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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 727 423 559
Rank change year-on-year -304 +136 +11
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 82 283 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.57% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.69% 3.28% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45 54 69
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £50,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,125 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.69% +16.00% +8.70%

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 11,963 8,631 16,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 17.37% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8,643 5,530 10,922
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £39,723
25th Percentile £51,181 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,556
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 11 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 15 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 11 September 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 -262 57 £70,000 -3.45% 56
UK excluding London -288 53 £57,500 -20.69% 38
London -72 28 £77,500 +8.77% 28
South East -73 15 - - 12
Wales - 15 £70,000 - 2
North of England -81 10 £57,500 -27.04% 10
Work from Home -197 10 £57,500 -27.04% 150
North West -62 8 £57,500 -27.04% 6
Scotland -47 7 - - 5
East Midlands -64 3 - - 4
Midlands -107 3 - - 7
Yorkshire -46 2 £70,000 -11.18% 2
East of England -41 1 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland -79 1 - -
South West -85 1 - - 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 6 (7.32%) Camunda
2 4 (4.88%) Apache
2 4 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.44%) Confluence
4 1 (1.22%) JBoss
4 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.22%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.22%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 50 (60.98%) AWS
2 41 (50.00%) Azure
3 29 (35.37%) GCP
4 15 (18.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (18.29%) GitHub
4 15 (18.29%) Serverless
5 12 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (14.63%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (13.41%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (12.20%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (7.32%) Vertex AI
10 5 (6.10%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.10%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (3.66%) ChatGPT
12 3 (3.66%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (45.12%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (31.71%) MySQL
3 23 (28.05%) MongoDB
4 18 (21.95%) NoSQL
4 18 (21.95%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
6 6 (7.32%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.44%) Pinecone
7 2 (2.44%) Redis
7 2 (2.44%) Weaviate
8 1 (1.22%) Db2
8 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.22%) GIS
Development Applications
1 38 (46.34%) Git
2 28 (34.15%) Jenkins
3 20 (24.39%) JUnit
4 17 (20.73%) Mockito
5 8 (9.76%) JMeter
5 8 (9.76%) Maven
6 5 (6.10%) GitLab
7 4 (4.88%) Eclipse
8 3 (3.66%) Gradle
8 3 (3.66%) JIRA
8 3 (3.66%) Postman
8 3 (3.66%) Selenium
9 2 (2.44%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.22%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (1.22%) git-flow
10 1 (1.22%) NetBeans
10 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (35.37%) Public Sector
2 14 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.41%) Banking
5 8 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.32%) Finance
7 4 (4.88%) Law
8 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.22%) Games
9 1 (1.22%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 58 (70.73%) Developer
2 44 (53.66%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.29%) Senior
3 15 (18.29%) Senior Developer
4 14 (17.07%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (15.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 12 (14.63%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (13.41%) Lead
8 9 (10.98%) Backend Developer
8 9 (10.98%) Java Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Architect
9 6 (7.32%) Technical Leader
10 5 (6.10%) Support Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Software Developer
11 4 (4.88%) Technical Architect
12 3 (3.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Architect
13 2 (2.44%) React Developer
13 2 (2.44%) Senior Backend Developer
13 2 (2.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (93.90%) Spring
2 66 (80.49%) Spring Boot
3 49 (59.76%) JPA
4 39 (47.56%) Kafka
5 33 (40.24%) REST
6 31 (37.80%) RESTful
7 24 (29.27%) RabbitMQ
8 18 (21.95%) Terraform
9 11 (13.41%) HTML
9 11 (13.41%) JWT
9 11 (13.41%) OAuth
9 11 (13.41%) Web Services
10 10 (12.20%) Spring MVC
10 10 (12.20%) Spring Security
11 9 (10.98%) OAuth2
12 8 (9.76%) Apache Camel
12 8 (9.76%) jQuery
12 8 (9.76%) OpenAPI
12 8 (9.76%) Swagger
12 8 (9.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 32 (39.02%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (26.83%) Cloud Native
3 14 (17.07%) Product Ownership
4 12 (14.63%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (14.63%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (13.41%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (13.41%) Virtual Team
6 5 (6.10%) AI Agents
7 4 (4.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.22%) Life Science
9 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.22%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) Unix
2 1 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (71.95%) CI/CD
1 59 (71.95%) Microservices
2 48 (58.54%) Agile
3 41 (50.00%) DevOps
4 34 (41.46%) Containerisation
5 26 (31.71%) Mentoring
6 25 (30.49%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (28.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (28.05%) Observability
8 22 (26.83%) API Design
8 22 (26.83%) Scrum
9 21 (25.61%) Secure Coding
9 21 (25.61%) Software Engineering
10 20 (24.39%) API Integration
10 20 (24.39%) Decision-Making
11 19 (23.17%) AI
11 19 (23.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (23.17%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (23.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 17 (20.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 80 (97.56%) Java
2 24 (29.27%) Python
3 17 (20.73%) JavaScript
4 16 (19.51%) SQL
5 8 (9.76%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.54%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.32%) C#
8 5 (6.10%) Kotlin
8 5 (6.10%) Scala
9 2 (2.44%) C++
9 2 (2.44%) Groovy
10 1 (1.22%) Bash
10 1 (1.22%) Perl
10 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (14.63%) Degree
2 11 (13.41%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.29%) QA
2 2 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (70.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (71.95%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.85%) Grafana
2 13 (15.85%) Prometheus
3 8 (9.76%) Kibana
4 1 (1.22%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (26.83%) Splunk
2 13 (15.85%) Google
3 11 (13.41%) Dynatrace
3 11 (13.41%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.88%) Oracle
5 1 (1.22%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.22%) Okta
5 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.22%) Sybase
5 1 (1.22%) Workday
5 1 (1.22%) YouTube