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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 664 513
Rank change year-on-year +106 -151 +87
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 101 88 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.13% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 0.64% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 41 43 171
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -7.14% -1.04%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,000 £84,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £61,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.92% -2.00% +4.17%

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 7,344 13,669 14,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.95% 20.22% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,175 8,214 11,544
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £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 13 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 13 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 +105 88 £71,000 +9.23% 34
UK excluding London +68 67 £71,000 +15.92% 20
London +69 44 £77,500 +10.71% 16
South East +25 25 £72,500 +13.73% 5
Work from Home +85 15 £77,500 +29.17% 26
Scotland - 12 - - 2
Midlands - 12 £68,750 - 2
North of England +31 11 £64,250 +35.26% 5
North West +43 10 £71,000 +49.47%
West Midlands - 10 £71,250 - 2
South West +34 9 £77,500 +19.23% 4
East Midlands - 2 £51,250 -
Yorkshire - 1 £57,500 - 3

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 17 (16.83%) Apache
2 12 (11.88%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (9.90%) Confluence
4 5 (4.95%) JBoss
4 5 (4.95%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 82 (81.19%) AWS
2 33 (32.67%) Amazon EC2
3 26 (25.74%) Amazon EKS
3 26 (25.74%) Serverless
4 22 (21.78%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (19.80%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (14.85%) Azure
7 11 (10.89%) Amazon S3
7 11 (10.89%) GCP
8 9 (8.91%) SaaS
9 8 (7.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (6.93%) AWS KMS
10 7 (6.93%) Route 53
11 5 (4.95%) GitHub
12 4 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.97%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.97%) OpenShift
14 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) AMQP
1 1 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (36.63%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (31.68%) Relational Database
3 25 (24.75%) RDBMS
4 8 (7.92%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (6.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (6.93%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.93%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (6.93%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.97%) MySQL
8 2 (1.98%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.99%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.99%) Redis
9 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (41.58%) JUnit
2 41 (40.59%) Jenkins
3 32 (31.68%) Mockito
4 31 (30.69%) Git
5 24 (23.76%) JMeter
6 20 (19.80%) Maven
7 11 (10.89%) JIRA
8 10 (9.90%) GitLab
9 9 (8.91%) SonarQube
10 7 (6.93%) Bitbucket Server
10 7 (6.93%) DbUnit
10 7 (6.93%) jMock
10 7 (6.93%) Subversion
11 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
12 3 (2.97%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.97%) Gradle
12 3 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (1.98%) Selenium
14 1 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 30 (29.70%) Finance
3 29 (28.71%) Public Sector
4 18 (17.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (17.82%) Law
5 15 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (14.85%) Banking
6 5 (4.95%) Marketing
7 4 (3.96%) Legal
8 3 (2.97%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.99%) Advertising
10 1 (0.99%) Automotive
10 1 (0.99%) Electronics
10 1 (0.99%) Games
10 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (60.40%) Developer
2 47 (46.53%) Java Developer
3 23 (22.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 23 (22.77%) Software Engineer
4 21 (20.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 19 (18.81%) Java Engineer
6 15 (14.85%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 14 (13.86%) Java Software Engineer
8 13 (12.87%) Senior
9 12 (11.88%) Backend Developer
10 11 (10.89%) Lead
11 9 (8.91%) Architect
12 8 (7.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (7.92%) Principal Developer
13 7 (6.93%) Senior Developer
13 7 (6.93%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (5.94%) Senior Architect
15 5 (4.95%) Lead Developer
15 5 (4.95%) Lead Java Developer
16 4 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (92.08%) Spring
2 60 (59.41%) Spring Boot
3 38 (37.62%) Web Services
4 36 (35.64%) RESTful
5 35 (34.65%) REST
6 33 (32.67%) HTML
7 29 (28.71%) ActiveMQ
8 27 (26.73%) React
9 25 (24.75%) Kafka
10 24 (23.76%) JPA
11 23 (22.77%) jQuery
11 23 (22.77%) JSON
12 22 (21.78%) Apache Camel
12 22 (21.78%) WireMock
13 21 (20.79%) XML
14 18 (17.82%) AngularJS
14 18 (17.82%) SOAP
15 12 (11.88%) Pandas
16 11 (10.89%) CSS
17 9 (8.91%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 35 (34.65%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (26.73%) Cloud Native
3 17 (16.83%) Distributed Architecture
4 13 (12.87%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.95%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.95%) DataPower
6 4 (3.96%) Equities
6 4 (3.96%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.98%) IoT
7 2 (1.98%) Life Science
7 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.99%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.82%) Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (72.28%) Microservices
2 71 (70.30%) Agile
3 69 (68.32%) CI/CD
4 38 (37.62%) TDD
5 36 (35.64%) SDLC
6 34 (33.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (32.67%) Containerisation
8 32 (31.68%) DevOps
9 31 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (29.70%) BDD
10 30 (29.70%) Software Engineering
11 23 (22.77%) Workflow
12 21 (20.79%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (19.80%) Process Management
14 19 (18.81%) Scrum
15 18 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (16.83%) Clean Code
16 17 (16.83%) Event-Driven
16 17 (16.83%) Fintech
17 15 (14.85%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (44.55%) JavaScript
3 42 (41.58%) Python
4 24 (23.76%) SQL
5 23 (22.77%) Shell Script
6 9 (8.91%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.95%) Groovy
7 5 (4.95%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.98%) C#
8 2 (1.98%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.99%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (28.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.90%) Degree
4 8 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.97%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.97%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 59 (58.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 61 (60.40%) Kubernetes
2 29 (28.71%) Kibana
3 2 (1.98%) Ansible
3 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.99%) Grafana
4 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (22.77%) Dynatrace
1 23 (22.77%) Splunk
2 19 (18.81%) Oracle
3 14 (13.86%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.97%) Google
4 3 (2.97%) Sybase
5 2 (1.98%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (1.98%) VMware
6 1 (0.99%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.99%) Veracode