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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 691 375 563
Rank change year-on-year -316 +188 -33
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 81 342 299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.70% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.88% 8.21% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51 69 195
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £75,000
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 4,301 4,166 8,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.30% 8.47% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,897 2,635 5,496
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £57,982
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +12.10% -10.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,250 £100,000 £93,750
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 21 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 21 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 -230 79 £62,500 -3.85% 40
UK excluding London -282 48 £56,250 +2.27% 35
London -24 31 £90,000 - 11
North of England -122 22 £56,250 -6.25% 9
Work from Home -231 21 £65,000 +23.81% 20
North West -92 19 £55,000 -15.38% 4
South West -49 13 £60,500 +11.01% 4
South East -46 9 £52,500 +23.53% 9
North East -54 3 £70,000 +33.33% 1
East of England -25 2 £55,000 -6.38% 1
Scotland -34 1 - - 4
West Midlands -44 1 £43,000 - 6
Midlands -97 1 £43,000 -4.44% 8

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 (27.16%) Confluence
2 5 (6.17%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) CMS
4 1 (1.23%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.23%) IIS
4 1 (1.23%) JBoss
4 1 (1.23%) nginx
4 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 42 (51.85%) AWS
2 23 (28.40%) GitHub
3 22 (27.16%) Azure
4 15 (18.52%) Serverless
5 14 (17.28%) Amazon S3
5 14 (17.28%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
7 8 (9.88%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (9.88%) GCP
8 6 (7.41%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (6.17%) CloudFront
9 5 (6.17%) SaaS
9 5 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.81%) TCP/IP
2 9 (11.11%) Firewall
3 8 (9.88%) DNS
3 8 (9.88%) HTTPS
3 8 (9.88%) IPv4
3 8 (9.88%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (7.41%) VoIP
5 4 (4.94%) LAN
5 4 (4.94%) WAN
6 3 (3.70%) Network Security
7 2 (2.47%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (1.23%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.23%) LTE
8 1 (1.23%) SNMP
8 1 (1.23%) SSL
8 1 (1.23%) VPN
8 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.81%) MySQL
3 11 (13.58%) DynamoDB
3 11 (13.58%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.23%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.23%) Db2
9 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 33 (40.74%) Git
1 33 (40.74%) JIRA
2 20 (24.69%) Jenkins
3 16 (19.75%) GitLab
4 15 (18.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (8.64%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.41%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.94%) Metasploit
7 4 (4.94%) Selenium
8 3 (3.70%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.70%) NUnit
8 3 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (3.70%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.47%) Maven
9 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.23%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.23%) utPLSQL
General
1 29 (35.80%) Finance
2 12 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.88%) Aerospace
5 6 (7.41%) Electronics
6 4 (4.94%) Automotive
6 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Marketing
8 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.23%) Banking
9 1 (1.23%) German Language
9 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.23%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.23%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Senior
2 16 (19.75%) Developer
3 14 (17.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (14.81%) Lead
5 9 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
5 9 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Analyst
9 4 (4.94%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 4 (4.94%) Cyber Threat Specialist
9 4 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.47%) Technical Consultant
11 2 (2.47%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.46%) React
2 15 (18.52%) Node.js
3 13 (16.05%) AngularJS
4 8 (9.88%) RESTful
5 7 (8.64%) .NET
5 7 (8.64%) REST
5 7 (8.64%) Spring
6 6 (7.41%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.17%) CSS
7 5 (6.17%) HTML
7 5 (6.17%) JSON
7 5 (6.17%) Kafka
8 4 (4.94%) boto
8 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.94%) Jest
8 4 (4.94%) pytest
9 3 (3.70%) CSS3
9 3 (3.70%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.70%) Playwright
9 3 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.88%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (9.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.94%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (4.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.94%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (49.38%) Linux
2 25 (30.86%) Windows
3 9 (11.11%) Unix
3 9 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.64%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.41%) Debian
6 4 (4.94%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.47%) Android
7 2 (2.47%) CentOS
7 2 (2.47%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.47%) ThreadX
8 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (85.19%) CI/CD
2 38 (46.91%) Agile
3 31 (38.27%) DevOps
3 31 (38.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (30.86%) Containerisation
5 17 (20.99%) Scrum
5 17 (20.99%) Software Engineering
6 16 (19.75%) Computer Science
6 16 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (19.75%) Test Automation
7 15 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (17.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (16.05%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (14.81%) Observability
10 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (13.58%) Collaborative Culture
11 11 (13.58%) DevSecOps
11 11 (13.58%) SDLC
12 10 (12.35%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 53 (65.43%) Python
2 34 (41.98%) Bash
3 31 (38.27%) Java
4 30 (37.04%) PowerShell
5 29 (35.80%) SQL
6 11 (13.58%) TypeScript
7 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
8 7 (8.64%) PHP
9 6 (7.41%) C#
10 4 (4.94%) C++
11 3 (3.70%) Bicep
12 2 (2.47%) C
12 2 (2.47%) Embedded C
12 2 (2.47%) Go
13 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) AWS Certification
1 16 (19.75%) Degree
2 13 (16.05%) Security Cleared
3 12 (14.81%) OSCP
4 9 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (11.11%) ISTQB
5 8 (9.88%) CCNA
5 8 (9.88%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (9.88%) RHCE
5 8 (9.88%) RHCSA
6 6 (7.41%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.94%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.70%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.23%) HNC
10 1 (1.23%) HND
10 1 (1.23%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (30.86%) Docker
2 11 (13.58%) vSphere
3 8 (9.88%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.88%) Squid
3 8 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.88%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.70%) iptables
5 2 (2.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (2.47%) Firmware
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (49.38%) Kubernetes
2 32 (39.51%) Ansible
3 22 (27.16%) Terraform
4 12 (14.81%) Grafana
5 8 (9.88%) Packer
5 8 (9.88%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.88%) ZABBIX
6 6 (7.41%) Argo
7 4 (4.94%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.94%) Puppet
8 3 (3.70%) Control-M
8 3 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (2.47%) Kibana
9 2 (2.47%) Rancher
10 1 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.23%) Nagios
10 1 (1.23%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 18 (22.22%) Splunk
3 11 (13.58%) Oracle
3 11 (13.58%) VMware
4 9 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.94%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.94%) TOWER Software
6 3 (3.70%) DevExpress
7 2 (2.47%) Google
8 1 (1.23%) Adobe
8 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.23%) New Relic