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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 686 396 544
Rank change year-on-year -290 +148 +60
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 58 294 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.65% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 3.37% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 34 76 151
10th Percentile £43,025 £50,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £54,688 £55,938 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,751 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +12.50%

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 9,739 8,734 21,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 19.23% 20.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,289 5,749 16,199
10th Percentile £40,450 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -223 47 £70,000 - 14
UK excluding London -244 35 £65,000 -10.34% 11
London -57 21 £77,500 +1.64% 10
South East -62 12 - - 1
Work from Home -166 11 £76,250 +27.08% 6
North of England -76 9 £57,500 -27.04% 2
North West -36 7 £57,500 -27.04% 1
Wales - 5 £70,000 - 2
Scotland -50 4 £65,000 -27.78% 4
South West -67 3 - -
Yorkshire -39 2 £70,000 -11.18% 1
East of England -28 1 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -49 1 £45,000 -37.93%
Midlands -87 1 £45,000 -30.77%

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 4 (6.90%) JBoss
1 4 (6.90%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.72%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.72%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 32 (55.17%) AWS
2 20 (34.48%) Azure
3 17 (29.31%) GCP
4 14 (24.14%) Serverless
5 10 (17.24%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (15.52%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (13.79%) GitHub
8 7 (12.07%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (8.62%) SaaS
11 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
12 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (5.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECR
13 1 (1.72%) Apigee
13 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
13 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.76%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (22.41%) Relational Database
3 10 (17.24%) MySQL
3 10 (17.24%) NoSQL
4 8 (13.79%) MongoDB
5 7 (12.07%) SQL Server
6 5 (8.62%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.72%) Db2
8 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.72%) GIS
8 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (32.76%) Git
1 19 (32.76%) Jenkins
2 13 (22.41%) JUnit
3 12 (20.69%) Mockito
4 7 (12.07%) JMeter
4 7 (12.07%) Maven
5 4 (6.90%) Gradle
5 4 (6.90%) JIRA
6 3 (5.17%) GitLab
6 3 (5.17%) Postman
6 3 (5.17%) Selenium
7 2 (3.45%) Eclipse
7 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.72%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (1.72%) git-flow
8 1 (1.72%) NetBeans
8 1 (1.72%) Subversion
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Finance
3 11 (18.97%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.17%) Law
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Games
7 1 (1.72%) iGaming
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (67.24%) Developer
2 33 (56.90%) Java Developer
3 13 (22.41%) Senior
4 11 (18.97%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (17.24%) Senior Developer
5 10 (17.24%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (13.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 8 (13.79%) Java Engineer
6 8 (13.79%) Lead
7 6 (10.34%) Software Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Architect
8 5 (8.62%) Support Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Architect
10 2 (3.45%) Backend Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Java Software Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.45%) React Developer
11 1 (1.72%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (94.83%) Spring
2 46 (79.31%) Spring Boot
3 28 (48.28%) JPA
4 23 (39.66%) REST
4 23 (39.66%) RESTful
5 19 (32.76%) Kafka
6 16 (27.59%) Web Services
7 10 (17.24%) HTML
7 10 (17.24%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (17.24%) WireMock
8 9 (15.52%) JSON
8 9 (15.52%) React
9 7 (12.07%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (12.07%) Apache Camel
9 7 (12.07%) jQuery
9 7 (12.07%) OpenAPI
9 7 (12.07%) Swagger
9 7 (12.07%) XML
10 5 (8.62%) SOAP
10 5 (8.62%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (18.97%) Cloud Native
3 8 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.17%) DataPower
5 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) Life Science
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (68.97%) CI/CD
1 40 (68.97%) Microservices
2 30 (51.72%) Agile
3 27 (46.55%) DevOps
4 23 (39.66%) Containerisation
5 17 (29.31%) TDD
6 16 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (24.14%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (20.69%) Mentoring
8 12 (20.69%) SDLC
8 12 (20.69%) Software Engineering
9 11 (18.97%) AI
9 11 (18.97%) Scrum
10 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (17.24%) Event-Driven
10 10 (17.24%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (17.24%) Roadmaps
11 9 (15.52%) API Design
12 8 (13.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 57 (98.28%) Java
2 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
3 13 (22.41%) Python
3 13 (22.41%) SQL
4 7 (12.07%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.17%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.17%) Scala
7 2 (3.45%) Groovy
8 1 (1.72%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) C#
8 1 (1.72%) C++
8 1 (1.72%) Perl
8 1 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) Degree
3 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (67.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (68.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.07%) Kibana
3 5 (8.62%) Terraform
4 2 (3.45%) Grafana
4 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.72%) Ansible
5 1 (1.72%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) Splunk
2 10 (17.24%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.72%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) Okta
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Sybase
4 1 (1.72%) Veracode