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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 662 524
Rank change year-on-year +98 -138 +79
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 83 90 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 0.67% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 37 53 170
10th Percentile £47,200 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £60,000 £70,825
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -15.28% +1.18%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,000 £87,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -4.00% +4.17%

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 7,024 13,372 13,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.58% 21.29% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,206 8,114 10,962
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +86 75 £71,750 +14.80% 22
UK excluding London +64 52 £63,750 +6.25% 21
London +70 39 £90,000 +33.33% 5
South East +13 21 - - 3
Work from Home +79 20 £77,500 +29.17% 17
North of England +39 15 £61,250 -23.44% 7
North West +44 10 £71,000 -11.25% 1
Midlands +37 7 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Scotland +12 6 - - 3
South West +26 5 £77,500 +19.23% 6
Yorkshire +5 5 £57,500 -32.55% 5
West Midlands - 5 £67,500 - 1
East Midlands +15 2 £51,250 -14.58%

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 (18.07%) Apache
2 11 (13.25%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (10.84%) JBoss
3 9 (10.84%) WebSphere
4 5 (6.02%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 62 (74.70%) AWS
2 26 (31.33%) Amazon EC2
2 26 (31.33%) Serverless
3 25 (30.12%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (25.30%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (18.07%) Azure
6 13 (15.66%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (14.46%) SaaS
8 11 (13.25%) GCP
9 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.02%) GitHub
10 3 (3.61%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.61%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) AMQP
2 1 (1.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (33.73%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (31.33%) Relational Database
3 21 (25.30%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (6.02%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.41%) MySQL
5 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.20%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (34.94%) JUnit
2 26 (31.33%) Jenkins
3 23 (27.71%) JMeter
3 23 (27.71%) Mockito
4 16 (19.28%) Git
5 7 (8.43%) GitLab
6 5 (6.02%) Bitbucket
6 5 (6.02%) JIRA
6 5 (6.02%) Maven
7 3 (3.61%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.41%) Gradle
8 2 (2.41%) Selenium
8 2 (2.41%) Subversion
9 1 (1.20%) Ant
9 1 (1.20%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.20%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.20%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.30%) Public Sector
3 19 (22.89%) Finance
4 6 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.23%) Law
5 5 (6.02%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Marketing
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Advertising
8 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.20%) Games
8 1 (1.20%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 52 (62.65%) Developer
2 39 (46.99%) Java Developer
3 23 (27.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 21 (25.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 16 (19.28%) Senior
6 15 (18.07%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 13 (15.66%) Architect
8 11 (13.25%) Backend Developer
8 11 (13.25%) Software Engineer
9 10 (12.05%) Java Engineer
10 8 (9.64%) Senior Architect
10 8 (9.64%) Senior Developer
10 8 (9.64%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (7.23%) Principal Developer
12 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
13 4 (4.82%) Lead
14 3 (3.61%) Junior
14 3 (3.61%) Junior Developer
14 3 (3.61%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (92.77%) Spring
2 50 (60.24%) Spring Boot
3 35 (42.17%) REST
4 30 (36.14%) HTML
5 27 (32.53%) Web Services
6 24 (28.92%) JSON
6 24 (28.92%) XML
7 22 (26.51%) jQuery
7 22 (26.51%) RESTful
8 21 (25.30%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (25.30%) Apache Camel
8 21 (25.30%) WireMock
9 20 (24.10%) React
10 17 (20.48%) Kafka
11 16 (19.28%) JPA
12 12 (14.46%) SOAP
13 11 (13.25%) .NET
13 11 (13.25%) Pandas
14 9 (10.84%) CSS
14 9 (10.84%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (33.73%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (25.30%) Cloud Native
3 12 (14.46%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (13.25%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (10.84%) DataPower
6 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.20%) Equities
7 1 (1.20%) IoT
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.20%) Life Science
7 1 (1.20%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.20%) NHS
7 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (73.49%) Microservices
2 60 (72.29%) CI/CD
3 52 (62.65%) Agile
4 31 (37.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (33.73%) DevOps
6 25 (30.12%) TDD
7 24 (28.92%) SDLC
8 23 (27.71%) Containerisation
9 22 (26.51%) BDD
9 22 (26.51%) Workflow
10 21 (25.30%) Performance Optimisation
11 20 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (22.89%) Process Management
13 18 (21.69%) Event-Driven
14 17 (20.48%) Clean Code
14 17 (20.48%) Software Engineering
15 15 (18.07%) Roadmaps
16 14 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (16.87%) Technical Leadership
17 13 (15.66%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (46.99%) JavaScript
2 39 (46.99%) Python
3 23 (27.71%) SQL
4 21 (25.30%) Shell Script
5 9 (10.84%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.41%) C#
6 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.41%) R
7 1 (1.20%) Groovy
7 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.84%) Degree
3 7 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.61%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 49 (59.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (60.24%) Kubernetes
2 26 (31.33%) Kibana
3 2 (2.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) Dynatrace
1 21 (25.30%) Splunk
2 7 (8.43%) Oracle
3 5 (6.02%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.61%) Google
5 2 (2.41%) VMware
6 1 (1.20%) Veracode