Hibernate Job Trends

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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 584 534
Rank change year-on-year -32 -50 +86
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 76 87 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.94% 0.90% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 47 66 199
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £50,800
25th Percentile £54,375 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -22.58% +19.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,438 £94,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £96,889 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +21.74%

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 8,093 9,668 18,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.92% 22.17% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,935 6,675 15,098
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -47 70 £72,500 +20.83% 18
UK excluding London -33 40 £57,500 -4.17% 13
London +9 32 £85,000 +13.33% 3
Work from Home +24 29 £77,500 +29.17% 11
North of England -36 14 £61,250 -23.44% 3
South East -24 13 £75,000 +25.00%
North West -3 9 £71,000 -11.25% 3
South West -28 6 - - 4
Yorkshire -38 5 £57,500 -32.55%
Midlands -32 4 £38,250 -36.25% 5
West Midlands +2 3 £36,500 -39.17% 3
Scotland -11 2 £65,000 -27.78%
East Midlands -41 1 £40,000 -33.33% 2
Wales - 1 £45,000 - 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 14 (18.42%) JBoss
2 13 (17.11%) Apache
2 13 (17.11%) WebSphere
3 9 (11.84%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (5.26%) Confluence
5 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 44 (57.89%) AWS
2 21 (27.63%) Azure
3 17 (22.37%) GCP
4 16 (21.05%) SaaS
5 13 (17.11%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (15.79%) Serverless
7 9 (11.84%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (7.89%) Amazon S3
8 6 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.26%) GitHub
10 3 (3.95%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.95%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (1.32%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (27.63%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (14.47%) Relational Database
3 8 (10.53%) MySQL
4 7 (9.21%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.21%) NoSQL
4 7 (9.21%) RDBMS
5 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (26.32%) Git
2 17 (22.37%) JUnit
3 13 (17.11%) Jenkins
4 11 (14.47%) Mockito
5 8 (10.53%) JMeter
6 6 (7.89%) Gradle
6 6 (7.89%) JIRA
6 6 (7.89%) Maven
7 4 (5.26%) GitLab
8 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.95%) Subversion
9 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.32%) git-flow
10 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 20 (26.32%) Finance
3 10 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.89%) Law
6 2 (2.63%) Retail
7 1 (1.32%) Games
7 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.32%) iGaming
7 1 (1.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (56.58%) Developer
2 30 (39.47%) Java Developer
3 21 (27.63%) Senior
4 17 (22.37%) Architect
5 12 (15.79%) Software Engineer
6 11 (14.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (14.47%) Senior Architect
7 10 (13.16%) Java Engineer
8 9 (11.84%) Backend Developer
8 9 (11.84%) Senior Developer
8 9 (11.84%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (9.21%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (7.89%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Junior
11 4 (5.26%) Junior Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Junior Java Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Lead
11 4 (5.26%) Principal Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (93.42%) Spring
2 48 (63.16%) Spring Boot
3 26 (34.21%) JPA
4 25 (32.89%) REST
5 22 (28.95%) RESTful
6 19 (25.00%) React
7 17 (22.37%) .NET
7 17 (22.37%) Kafka
7 17 (22.37%) Web Services
8 16 (21.05%) SOAP
9 13 (17.11%) GraphQL
9 13 (17.11%) JSON
9 13 (17.11%) Middleware
10 12 (15.79%) XML
11 11 (14.47%) HTML
12 9 (11.84%) Pandas
12 9 (11.84%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (11.84%) WireMock
13 7 (9.21%) jQuery
14 6 (7.89%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.11%) DataPower
2 13 (17.11%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (11.84%) Distributed Architecture
3 9 (11.84%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.32%) NHS
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (65.79%) Microservices
2 44 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 37 (48.68%) Agile
4 31 (40.79%) DevOps
5 29 (38.16%) Containerisation
6 23 (30.26%) Event-Driven
6 23 (30.26%) Performance Optimisation
7 21 (27.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (25.00%) Roadmaps
9 18 (23.68%) SOA
10 17 (22.37%) AI
10 17 (22.37%) Integration Patterns
11 15 (19.74%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (18.42%) Clean Code
12 14 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (18.42%) TDD
13 13 (17.11%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
15 11 (14.47%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 74 (97.37%) Java
2 29 (38.16%) SQL
3 22 (28.95%) Python
4 20 (26.32%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.89%) Shell Script
5 6 (7.89%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.26%) C#
7 2 (2.63%) R
8 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) Degree
2 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 41 (53.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.84%) Kibana
3 3 (3.95%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (7.89%) Dynatrace
1 6 (7.89%) Splunk
2 5 (6.58%) Google
3 3 (3.95%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle
3 3 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.63%) VMware
5 1 (1.32%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.32%) Okta
5 1 (1.32%) Veracode