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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 281 260
Rank change year-on-year +109 -21 +42
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 133 28 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.47% 0.22% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.23% 3.13% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 28
10th Percentile - £36,150 £36,270
25th Percentile £42,250 £38,375 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -7.49% -1.30%
75th Percentile £60,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 £80,338
England median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -28.57% +7.69%

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 549 895 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.05% 7.04% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 312 482 871
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,720 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 +92 116 - - 14
North East +25 17 £52,000 +22.35% 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 41 (30.83%) Confluence
2 4 (3.01%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 125 (93.98%) Azure
2 116 (87.22%) AWS
3 43 (32.33%) GCP
4 6 (4.51%) GitHub
5 4 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (95.49%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.76%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.76%) MySQL
2 5 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.76%) RDBMS
2 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
2 5 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 122 (91.73%) JIRA
2 121 (90.98%) SonarQube
3 118 (88.72%) GitLab
3 118 (88.72%) Sonatype Nexus
4 114 (85.71%) Selenium
5 113 (84.96%) Cucumber
5 113 (84.96%) Maven
6 6 (4.51%) Git
7 5 (3.76%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.26%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.26%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.26%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.75%) Appium
9 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.75%) JUnit
9 1 (0.75%) Mockito
9 1 (0.75%) Postman
9 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
General
1 121 (90.98%) Finance
2 112 (84.21%) Banking
2 112 (84.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 72 (54.14%) Corporate Banking
3 72 (54.14%) Investment Banking
3 72 (54.14%) Retail
4 18 (13.53%) Social Skills
5 10 (7.52%) Advertising
6 5 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (84.21%) Software Engineer
2 6 (4.51%) Analyst
2 6 (4.51%) Applications Support
2 6 (4.51%) Applications Support Analyst
2 6 (4.51%) Developer
2 6 (4.51%) Support Analyst
3 5 (3.76%) DBA
3 5 (3.76%) Software Developer
3 5 (3.76%) SQL DBA
4 4 (3.01%) Backend Developer
5 3 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.50%) Senior
6 2 (1.50%) Senior DBA
6 2 (1.50%) Senior SQL DBA
7 1 (0.75%) Administrator
7 1 (0.75%) Java Developer
7 1 (0.75%) Lead
7 1 (0.75%) Lead Test Engineer
7 1 (0.75%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (84.96%) CSS
1 113 (84.96%) HTML
1 113 (84.96%) JPA
1 113 (84.96%) React
1 113 (84.96%) Redux
1 113 (84.96%) Spring Boot
2 112 (84.21%) Kafka
2 112 (84.21%) Spring
3 76 (57.14%) REST
4 73 (54.89%) Jest
5 72 (54.14%) CSS3
5 72 (54.14%) HTML5
5 72 (54.14%) RESTful
5 72 (54.14%) Sass
6 41 (30.83%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 112 (84.21%) Enterprise Software
1 112 (84.21%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.01%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.77%) Linux
1 9 (6.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (91.73%) DevOps
2 121 (90.98%) Containerisation
3 117 (87.97%) CI/CD
4 114 (85.71%) Agile
4 114 (85.71%) Test Automation
5 113 (84.96%) Front End Development
5 113 (84.96%) Microservices
5 113 (84.96%) Performance Optimisation
6 112 (84.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 112 (84.21%) SDLC
6 112 (84.21%) Software Engineering
7 77 (57.89%) Strategic Thinking
8 73 (54.89%) Mentoring
9 72 (54.14%) Migration
9 72 (54.14%) Responsive Web Design
9 72 (54.14%) User Experience
10 46 (34.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (30.83%) TDD
12 40 (30.08%) Clean Code
13 9 (6.77%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 123 (92.48%) SQL
2 121 (90.98%) Java
3 113 (84.96%) JavaScript
4 72 (54.14%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.76%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.26%) C#
6 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (6.77%) Degree
2 6 (4.51%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (3.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (84.96%) QA
2 72 (54.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 115 (86.47%) Docker
2 3 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (90.98%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.77%) Control-M
2 9 (6.77%) Grafana
3 6 (4.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.26%) Ansible
4 3 (2.26%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (2.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 112 (84.21%) Solace
2 5 (3.76%) Informatica
2 5 (3.76%) RedGate
2 5 (3.76%) Talend
3 3 (2.26%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.26%) Google
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.26%) VMware
4 1 (0.75%) Veracode