%) RabbitMQ
8 18 (22.78%) Terraform
9 11 (13.92%) HTML
9 11 (13.92%) Web Services
10 10 (12.66%) Spring MVC
10 10 (12.66%) Spring Security
11 9 (11.39%) JWT
11 9 (11.39%) OAuth
12 8 (10.13%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (10.13%) Apache Camel
12 8 (10.13%) jQuery
12 8 (10.13%) WireMock
13 7 (8.86%) OAuth2
13 7 (8.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 32 (40.51%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (25.32%) Cloud Native
3 14 (17.72%) Product Ownership
4 12 (15.19%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (13.92%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (13.92%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (13.92%) Virtual Team
6 5 (6.33%) AI Agents
7 4 (5.06%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.27%) Life Science
9 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.53%) Unix
2 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (72.15%) CI/CD
1 57 (72.15%) Microservices
2 48 (60.76%) Agile
3 39 (49.37%) DevOps
4 32 (40.51%) Containerisation
5 26 (32.91%) Mentoring
6 25 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (29.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (29.11%) Observability
8 22 (27.85%) Scrum
9 21 (26.58%) Secure Coding
9 21 (26.58%) Software Engineering
10 20 (25.32%) API Design
10 20 (25.32%) Decision-Making
11 19 (24.05%) AI
11 19 (24.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (24.05%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (24.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 18 (22.78%) API Integration
13 17 (21.52%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 77 (97.47%) Java
2 24 (30.38%) Python
3 17 (21.52%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.99%) SQL
5 8 (10.13%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.86%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.59%) C#
8 5 (6.33%) Kotlin
8 5 (6.33%) Scala
9 2 (2.53%) C++
9 2 (2.53%) Groovy
10 1 (1.27%) Bash
10 1 (1.27%) Perl
10 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (15.19%) Degree
2 11 (13.92%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.99%) QA
2 2 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (70.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (70.89%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.46%) Grafana
2 13 (16.46%) Prometheus
3 8 (10.13%) Kibana
4 1 (1.27%) Ansible
4 1 (1.27%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (27.85%) Splunk
2 13 (16.46%) Google
3 11 (13.92%) Dynatrace
3 11 (13.92%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.06%) Oracle
5 1 (1.27%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.27%) Okta
5 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.27%) Sybase
5 1 (1.27%) Workday
5 1 (1.27%) YouTube