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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 600 540
Rank change year-on-year -3 -60 +63
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 72 86 296
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% 0.86% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 47 64 204
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £50,300
25th Percentile £54,375 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,063 £92,388
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,133 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -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 7,846 10,042 18,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.01% 22.04% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,768 6,492 14,547
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,025 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,580 £110,000 £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 4 March 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 4 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 -39 68 £72,500 +20.83% 35
UK excluding London -26 36 £57,500 -4.17% 30
London +27 33 £85,000 +13.33% 5
Work from Home +22 28 £77,500 +29.17% 17
North of England -18 13 £61,250 -23.44% 2
South East -36 13 £75,000 +25.00% 6
North West +5 8 £71,000 -11.25% 2
South West -15 5 - - 8
Yorkshire -34 5 £57,500 -32.55%
Midlands -24 4 £38,250 -36.25% 10
West Midlands +8 3 £36,500 -39.17% 8
Scotland -8 1 £65,000 -27.78%
East Midlands -39 1 £40,000 -33.33% 2

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 15 (20.83%) Apache
2 14 (19.44%) JBoss
3 13 (18.06%) WebSphere
4 11 (15.28%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (5.56%) Confluence
6 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 42 (58.33%) AWS
2 16 (22.22%) Azure
2 16 (22.22%) SaaS
3 14 (19.44%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (19.44%) Amazon SQS
3 14 (19.44%) Serverless
4 12 (16.67%) GCP
5 11 (15.28%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (4.17%) GitHub
9 3 (4.17%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.39%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (15.28%) Relational Database
3 9 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.56%) MySQL
4 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.39%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 18 (25.00%) Git
2 14 (19.44%) JUnit
3 13 (18.06%) Jenkins
4 10 (13.89%) JMeter
5 9 (12.50%) Mockito
6 6 (8.33%) JIRA
7 5 (6.94%) Gradle
7 5 (6.94%) Maven
8 4 (5.56%) GitLab
9 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
9 3 (4.17%) Subversion
10 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.00%) Finance
3 12 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.33%) Law
5 5 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (56.94%) Developer
2 27 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 19 (26.39%) Senior
4 17 (23.61%) Architect
5 12 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 11 (15.28%) Backend Developer
6 11 (15.28%) Senior Architect
7 10 (13.89%) Java Engineer
8 9 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (11.11%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 7 (9.72%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (9.72%) Senior Developer
10 7 (9.72%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (6.94%) Principal Developer
12 4 (5.56%) Junior
12 4 (5.56%) Junior Developer
12 4 (5.56%) Junior Java Developer
12 4 (5.56%) Technical Architect
13 2 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (93.06%) Spring
2 44 (61.11%) Spring Boot
3 26 (36.11%) REST
4 21 (29.17%) JPA
5 19 (26.39%) RESTful
6 18 (25.00%) React
7 17 (23.61%) .NET
7 17 (23.61%) Web Services
8 16 (22.22%) Kafka
8 16 (22.22%) SOAP
9 14 (19.44%) XML
10 13 (18.06%) GraphQL
10 13 (18.06%) JSON
10 13 (18.06%) Middleware
11 12 (16.67%) HTML
12 11 (15.28%) Pandas
13 9 (12.50%) jQuery
13 9 (12.50%) WireMock
14 8 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
14 8 (11.11%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.56%) Cloud Native
2 14 (19.44%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (18.06%) DataPower
4 11 (15.28%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (15.28%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) NHS
5 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (66.67%) Microservices
2 41 (56.94%) CI/CD
3 35 (48.61%) Agile
4 27 (37.50%) DevOps
5 25 (34.72%) Containerisation
6 23 (31.94%) Event-Driven
7 22 (30.56%) Performance Optimisation
8 19 (26.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (25.00%) SOA
10 17 (23.61%) AI
10 17 (23.61%) Integration Patterns
10 17 (23.61%) Roadmaps
11 15 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (18.06%) Clean Code
12 13 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (18.06%) Migration
12 13 (18.06%) TDD
12 13 (18.06%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (97.22%) Java
2 27 (37.50%) SQL
3 25 (34.72%) Python
4 21 (29.17%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.56%) C#
8 2 (2.78%) R
9 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.33%) Degree
2 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 38 (52.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.28%) Kibana
3 3 (4.17%) Ansible
4 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 8 (11.11%) Splunk
2 5 (6.94%) Google
3 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.17%) Oracle
4 2 (2.78%) VMware
5 1 (1.39%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.39%) Okta
5 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.39%) Veracode