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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 697 406 530
Rank change year-on-year -291 +124 +66
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 64 293 367
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.59% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 3.29% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 37 71 130
10th Percentile £46,500 £50,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,751 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -6.90% +9.43% +10.42%

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 10,220 8,907 19,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 18.06% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,645 5,894 14,339
10th Percentile £41,100 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,375 £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 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 12 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 20 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 -229 47 £70,000 - 32
UK excluding London -268 40 £67,500 -6.90% 24
London -49 24 £85,000 +13.33% 14
South East -48 14 - - 11
Work from Home -187 9 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Scotland -40 8 £65,000 -22.99% 2
North of England -67 8 £57,500 -27.04% 6
Wales - 8 £70,000 - 1
North West -48 6 £57,500 -27.04% 2
Yorkshire -25 2 £70,000 -11.18% 4
East of England -29 1 £45,000 - 2
South West -69 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 5 (7.81%) Camunda
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) JBoss
2 2 (3.13%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.56%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 35 (54.69%) AWS
2 28 (43.75%) Azure
3 21 (32.81%) GCP
4 13 (20.31%) GitHub
4 13 (20.31%) Serverless
5 12 (18.75%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (15.63%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (7.81%) Vertex AI
11 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
11 3 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (3.13%) ChatGPT
12 2 (3.13%) Google Gemini
12 2 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (42.19%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (26.56%) MySQL
3 15 (23.44%) MongoDB
3 15 (23.44%) Relational Database
4 11 (17.19%) NoSQL
5 9 (14.06%) 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
1 22 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 17 (26.56%) JUnit
3 16 (25.00%) Mockito
4 7 (10.94%) JMeter
5 6 (9.38%) Maven
6 3 (4.69%) GitLab
6 3 (4.69%) JIRA
6 3 (4.69%) Postman
6 3 (4.69%) Selenium
7 2 (3.13%) Eclipse
7 2 (3.13%) Gradle
7 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.56%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (1.56%) git-flow
8 1 (1.56%) NetBeans
8 1 (1.56%) Subversion
General
1 15 (23.44%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Finance
4 5 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Games
7 1 (1.56%) iGaming
7 1 (1.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (67.19%) Developer
2 36 (56.25%) Java Developer
3 14 (21.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (20.31%) Lead
5 11 (17.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 10 (15.63%) Senior
7 9 (14.06%) Senior Developer
7 9 (14.06%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (10.94%) Java Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) Support Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) Technical Leader
10 4 (6.25%) Architect
11 3 (4.69%) Backend Developer
11 3 (4.69%) Software Engineer
12 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
12 2 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
12 2 (3.13%) Lead Developer
12 2 (3.13%) React Developer
13 1 (1.56%) Junior Developer
13 1 (1.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (95.31%) Spring
2 52 (81.25%) Spring Boot
3 37 (57.81%) JPA
4 30 (46.88%) REST
5 26 (40.63%) Kafka
6 25 (39.06%) RESTful
7 15 (23.44%) Web Services
8 14 (21.88%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (17.19%) HTML
10 10 (15.63%) JWT
10 10 (15.63%) OAuth
10 10 (15.63%) WireMock
11 8 (12.50%) JSON
11 8 (12.50%) OAuth2
11 8 (12.50%) React
11 8 (12.50%) Spring Security
12 7 (10.94%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (10.94%) Apache Camel
12 7 (10.94%) jQuery
12 7 (10.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 9 (14.06%) Product Ownership
4 7 (10.94%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (7.81%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (6.25%) Virtual Team
7 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (3.13%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.56%) DataPower
9 1 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.56%) Life Science
9 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (76.56%) CI/CD
2 47 (73.44%) Microservices
3 35 (54.69%) Agile
4 31 (48.44%) DevOps
5 22 (34.38%) Containerisation
6 18 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (28.13%) Mentoring
7 16 (25.00%) TDD
8 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (23.44%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (21.88%) AI
9 14 (21.88%) API Design
9 14 (21.88%) Scrum
10 13 (20.31%) SDLC
10 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
11 12 (18.75%) API Integration
11 12 (18.75%) Decision-Making
11 12 (18.75%) Observability
11 12 (18.75%) Secure Coding
11 12 (18.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 63 (98.44%) Java
2 20 (31.25%) Python
3 16 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (25.00%) SQL
4 7 (10.94%) Shell Script
5 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.69%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.69%) Scala
7 2 (3.13%) C++
7 2 (3.13%) Groovy
8 1 (1.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.56%) C#
8 1 (1.56%) Perl
8 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (70.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (71.88%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.06%) Terraform
3 7 (10.94%) Kibana
4 4 (6.25%) Grafana
4 4 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.56%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Splunk
2 10 (15.63%) Dynatrace
3 8 (12.50%) Google
4 7 (10.94%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.56%) Sybase
6 1 (1.56%) Veracode