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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 723 416 638
Rank change year-on-year -307 +222 -94
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 85 270 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.54% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 3.18% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 49 41 60
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £47,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £90,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -20.69% +13.73% +13.33%

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 11,982 8,489 16,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 17.11% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,518 5,434 10,246
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,778
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 27 September 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 27 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 -250 58 £67,500 -3.57% 80
UK excluding London -297 56 £57,500 -20.69% 58
London -69 27 £73,750 +5.36% 36
Wales - 17 £70,000 - 1
South East -78 15 - - 11
North of England -92 10 £57,500 -19.01% 19
Work from Home -198 9 £57,500 +9.52% 38
North West -66 8 £53,000 -25.35% 13
Scotland -39 7 - - 9
East Midlands -67 5 - - 2
Midlands -111 5 - - 10
Yorkshire - 2 £70,000 - 6
East of England -43 1 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland -91 1 - - 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 6 (7.06%) Camunda
2 5 (5.88%) Apache
3 4 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.35%) Confluence
5 1 (1.18%) JBoss
5 1 (1.18%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.18%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 51 (60.00%) AWS
2 42 (49.41%) Azure
3 30 (35.29%) GCP
4 19 (22.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (17.65%) GitHub
5 15 (17.65%) Serverless
6 12 (14.12%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (14.12%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (12.94%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (10.59%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (7.06%) Vertex AI
12 5 (5.88%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (3.53%) ChatGPT
14 3 (3.53%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (44.71%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (31.76%) MySQL
3 25 (29.41%) MongoDB
4 20 (23.53%) NoSQL
5 17 (20.00%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.06%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.35%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.35%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.18%) Db2
9 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.18%) GIS
9 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (49.41%) Git
2 28 (32.94%) Jenkins
3 18 (21.18%) JUnit
4 15 (17.65%) Mockito
5 8 (9.41%) JMeter
6 7 (8.24%) Maven
7 5 (5.88%) Eclipse
7 5 (5.88%) GitLab
8 3 (3.53%) JIRA
8 3 (3.53%) Postman
8 3 (3.53%) Selenium
8 3 (3.53%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.35%) Gradle
10 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.18%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (1.18%) NetBeans
10 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.47%) Banking
3 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
4 8 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.06%) Finance
6 4 (4.71%) Law
7 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (69.41%) Developer
2 43 (50.59%) Java Developer
3 15 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (16.47%) Senior
4 14 (16.47%) Senior Developer
5 13 (15.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 12 (14.12%) Lead
7 11 (12.94%) Java Engineer
7 11 (12.94%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (10.59%) Backend Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Architect
9 6 (7.06%) Technical Leader
10 5 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.88%) Support Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Technical Architect
12 3 (3.53%) Lead Developer
13 2 (2.35%) Lead Java Developer
13 2 (2.35%) React Developer
13 2 (2.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (91.76%) Spring
2 67 (78.82%) Spring Boot
3 50 (58.82%) JPA
4 40 (47.06%) Kafka
5 33 (38.82%) REST
5 33 (38.82%) RESTful
6 24 (28.24%) RabbitMQ
7 22 (25.88%) Terraform
8 11 (12.94%) Web Services
9 10 (11.76%) HTML
10 9 (10.59%) JWT
10 9 (10.59%) OAuth
10 9 (10.59%) Spring MVC
10 9 (10.59%) Spring Security
11 8 (9.41%) ActiveMQ
11 8 (9.41%) Apache Camel
11 8 (9.41%) jQuery
11 8 (9.41%) WireMock
12 7 (8.24%) OAuth2
12 7 (8.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (41.18%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (29.41%) Cloud Native
3 17 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 16 (18.82%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (16.47%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (16.47%) Virtual Team
6 11 (12.94%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (5.88%) AI Agents
8 4 (4.71%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.18%) Life Science
10 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) Unix
2 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (71.76%) Microservices
2 60 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 51 (60.00%) Agile
4 42 (49.41%) DevOps
5 35 (41.18%) Containerisation
6 29 (34.12%) Mentoring
7 27 (31.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (30.59%) Observability
9 25 (29.41%) Secure Coding
10 24 (28.24%) Scrum
10 24 (28.24%) Software Engineering
11 22 (25.88%) API Design
11 22 (25.88%) Decision-Making
11 22 (25.88%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (24.71%) Event-Driven
12 21 (24.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (24.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 20 (23.53%) AI
13 20 (23.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 83 (97.65%) Java
2 24 (28.24%) Python
3 16 (18.82%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.47%) SQL
5 8 (9.41%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.24%) C#
6 7 (8.24%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.88%) Kotlin
7 5 (5.88%) Scala
8 2 (2.35%) C++
8 2 (2.35%) Groovy
9 1 (1.18%) Bash
9 1 (1.18%) Perl
9 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (14.12%) Degree
2 11 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.35%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (69.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (69.41%) Kubernetes
2 16 (18.82%) Grafana
2 16 (18.82%) Prometheus
3 8 (9.41%) Kibana
4 1 (1.18%) Ansible
4 1 (1.18%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (29.41%) Splunk
2 14 (16.47%) Google
3 11 (12.94%) Dynatrace
3 11 (12.94%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.71%) Oracle
5 1 (1.18%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.18%) Okta
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.18%) Sybase
5 1 (1.18%) Workday
5 1 (1.18%) YouTube