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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 684 417 525
Rank change year-on-year -267 +108 +85
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 57 274 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 3.14% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 31 81 160
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £52,350
25th Percentile £63,125 £51,250 £63,438
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 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +16.67%

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 9,088 8,725 20,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 19.78% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,685 6,094 15,739
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 May 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 May 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 -212 52 £75,000 +25.00% 25
UK excluding London -239 30 £65,000 +8.33% 17
London -25 24 £81,250 +3.10% 4
Work from Home -154 15 £77,500 +29.17% 12
South East -42 12 £75,000 +42.86% 1
North of England -76 9 £66,250 -15.94% 9
North West -36 5 £63,500 -19.43% 4
Yorkshire -46 4 £66,250 -15.94% 3
South West -64 4 - - 5
Scotland -52 2 £65,000 -22.99%
West Midlands -59 2 £40,750 -32.08%
Midlands -101 2 £40,750 -32.08% 1
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 8 (14.04%) JBoss
2 7 (12.28%) WebSphere
3 5 (8.77%) Apache
4 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (5.26%) Confluence
5 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) AWS
2 14 (24.56%) Azure
3 12 (21.05%) Serverless
4 11 (19.30%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (19.30%) GCP
5 10 (17.54%) SaaS
6 9 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (14.04%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (14.04%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
9 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (5.26%) GitHub
11 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (3.51%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (1.75%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (1.75%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.82%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (19.30%) Relational Database
3 6 (10.53%) MySQL
3 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
4 5 (8.77%) RDBMS
4 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (24.56%) JUnit
2 13 (22.81%) Git
3 12 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 12 (21.05%) Mockito
4 7 (12.28%) JMeter
5 6 (10.53%) Maven
6 5 (8.77%) JIRA
7 4 (7.02%) Gradle
8 2 (3.51%) GitLab
8 2 (3.51%) Subversion
9 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.75%) git-flow
9 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.32%) Finance
3 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.02%) Law
6 1 (1.75%) Games
6 1 (1.75%) iGaming
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (57.89%) Developer
2 26 (45.61%) Java Developer
3 14 (24.56%) Senior
4 10 (17.54%) Java Engineer
5 9 (15.79%) Architect
5 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 9 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (15.79%) Software Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Lead
7 6 (10.53%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (8.77%) Senior Architect
9 4 (7.02%) Support Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Backend Developer
10 3 (5.26%) Lead Developer
11 2 (3.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 2 (3.51%) Java Software Developer
11 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (3.51%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (94.74%) Spring
2 41 (71.93%) Spring Boot
3 24 (42.11%) REST
4 20 (35.09%) Web Services
5 19 (33.33%) JPA
6 17 (29.82%) RESTful
7 15 (26.32%) React
8 11 (19.30%) JSON
8 11 (19.30%) XML
9 10 (17.54%) HTML
9 10 (17.54%) Kafka
9 10 (17.54%) SOAP
9 10 (17.54%) WireMock
10 9 (15.79%) .NET
11 8 (14.04%) jQuery
11 8 (14.04%) Middleware
11 8 (14.04%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (12.28%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (12.28%) Apache Camel
13 5 (8.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (19.30%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (12.28%) DataPower
5 4 (7.02%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.75%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (66.67%) Microservices
2 31 (54.39%) CI/CD
3 27 (47.37%) Agile
4 22 (38.60%) DevOps
5 21 (36.84%) Containerisation
6 16 (28.07%) TDD
7 15 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (22.81%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (21.05%) AI
9 12 (21.05%) Performance Optimisation
9 12 (21.05%) SOA
10 11 (19.30%) Event-Driven
10 11 (19.30%) Mentoring
10 11 (19.30%) Software Engineering
11 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
12 9 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
12 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (14.04%) BDD
13 8 (14.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 55 (96.49%) Java
2 19 (33.33%) SQL
3 15 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 13 (22.81%) Python
5 7 (12.28%) Shell Script
6 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.51%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 31 (54.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.04%) Kibana
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Dynatrace
1 7 (12.28%) Splunk
2 3 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.51%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.75%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.75%) Okta
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) Veracode