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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 711 408 556
Rank change year-on-year -303 +148 +7
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 81 283 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.57% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 3.17% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 45 53 74
10th Percentile £43,600 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £89,375
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% +8.70%

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 11,888 8,927 17,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 17.91% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,623 5,808 11,655
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,875 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%

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 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 15 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 2 September 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 58 £70,000 -3.45% 101
UK excluding London -276 53 £65,000 -10.34% 65
London -74 28 £77,500 +10.71% 59
South East -65 16 - - 9
Wales - 13 £70,000 - 3
North of England -92 10 £57,500 -27.04% 18
Work from Home -201 9 £57,500 -26.43% 63
Scotland -53 8 £65,000 -17.52% 11
North West -54 8 £57,500 -27.04% 8
East Midlands -60 3 - - 4
Midlands -102 3 - - 14
Yorkshire -46 2 £70,000 -11.18% 6
East of England -33 1 £45,000 -
South West -81 1 - - 6
Northern Ireland -87 1 - - 5

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 (7.41%) Camunda
2 4 (4.94%) Apache
2 4 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) JBoss
3 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.23%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.23%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 49 (60.49%) AWS
2 40 (49.38%) Azure
3 29 (35.80%) GCP
4 16 (19.75%) GitHub
5 14 (17.28%) Serverless
6 13 (16.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (16.05%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (13.58%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (12.35%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (12.35%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (7.41%) Vertex AI
12 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
12 5 (6.17%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (3.70%) ChatGPT
14 3 (3.70%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (30.86%) MySQL
3 23 (28.40%) MongoDB
4 18 (22.22%) NoSQL
5 17 (20.99%) Relational Database
6 8 (9.88%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.17%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.47%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.47%) Redis
8 2 (2.47%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.23%) Db2
9 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.23%) GIS
Development Applications
1 35 (43.21%) Git
2 27 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 21 (25.93%) JUnit
4 18 (22.22%) Mockito
5 8 (9.88%) Maven
6 7 (8.64%) JMeter
7 5 (6.17%) GitLab
8 4 (4.94%) Eclipse
9 3 (3.70%) Gradle
9 3 (3.70%) Postman
9 3 (3.70%) Selenium
10 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.47%) JIRA
10 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.23%) Eclipse RCP
11 1 (1.23%) git-flow
11 1 (1.23%) NetBeans
11 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (30.86%) Public Sector
2 15 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (11.11%) Banking
5 7 (8.64%) Finance
6 4 (4.94%) Law
7 3 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Games
8 1 (1.23%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 55 (67.90%) Developer
2 41 (50.62%) Java Developer
3 14 (17.28%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (16.05%) Lead
4 13 (16.05%) Senior
4 13 (16.05%) Senior Developer
5 12 (14.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (13.58%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (11.11%) Backend Developer
7 9 (11.11%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Architect
8 6 (7.41%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.17%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Architect
12 2 (2.47%) React Developer
12 2 (2.47%) Senior Backend Developer
12 2 (2.47%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (93.83%) Spring
2 65 (80.25%) Spring Boot
3 50 (61.73%) JPA
4 38 (46.91%) Kafka
5 33 (40.74%) REST
6 31 (38.27%) RESTful
7 22 (27.16%) RabbitMQ
8 15 (18.52%) Terraform
9 12 (14.81%) Web Services
10 11 (13.58%) JWT
10 11 (13.58%) OAuth
11 10 (12.35%) HTML
11 10 (12.35%) Spring MVC
11 10 (12.35%) Spring Security
12 9 (11.11%) OAuth2
12 9 (11.11%) WireMock
13 8 (9.88%) OpenAPI
13 8 (9.88%) Swagger
14 7 (8.64%) Apache Camel
14 7 (8.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (35.80%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 14 (17.28%) Product Ownership
4 10 (12.35%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (12.35%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (12.35%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (11.11%) Virtual Team
6 5 (6.17%) AI Agents
7 4 (4.94%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.23%) Life Science
9 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.23%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Unix
2 1 (1.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (72.84%) Microservices
2 58 (71.60%) CI/CD
3 46 (56.79%) Agile
4 40 (49.38%) DevOps
5 34 (41.98%) Containerisation
6 26 (32.10%) Mentoring
7 22 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (24.69%) API Design
9 20 (24.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (24.69%) Observability
9 20 (24.69%) Scrum
10 19 (23.46%) Secure Coding
10 19 (23.46%) Software Engineering
10 19 (23.46%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (22.22%) AI
11 18 (22.22%) API Integration
11 18 (22.22%) Decision-Making
11 18 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 17 (20.99%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 79 (97.53%) Java
2 24 (29.63%) Python
3 16 (19.75%) JavaScript
3 16 (19.75%) SQL
4 7 (8.64%) Shell Script
4 7 (8.64%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.41%) C#
6 5 (6.17%) Kotlin
6 5 (6.17%) Scala
7 2 (2.47%) C++
7 2 (2.47%) Groovy
8 1 (1.23%) Bash
8 1 (1.23%) Perl
8 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (14.81%) Degree
2 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
2 10 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.05%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (71.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (72.84%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.58%) Grafana
2 11 (13.58%) Prometheus
3 7 (8.64%) Kibana
4 1 (1.23%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (23.46%) Splunk
2 13 (16.05%) Google
3 11 (13.58%) OpenAI
4 10 (12.35%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.94%) Oracle
6 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.23%) Sybase
7 1 (1.23%) Workday
7 1 (1.23%) YouTube