Bitbucket Job Trends in the North West

Bitbucket
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 192 177
Rank change year-on-year +25 -15 +77
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 9 18 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.14% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.88% 4.34% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £37,500 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £45,250 £36,270
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -26.47% +13.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,125 £81,813
90th Percentile - £71,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £50,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -25.93% -

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 232 415 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.68% 8.23% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 176 251 398
10th Percentile - £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.48% +1.44%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Bitbucket job vacancy trend in the North West

Bitbucket
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bitbucket.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cheshire - 5 - - 1
Manchester +15 4 £65,000 +15.56% 1
Bitbucket
England

Bitbucket
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (44.44%) Camunda
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) GitLab
2 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
2 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (33.33%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) Appium
4 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (11.11%) Postman
4 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (11.11%) Selenium
4 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Software Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Backend Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) CSS3
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) OpenID
3 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (55.56%) API Development
4 5 (55.56%) Business Strategy
4 5 (55.56%) Code Quality
4 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
4 5 (55.56%) Secure Coding
4 5 (55.56%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Microservices
6 2 (22.22%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (22.22%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Rancher
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (11.11%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) New Relic
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk