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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 373 557
Rank change year-on-year -295 +184 -24
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 85 346 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.71% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.95% 8.22% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 53 71 227
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% -16.67%

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 4,367 4,208 9,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.46% 8.60% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,891 2,670 6,180
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,700 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 10 July 2026.

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 10 July 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
England -247 83 £60,500 -6.92% 38
UK excluding London -283 51 £56,250 +2.27% 32
London -36 32 £90,000 +5.88% 12
North of England -134 22 £56,250 -6.25% 10
Work from Home -203 21 £65,000 +20.93% 18
North West -88 19 £55,000 -15.38% 3
South West -45 16 £59,000 +8.26% 3
South East -55 9 £52,500 +23.53% 11
North East -53 3 £70,000 +33.33% 2
East of England -25 2 £55,000 -6.38% 1
Scotland -34 1 - - 4
West Midlands -40 1 £43,000 - 1
Midlands -97 1 £43,000 -4.44% 3

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 22 (25.88%) Confluence
2 5 (5.88%) Apache
3 2 (2.35%) CMS
4 1 (1.18%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.18%) IIS
4 1 (1.18%) JBoss
4 1 (1.18%) nginx
4 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.18%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 44 (51.76%) AWS
2 24 (28.24%) Azure
3 23 (27.06%) GitHub
4 16 (18.82%) Serverless
5 15 (17.65%) Amazon S3
5 15 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (14.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (10.59%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (10.59%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (10.59%) AWS Fargate
9 8 (9.41%) GCP
9 8 (9.41%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (7.06%) CloudFront
10 6 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (5.88%) SaaS
12 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.29%) TCP/IP
2 9 (10.59%) DNS
2 9 (10.59%) Firewall
3 8 (9.41%) HTTPS
3 8 (9.41%) IPv4
3 8 (9.41%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (7.06%) VoIP
5 4 (4.71%) LAN
5 4 (4.71%) Network Security
5 4 (4.71%) WAN
6 2 (2.35%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (1.18%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.18%) DHCP
7 1 (1.18%) LTE
7 1 (1.18%) SNMP
7 1 (1.18%) SSL
7 1 (1.18%) VPN
7 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.65%) MySQL
2 14 (16.47%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (14.12%) DynamoDB
3 12 (14.12%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.41%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.18%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.18%) Db2
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (41.18%) Git
2 32 (37.65%) JIRA
3 22 (25.88%) Jenkins
4 18 (21.18%) GitLab
5 15 (17.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (9.41%) SonarQube
7 6 (7.06%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.71%) Metasploit
8 4 (4.71%) Selenium
9 3 (3.53%) Artifactory
9 3 (3.53%) NUnit
9 3 (3.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (3.53%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.35%) Eclipse
10 2 (2.35%) Maven
11 1 (1.18%) GoogleTest
11 1 (1.18%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.18%) JUnit
11 1 (1.18%) Toad
General
1 28 (32.94%) Finance
2 12 (14.12%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Aerospace
3 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.06%) Electronics
5 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.71%) Automotive
6 4 (4.71%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Marketing
8 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.18%) Banking
9 1 (1.18%) German Language
9 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.18%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.18%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 18 (21.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (20.00%) Senior
3 16 (18.82%) Developer
4 12 (14.12%) Lead
5 9 (10.59%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Cyber Threat Specialist
10 3 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Senior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) React
2 15 (17.65%) Node.js
3 12 (14.12%) AngularJS
4 9 (10.59%) RESTful
5 7 (8.24%) .NET
5 7 (8.24%) REST
5 7 (8.24%) Spring
6 6 (7.06%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.88%) CSS
7 5 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (5.88%) HTML
7 5 (5.88%) JSON
7 5 (5.88%) Kafka
8 4 (4.71%) boto
8 4 (4.71%) Jest
8 4 (4.71%) pytest
9 3 (3.53%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.53%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.53%) Playwright
9 3 (3.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.41%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (9.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.71%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (4.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.71%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.53%) PKI
4 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.18%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (54.12%) Linux
2 27 (31.76%) Windows
3 9 (10.59%) Unix
3 9 (10.59%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.24%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.06%) Debian
6 4 (4.71%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.35%) Android
7 2 (2.35%) CentOS
7 2 (2.35%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.35%) ThreadX
8 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (84.71%) CI/CD
2 41 (48.24%) Agile
3 35 (41.18%) DevOps
3 35 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (34.12%) Containerisation
5 18 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (20.00%) Scrum
7 16 (18.82%) Computer Science
7 16 (18.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (18.82%) Software Engineering
7 16 (18.82%) Test Automation
8 15 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (15.29%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (14.12%) Collaborative Culture
10 12 (14.12%) Observability
10 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (12.94%) DevSecOps
11 11 (12.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (12.94%) Mentoring
12 10 (11.76%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 57 (67.06%) Python
2 38 (44.71%) Bash
3 34 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 33 (38.82%) Java
5 28 (32.94%) SQL
6 10 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 9 (10.59%) JavaScript
8 8 (9.41%) C#
9 7 (8.24%) PHP
10 5 (5.88%) C++
11 3 (3.53%) Bicep
11 3 (3.53%) Go
12 2 (2.35%) C
12 2 (2.35%) Embedded C
13 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.82%) Degree
3 12 (14.12%) OSCP
4 9 (10.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (10.59%) ISTQB
5 8 (9.41%) CCNA
5 8 (9.41%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (9.41%) RHCE
5 8 (9.41%) RHCSA
6 6 (7.06%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.71%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.18%) HNC
10 1 (1.18%) HND
10 1 (1.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (31.76%) Docker
2 11 (12.94%) vSphere
3 9 (10.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.41%) Active Directory
4 8 (9.41%) Squid
4 8 (9.41%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.71%) iptables
6 2 (2.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.35%) Firmware
7 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (50.59%) Kubernetes
2 38 (44.71%) Ansible
3 27 (31.76%) Terraform
4 13 (15.29%) Grafana
5 9 (10.59%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.41%) Packer
6 8 (9.41%) ZABBIX
7 6 (7.06%) Argo
8 5 (5.88%) Progress Chef
8 5 (5.88%) Puppet
9 3 (3.53%) Control-M
9 3 (3.53%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (3.53%) Rancher
10 2 (2.35%) Kibana
11 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (1.18%) Nagios
11 1 (1.18%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.18%) Rundeck
11 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (22.35%) Splunk
3 12 (14.12%) Oracle
3 12 (14.12%) VMware
4 9 (10.59%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.88%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.71%) TOWER Software
7 3 (3.53%) DevExpress
8 2 (2.35%) Google
9 1 (1.18%) Adobe
9 1 (1.18%) Cisco
9 1 (1.18%) Dell
9 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.18%) HP
9 1 (1.18%) Juniper
9 1 (1.18%) New Relic
9 1 (1.18%) Veeam