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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 695 422 515
Rank change year-on-year -273 +93 +61
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 69 293 347
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.60% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% 3.33% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 40 70 112
10th Percentile £47,725 £50,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,938 £82,751 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £72,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -5.17% +13.73% +6.25%

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 10,354 8,804 17,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 17.92% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,676 5,808 12,993
10th Percentile £40,688 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £102,500
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 25 July 2026.

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 25 July 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 -243 49 £70,000 +1.82% 36
UK excluding London -263 43 £68,750 -5.17% 25
London -58 25 £81,250 +8.33% 15
South East -67 14 - - 13
Scotland -37 9 £65,000 -22.99% 1
Wales - 9 £70,000 -
North of England -74 8 £57,500 -27.04% 7
Work from Home -197 7 £57,500 -4.17% 12
North West -51 6 £57,500 -27.04% 3
Yorkshire -39 2 £70,000 -11.18% 4
East of England -23 1 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland -70 1 - -
South West -73 1 - -

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 (8.70%) Camunda
2 3 (4.35%) Apache
2 3 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.45%) JBoss
3 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.45%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.45%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 39 (56.52%) AWS
2 32 (46.38%) Azure
3 23 (33.33%) GCP
4 14 (20.29%) GitHub
5 13 (18.84%) GitHub Copilot
6 12 (17.39%) Serverless
7 10 (14.49%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (11.59%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (11.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (8.70%) Vertex AI
12 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
14 2 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
14 2 (2.90%) ChatGPT
14 2 (2.90%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (43.48%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (28.99%) MySQL
3 17 (24.64%) MongoDB
4 16 (23.19%) Relational Database
5 13 (18.84%) NoSQL
6 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
7 5 (7.25%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.45%) Db2
8 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.45%) GIS
8 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (36.23%) Git
2 24 (34.78%) Jenkins
3 19 (27.54%) JUnit
4 17 (24.64%) Mockito
5 7 (10.14%) JMeter
6 6 (8.70%) Maven
7 3 (4.35%) Eclipse
7 3 (4.35%) Postman
7 3 (4.35%) Selenium
8 2 (2.90%) GitLab
8 2 (2.90%) Gradle
8 2 (2.90%) JIRA
9 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.45%) Eclipse RCP
9 1 (1.45%) git-flow
9 1 (1.45%) NetBeans
9 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.45%) Subversion
9 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (24.64%) Public Sector
2 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Finance
4 7 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.90%) Law
8 1 (1.45%) Games
8 1 (1.45%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 47 (68.12%) Developer
2 37 (53.62%) Java Developer
3 15 (21.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (20.29%) Lead
5 12 (17.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 9 (13.04%) Senior
6 9 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 9 (13.04%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Java Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Technical Leader
8 5 (7.25%) Backend Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Architect
10 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (2.90%) Lead Developer
10 2 (2.90%) React Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Technical Architect
11 1 (1.45%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (97.10%) Spring
2 57 (82.61%) Spring Boot
3 41 (59.42%) JPA
4 30 (43.48%) Kafka
4 30 (43.48%) REST
5 27 (39.13%) RESTful
6 14 (20.29%) RabbitMQ
6 14 (20.29%) Web Services
7 11 (15.94%) HTML
7 11 (15.94%) JWT
7 11 (15.94%) OAuth
8 10 (14.49%) WireMock
9 9 (13.04%) OAuth2
10 8 (11.59%) Spring Security
11 7 (10.14%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (10.14%) Apache Camel
11 7 (10.14%) jQuery
11 7 (10.14%) JSON
11 7 (10.14%) OpenID
11 7 (10.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (34.78%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (17.39%) Cloud Native
3 10 (14.49%) Product Ownership
4 9 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (7.25%) Virtual Team
7 3 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.90%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.45%) Life Science
9 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.45%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (75.36%) CI/CD
1 52 (75.36%) Microservices
2 38 (55.07%) Agile
3 33 (47.83%) DevOps
4 25 (36.23%) Containerisation
5 20 (28.99%) Mentoring
6 19 (27.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (23.19%) API Design
9 15 (21.74%) Scrum
9 15 (21.74%) TDD
9 15 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (20.29%) AI
10 14 (20.29%) API Integration
10 14 (20.29%) Observability
10 14 (20.29%) SDLC
11 13 (18.84%) Decision-Making
11 13 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (18.84%) Secure Coding
11 13 (18.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (97.10%) Java
2 24 (34.78%) Python
3 16 (23.19%) JavaScript
3 16 (23.19%) SQL
4 7 (10.14%) Shell Script
5 6 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.35%) C#
6 3 (4.35%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.35%) Scala
7 2 (2.90%) C++
7 2 (2.90%) Groovy
8 1 (1.45%) Bash
8 1 (1.45%) Perl
8 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Degree
2 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (71.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (72.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.49%) Terraform
3 7 (10.14%) Kibana
4 5 (7.25%) Grafana
4 5 (7.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.45%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Splunk
2 10 (14.49%) Dynatrace
2 10 (14.49%) Google
3 8 (11.59%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle
5 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) Sybase
5 1 (1.45%) Workday