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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 682 403 535
Rank change year-on-year -279 +132 +61
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 53 296 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.66% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 3.39% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 31 80 155
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £51,100
25th Percentile £55,625 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,100 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.52% +3.57% +16.67%

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 9,501 8,735 21,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 19.61% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,085 5,716 16,353
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 13 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 15 June 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 -241 46 £70,000 +3.70% 7
UK excluding London -257 28 £61,250 -15.52% 5
London -46 23 £77,500 - 3
Work from Home -172 12 £77,500 +29.17% 2
South East -44 11 - -
North of England -77 7 £57,500 -27.04% 3
North West -44 6 £57,500 -27.04% 2
South West -67 3 - -
Wales - 3 £70,000 -
West Midlands -49 2 £40,750 -43.79%
Scotland -51 2 £65,000 -27.78% 1
Midlands -92 2 £40,750 -32.08%
Yorkshire -33 1 £67,500 -14.35% 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 (11.32%) JBoss
2 5 (9.43%) WebSphere
3 3 (5.66%) Apache
4 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.77%) Confluence
4 2 (3.77%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.89%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.94%) AWS
2 16 (30.19%) Azure
3 13 (24.53%) GCP
4 12 (22.64%) Serverless
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (15.09%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (15.09%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (15.09%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (13.21%) SaaS
8 5 (9.43%) GitHub
9 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.55%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.89%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.96%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (20.75%) Relational Database
3 8 (15.09%) NoSQL
4 7 (13.21%) MySQL
5 5 (9.43%) MongoDB
5 5 (9.43%) RDBMS
6 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.89%) Db2
8 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) Git
1 15 (28.30%) Jenkins
2 13 (24.53%) JUnit
3 12 (22.64%) Mockito
4 7 (13.21%) JMeter
5 6 (11.32%) Maven
6 5 (9.43%) JIRA
7 4 (7.55%) Gradle
8 2 (3.77%) Postman
8 2 (3.77%) Selenium
8 2 (3.77%) Subversion
9 1 (1.89%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.89%) git-flow
9 1 (1.89%) GitLab
9 1 (1.89%) NetBeans
9 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Finance
3 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.66%) Law
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Games
6 1 (1.89%) iGaming
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (66.04%) Developer
2 29 (54.72%) Java Developer
3 14 (26.42%) Senior
4 10 (18.87%) Senior Developer
4 10 (18.87%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (16.98%) Java Engineer
6 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (13.21%) Lead
8 6 (11.32%) Software Engineer
9 5 (9.43%) Architect
9 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (9.43%) Support Engineer
10 4 (7.55%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (7.55%) Senior Architect
11 2 (3.77%) Backend Developer
11 2 (3.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 2 (3.77%) Java Software Developer
11 2 (3.77%) Lead Developer
11 2 (3.77%) React Developer
12 1 (1.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (96.23%) Spring
2 41 (77.36%) Spring Boot
3 23 (43.40%) JPA
4 21 (39.62%) REST
5 19 (35.85%) RESTful
6 17 (32.08%) Web Services
7 13 (24.53%) Kafka
8 11 (20.75%) HTML
8 11 (20.75%) React
9 10 (18.87%) JSON
9 10 (18.87%) WireMock
10 8 (15.09%) jQuery
10 8 (15.09%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (15.09%) XML
11 7 (13.21%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (13.21%) Apache Camel
12 6 (11.32%) SOAP
13 5 (9.43%) .NET
13 5 (9.43%) Middleware
13 5 (9.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (20.75%) Cloud Native
3 8 (15.09%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
5 4 (7.55%) DataPower
6 2 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.89%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (66.04%) Microservices
2 32 (60.38%) CI/CD
3 26 (49.06%) Agile
4 22 (41.51%) DevOps
5 20 (37.74%) Containerisation
6 17 (32.08%) TDD
7 14 (26.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (24.53%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (20.75%) AI
9 11 (20.75%) Mentoring
9 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (18.87%) Event-Driven
10 10 (18.87%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (18.87%) SDLC
10 10 (18.87%) Software Engineering
11 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (16.98%) Roadmaps
12 8 (15.09%) API Design
12 8 (15.09%) BDD
12 8 (15.09%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 52 (98.11%) Java
2 15 (28.30%) JavaScript
3 14 (26.42%) SQL
4 11 (20.75%) Python
5 7 (13.21%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.77%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.77%) Scala
8 1 (1.89%) C#
8 1 (1.89%) Groovy
8 1 (1.89%) Perl
8 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) Degree
4 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
System Software
1 31 (58.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (62.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.21%) Kibana
3 3 (5.66%) Terraform
4 1 (1.89%) Ansible
4 1 (1.89%) Grafana
4 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) Splunk
2 9 (16.98%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.66%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.89%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.89%) Google
4 1 (1.89%) Okta
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) Sybase
4 1 (1.89%) Veracode