Bitbucket Job Trends in the South West

Bitbucket
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 167 191
Rank change year-on-year -58 +24 +1
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 15 7 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.20% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.22% 2.85% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 12
10th Percentile - £31,750 £40,375
25th Percentile £47,750 £39,125 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -7.96% +13.00%
75th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 £67,438
90th Percentile - £79,375 £72,500
England median annual salary £61,500 £55,149 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.52% +0.27% -21.43%

All Development Application Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 466 246 605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.39% 6.87% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 290 155 354
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -3.45%
75th Percentile £72,500 £64,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,375 £83,750 £80,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Bitbucket job vacancy trend in the South West

Bitbucket
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Gloucestershire -56 13 £60,500 -13.57% 8
Bristol -41 2 - - 3
Bitbucket
England

Bitbucket
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 7 (46.67%) Confluence
2 5 (33.33%) nginx
3 3 (20.00%) Apache
3 3 (20.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (40.00%) Serverless
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (26.67%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (20.00%) Datadog
5 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
6 2 (13.33%) GCP
6 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (13.33%) Route 53
6 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) IPv4
1 4 (26.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) Git
2 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (46.67%) JIRA
4 6 (40.00%) GitLab
5 2 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (13.33%) git-flow
5 2 (13.33%) Subversion
6 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
6 1 (6.67%) GoogleTest
6 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
6 1 (6.67%) Selenium
6 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Aerospace
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Applications Developer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) boto
3 3 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) CSS3
3 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 3 (20.00%) HTML5
3 3 (20.00%) Keycloak
3 3 (20.00%) OAuth
3 3 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (20.00%) OpenID
3 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (20.00%) React
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CDK
4 2 (13.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) PKI
2 3 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Social Media
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.67%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 11 (73.33%) Agile
4 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (53.33%) Systems Engineering
6 7 (46.67%) DevOps
7 6 (40.00%) Scrum
7 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
8 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
9 4 (26.67%) Migration
9 4 (26.67%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (26.67%) Programme Management
9 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
9 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
10 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (73.33%) Java
3 7 (46.67%) Bash
4 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (26.67%) C++
6 3 (20.00%) C#
6 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (13.33%) Go
7 2 (13.33%) SQL
8 1 (6.67%) C
8 1 (6.67%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (26.67%) CCNA
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (26.67%) OSCP
3 4 (26.67%) RHCE
3 4 (26.67%) RHCSA
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
2 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (26.67%) Squid
3 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (26.67%) VMware NSX
3 4 (26.67%) vSphere
4 3 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Ansible
2 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (26.67%) Packer
4 4 (26.67%) ZABBIX
5 3 (20.00%) Nagios
5 3 (20.00%) Puppet
6 2 (13.33%) Rancher
7 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (46.67%) Splunk
3 5 (33.33%) Atlassian
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle
4 4 (26.67%) VMware
5 3 (20.00%) New Relic
6 1 (6.67%) Google