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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 690 391 535
Rank change year-on-year -299 +144 +55
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 59 295 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.65% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 3.38% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 35 78 151
10th Percentile £43,200 £50,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £81,875 £82,751 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,300 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +12.50%

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 9,776 8,734 21,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 19.31% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,315 5,742 16,457
10th Percentile £40,850 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -244 49 £70,000 +3.70% 9
UK excluding London -246 34 £65,000 -10.34% 8
London -45 23 £77,500 +1.64% 6
South East -50 12 - - 1
Work from Home -165 11 £76,250 +27.08% 4
North of England -78 9 £57,500 -27.04% 1
North West -41 7 £57,500 -27.04% 1
Wales - 5 £70,000 -
Scotland -52 3 £65,000 -27.78% 4
South West -70 3 - -
Yorkshire -44 2 £70,000 -11.18%
East of England -31 1 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -44 1 £45,000 -37.93%
Midlands -93 1 £45,000 -25.00%

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 5 (8.47%) JBoss
2 4 (6.78%) WebSphere
3 3 (5.08%) Apache
4 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.39%) Confluence
4 2 (3.39%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 32 (54.24%) AWS
2 21 (35.59%) Azure
3 17 (28.81%) GCP
4 14 (23.73%) Serverless
5 10 (16.95%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (15.25%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (11.86%) GitHub
9 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (10.17%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (10.17%) SaaS
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
11 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECR
12 1 (1.69%) Apigee
12 1 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (1.69%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.20%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (22.03%) Relational Database
3 10 (16.95%) NoSQL
4 9 (15.25%) MySQL
5 7 (11.86%) MongoDB
6 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
7 5 (8.47%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.69%) Db2
9 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.69%) GIS
9 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (32.20%) Git
2 18 (30.51%) Jenkins
3 13 (22.03%) JUnit
4 12 (20.34%) Mockito
5 7 (11.86%) JMeter
5 7 (11.86%) Maven
6 5 (8.47%) JIRA
7 4 (6.78%) Gradle
8 3 (5.08%) GitLab
8 3 (5.08%) Postman
8 3 (5.08%) Selenium
9 2 (3.39%) Eclipse
9 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.39%) Subversion
10 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.69%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (1.69%) git-flow
10 1 (1.69%) NetBeans
General
1 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Finance
3 11 (18.64%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.08%) Law
6 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.69%) Games
7 1 (1.69%) iGaming
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (66.10%) Developer
2 33 (55.93%) Java Developer
3 14 (23.73%) Senior
4 11 (18.64%) Senior Developer
4 11 (18.64%) Senior Java Developer
5 10 (16.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (15.25%) Java Engineer
7 8 (13.56%) Lead
8 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (11.86%) Software Engineer
9 5 (8.47%) Architect
9 5 (8.47%) Support Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Senior Architect
12 2 (3.39%) Backend Developer
12 2 (3.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 2 (3.39%) Java Software Developer
12 2 (3.39%) Lead Developer
12 2 (3.39%) React Developer
13 1 (1.69%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (94.92%) Spring
2 47 (79.66%) Spring Boot
3 27 (45.76%) JPA
4 23 (38.98%) RESTful
5 22 (37.29%) REST
6 18 (30.51%) Kafka
7 17 (28.81%) Web Services
8 11 (18.64%) HTML
8 11 (18.64%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (16.95%) JSON
9 10 (16.95%) React
9 10 (16.95%) WireMock
10 8 (13.56%) jQuery
10 8 (13.56%) XML
11 7 (11.86%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (11.86%) Apache Camel
11 7 (11.86%) OpenAPI
11 7 (11.86%) Swagger
12 5 (8.47%) JWT
12 5 (8.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (18.64%) Cloud Native
3 8 (13.56%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (11.86%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.08%) DataPower
5 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.69%) Life Science
7 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (66.10%) CI/CD
1 39 (66.10%) Microservices
2 30 (50.85%) Agile
3 27 (45.76%) DevOps
4 23 (38.98%) Containerisation
5 17 (28.81%) TDD
6 15 (25.42%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (23.73%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (22.03%) Software Engineering
9 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
9 12 (20.34%) SDLC
10 11 (18.64%) AI
10 11 (18.64%) Scrum
11 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (16.95%) Event-Driven
11 10 (16.95%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (16.95%) Roadmaps
12 9 (15.25%) API Design
13 8 (13.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 58 (98.31%) Java
2 15 (25.42%) JavaScript
2 15 (25.42%) SQL
3 12 (20.34%) Python
4 7 (11.86%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.08%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.08%) Scala
7 2 (3.39%) Groovy
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) C++
8 1 (1.69%) Perl
8 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) Degree
3 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (64.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (66.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.86%) Kibana
3 5 (8.47%) Terraform
4 2 (3.39%) Grafana
4 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.69%) Ansible
5 1 (1.69%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Splunk
2 10 (16.95%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) Okta
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) Sybase
4 1 (1.69%) Veracode