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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 721 435 669
Rank change year-on-year -286 +234 -120
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 87 259 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.52% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% 3.09% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 51 33 51
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +5.19% -3.57%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £84,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,750 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.59% +11.54% +13.04%

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 11,798 8,373 15,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 16.82% 21.76%
Number of salaries quoted 8,342 5,331 9,807
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -261 59 £63,750 -10.21% 81
UK excluding London -295 57 £59,750 -17.59% 46
London -72 28 £70,000 - 43
Wales - 18 £70,000 - 2
South East -75 15 - - 8
North of England -112 10 £57,500 -19.01% 16
Work from Home -184 10 £57,500 +9.52% 39
North West -63 8 £53,000 -25.35% 9
Scotland -42 7 - - 7
East Midlands -64 5 - - 1
Midlands -101 5 - - 9
Yorkshire - 2 £70,000 - 7
East of England -52 1 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland -79 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 (6.90%) Camunda
2 5 (5.75%) Apache
3 4 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.30%) Confluence
5 1 (1.15%) JBoss
5 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.15%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.15%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 52 (59.77%) AWS
2 43 (49.43%) Azure
3 31 (35.63%) GCP
4 20 (22.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (17.24%) GitHub
5 15 (17.24%) Serverless
6 12 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (13.79%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (12.64%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.90%) Vertex AI
11 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
11 5 (5.75%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (4.60%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (3.45%) ChatGPT
13 3 (3.45%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (45.98%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (33.33%) MySQL
3 26 (29.89%) MongoDB
4 22 (25.29%) NoSQL
5 18 (20.69%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.75%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.30%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.30%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.15%) Db2
9 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.15%) GIS
9 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (51.72%) Git
2 28 (32.18%) Jenkins
3 17 (19.54%) JUnit
4 14 (16.09%) Mockito
5 8 (9.20%) Maven
6 7 (8.05%) JMeter
7 5 (5.75%) Eclipse
7 5 (5.75%) GitLab
8 3 (3.45%) Gradle
8 3 (3.45%) JIRA
8 3 (3.45%) Postman
8 3 (3.45%) Selenium
8 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.15%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (1.15%) NetBeans
10 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 34 (39.08%) Public Sector
2 18 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.24%) Banking
3 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.90%) Finance
6 4 (4.60%) Law
7 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (70.11%) Developer
2 45 (51.72%) Java Developer
3 16 (18.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (16.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 14 (16.09%) Senior
4 14 (16.09%) Senior Developer
5 13 (14.94%) Lead
6 11 (12.64%) Java Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (10.34%) Backend Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Architect
8 6 (6.90%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.75%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
12 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Architect
12 2 (2.30%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (91.95%) Spring
2 68 (78.16%) Spring Boot
3 51 (58.62%) JPA
4 41 (47.13%) Kafka
5 36 (41.38%) RESTful
6 32 (36.78%) REST
7 25 (28.74%) RabbitMQ
8 23 (26.44%) Terraform
9 12 (13.79%) Web Services
10 10 (11.49%) HTML
11 9 (10.34%) JWT
11 9 (10.34%) OAuth
11 9 (10.34%) Spring MVC
11 9 (10.34%) Spring Security
12 7 (8.05%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (8.05%) jQuery
12 7 (8.05%) OpenAPI
12 7 (8.05%) OpenID
12 7 (8.05%) React
12 7 (8.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (40.23%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (29.89%) Cloud Native
3 18 (20.69%) Product Ownership
4 17 (19.54%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (17.24%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (17.24%) Virtual Team
6 11 (12.64%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (5.75%) AI Agents
8 4 (4.60%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.15%) Life Science
10 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Unix
2 1 (1.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (71.26%) CI/CD
2 61 (70.11%) Microservices
3 53 (60.92%) Agile
4 44 (50.57%) DevOps
5 36 (41.38%) Containerisation
6 30 (34.48%) Mentoring
6 30 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (32.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (32.18%) Observability
8 27 (31.03%) Scrum
9 26 (29.89%) Secure Coding
10 25 (28.74%) Software Engineering
11 23 (26.44%) API Design
11 23 (26.44%) Decision-Making
11 23 (26.44%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (25.29%) Event-Driven
12 22 (25.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (25.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 21 (24.14%) AI
14 20 (22.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (97.70%) Java
2 24 (27.59%) Python
3 16 (18.39%) JavaScript
4 15 (17.24%) SQL
5 7 (8.05%) C#
5 7 (8.05%) Shell Script
5 7 (8.05%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.75%) Kotlin
6 5 (5.75%) Scala
7 2 (2.30%) C++
7 2 (2.30%) Groovy
8 1 (1.15%) Bash
8 1 (1.15%) Perl
8 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Degree
1 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.99%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (68.97%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (68.97%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.69%) Grafana
3 17 (19.54%) Prometheus
4 7 (8.05%) Kibana
5 2 (2.30%) Ansible
6 1 (1.15%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (28.74%) Splunk
2 14 (16.09%) Google
3 11 (12.64%) Dynatrace
3 11 (12.64%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.60%) Oracle
5 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.15%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.15%) Okta
6 1 (1.15%) Sybase
6 1 (1.15%) Workday
6 1 (1.15%) YouTube