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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 251 283
Rank change year-on-year +2 +32 +42
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 17 21 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.24% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.02% 3.02% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 40
10th Percentile - £45,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £45,500 £36,270
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,055 £54,125
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -7.52% -1.59%
75th Percentile £60,750 £74,375 £71,281
90th Percentile £67,500 £90,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -9.09% -18.52%

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 562 695 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.83% 7.93% 10.38%
Number of salaries quoted 409 370 986
10th Percentile - £37,500 £35,920
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,897 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% -0.19% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,625 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 30 January 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 30 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
North East - 12 £51,500 - 1
North West +10 5 £65,000 +29.86% 8
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 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) JBoss
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) GCP
4 4 (23.53%) GitHub
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (17.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
2 6 (35.29%) MySQL
2 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (17.65%) DynamoDB
3 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Git
2 9 (52.94%) JIRA
3 3 (17.65%) GitLab
4 2 (11.76%) Artifactory
4 2 (11.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
5 1 (5.88%) Appium
5 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.88%) Postman
5 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.88%) Selenium
5 1 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Finance
3 7 (41.18%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Analyst
1 7 (41.18%) Applications Support
1 7 (41.18%) Applications Support Analyst
1 7 (41.18%) Support Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) DBA
2 3 (17.65%) SQL DBA
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Senior SQL DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) RESTful
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) CSS3
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) HTML5
3 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) OpenID
3 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Clustering
1 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Containerisation
2 9 (52.94%) Computer Science
3 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (41.18%) Business Continuity
4 7 (41.18%) Change Management
4 7 (41.18%) ITIL
5 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 6 (35.29%) DevOps
6 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (23.53%) Agile
7 4 (23.53%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 4 (23.53%) High Availability
7 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
8 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (17.65%) ETL
8 3 (17.65%) Microservices
8 3 (17.65%) Requirements Analysis
8 3 (17.65%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) Go
3 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (52.94%) Degree
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
1 2 (11.76%) vSphere
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (52.94%) Control-M
2 9 (52.94%) Grafana
3 7 (41.18%) Prometheus
4 5 (29.41%) Ansible
4 5 (29.41%) Terraform
5 3 (17.65%) Rancher
6 2 (11.76%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (5.88%) Nagios
7 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Atlassian
1 3 (17.65%) Informatica
1 3 (17.65%) RedGate
1 3 (17.65%) Talend
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) New Relic
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk