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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 577 461
Rank change year-on-year +2 -116 -59
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 85 182 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.27% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.31% 3.07% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 57 97 245
10th Percentile £36,900 £41,050 £44,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £82,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -

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 3,685 5,924 6,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 8.80% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,340 3,305 5,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,574 £42,399
25th Percentile £43,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,625 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% +5.45%

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 17 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 14 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 17 November 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 -2 77 £60,000 +20.00% 106
UK excluding London -14 45 £51,500 +3.00% 55
London +85 34 £100,000 +28.21% 55
North of England +35 25 £51,500 +7.29% 22
North East +26 18 £51,500 +21.18% 6
Work from Home +6 18 £65,000 +36.84% 57
South East +6 8 £40,000 -33.33% 13
South West 0 8 £52,000 -24.64% 11
North West +32 7 - - 14
Midlands +57 1 - - 3
West Midlands +46 1 - - 1
Wales +10 1 - -
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 £65,000 - 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 24 (28.24%) Confluence
2 8 (9.41%) IIS
3 5 (5.88%) Apache
4 4 (4.71%) Camunda
5 3 (3.53%) CMS
5 3 (3.53%) Tomcat
5 3 (3.53%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) Notion
2 1 (1.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 39 (45.88%) AWS
2 34 (40.00%) Azure
3 17 (20.00%) GitHub
4 11 (12.94%) Amazon S3
4 11 (12.94%) GCP
5 10 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (11.76%) Serverless
6 6 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (7.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (7.06%) CloudFront
6 6 (7.06%) Figma
6 6 (7.06%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.53%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.53%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) SAN
2 3 (3.53%) DNS
3 1 (1.18%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.18%) Firewall
3 1 (1.18%) Multicast
3 1 (1.18%) Network Security
3 1 (1.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 19 (22.35%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (16.47%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.59%) MySQL
5 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.24%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (8.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (7.06%) RDBMS
8 5 (5.88%) DB2
9 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.35%) Redis
11 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.18%) Big Data
11 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 54 (63.53%) JIRA
2 31 (36.47%) Git
3 24 (28.24%) Jenkins
4 23 (27.06%) GitLab
5 12 (14.12%) SonarQube
6 10 (11.76%) Selenium
6 10 (11.76%) TeamCity
7 8 (9.41%) Subversion
7 8 (9.41%) Vite
8 7 (8.24%) Cucumber
8 7 (8.24%) Cypress.io
8 7 (8.24%) JUnit
8 7 (8.24%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (7.06%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (4.71%) Artifactory
10 4 (4.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (4.71%) JMeter
10 4 (4.71%) Visual Studio
11 3 (3.53%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (56.47%) Social Skills
2 32 (37.65%) Finance
3 13 (15.29%) Advertising
3 13 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.24%) Banking
4 7 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.71%) Back Office
6 4 (4.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.35%) Electronics
7 2 (2.35%) Games
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
8 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) iGaming
8 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (28.24%) Developer
2 21 (24.71%) Senior
3 14 (16.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) Applications Support
4 10 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (10.59%) Lead
6 7 (8.24%) Analyst
6 7 (8.24%) Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (8.24%) DBA
6 7 (8.24%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.24%) Software Developer
6 7 (8.24%) SQL DBA
6 7 (8.24%) Support Analyst
7 6 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Technical Leader
8 5 (5.88%) Agile Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Agile Java Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.53%) React
2 16 (18.82%) CSS
2 16 (18.82%) HTML
3 13 (15.29%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (11.76%) .NET
5 7 (8.24%) REST
5 7 (8.24%) RESTful
6 6 (7.06%) .NET Framework
6 6 (7.06%) Jest
6 6 (7.06%) Node.js
6 6 (7.06%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.88%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (5.88%) Gherkin
7 5 (5.88%) Hibernate
7 5 (5.88%) Kafka
7 5 (5.88%) Next.js
7 5 (5.88%) Sass
7 5 (5.88%) Spring
8 4 (4.71%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.06%) Clustering
2 5 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.35%) IoT
4 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.18%) Animation
5 1 (1.18%) CAN bus
5 1 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.18%) FMCG
5 1 (1.18%) FPGA
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (37.65%) Linux
2 18 (21.18%) Windows
3 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Unix
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 43 (50.59%) DevOps
3 33 (38.82%) Agile
4 28 (32.94%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (24.71%) Computer Science
6 19 (22.35%) Front End Development
7 16 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (18.82%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (18.82%) Test Automation
7 16 (18.82%) User Experience
8 15 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 15 (17.65%) Unit Testing
9 14 (16.47%) Mentoring
9 14 (16.47%) Software Engineering
10 13 (15.29%) High Availability
10 13 (15.29%) Microservices
11 12 (14.12%) Design Patterns
12 11 (12.94%) Collaborative Culture
12 11 (12.94%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 33 (38.82%) SQL
2 29 (34.12%) Java
3 28 (32.94%) JavaScript
4 19 (22.35%) Python
5 14 (16.47%) C#
6 13 (15.29%) TypeScript
7 11 (12.94%) PowerShell
8 9 (10.59%) Bash
9 8 (9.41%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.35%) C++
10 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.18%) Bicep
11 1 (1.18%) C
11 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.18%) Perl
11 1 (1.18%) PHP
11 1 (1.18%) RPG
Qualifications
1 24 (28.24%) Degree
2 20 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.06%) AWS Certification
3 6 (7.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (7.06%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 5 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.18%) HNC
7 1 (1.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.94%) Accessibility
2 8 (9.41%) QA
3 2 (2.35%) SEPA
4 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (32.94%) Docker
2 7 (8.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.71%) vSphere
5 1 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (1.18%) Firmware
5 1 (1.18%) iptables
Systems Management
1 26 (30.59%) Kubernetes
2 16 (18.82%) Grafana
3 15 (17.65%) Ansible
3 15 (17.65%) Terraform
4 11 (12.94%) Control-M
4 11 (12.94%) Prometheus
5 7 (8.24%) Kibana
6 5 (5.88%) Puppet
7 4 (4.71%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (4.71%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.35%) logstash
8 2 (2.35%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.18%) Ambari
Vendors
1 25 (29.41%) Atlassian
2 15 (17.65%) Oracle
3 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.24%) Informatica
4 7 (8.24%) RedGate
4 7 (8.24%) Talend
4 7 (8.24%) VMware
5 4 (4.71%) Splunk
6 3 (3.53%) Google
6 3 (3.53%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.35%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.35%) IBM
8 1 (1.18%) Adobe
8 1 (1.18%) EMC
8 1 (1.18%) New Relic
8 1 (1.18%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.18%) Veracode