Bitbucket Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Bitbucket
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 412 443
Rank change year-on-year -116 +31 +13
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 36 78 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.49% 2.94% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24 47 216
10th Percentile £41,025 - £27,500
25th Percentile £49,688 £43,750 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,500 £71,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% +8.49% -21.48%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,415 2,657 6,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.01% 10.26% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,672 1,882 4,599
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £83,750
UK 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 UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bitbucket relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Bitbucket job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Bitbucket
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bitbucket.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK excluding London

Bitbucket
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 April 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 of England -61 17 £55,000 -4.35% 16
South West -45 12 £52,500 -23.91% 10
North West -33 11 £65,000 +18.18% 11
North East -22 6 £51,250 -21.15% 3
South East -60 4 £55,000 +4.76% 8
West Midlands -18 1 £43,000 -28.33% 3
East of England -50 1 £55,000 +15.79% 3
Midlands -51 1 £43,000 -18.10% 4
Scotland - 1 - -
Bitbucket
UK

Bitbucket
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (19.44%) Confluence
2 4 (11.11%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) JBoss
3 2 (5.56%) nginx
4 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) AWS
3 7 (19.44%) Serverless
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 6 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (16.67%) GitHub
5 5 (13.89%) GCP
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) CloudFront
6 4 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Network Security
2 2 (5.56%) DHCP
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) SSL
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) Bluetooth
3 1 (2.78%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) LTE
3 1 (2.78%) SAN
3 1 (2.78%) SNMP
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) MongoDB
2 8 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (19.44%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (19.44%) MySQL
3 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.78%) Metadata
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.78%) Power BI
7 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (69.44%) Git
2 12 (33.33%) JIRA
3 9 (25.00%) GitLab
4 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 3 (8.33%) NUnit
6 2 (5.56%) JUnit
6 2 (5.56%) Subversion
7 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.78%) Maven
7 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.78%) Toad
7 1 (2.78%) utPLSQL
7 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Advertising
4 2 (5.56%) Electronics
4 2 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) German Language
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Lead
4 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Applications Support
6 3 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Support Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Administrator
7 2 (5.56%) Applications Developer
7 2 (5.56%) DBA
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.56%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) React
2 7 (19.44%) RESTful
3 5 (13.89%) REST
4 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 4 (11.11%) JSON
5 3 (8.33%) .NET
5 3 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET
5 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (8.33%) CSS
5 3 (8.33%) Entity Framework
5 3 (8.33%) HTML
5 3 (8.33%) Vitest
6 2 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (5.56%) CSS3
6 2 (5.56%) HTML5
6 2 (5.56%) Keycloak
6 2 (5.56%) Node.js
6 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
6 2 (5.56%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Clustering
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Device Driver
4 1 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.78%) IoT
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) NB-IoT
4 1 (2.78%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (55.56%) Linux
2 9 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) VMS
4 1 (2.78%) Android
4 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.78%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.78%) ThreadX
4 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 16 (44.44%) DevOps
3 15 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 15 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (36.11%) Agile
5 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (27.78%) Mentoring
7 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 8 (22.22%) Microservices
8 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
9 7 (19.44%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (16.67%) Configuration Management
11 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Culture
11 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (13.89%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 5 (13.89%) Software Testing
11 5 (13.89%) System Testing
11 5 (13.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) Python
2 14 (38.89%) SQL
3 10 (27.78%) Java
4 9 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (22.22%) Bash
5 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
7 4 (11.11%) Go
8 3 (8.33%) Bicep
8 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
9 2 (5.56%) C#
10 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
10 1 (2.78%) C
10 1 (2.78%) C++
10 1 (2.78%) Embedded C
10 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.78%) LPIC
6 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.78%) PhD
6 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) iptables
3 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (2.78%) Firmware
4 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) Ansible
2 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
3 10 (27.78%) Terraform
4 9 (25.00%) Grafana
5 8 (22.22%) Prometheus
6 5 (13.89%) Progress Chef
6 5 (13.89%) Puppet
7 4 (11.11%) Control-M
7 4 (11.11%) Rancher
8 3 (8.33%) Kibana
9 2 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (5.56%) Nagios
9 2 (5.56%) NetBackup
9 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (2.78%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) DevExpress
3 3 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.33%) VMware
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Dell
4 2 (5.56%) HP
4 2 (5.56%) Informatica
4 2 (5.56%) Juniper
4 2 (5.56%) New Relic
4 2 (5.56%) RedGate
4 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 2 (5.56%) Talend
4 2 (5.56%) Veeam
5 1 (2.78%) Adobe
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Siemens