Bitbucket Job Trends

Bitbucket
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 557 410
Rank change year-on-year -2 -147 -3
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 85 169 297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.30% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.34% 2.91% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 56 95 261
10th Percentile £42,250 - £31,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -28.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £103,438 £65,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,625 £82,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.47% -12.04% -1.82%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,626 5,805 6,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 10.31% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 3,416 5,109
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,537 £42,439
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,625 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +8.23%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Bitbucket job vacancy trend in the UK

Bitbucket
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bitbucket.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the UK over the 6 months to 21 December 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
England -3 75 £75,000 +50.00% 30
London +72 38 £102,500 +31.41% 5
UK excluding London -43 38 £52,000 +9.47% 26
North of England +21 23 £51,500 +3.00% 8
Work from Home -20 17 £72,500 +52.63% 9
North East - 14 £51,500 - 1
North West +28 9 £65,000 +30.00% 6
South West -3 8 £62,500 -3.10% 6
South East +5 4 £55,000 -8.33% 8
West Midlands +24 1 - - 1
Midlands +6 1 - - 3
Wales +2 1 - -
Northern Ireland -5 1 - -

Bitbucket
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 33 (38.82%) Confluence
2 7 (8.24%) IIS
3 6 (7.06%) Apache
4 5 (5.88%) Tomcat
5 4 (4.71%) Camunda
6 1 (1.18%) JBoss
6 1 (1.18%) nginx
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (10.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (45.88%) AWS
2 34 (40.00%) Azure
3 16 (18.82%) GitHub
4 14 (16.47%) GCP
5 12 (14.12%) Amazon S3
6 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (12.94%) Serverless
7 10 (11.76%) OpenShift
8 9 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (9.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (9.41%) Entra ID
10 7 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (7.06%) CloudFront
12 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.88%) Figma
13 4 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (3.53%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (3.53%) Azure AKS
14 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (2.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) DNS
2 3 (3.53%) SAN
3 1 (1.18%) DHCP
3 1 (1.18%) Firewall
3 1 (1.18%) Multicast
3 1 (1.18%) Network Security
3 1 (1.18%) SSL
3 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (24.71%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (15.29%) MongoDB
4 11 (12.94%) DB2
5 9 (10.59%) MySQL
6 7 (8.24%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (8.24%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.88%) Oracle Database
7 5 (5.88%) RDBMS
7 5 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.53%) DynamoDB
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.18%) Metadata
11 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 54 (63.53%) JIRA
2 33 (38.82%) Jenkins
3 29 (34.12%) Git
3 29 (34.12%) GitLab
4 16 (18.82%) Selenium
5 14 (16.47%) TeamCity
6 12 (14.12%) Cucumber
7 11 (12.94%) SonarQube
7 11 (12.94%) Subversion
8 7 (8.24%) Cypress.io
9 6 (7.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (7.06%) JUnit
10 5 (5.88%) JMeter
10 5 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (5.88%) Vite
11 4 (4.71%) REST Assured
12 3 (3.53%) Artifactory
12 3 (3.53%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (3.53%) Postman
13 2 (2.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 53 (62.35%) Social Skills
2 40 (47.06%) Finance
3 19 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (15.29%) Banking
5 11 (12.94%) Public Sector
6 9 (10.59%) Manufacturing
6 9 (10.59%) Telecoms
7 8 (9.41%) Advertising
7 8 (9.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.35%) Retail
9 1 (1.18%) Back Office
9 1 (1.18%) Electronics
9 1 (1.18%) Front Office
9 1 (1.18%) Games
9 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Senior
2 20 (23.53%) Developer
3 13 (15.29%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (14.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) Lead
6 10 (11.76%) Java Developer
7 8 (9.41%) Applications Support
7 8 (9.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (9.41%) Consultant
7 8 (9.41%) DevOps Consultant
7 8 (9.41%) Senior Consultant
7 8 (9.41%) Senior DevOps Consultant
8 7 (8.24%) Agile Developer
8 7 (8.24%) Agile Java Developer
8 7 (8.24%) Analyst
8 7 (8.24%) Applications Support Analyst
8 7 (8.24%) Support Analyst
9 6 (7.06%) Software Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.06%) React
2 17 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (16.47%) CSS
3 14 (16.47%) HTML
3 14 (16.47%) RESTful
4 11 (12.94%) Gherkin
5 10 (11.76%) Node.js
6 8 (9.41%) REST
7 7 (8.24%) Kafka
8 5 (5.88%) .NET
8 5 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (5.88%) Jest
8 5 (5.88%) Middleware
8 5 (5.88%) Next.js
8 5 (5.88%) Playwright
8 5 (5.88%) Spring
8 5 (5.88%) Spring Boot
9 4 (4.71%) Hibernate
9 4 (4.71%) JSF
9 4 (4.71%) PrimeFaces
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.71%) Clustering
4 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.18%) FPGA
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
5 1 (1.18%) Replication
5 1 (1.18%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 35 (41.18%) Linux
2 20 (23.53%) Windows
3 6 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.35%) Unix
5 2 (2.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (67.06%) CI/CD
2 47 (55.29%) DevOps
3 43 (50.59%) Agile
4 32 (37.65%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (25.88%) Continuous Integration
5 22 (25.88%) Unit Testing
6 21 (24.71%) Microservices
7 20 (23.53%) Test Automation
8 19 (22.35%) Front End Development
8 19 (22.35%) Software Engineering
9 18 (21.18%) Collaborative Culture
9 18 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (21.18%) Design Patterns
9 18 (21.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (21.18%) User Experience
10 17 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 16 (18.82%) Computer Science
12 15 (17.65%) Change Management
12 15 (17.65%) Scrum
13 14 (16.47%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.53%) Java
2 32 (37.65%) SQL
3 29 (34.12%) JavaScript
4 25 (29.41%) Python
5 16 (18.82%) TypeScript
6 14 (16.47%) PowerShell
7 12 (14.12%) Bash
8 10 (11.76%) C#
9 6 (7.06%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.53%) RPG
11 2 (2.35%) Apex Code
11 2 (2.35%) Go
12 1 (1.18%) Bicep
12 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Degree
2 16 (18.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.24%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.06%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (7.06%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (7.06%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.35%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) QA
2 7 (8.24%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.35%) SEPA
4 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (40.00%) Docker
2 13 (15.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.53%) vSphere
5 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.18%) iptables
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 19 (22.35%) Ansible
3 15 (17.65%) Grafana
4 14 (16.47%) Terraform
5 10 (11.76%) Control-M
5 10 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 9 (10.59%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (7.06%) Puppet
8 5 (5.88%) Kibana
8 5 (5.88%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.53%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.35%) Rancher
10 2 (2.35%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (1.18%) Ambari
11 1 (1.18%) Argo
11 1 (1.18%) Nagios
11 1 (1.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 34 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 17 (20.00%) Oracle
3 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.59%) VMware
5 7 (8.24%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.71%) IBM
6 4 (4.71%) Informatica
6 4 (4.71%) RedGate
6 4 (4.71%) Splunk
6 4 (4.71%) Talend
7 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.35%) Google
7 2 (2.35%) New Relic
7 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.18%) Dell
8 1 (1.18%) HP
8 1 (1.18%) Juniper
8 1 (1.18%) SAP
8 1 (1.18%) Siemens
8 1 (1.18%) Veeam