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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 626 539
Rank change year-on-year +48 -87 +66
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 80 82 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 0.72% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 48 51 197
10th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% +8.98%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +22.73%

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 7,269 11,420 16,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.59% 21.63% 24.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,349 6,691 13,229
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.72% +5.45% -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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +56 74 £72,500 +20.83% 66
UK excluding London +14 43 £60,000 - 60
London +49 36 £90,000 +26.32% 8
Work from Home +68 29 £77,500 +29.17% 20
North of England +12 14 £61,250 -23.44% 13
South East +3 14 £75,000 +25.00% 15
North West +21 9 £71,000 -11.25% 6
Midlands +8 6 £42,500 -29.17% 9
South West -3 6 £77,500 +19.23% 13
Yorkshire -15 5 £57,500 -32.55% 5
West Midlands +27 4 £40,750 -32.08% 4
Scotland -12 3 - - 1
East Midlands -8 2 £51,250 -14.58% 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 16 (20.00%) Apache
2 14 (17.50%) JBoss
3 13 (16.25%) WebSphere
4 11 (13.75%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (6.25%) Confluence
6 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 51 (63.75%) AWS
2 20 (25.00%) SaaS
3 18 (22.50%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (22.50%) Serverless
4 17 (21.25%) Azure
5 15 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (17.50%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (13.75%) GCP
9 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
9 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (6.25%) GitHub
11 3 (3.75%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.75%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (1.25%) Azure Pipelines
13 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.25%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (18.75%) Relational Database
3 11 (13.75%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.50%) MySQL
7 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (23.75%) JUnit
2 18 (22.50%) Git
3 16 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 14 (17.50%) JMeter
5 13 (16.25%) Mockito
6 7 (8.75%) JIRA
7 5 (6.25%) GitLab
8 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
8 4 (5.00%) Gradle
8 4 (5.00%) Maven
9 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.50%) Subversion
10 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.50%) Finance
3 13 (16.25%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.25%) Law
5 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (1.25%) Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Games
7 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 48 (60.00%) Developer
2 35 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 20 (25.00%) Senior
4 17 (21.25%) Architect
5 15 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (16.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 13 (16.25%) Software Engineer
7 12 (15.00%) Senior Architect
8 11 (13.75%) Backend Developer
8 11 (13.75%) Java Engineer
9 10 (12.50%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 8 (10.00%) Senior Developer
10 8 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (8.75%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (6.25%) Principal Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 3 (3.75%) Junior
13 3 (3.75%) Junior Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Junior Java Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (92.50%) Spring
2 48 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 30 (37.50%) REST
4 23 (28.75%) RESTful
5 22 (27.50%) React
6 20 (25.00%) JPA
7 18 (22.50%) HTML
7 18 (22.50%) Web Services
7 18 (22.50%) XML
8 17 (21.25%) JSON
8 17 (21.25%) SOAP
9 16 (20.00%) .NET
10 15 (18.75%) Kafka
11 13 (16.25%) GraphQL
11 13 (16.25%) jQuery
11 13 (16.25%) Middleware
12 12 (15.00%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (15.00%) Apache Camel
12 12 (15.00%) WireMock
13 11 (13.75%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.50%) Cloud Native
2 17 (21.25%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (16.25%) DataPower
4 11 (13.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (13.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.25%) NHS
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (65.00%) Microservices
2 49 (61.25%) CI/CD
3 43 (53.75%) Agile
4 30 (37.50%) DevOps
5 24 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 23 (28.75%) Performance Optimisation
7 22 (27.50%) Event-Driven
7 22 (27.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (22.50%) Roadmaps
8 18 (22.50%) SOA
9 17 (21.25%) AI
9 17 (21.25%) Software Engineering
10 16 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
10 16 (20.00%) TDD
11 15 (18.75%) Clean Code
11 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (17.50%) SDLC
12 14 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 79 (98.75%) Java
2 29 (36.25%) Python
2 29 (36.25%) SQL
3 27 (33.75%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.00%) Shell Script
5 7 (8.75%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.75%) C#
7 2 (2.50%) R
8 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.00%) Degree
3 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 41 (51.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (48.75%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.00%) Kibana
3 3 (3.75%) Ansible
4 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Dynatrace
1 12 (15.00%) Splunk
2 4 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (5.00%) Google
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (2.50%) VMware
4 1 (1.25%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.25%) Okta
4 1 (1.25%) Veracode