Bitbucket Job Trends

Bitbucket
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 600 503
Rank change year-on-year +221 -97 -97
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 325 193 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.25% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.68% 2.91% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51 106 241
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -18.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75,625 £72,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £78,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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 3,743 6,642 8,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.60% 8.54% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,220 3,839 6,414
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,700 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,100 £93,750 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,785 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.25% -5.17% +5.45%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bitbucket as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket 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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 16 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 16 September 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
UK excluding London +199 286 £55,000 +10.00% 109
England +199 264 £57,500 - 117
Work from Home +214 261 £52,500 +5.00% 102
North of England +141 126 £52,500 -8.70% 31
North West +87 116 - - 20
Midlands +119 63 - - 23
Scotland +80 50 £65,000 +30.00% 7
East Midlands +58 39 - - 8
London +55 35 £80,000 +10.34% 24
West Midlands +73 24 - - 14
South East +28 17 £40,000 -11.11% 21
East of England -4 15 - - 11
North East +27 10 £52,500 +23.53% 7
South West +40 6 £52,000 -7.96% 14
Northern Ireland - 6 £55,000 - 2
Wales +24 4 £70,000 - 1

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 175 (53.85%) Confluence
2 9 (2.77%) Tomcat
3 8 (2.46%) nginx
4 6 (1.85%) CMS
5 4 (1.23%) Camunda
6 3 (0.92%) Apache
6 3 (0.92%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.92%) IIS
6 3 (0.92%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.62%) CICS
8 1 (0.31%) Mule
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.31%) Notion
1 1 (0.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 285 (87.69%) AWS
2 266 (81.85%) Azure
3 164 (50.46%) GCP
4 12 (3.69%) GitHub
4 12 (3.69%) Serverless
5 9 (2.77%) Amazon S3
5 9 (2.77%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (2.46%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 8 (2.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (1.85%) CloudFront
7 6 (1.85%) Figma
8 5 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.23%) npm
10 3 (0.92%) Datadog
10 3 (0.92%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.62%) SAN
2 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) Multicast
2 1 (0.31%) Network Security
2 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (79.69%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (2.46%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.85%) MySQL
7 6 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.54%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.92%) DB2
10 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.62%) Power BI
10 2 (0.62%) Redis
10 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.31%) Big Data
11 1 (0.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 286 (88.00%) JIRA
2 264 (81.23%) GitLab
2 264 (81.23%) SonarQube
3 261 (80.31%) Selenium
4 258 (79.38%) Cucumber
5 256 (78.77%) Maven
6 254 (78.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 31 (9.54%) Git
8 26 (8.00%) Jenkins
9 13 (4.00%) JUnit
10 11 (3.38%) Postman
11 9 (2.77%) Mockito
12 8 (2.46%) TestNG
12 8 (2.46%) Vite
13 7 (2.15%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
15 4 (1.23%) Subversion
15 4 (1.23%) TeamCity
15 4 (1.23%) Visual Studio
16 3 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 268 (82.46%) Finance
2 250 (76.92%) Banking
3 247 (76.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (28.00%) Investment Banking
4 91 (28.00%) Retail
5 90 (27.69%) Corporate Banking
6 40 (12.31%) Social Skills
7 17 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.92%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.77%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.15%) Advertising
11 4 (1.23%) Back Office
12 2 (0.62%) Electronics
12 2 (0.62%) Games
12 2 (0.62%) Marketing
13 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.31%) Automotive
13 1 (0.31%) iGaming
13 1 (0.31%) Law
13 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 252 (77.54%) Software Engineer
2 27 (8.31%) Developer
3 17 (5.23%) Senior
4 13 (4.00%) Lead
5 9 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.46%) Java Engineer
7 7 (2.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (2.15%) Software Developer
8 6 (1.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (1.85%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (1.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.85%) Technical Leader
9 5 (1.54%) DBA
9 5 (1.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (1.54%) Senior Manager
9 5 (1.54%) Senior Technical Manager
9 5 (1.54%) SQL DBA
9 5 (1.54%) Technical Manager
10 4 (1.23%) .NET Developer
10 4 (1.23%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (81.54%) React
2 263 (80.92%) CSS
2 263 (80.92%) HTML
2 263 (80.92%) Spring
2 263 (80.92%) Spring Boot
3 257 (79.08%) Kafka
4 248 (76.31%) JPA
4 248 (76.31%) Redux
5 161 (49.54%) Hibernate
6 112 (34.46%) REST
7 102 (31.38%) RESTful
8 97 (29.85%) Jest
9 95 (29.23%) Sass
10 93 (28.62%) HTML5
11 92 (28.31%) CSS3
12 13 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (3.08%) Swagger
14 9 (2.77%) .NET
14 9 (2.77%) Gherkin
15 8 (2.46%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 248 (76.31%) Product Ownership
2 247 (76.00%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.77%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.46%) Life Science
5 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.23%) Clustering
7 3 (0.92%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.62%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.62%) IoT
8 2 (0.62%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.31%) Animation
9 1 (0.31%) CAN bus
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.31%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.31%) FMCG
9 1 (0.31%) FPGA
9 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.31%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.54%) Linux
2 5 (1.54%) Windows
3 2 (0.62%) Unix
3 2 (0.62%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (89.54%) CI/CD
2 283 (87.08%) DevOps
3 276 (84.92%) Agile
4 267 (82.15%) Test Automation
5 263 (80.92%) Front End Development
6 261 (80.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 259 (79.69%) Microservices
8 257 (79.08%) Software Engineering
9 254 (78.15%) SDLC
10 253 (77.85%) Containerisation
11 250 (76.92%) Performance Optimisation
12 170 (52.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (49.85%) TDD
14 157 (48.31%) Clean Code
15 107 (32.92%) Mentoring
16 102 (31.38%) User Experience
17 100 (30.77%) Strategic Thinking
18 94 (28.92%) Migration
19 90 (27.69%) Responsive Web Design
20 24 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 281 (86.46%) Java
2 275 (84.62%) SQL
3 274 (84.31%) JavaScript
4 105 (32.31%) TypeScript
5 13 (4.00%) Python
6 12 (3.69%) C#
7 6 (1.85%) Apex Code
7 6 (1.85%) Bash
7 6 (1.85%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.54%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.62%) C++
9 2 (0.62%) COBOL
9 2 (0.62%) PHP
9 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) C
10 1 (0.31%) Go
10 1 (0.31%) Groovy
10 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.31%) Perl
10 1 (0.31%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 15 (4.62%) Degree
2 11 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 6 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (1.54%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.62%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.62%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.31%) HNC
6 1 (0.31%) HND
6 1 (0.31%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (78.77%) QA
2 104 (32.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.92%) WCAG
4 2 (0.62%) SEPA
5 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 273 (84.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.62%) vSphere
3 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.31%) Firmware
3 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 262 (80.62%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.85%) Terraform
3 18 (5.54%) Ansible
4 8 (2.46%) Kustomize
4 8 (2.46%) Packer
5 6 (1.85%) Grafana
6 5 (1.54%) Kibana
7 4 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.62%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.62%) Control-M
8 2 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.62%) logstash
9 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.31%) Puppet
9 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 248 (76.31%) Solace
2 10 (3.08%) Atlassian
3 8 (2.46%) Oracle
3 8 (2.46%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.15%) Informatica
5 6 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.54%) Google
6 5 (1.54%) RedGate
6 5 (1.54%) Talend
7 3 (0.92%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.92%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.92%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.92%) Splunk
8 2 (0.62%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.62%) IBM
8 2 (0.62%) VMware
9 1 (0.31%) New Relic
9 1 (0.31%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.31%) Veracode