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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 695 405 544
Rank change year-on-year -290 +139 +65
Permanent jobs citing Hibernate 59 294 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.63% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 3.35% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 35 76 147
10th Percentile £43,200 £50,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,938 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £81,875 £82,751 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +12.50%

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 9,892 8,765 21,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 18.88% 20.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,419 5,765 16,106
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
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 30 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Hibernate in the UK

Hibernate
Top 14 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 30 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 -237 48 £70,000 - 13
UK excluding London -257 35 £65,000 -10.34% 9
London -56 22 £77,500 +1.64% 9
South East -51 12 - - 1
Work from Home -176 11 £66,250 +10.42% 5
North of England -97 9 £57,500 -27.04% 2
North West -40 7 £57,500 -27.04% 1
Wales - 5 £70,000 - 2
Scotland -46 4 £65,000 -27.78% 2
South West -68 3 - -
Yorkshire -32 2 £70,000 -11.18% 1
East of England -30 1 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -54 1 £45,000 -37.93%
Midlands -104 1 £45,000 -30.77%

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 4 (6.78%) JBoss
1 4 (6.78%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.39%) Camunda
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 31 (52.54%) AWS
2 22 (37.29%) Azure
3 17 (28.81%) GCP
4 13 (22.03%) Serverless
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (13.56%) GitHub
7 7 (11.86%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.78%) SaaS
10 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.39%) Vertex AI
12 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECR
12 1 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.59%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (22.03%) Relational Database
3 10 (16.95%) MySQL
3 10 (16.95%) NoSQL
4 8 (13.56%) MongoDB
5 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
6 5 (8.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.69%) Db2
7 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.69%) GIS
7 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (32.20%) Git
1 19 (32.20%) Jenkins
2 14 (23.73%) JUnit
3 13 (22.03%) Mockito
4 7 (11.86%) JMeter
4 7 (11.86%) Maven
5 4 (6.78%) Gradle
5 4 (6.78%) JIRA
6 3 (5.08%) GitLab
6 3 (5.08%) Postman
6 3 (5.08%) Selenium
7 2 (3.39%) Eclipse
7 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.69%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (1.69%) git-flow
8 1 (1.69%) NetBeans
8 1 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Finance
3 11 (18.64%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.08%) Law
6 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.69%) Games
7 1 (1.69%) iGaming
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (64.41%) Developer
2 32 (54.24%) Java Developer
3 13 (22.03%) Senior
4 11 (18.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (16.95%) Senior Developer
5 10 (16.95%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (15.25%) Lead
7 8 (13.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (13.56%) Java Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Software Engineer
9 5 (8.47%) Architect
9 5 (8.47%) Support Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Senior Architect
11 2 (3.39%) Backend Developer
11 2 (3.39%) Lead Developer
11 2 (3.39%) React Developer
11 2 (3.39%) Technical Leader
12 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock Engineer
12 1 (1.69%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (94.92%) Spring
2 47 (79.66%) Spring Boot
3 30 (50.85%) JPA
4 24 (40.68%) REST
5 23 (38.98%) RESTful
6 19 (32.20%) Kafka
7 15 (25.42%) Web Services
8 10 (16.95%) HTML
8 10 (16.95%) WireMock
9 9 (15.25%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (13.56%) JSON
10 8 (13.56%) React
11 7 (11.86%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (11.86%) Apache Camel
11 7 (11.86%) jQuery
11 7 (11.86%) JWT
11 7 (11.86%) OAuth
11 7 (11.86%) OpenAPI
11 7 (11.86%) Swagger
12 6 (10.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (18.64%) Cloud Native
3 8 (13.56%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (11.86%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.08%) DataPower
5 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.69%) Life Science
7 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (71.19%) Microservices
2 41 (69.49%) CI/CD
3 32 (54.24%) Agile
4 28 (47.46%) DevOps
5 22 (37.29%) Containerisation
6 17 (28.81%) TDD
7 16 (27.12%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (23.73%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (22.03%) AI
9 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
9 13 (22.03%) SDLC
10 12 (20.34%) Software Engineering
11 11 (18.64%) API Design
11 11 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (18.64%) Scrum
12 10 (16.95%) Event-Driven
12 10 (16.95%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (16.95%) Roadmaps
13 9 (15.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 58 (98.31%) Java
2 15 (25.42%) JavaScript
2 15 (25.42%) Python
3 14 (23.73%) SQL
4 7 (11.86%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.08%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.08%) Scala
7 2 (3.39%) Groovy
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) C++
8 1 (1.69%) Perl
8 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) Degree
3 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (64.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (66.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.86%) Kibana
3 5 (8.47%) Terraform
4 2 (3.39%) Grafana
4 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.69%) Ansible
5 1 (1.69%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Splunk
2 10 (16.95%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.08%) Google
3 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.39%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.69%) Okta
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Sybase
5 1 (1.69%) Veracode