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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 648 515
Rank change year-on-year +105 -133 +87
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 89 94 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 0.69% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 36 55 171
10th Percentile £46,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £54,375 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% -16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,313 £77,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £87,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 7,045 13,664 13,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.02% 20.88% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,137 8,307 11,158
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £106,250
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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 +100 78 £71,000 +13.60% 18
UK excluding London +70 59 £65,000 +8.33% 17
London +72 39 £90,000 +33.33% 6
South East +28 21 - - 5
Work from Home +92 19 £88,750 +47.92% 10
North of England +50 15 £61,250 -23.44% 5
North West +49 10 £71,000 -11.25% 1
Scotland +16 9 - - 1
Midlands +57 8 £65,000 +8.33% 1
South West +32 8 £77,500 +19.23% 4
West Midlands - 6 £68,750 - 1
Yorkshire +15 5 £57,500 -32.55% 3
East Midlands +24 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 14 (15.73%) Apache
2 10 (11.24%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (10.11%) JBoss
3 9 (10.11%) WebSphere
4 6 (6.74%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 67 (75.28%) AWS
2 26 (29.21%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (28.09%) Amazon EKS
3 25 (28.09%) Serverless
4 21 (23.60%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (16.85%) Azure
6 12 (13.48%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (12.36%) GCP
7 11 (12.36%) SaaS
8 5 (5.62%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.62%) GitHub
9 4 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.37%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.37%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.12%) AWS KMS
12 1 (1.12%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) AMQP
1 1 (1.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (32.58%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (31.46%) Relational Database
3 22 (24.72%) RDBMS
4 6 (6.74%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.74%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.25%) MySQL
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.12%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.12%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (35.96%) JUnit
2 31 (34.83%) Jenkins
3 24 (26.97%) Mockito
4 23 (25.84%) JMeter
5 22 (24.72%) Git
6 10 (11.24%) Maven
7 8 (8.99%) GitLab
8 6 (6.74%) JIRA
9 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
10 4 (4.49%) Subversion
11 3 (3.37%) Cucumber
11 3 (3.37%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (2.25%) Gradle
12 2 (2.25%) Selenium
12 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
13 1 (1.12%) Ant
13 1 (1.12%) IntelliJ
13 1 (1.12%) Jasmine
13 1 (1.12%) jMock
13 1 (1.12%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.97%) Finance
3 22 (24.72%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (13.48%) Law
5 10 (11.24%) Banking
6 8 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.37%) Marketing
8 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Retail
9 1 (1.12%) Advertising
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Games
9 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 52 (58.43%) Developer
2 40 (44.94%) Java Developer
3 23 (25.84%) Full-Stack Developer
4 21 (23.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 17 (19.10%) Software Engineer
6 16 (17.98%) Senior
7 15 (16.85%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 14 (15.73%) Java Engineer
9 13 (14.61%) Architect
10 10 (11.24%) Backend Developer
11 9 (10.11%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (8.99%) Senior Architect
12 8 (8.99%) Senior Developer
12 8 (8.99%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (6.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (6.74%) Lead
14 5 (5.62%) Principal Developer
15 3 (3.37%) Junior
15 3 (3.37%) Junior Developer
15 3 (3.37%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (92.13%) Spring
2 50 (56.18%) Spring Boot
3 34 (38.20%) REST
4 30 (33.71%) HTML
5 28 (31.46%) Web Services
6 24 (26.97%) RESTful
7 23 (25.84%) JSON
7 23 (25.84%) React
7 23 (25.84%) XML
8 22 (24.72%) ActiveMQ
8 22 (24.72%) jQuery
9 21 (23.60%) Apache Camel
9 21 (23.60%) WireMock
10 19 (21.35%) Kafka
11 16 (17.98%) JPA
12 13 (14.61%) SOAP
13 11 (12.36%) .NET
14 10 (11.24%) Pandas
15 9 (10.11%) GraphQL
15 9 (10.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.58%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (24.72%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.36%) Distributed Architecture
3 11 (12.36%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (10.11%) DataPower
5 3 (3.37%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.37%) Equities
6 2 (2.25%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.12%) IoT
7 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.12%) Life Science
7 1 (1.12%) NHS
7 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (69.66%) CI/CD
1 62 (69.66%) Microservices
2 59 (66.29%) Agile
3 32 (35.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 30 (33.71%) SDLC
5 28 (31.46%) TDD
6 27 (30.34%) DevOps
7 25 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (25.84%) BDD
8 23 (25.84%) Containerisation
8 23 (25.84%) Software Engineering
9 22 (24.72%) Workflow
10 20 (22.47%) Performance Optimisation
11 19 (21.35%) Process Management
12 17 (19.10%) Event-Driven
13 16 (17.98%) Clean Code
14 15 (16.85%) AI
14 15 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (16.85%) Roadmaps
15 14 (15.73%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 89 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (47.19%) JavaScript
3 39 (43.82%) Python
4 23 (25.84%) SQL
5 21 (23.60%) Shell Script
6 10 (11.24%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.37%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.25%) C#
8 2 (2.25%) Groovy
8 2 (2.25%) R
9 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.11%) Degree
3 7 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 49 (55.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (58.43%) Kubernetes
2 27 (30.34%) Kibana
3 2 (2.25%) Ansible
3 2 (2.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (23.60%) Dynatrace
1 21 (23.60%) Splunk
2 13 (14.61%) Oracle
3 7 (7.87%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.37%) Google
5 2 (2.25%) Sybase
5 2 (2.25%) VMware
6 1 (1.12%) Veracode