Bitbucket Job Trends in the North of England

Bitbucket
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 192 339
Rank change year-on-year -132 +147 +11
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 21 126 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.10% 1.34% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.71% 19.15% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 33
10th Percentile £45,625 - -
25th Percentile £49,375 £51,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,938 £69,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -25.93%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

Bitbucket falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 774 658 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.69% 6.98% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 576 391 1,030
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bitbucket relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Bitbucket job vacancy trend in the North of England

Bitbucket
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Bitbucket.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the North of England

Bitbucket
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
North West -96 18 £55,000 -15.38% 3
North East -54 3 £70,000 +33.33% 1
Bitbucket
England

Bitbucket
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (23.81%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) JBoss
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) GitHub
3 7 (33.33%) Azure
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
4 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (23.81%) Serverless
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 3 (14.29%) Figma
5 3 (14.29%) GCP
6 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) SNMP
1 1 (4.76%) SSL
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) DynamoDB
2 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
2 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 8 (38.10%) JIRA
3 7 (33.33%) Git
4 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 3 (14.29%) NUnit
4 3 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 3 (14.29%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.76%) Subversion
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) German Language
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) Lead Developer
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Applications Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Installations Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Node.js
2 8 (38.10%) AngularJS
3 5 (23.81%) React
3 5 (23.81%) Spring
3 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
4 4 (19.05%) Kafka
5 3 (14.29%) .NET
5 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (14.29%) Entity Framework
5 3 (14.29%) RESTful
5 3 (14.29%) Vitest
6 2 (9.52%) OpenAPI
6 2 (9.52%) RxJS
6 2 (9.52%) Swagger
7 1 (4.76%) Keycloak
7 1 (4.76%) OpenID
7 1 (4.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Android
3 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (33.33%) Observability
5 6 (28.57%) BDD
5 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 5 (23.81%) API Management
6 5 (23.81%) Change Control
6 5 (23.81%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (23.81%) Information Security
6 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
6 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (23.81%) RBAC
6 5 (23.81%) Systems Analysis
6 5 (23.81%) TDD
7 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) SQL
2 10 (47.62%) Python
3 8 (38.10%) Java
4 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 7 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 5 (23.81%) Bash
6 3 (14.29%) Bicep
6 3 (14.29%) C#
7 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Certification
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 5 (23.81%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.76%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
1 3 (14.29%) vSphere
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) Argo
3 3 (14.29%) Control-M
3 3 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (14.29%) Grafana
3 3 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.76%) Nagios
4 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 6 (28.57%) Splunk
2 4 (19.05%) Atlassian
3 3 (14.29%) DevExpress
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) New Relic
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat