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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 526 479
Rank change year-on-year -117 -47 +117
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 67 112 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.27% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% 1.28% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 44 85 196
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,750 £50,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -22.58% +19.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,751 £94,063
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,750 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% -14.29% +26.13%

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 8,446 8,734 19,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 21.31% 21.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,187 6,602 15,515
10th Percentile £37,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -97 61 £75,000 +25.00% 18
UK excluding London -99 32 £54,750 -8.75% 8
London -10 30 £85,000 +13.33% 5
Work from Home -25 27 £77,500 +29.17% 6
North of England -60 11 £57,500 -27.04% 3
South East -60 9 £75,000 +25.00%
North West -25 6 £52,000 -34.02% 3
South West -45 5 - - 3
Yorkshire -52 5 £57,500 -27.04%
Midlands -47 4 £38,250 -36.25% 1
West Midlands -17 3 £36,500 -39.17% 1
Scotland -30 2 £65,000 -17.52%
East Midlands -55 1 £40,000 -33.33%
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 14 (20.90%) JBoss
2 13 (19.40%) WebSphere
3 11 (16.42%) Apache
4 8 (11.94%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (4.48%) Confluence
6 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 35 (52.24%) AWS
2 19 (28.36%) Azure
3 16 (23.88%) SaaS
4 15 (22.39%) GCP
5 12 (17.91%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (13.43%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (13.43%) Serverless
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.99%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (2.99%) GitHub
11 2 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (1.49%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.37%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.43%) Relational Database
3 8 (11.94%) MySQL
4 6 (8.96%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.96%) NoSQL
5 5 (7.46%) RDBMS
5 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.49%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (28.36%) Git
2 12 (17.91%) JUnit
3 9 (13.43%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.43%) Mockito
4 6 (8.96%) Gradle
4 6 (8.96%) Maven
5 5 (7.46%) JIRA
6 4 (5.97%) JMeter
7 3 (4.48%) GitLab
7 3 (4.48%) Subversion
8 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.49%) git-flow
9 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.96%) Law
5 2 (2.99%) Retail
6 1 (1.49%) Games
6 1 (1.49%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.49%) iGaming
6 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (55.22%) Developer
2 26 (38.81%) Java Developer
3 19 (28.36%) Senior
4 17 (25.37%) Architect
5 11 (16.42%) Senior Architect
5 11 (16.42%) Software Engineer
6 8 (11.94%) Backend Developer
6 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (11.94%) Java Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Senior Developer
7 7 (10.45%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (5.97%) Junior
9 4 (5.97%) Junior Developer
9 4 (5.97%) Junior Java Developer
9 4 (5.97%) Lead
9 4 (5.97%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 4 (5.97%) Technical Architect
10 3 (4.48%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (94.03%) Spring
2 42 (62.69%) Spring Boot
3 25 (37.31%) JPA
4 23 (34.33%) REST
5 21 (31.34%) RESTful
6 17 (25.37%) .NET
6 17 (25.37%) React
7 16 (23.88%) SOAP
8 15 (22.39%) Web Services
9 13 (19.40%) GraphQL
9 13 (19.40%) Kafka
9 13 (19.40%) Middleware
10 11 (16.42%) JSON
11 10 (14.93%) XML
12 9 (13.43%) HTML
12 9 (13.43%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (11.94%) Pandas
14 7 (10.45%) WireMock
15 5 (7.46%) CSS
15 5 (7.46%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.34%) Cloud Native
2 13 (19.40%) DataPower
3 9 (13.43%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (11.94%) Distributed Architecture
4 8 (11.94%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) NHS
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (64.18%) Microservices
2 36 (53.73%) CI/CD
3 32 (47.76%) Agile
4 28 (41.79%) DevOps
5 26 (38.81%) Containerisation
6 22 (32.84%) Event-Driven
7 20 (29.85%) Performance Optimisation
8 18 (26.87%) SOA
9 17 (25.37%) AI
9 17 (25.37%) Integration Patterns
9 17 (25.37%) Roadmaps
10 16 (23.88%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (22.39%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (17.91%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (17.91%) TDD
13 11 (16.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (16.42%) Software Engineering
13 11 (16.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (16.42%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 65 (97.01%) Java
2 28 (41.79%) SQL
3 18 (26.87%) Python
4 17 (25.37%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.46%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.97%) C#
6 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.99%) R
8 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.96%) Degree
2 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 36 (53.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (52.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.96%) Kibana
3 1 (1.49%) Ansible
3 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.46%) Google
2 4 (5.97%) Dynatrace
2 4 (5.97%) Splunk
3 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.99%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle
5 1 (1.49%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.49%) Okta
5 1 (1.49%) Veracode