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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 543 481
Rank change year-on-year -87 -62 +139
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 70 102 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.25% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 1.15% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 44 79 196
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £50,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -22.58% +19.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,022 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,750 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% -14.29% +27.27%

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 8,268 8,869 19,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.55% 21.57% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,060 6,643 15,450
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -71 64 £75,000 +25.00% 18
UK excluding London -88 35 £54,750 -8.75% 8
London -15 31 £85,000 +13.33% 5
Work from Home -29 27 £77,500 +29.17% 6
North of England -46 12 £57,500 -27.04% 3
South East -47 10 £75,000 +25.00%
North West -20 7 £52,000 -34.02% 3
South West -39 6 - - 3
Yorkshire -52 5 £57,500 -27.04%
Midlands -38 4 £38,250 -36.25% 1
West Midlands -17 3 £36,500 -39.17% 1
Scotland -36 2 £65,000 -17.52%
East Midlands -48 1 £40,000 -33.33%
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 14 (20.00%) JBoss
2 13 (18.57%) WebSphere
3 12 (17.14%) Apache
4 8 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (5.71%) Confluence
6 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 38 (54.29%) AWS
2 19 (27.14%) Azure
3 16 (22.86%) SaaS
4 15 (21.43%) GCP
5 12 (17.14%) Amazon SQS
6 11 (15.71%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (15.71%) Serverless
7 8 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (8.57%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (4.29%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.86%) GitHub
12 2 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (1.43%) Azure Pipelines
13 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
13 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 8 (11.43%) MySQL
4 7 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 6 (8.57%) RDBMS
6 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.43%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (28.57%) Git
2 14 (20.00%) JUnit
3 10 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 10 (14.29%) Mockito
4 6 (8.57%) Gradle
4 6 (8.57%) JIRA
4 6 (8.57%) Maven
5 5 (7.14%) JMeter
6 4 (5.71%) GitLab
7 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.29%) Subversion
8 1 (1.43%) git-flow
8 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Finance
3 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.57%) Law
6 2 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Games
7 1 (1.43%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.43%) iGaming
7 1 (1.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (55.71%) Developer
2 27 (38.57%) Java Developer
3 19 (27.14%) Senior
4 17 (24.29%) Architect
5 12 (17.14%) Software Engineer
6 11 (15.71%) Senior Architect
7 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (11.43%) Backend Developer
8 8 (11.43%) Java Engineer
9 7 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 7 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (8.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (7.14%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 4 (5.71%) Junior
12 4 (5.71%) Junior Developer
12 4 (5.71%) Junior Java Developer
12 4 (5.71%) Lead
12 4 (5.71%) Technical Architect
13 3 (4.29%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (92.86%) Spring
2 44 (62.86%) Spring Boot
3 25 (35.71%) JPA
4 24 (34.29%) REST
5 21 (30.00%) RESTful
6 19 (27.14%) React
7 17 (24.29%) .NET
8 16 (22.86%) SOAP
8 16 (22.86%) Web Services
9 14 (20.00%) Kafka
10 13 (18.57%) GraphQL
10 13 (18.57%) Middleware
11 12 (17.14%) JSON
12 11 (15.71%) XML
13 10 (14.29%) HTML
14 9 (12.86%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (11.43%) Pandas
15 8 (11.43%) WireMock
16 6 (8.57%) jQuery
17 5 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 13 (18.57%) DataPower
3 10 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (11.43%) Distributed Architecture
4 8 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.43%) NHS
6 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.43%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (65.71%) Microservices
2 38 (54.29%) CI/CD
3 34 (48.57%) Agile
4 28 (40.00%) DevOps
5 26 (37.14%) Containerisation
6 22 (31.43%) Event-Driven
7 20 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
8 18 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (25.71%) SOA
9 17 (24.29%) AI
9 17 (24.29%) Integration Patterns
9 17 (24.29%) Roadmaps
10 15 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (18.57%) TDD
12 12 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (17.14%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
13 11 (15.71%) Clean Code
13 11 (15.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 11 (15.71%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 68 (97.14%) Java
2 29 (41.43%) SQL
3 20 (28.57%) Python
4 19 (27.14%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.71%) C#
8 2 (2.86%) R
9 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.57%) Degree
2 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 37 (52.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (51.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.43%) Kibana
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.14%) Dynatrace
1 5 (7.14%) Google
1 5 (7.14%) Splunk
2 3 (4.29%) Atlassian
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle
2 3 (4.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.43%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.43%) Okta
3 1 (1.43%) Veracode