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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 393 536
Rank change year-on-year -292 +143 +78
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 52 278 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.056% 0.65% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 3.34% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 30 79 155
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £51,600
25th Percentile £59,063 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £67,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.90% +19.23%
75th Percentile £84,375 £82,751 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,200 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.04% +1.79% +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 9,299 8,316 20,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 19.40% 20.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,903 5,598 15,887
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,240 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +10.40% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,150 £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 29 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 29 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 -233 47 £75,000 +15.38% 7
UK excluding London -254 26 £61,250 -14.04% 7
London -36 23 £77,500 -1.66% 1
Work from Home -154 13 £76,250 +27.08% 3
South East -53 12 £75,000 +9.09% 1
North of England -90 6 £62,500 -20.70% 5
North West -43 5 £57,500 -27.04% 3
South West -61 3 - -
Scotland -59 2 £65,000 -27.78%
West Midlands -63 2 £40,750 -32.08%
Midlands -100 2 £40,750 -32.08%
Yorkshire -57 1 £67,500 -14.35% 2
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 5 (9.62%) JBoss
2 4 (7.69%) Apache
2 4 (7.69%) WebSphere
3 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.85%) Confluence
5 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 27 (51.92%) AWS
2 14 (26.92%) Azure
3 12 (23.08%) Serverless
4 11 (21.15%) GCP
5 10 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (17.31%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (17.31%) SaaS
7 8 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.69%) GitHub
9 3 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.69%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (21.15%) Relational Database
3 6 (11.54%) MySQL
3 6 (11.54%) NoSQL
4 5 (9.62%) RDBMS
4 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
5 4 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) Git
1 13 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 13 (25.00%) JUnit
2 12 (23.08%) Mockito
3 7 (13.46%) JMeter
4 6 (11.54%) Maven
5 4 (7.69%) Gradle
5 4 (7.69%) JIRA
6 2 (3.85%) Subversion
7 1 (1.92%) git-flow
7 1 (1.92%) GitLab
7 1 (1.92%) Postman
7 1 (1.92%) Selenium
7 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 10 (19.23%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.69%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Games
6 1 (1.92%) iGaming
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (61.54%) Developer
2 26 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 13 (25.00%) Senior
4 10 (19.23%) Java Engineer
5 9 (17.31%) Senior Developer
5 9 (17.31%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (15.38%) Software Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Architect
7 6 (11.54%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Lead
8 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (7.69%) Senior Architect
9 4 (7.69%) Support Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) Backend Developer
11 2 (3.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 2 (3.85%) Java Software Developer
11 2 (3.85%) Lead Developer
11 2 (3.85%) React Developer
11 2 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (96.15%) Spring
2 41 (78.85%) Spring Boot
3 21 (40.38%) REST
4 20 (38.46%) JPA
5 18 (34.62%) Web Services
6 17 (32.69%) RESTful
7 13 (25.00%) React
8 11 (21.15%) JSON
8 11 (21.15%) Kafka
9 10 (19.23%) HTML
9 10 (19.23%) WireMock
10 9 (17.31%) XML
11 8 (15.38%) jQuery
11 8 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (13.46%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (13.46%) Apache Camel
12 7 (13.46%) SOAP
13 6 (11.54%) .NET
14 5 (9.62%) J2EE
14 5 (9.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 10 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (17.31%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.69%) DataPower
4 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.77%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.92%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (67.31%) Microservices
2 30 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 25 (48.08%) Agile
4 21 (40.38%) Containerisation
4 21 (40.38%) DevOps
5 16 (30.77%) TDD
6 14 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (21.15%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (19.23%) AI
8 10 (19.23%) Event-Driven
8 10 (19.23%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (19.23%) Software Engineering
9 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
9 9 (17.31%) SOA
10 8 (15.38%) BDD
10 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
10 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (15.38%) Roadmaps
11 7 (13.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 50 (96.15%) Java
2 15 (28.85%) SQL
3 14 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 12 (23.08%) Python
5 7 (13.46%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.85%) C#
8 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 31 (59.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (63.46%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.46%) Kibana
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Dynatrace
1 8 (15.38%) Splunk
2 3 (5.77%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.92%) Okta
4 1 (1.92%) Veracode