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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 598 544
Rank change year-on-year -1 -54 +66
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 73 83 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.17% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 0.76% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 47 57 206
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £49,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,000 £93,778 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +27.27%

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 7,643 10,954 17,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.26% 22.27% 23.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,627 6,600 14,247
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,209 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +26 69 £72,500 +20.83% 34
UK excluding London -16 37 £57,500 -4.17% 29
London +28 34 £85,000 +13.33% 8
Work from Home +42 28 £77,500 +29.17% 20
South East -5 13 £75,000 +25.00% 10
North of England -9 13 £61,250 -25.87% 4
North West +14 8 £71,000 -11.25% 2
South West +3 5 - - 5
Midlands +2 5 £40,000 -33.33% 8
Yorkshire -23 5 £57,500 -32.55% 1
West Midlands +13 3 £36,500 -39.17% 7
East Midlands -22 2 £51,250 -14.58% 1
Scotland -8 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 15 (20.55%) Apache
2 14 (19.18%) JBoss
3 13 (17.81%) WebSphere
4 11 (15.07%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (5.48%) Confluence
6 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 44 (60.27%) AWS
2 17 (23.29%) SaaS
3 16 (21.92%) Azure
4 15 (20.55%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (20.55%) Serverless
5 14 (19.18%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (16.44%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (15.07%) GCP
8 9 (12.33%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (8.22%) Amazon S3
9 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (4.11%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (4.11%) GitHub
11 3 (4.11%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (1.37%) Azure Pipelines
13 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.66%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (16.44%) Relational Database
3 10 (13.70%) RDBMS
4 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.11%) MySQL
4 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (26.03%) Git
2 15 (20.55%) JUnit
3 13 (17.81%) Jenkins
4 11 (15.07%) JMeter
5 10 (13.70%) Mockito
6 6 (8.22%) JIRA
7 5 (6.85%) Gradle
7 5 (6.85%) Maven
8 4 (5.48%) GitLab
9 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket
9 3 (4.11%) Subversion
10 2 (2.74%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Finance
3 13 (17.81%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.22%) Law
5 4 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.74%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (58.90%) Developer
2 30 (41.10%) Java Developer
3 19 (26.03%) Senior
4 17 (23.29%) Architect
5 13 (17.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (16.44%) Software Engineer
7 11 (15.07%) Backend Developer
7 11 (15.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 11 (15.07%) Senior Architect
8 10 (13.70%) Java Engineer
9 9 (12.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 7 (9.59%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (9.59%) Senior Developer
10 7 (9.59%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (6.85%) Principal Developer
12 4 (5.48%) Junior
12 4 (5.48%) Junior Developer
12 4 (5.48%) Junior Java Developer
12 4 (5.48%) Technical Architect
13 2 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (93.15%) Spring
2 44 (60.27%) Spring Boot
3 27 (36.99%) REST
4 20 (27.40%) JPA
4 20 (27.40%) React
4 20 (27.40%) RESTful
5 18 (24.66%) Web Services
6 17 (23.29%) .NET
6 17 (23.29%) SOAP
7 15 (20.55%) Kafka
7 15 (20.55%) XML
8 14 (19.18%) HTML
8 14 (19.18%) JSON
9 13 (17.81%) GraphQL
9 13 (17.81%) Middleware
10 11 (15.07%) Pandas
11 10 (13.70%) jQuery
12 9 (12.33%) ActiveMQ
12 9 (12.33%) Apache Camel
12 9 (12.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.14%) Cloud Native
2 15 (20.55%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (17.81%) DataPower
4 11 (15.07%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (15.07%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) NHS
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (65.75%) Microservices
2 42 (57.53%) CI/CD
3 37 (50.68%) Agile
4 27 (36.99%) DevOps
5 24 (32.88%) Containerisation
6 22 (30.14%) Event-Driven
6 22 (30.14%) Performance Optimisation
7 19 (26.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (24.66%) SOA
9 17 (23.29%) AI
9 17 (23.29%) Integration Patterns
9 17 (23.29%) Roadmaps
10 15 (20.55%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (17.81%) Clean Code
12 13 (17.81%) Migration
12 13 (17.81%) Software Engineering
12 13 (17.81%) TDD
13 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 71 (97.26%) Java
2 28 (38.36%) SQL
3 25 (34.25%) Python
4 23 (31.51%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.33%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.48%) C#
8 2 (2.74%) R
9 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.59%) Degree
3 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 38 (52.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (49.32%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.44%) Kibana
3 3 (4.11%) Ansible
4 2 (2.74%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.33%) Dynatrace
1 9 (12.33%) Splunk
2 5 (6.85%) Google
3 3 (4.11%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle
4 2 (2.74%) VMware
5 1 (1.37%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.37%) Okta
5 1 (1.37%) Veracode