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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 692 413 539
Rank change year-on-year -279 +126 +57
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 64 296 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.62% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 3.32% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 39 76 144
10th Percentile £43,900 £50,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £55,938 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.62% +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 9,959 8,910 20,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 18.61% 20.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,454 5,888 15,964
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £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 5 July 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 5 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 -227 51 £70,000 - 21
UK excluding London -250 38 £66,250 -8.62% 15
London -48 24 £85,000 +11.48% 12
South East -62 13 - - 3
Work from Home -182 11 £66,250 +10.42% 10
North of England -74 9 £57,500 -27.04% 4
North West -49 7 £57,500 -27.04% 2
Wales - 7 £70,000 - 2
Scotland -47 4 £65,000 -27.78% 3
South West -71 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -29 2 £70,000 -11.18% 1
East of England -29 1 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -48 1 £45,000 -37.93%
Midlands -91 1 £45,000 -30.77%

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 4 (6.25%) JBoss
1 4 (6.25%) WebSphere
2 3 (4.69%) Camunda
3 2 (3.13%) Apache
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.13%) Confluence
4 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.56%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.13%) AWS
2 26 (40.63%) Azure
3 20 (31.25%) GCP
4 13 (20.31%) Serverless
5 9 (14.06%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (14.06%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (14.06%) GitHub
6 8 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.25%) SaaS
9 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.69%) Vertex AI
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (1.56%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (21.88%) Relational Database
3 12 (18.75%) MySQL
3 12 (18.75%) NoSQL
4 10 (15.63%) MongoDB
5 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.81%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.56%) Db2
7 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.56%) GIS
7 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (34.38%) Git
2 19 (29.69%) Jenkins
3 15 (23.44%) JUnit
4 14 (21.88%) Mockito
5 7 (10.94%) JMeter
5 7 (10.94%) Maven
6 4 (6.25%) Gradle
6 4 (6.25%) JIRA
7 3 (4.69%) GitLab
7 3 (4.69%) Postman
7 3 (4.69%) Selenium
8 2 (3.13%) Eclipse
8 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.56%) Eclipse RCP
9 1 (1.56%) git-flow
9 1 (1.56%) NetBeans
9 1 (1.56%) Subversion
General
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.75%) Finance
4 5 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Law
5 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.56%) Games
6 1 (1.56%) iGaming
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (62.50%) Developer
2 33 (51.56%) Java Developer
3 13 (20.31%) Senior
4 11 (17.19%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (17.19%) Lead
5 10 (15.63%) Senior Developer
5 10 (15.63%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 8 (12.50%) Java Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Architect
7 6 (9.38%) Software Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Technical Leader
10 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (3.13%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.13%) React Developer
11 1 (1.56%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (93.75%) Spring
2 51 (79.69%) Spring Boot
3 34 (53.13%) JPA
4 26 (40.63%) REST
4 26 (40.63%) RESTful
5 22 (34.38%) Kafka
6 15 (23.44%) Web Services
7 12 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (15.63%) HTML
8 10 (15.63%) WireMock
9 8 (12.50%) JSON
9 8 (12.50%) JWT
9 8 (12.50%) OAuth
9 8 (12.50%) React
10 7 (10.94%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (10.94%) Apache Camel
10 7 (10.94%) jQuery
10 7 (10.94%) OpenAPI
10 7 (10.94%) Swagger
11 6 (9.38%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.69%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 8 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.69%) DataPower
5 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.56%) Life Science
7 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (71.88%) Microservices
2 45 (70.31%) CI/CD
3 36 (56.25%) Agile
4 32 (50.00%) DevOps
5 23 (35.94%) Containerisation
6 17 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (26.56%) TDD
7 16 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
8 15 (23.44%) AI
8 15 (23.44%) Mentoring
9 14 (21.88%) Software Engineering
10 13 (20.31%) API Design
10 13 (20.31%) Scrum
10 13 (20.31%) SDLC
11 12 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
11 12 (18.75%) Roadmaps
12 11 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (17.19%) Event-Driven
13 10 (15.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 63 (98.44%) Java
2 16 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 16 (25.00%) Python
2 16 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (10.94%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.69%) Kotlin
5 3 (4.69%) Scala
6 2 (3.13%) C++
6 2 (3.13%) Groovy
7 1 (1.56%) Bash
7 1 (1.56%) C#
7 1 (1.56%) Perl
7 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.50%) Degree
3 6 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (64.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (65.63%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Terraform
3 7 (10.94%) Kibana
4 3 (4.69%) Grafana
4 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.56%) Ansible
5 1 (1.56%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Splunk
2 10 (15.63%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.81%) Google
4 4 (6.25%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.56%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.56%) Okta
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.56%) Sybase
6 1 (1.56%) Veracode