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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 355 532
Rank change year-on-year -295 +177 +7
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 81 351 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.80% 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.93% 8.51% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 53 69 260
10th Percentile £47,750 £42,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £66,188
90th Percentile £109,500 £115,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 4,196 4,126 9,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 9.45% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,759 2,664 6,544
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.40% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,925
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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -253 78 £63,750 +6.25% 56
UK excluding London -280 43 £57,500 +4.55% 40
London -32 35 £100,000 +42.86% 14
Work from Home -196 19 £65,000 +18.18% 21
North of England -136 17 £61,250 +8.89% 10
South West -41 15 £59,000 +8.26% 5
North West -88 15 £56,250 -13.46% 8
South East -41 8 £52,500 +27.27% 19
North East -42 2 £70,000 +33.33% 1
Scotland -39 1 - - 1
East of England -42 1 £55,000 -6.38% 1
West Midlands -61 1 £43,000 - 1
Midlands -107 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 23 (28.40%) Confluence
2 5 (6.17%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) JBoss
3 2 (2.47%) nginx
4 1 (1.23%) CMS
4 1 (1.23%) IIS
4 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (50.62%) AWS
2 25 (30.86%) Azure
3 19 (23.46%) GitHub
4 12 (14.81%) Serverless
5 11 (13.58%) Amazon S3
5 11 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (12.35%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (9.88%) GCP
9 7 (8.64%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (7.41%) CloudFront
10 6 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (6.17%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (6.17%) SaaS
12 4 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (4.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.81%) TCP/IP
2 10 (12.35%) DNS
3 9 (11.11%) Firewall
4 8 (9.88%) HTTPS
4 8 (9.88%) IPv4
4 8 (9.88%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (4.94%) Network Security
5 4 (4.94%) VoIP
6 2 (2.47%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (2.47%) DHCP
6 2 (2.47%) LAN
6 2 (2.47%) SSL
6 2 (2.47%) WAN
7 1 (1.23%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.23%) LTE
7 1 (1.23%) SNMP
7 1 (1.23%) VPN
7 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (13.58%) MySQL
3 10 (12.35%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.88%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (9.88%) DynamoDB
5 7 (8.64%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.94%) DB2
6 4 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.23%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.23%) Power BI
8 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (45.68%) Git
2 29 (35.80%) JIRA
3 25 (30.86%) Jenkins
4 20 (24.69%) GitLab
5 8 (9.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (8.64%) Selenium
6 7 (8.64%) SonarQube
7 5 (6.17%) Cucumber
7 5 (6.17%) Cypress.io
7 5 (6.17%) TeamCity
8 4 (4.94%) Metasploit
9 3 (3.70%) NUnit
9 3 (3.70%) Subversion
10 2 (2.47%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.47%) Eclipse
10 2 (2.47%) Maven
10 2 (2.47%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (1.23%) GoogleTest
11 1 (1.23%) Robot Framework
11 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (32.10%) Finance
2 16 (19.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 7 (8.64%) Electronics
5 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.41%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.94%) Automotive
7 4 (4.94%) Banking
8 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.47%) Marketing
9 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.23%) German Language
10 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Retail
10 1 (1.23%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.23%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Developer
2 18 (22.22%) Senior
3 15 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (14.81%) Lead
5 8 (9.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Lead Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Cyber Threat Specialist
9 3 (3.70%) Consultant
9 3 (3.70%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.46%) React
2 12 (14.81%) RESTful
3 11 (13.58%) Node.js
4 9 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 9 (11.11%) CSS
4 9 (11.11%) HTML
5 7 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (8.64%) REST
6 6 (7.41%) .NET
7 5 (6.17%) CSS3
7 5 (6.17%) HTML5
7 5 (6.17%) JSON
8 4 (4.94%) boto
8 4 (4.94%) Gherkin
9 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.70%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.70%) Jest
9 3 (3.70%) Playwright
9 3 (3.70%) pytest
9 3 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (9.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (8.64%) Cloud Native
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%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.70%) PKI
4 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (53.09%) Linux
2 26 (32.10%) Windows
3 9 (11.11%) Unix
3 9 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.17%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.94%) Debian
5 4 (4.94%) Kali Linux
6 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise 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%) ThreadX
8 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (80.25%) CI/CD
2 38 (46.91%) Agile
3 35 (43.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (40.74%) DevOps
5 27 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 18 (22.22%) Scrum
7 16 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.28%) Software Engineering
9 14 (17.28%) Test Automation
10 13 (16.05%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (14.81%) Computer Science
11 12 (14.81%) DevSecOps
11 12 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (14.81%) Microservices
12 11 (13.58%) Mentoring
12 11 (13.58%) SDLC
13 10 (12.35%) Incident Response
14 9 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (61.73%) Python
2 37 (45.68%) Bash
3 32 (39.51%) PowerShell
4 30 (37.04%) Java
5 26 (32.10%) SQL
6 12 (14.81%) JavaScript
7 11 (13.58%) TypeScript
8 7 (8.64%) C#
9 5 (6.17%) PHP
10 4 (4.94%) C++
11 3 (3.70%) Bicep
11 3 (3.70%) Go
12 2 (2.47%) C
12 2 (2.47%) Embedded C
13 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
13 1 (1.23%) RPG
13 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.05%) AWS Certification
3 12 (14.81%) Degree
3 12 (14.81%) OSCP
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 5 (6.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.94%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (4.94%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.70%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.23%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (35.80%) Docker
2 10 (12.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (12.35%) vSphere
3 9 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 8 (9.88%) Squid
4 8 (9.88%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.94%) iptables
6 2 (2.47%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.47%) Firmware
6 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (51.85%) Kubernetes
2 37 (45.68%) Ansible
3 26 (32.10%) Terraform
4 11 (13.58%) Grafana
5 8 (9.88%) Packer
5 8 (9.88%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.88%) ZABBIX
6 5 (6.17%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.17%) Puppet
7 4 (4.94%) Argo
8 3 (3.70%) Rancher
8 3 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.47%) Control-M
9 2 (2.47%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (2.47%) Kibana
9 2 (2.47%) Nagios
9 2 (2.47%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.23%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (27.16%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.52%) Splunk
3 12 (14.81%) Oracle
3 12 (14.81%) VMware
4 11 (13.58%) Red Hat
5 9 (11.11%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.94%) TOWER Software
7 3 (3.70%) DevExpress
7 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.47%) Cisco
8 2 (2.47%) Dell
8 2 (2.47%) Google
8 2 (2.47%) HP
8 2 (2.47%) Juniper
8 2 (2.47%) New Relic
8 2 (2.47%) Veeam
9 1 (1.23%) Adobe
9 1 (1.23%) IBM
9 1 (1.23%) SAP
9 1 (1.23%) Siemens