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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 179 346
Rank change year-on-year -141 +167 +37
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 16 124 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.081% 1.60% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.07% 18.82% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 14 11 39
10th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,059 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,250 £95,000 £73,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 772 659 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.91% 8.50% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 576 400 1,160
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,150 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +7.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,985 £76,880 £71,229
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,625 £82,668
England median annual salary £60,380 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.11% +8.33% -7.69%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 14 £56,250 -13.46% 5
North East -49 2 £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 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) JBoss
1 2 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) GitHub
4 4 (25.00%) GCP
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 3 (18.75%) Figma
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (12.50%) Datadog
6 2 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SSL
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) SNMP
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) NUnit
3 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 2 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (12.50%) GitLab
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 2 (12.50%) Subversion
3 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) German Language
2 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Applications Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Installations Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) React
2 5 (31.25%) RESTful
3 4 (25.00%) Node.js
4 3 (18.75%) .NET
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
4 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
4 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (18.75%) Entity Framework
4 3 (18.75%) Vitest
5 2 (12.50%) CSS
5 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (12.50%) HTML
5 2 (12.50%) HTML5
5 2 (12.50%) Keycloak
5 2 (12.50%) OAuth
5 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
5 2 (12.50%) OpenID
5 2 (12.50%) RxJS
5 2 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
6 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (25.00%) RBAC
7 3 (18.75%) Agile
7 3 (18.75%) API Design
7 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) OWASP
7 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
7 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 3 (18.75%) User Experience
8 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) TypeScript
3 4 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) Bicep
5 2 (12.50%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) Go
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (31.25%) Ansible
3 4 (25.00%) Terraform
4 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (12.50%) Argo
4 2 (12.50%) Control-M
4 2 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 2 (12.50%) Nagios
4 2 (12.50%) Rancher
4 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (18.75%) DevExpress
4 2 (12.50%) New Relic
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 2 (12.50%) Splunk
4 2 (12.50%) VMware