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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 572 434
Rank change year-on-year +5 -138 -30
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 82 186 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.27% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.25% 3.01% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 54 100 253
10th Percentile £42,250 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £49,125 £43,750 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,313 £65,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £82,000 £114,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.42% -13.64% -

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 3,640 6,187 6,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.85% 9.00% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,344 3,526 5,437
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £42,069
25th Percentile £42,780 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 23 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 23 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 +5 73 £70,000 +40.00% 37
UK excluding London -2 41 £51,500 +8.42% 27
London +65 35 £100,000 +28.21% 15
North of England +34 23 £51,500 +11.96% 10
North East +31 16 £51,500 +21.18% 2
Work from Home +6 16 £72,500 +52.63% 19
North West +34 7 - - 7
South East +23 7 £45,000 -25.00% 8
South West +7 7 £55,000 -20.29% 5
Midlands +52 1 - - 2
West Midlands +50 1 - -
Wales +12 1 - -
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £65,000 -

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 27 (32.93%) Confluence
2 7 (8.54%) IIS
3 5 (6.10%) Apache
4 4 (4.88%) Camunda
4 4 (4.88%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.22%) CMS
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (7.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 37 (45.12%) AWS
2 33 (40.24%) Azure
3 14 (17.07%) GitHub
4 12 (14.63%) GCP
5 11 (13.41%) Amazon S3
6 10 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (12.20%) Serverless
7 7 (8.54%) OpenShift
8 6 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (7.32%) CloudFront
8 6 (7.32%) Figma
9 5 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (6.10%) Entra ID
9 5 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.66%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (2.44%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) DNS
1 4 (4.88%) SAN
2 1 (1.22%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.22%) Firewall
2 1 (1.22%) Multicast
2 1 (1.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (36.59%) SQL Server
2 17 (20.73%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (14.63%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.54%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (8.54%) MySQL
5 6 (7.32%) DB2
5 6 (7.32%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (4.88%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.66%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.44%) Redis
10 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 54 (65.85%) JIRA
2 28 (34.15%) Git
3 27 (32.93%) Jenkins
4 25 (30.49%) GitLab
5 12 (14.63%) SonarQube
6 11 (13.41%) Selenium
6 11 (13.41%) TeamCity
7 9 (10.98%) Subversion
8 8 (9.76%) Cucumber
9 7 (8.54%) Cypress.io
9 7 (8.54%) JUnit
10 6 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (7.32%) Vite
11 5 (6.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (6.10%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (4.88%) Artifactory
12 4 (4.88%) JMeter
13 3 (3.66%) Postman
13 3 (3.66%) REST Assured
14 2 (2.44%) TestRail
General
1 48 (58.54%) Social Skills
2 35 (42.68%) Finance
3 14 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.20%) Advertising
5 8 (9.76%) Banking
6 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
7 5 (6.10%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (6.10%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.44%) Back Office
8 2 (2.44%) Games
9 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.22%) Automotive
9 1 (1.22%) Electronics
9 1 (1.22%) Front Office
9 1 (1.22%) iGaming
9 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Publishing
9 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (26.83%) Developer
2 21 (25.61%) Senior
3 13 (15.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Senior DevOps
5 10 (12.20%) Lead
6 8 (9.76%) Applications Support
6 8 (9.76%) Java Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Analyst
7 7 (8.54%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (8.54%) Software Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Support Analyst
8 6 (7.32%) Agile Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Agile Java Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) DevOps Consultant
9 5 (6.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.61%) React
2 15 (18.29%) CSS
2 15 (18.29%) HTML
3 14 (17.07%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (9.76%) .NET
4 8 (9.76%) REST
4 8 (9.76%) RESTful
5 7 (8.54%) Node.js
6 6 (7.32%) Gherkin
6 6 (7.32%) Jest
6 6 (7.32%) Kafka
6 6 (7.32%) Middleware
6 6 (7.32%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.10%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (6.10%) Hibernate
7 5 (6.10%) Next.js
7 5 (6.10%) Spring
8 4 (4.88%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.88%) Playwright
9 3 (3.66%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.32%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.10%) Clustering
2 5 (6.10%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.44%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.22%) Animation
5 1 (1.22%) CAN bus
5 1 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.22%) FMCG
5 1 (1.22%) FPGA
5 1 (1.22%) IoT
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (39.02%) Linux
2 19 (23.17%) Windows
3 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (3.66%) Unix
5 2 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (56.10%) CI/CD
2 45 (54.88%) DevOps
3 36 (43.90%) Agile
4 26 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (21.95%) Computer Science
5 18 (21.95%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (21.95%) Front End Development
6 17 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (19.51%) Test Automation
7 16 (19.51%) Unit Testing
8 15 (18.29%) Microservices
8 15 (18.29%) Software Engineering
8 15 (18.29%) User Experience
9 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
10 13 (15.85%) Design Patterns
11 12 (14.63%) Change Management
11 12 (14.63%) Collaborative Culture
11 12 (14.63%) Mentoring
12 11 (13.41%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 30 (36.59%) Java
2 29 (35.37%) SQL
3 28 (34.15%) JavaScript
4 19 (23.17%) Python
5 13 (15.85%) TypeScript
6 12 (14.63%) C#
6 12 (14.63%) PowerShell
7 9 (10.98%) Bash
8 6 (7.32%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.44%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.22%) Bicep
10 1 (1.22%) C++
10 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.22%) Perl
10 1 (1.22%) PHP
10 1 (1.22%) RPG
Qualifications
1 21 (25.61%) Degree
2 18 (21.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.32%) AWS Certification
3 6 (7.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (7.32%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (6.10%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (6.10%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.66%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.44%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.22%) HNC
8 1 (1.22%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) Accessibility
2 8 (9.76%) QA
3 2 (2.44%) SEPA
4 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (35.37%) Docker
2 9 (10.98%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.88%) vSphere
5 1 (1.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (1.22%) Firmware
5 1 (1.22%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (34.15%) Kubernetes
2 16 (19.51%) Ansible
2 16 (19.51%) Grafana
3 14 (17.07%) Terraform
4 11 (13.41%) Control-M
4 11 (13.41%) Prometheus
5 7 (8.54%) Kibana
6 6 (7.32%) Puppet
7 5 (6.10%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.10%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (4.88%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (2.44%) logstash
9 2 (2.44%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.22%) Ambari
Vendors
1 28 (34.15%) Atlassian
2 16 (19.51%) Oracle
3 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
4 8 (9.76%) VMware
5 5 (6.10%) Informatica
5 5 (6.10%) RedGate
5 5 (6.10%) Talend
6 4 (4.88%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.88%) Splunk
7 3 (3.66%) Google
8 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.44%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.44%) IBM
8 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.22%) Adobe
9 1 (1.22%) EMC
9 1 (1.22%) New Relic
9 1 (1.22%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.22%) Veracode