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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 681 399 528
Rank change year-on-year -282 +129 +78
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 55 273 392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.64% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% 3.32% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 32 76 154
10th Percentile £42,675 £50,000 £51,450
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,938 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £66,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% -14.52% +19.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% -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 9,252 8,222 20,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 19.34% 20.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,849 5,534 15,839
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 27 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 27 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 50 £75,000 +25.00% 13
UK excluding London -237 28 £65,000 -5.45% 10
London -32 24 £81,250 +3.10% 3
Work from Home -157 14 £77,500 +29.17% 4
South East -36 12 £75,000 +11.11% 1
North of England -66 8 £65,000 -17.52% 6
North West -50 6 £57,500 -27.04% 3
South West -62 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -41 2 £66,250 -15.94% 3
Scotland -58 2 £65,000 -27.78%
West Midlands -64 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 6 (10.91%) JBoss
2 5 (9.09%) WebSphere
3 4 (7.27%) Apache
4 3 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (3.64%) Confluence
6 1 (1.82%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) AWS
2 15 (27.27%) Azure
3 12 (21.82%) GCP
3 12 (21.82%) Serverless
4 10 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (18.18%) SaaS
5 9 (16.36%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (14.55%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (14.55%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.27%) GitHub
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (5.45%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.91%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (10.91%) MySQL
3 6 (10.91%) NoSQL
4 5 (9.09%) RDBMS
4 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (23.64%) Git
1 13 (23.64%) Jenkins
1 13 (23.64%) JUnit
2 12 (21.82%) Mockito
3 7 (12.73%) JMeter
4 6 (10.91%) Maven
5 4 (7.27%) Gradle
5 4 (7.27%) JIRA
6 2 (3.64%) Subversion
7 1 (1.82%) git-flow
7 1 (1.82%) GitLab
7 1 (1.82%) Postman
7 1 (1.82%) Selenium
7 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.27%) Finance
3 10 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.27%) Law
6 1 (1.82%) Games
6 1 (1.82%) iGaming
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (61.82%) Developer
2 27 (49.09%) Java Developer
3 15 (27.27%) Senior
4 10 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 10 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (16.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (14.55%) Software Engineer
7 7 (12.73%) Architect
7 7 (12.73%) Lead
8 6 (10.91%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (9.09%) Senior Architect
10 4 (7.27%) Support Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) Backend Developer
11 3 (5.45%) Lead Developer
12 2 (3.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 2 (3.64%) Java Software Developer
12 2 (3.64%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (3.64%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (96.36%) Spring
2 42 (76.36%) Spring Boot
3 22 (40.00%) REST
4 20 (36.36%) JPA
5 18 (32.73%) RESTful
5 18 (32.73%) Web Services
6 14 (25.45%) React
7 11 (20.00%) JSON
7 11 (20.00%) Kafka
8 10 (18.18%) HTML
8 10 (18.18%) WireMock
9 9 (16.36%) XML
10 8 (14.55%) jQuery
10 8 (14.55%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (14.55%) SOAP
11 7 (12.73%) .NET
11 7 (12.73%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (12.73%) Apache Camel
12 6 (10.91%) Middleware
13 5 (9.09%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Cloud Native
2 11 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (16.36%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (9.09%) DataPower
5 4 (7.27%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.82%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (67.27%) Microservices
2 31 (56.36%) CI/CD
3 26 (47.27%) Agile
4 22 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 22 (40.00%) DevOps
5 16 (29.09%) TDD
6 15 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (23.64%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (21.82%) Performance Optimisation
9 11 (20.00%) AI
9 11 (20.00%) Event-Driven
10 10 (18.18%) Mentoring
10 10 (18.18%) Roadmaps
10 10 (18.18%) SOA
10 10 (18.18%) Software Engineering
11 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (16.36%) Integration Patterns
11 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (14.55%) BDD
12 8 (14.55%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 53 (96.36%) Java
2 17 (30.91%) SQL
3 14 (25.45%) JavaScript
4 12 (21.82%) Python
5 7 (12.73%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.64%) C#
8 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) Degree
2 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 32 (58.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (61.82%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.73%) Kibana
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Dynatrace
1 8 (14.55%) Splunk
2 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.64%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.82%) Okta
4 1 (1.82%) Veracode