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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 724 376 588
Rank change year-on-year -348 +212 -98
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 81 328 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.66% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.71% 8.64% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 47 53 100
10th Percentile £36,750 £38,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +1.77% -19.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £109,250 £82,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -12.47%

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 4,730 3,797 6,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.00% 7.66% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,914 2,203 3,643
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,800 £38,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,800 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.97%

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 3 October 2026.

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 3 October 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 -298 71 £60,500 +5.22% 221
UK excluding London -339 56 £55,000 +4.76% 211
Work from Home -239 28 £56,750 +8.10% 197
London -75 23 £82,500 +8.20% 74
North of England -162 21 £55,000 +4.76% 48
North West -114 17 £55,000 - 19
South West -66 16 £60,500 +16.35% 27
South East -56 9 £52,500 +31.25% 35
Wales -69 8 £36,750 -47.50% 24
North East -73 3 £70,000 +33.33% 12
East of England -54 1 - - 11
East Midlands -76 1 £58,500 - 8
Midlands -110 1 £58,500 - 22
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 18

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 9 (11.11%) Apache
3 7 (8.64%) nginx
4 5 (6.17%) JBoss
5 2 (2.47%) CMS
6 1 (1.23%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.23%) IIS
6 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 44 (54.32%) AWS
2 22 (27.16%) Azure
3 17 (20.99%) GitHub
4 12 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (14.81%) Serverless
5 11 (13.58%) Amazon S3
5 11 (13.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
6 9 (11.11%) GCP
7 8 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (9.88%) OpenShift
8 7 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (6.17%) Datadog
10 4 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (4.94%) Route 53
10 4 (4.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) IPv4
1 8 (9.88%) Software-Defined Networking
2 6 (7.41%) VoIP
3 5 (6.17%) SSL
4 4 (4.94%) LAN
4 4 (4.94%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.94%) WAN
5 2 (2.47%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (1.23%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.28%) MySQL
2 11 (13.58%) DynamoDB
3 10 (12.35%) MongoDB
3 10 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (9.88%) SQL Server
5 6 (7.41%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.70%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.70%) Metadata
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (53.09%) Git
1 43 (53.09%) JIRA
2 26 (32.10%) Jenkins
3 20 (24.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 13 (16.05%) GitLab
5 9 (11.11%) SonarQube
6 7 (8.64%) Cypress.io
6 7 (8.64%) TeamCity
7 5 (6.17%) Selenium
8 4 (4.94%) Subversion
8 4 (4.94%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (3.70%) Artifactory
9 3 (3.70%) Claude Code
9 3 (3.70%) Mercurial
9 3 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (2.47%) git-flow
11 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.23%) GoogleTest
11 1 (1.23%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 28 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 26 (32.10%) Finance
3 14 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 6 (7.41%) Electronics
6 5 (6.17%) Automotive
6 5 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Senior
2 16 (19.75%) Applications Engineer
2 16 (19.75%) Developer
3 13 (16.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (12.35%) Lead
5 8 (9.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Applications Support
6 7 (8.64%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Applications Support
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Support Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Applications Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Cloud Developer
9 3 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.40%) Terraform
2 20 (24.69%) React
3 14 (17.28%) Node.js
4 9 (11.11%) .NET
5 8 (9.88%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.41%) CSS
6 6 (7.41%) CSS3
6 6 (7.41%) HTML
6 6 (7.41%) HTML5
7 5 (6.17%) AWS CDK
7 5 (6.17%) Kafka
7 5 (6.17%) Keycloak
7 5 (6.17%) OAuth
7 5 (6.17%) OAuth2
7 5 (6.17%) OpenID
7 5 (6.17%) Spring
7 5 (6.17%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.94%) boto
8 4 (4.94%) Jest
8 4 (4.94%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.17%) Private Cloud
4 5 (6.17%) Social Media
5 4 (4.94%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (4.94%) Replication
6 3 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.70%) PKI
6 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.47%) Life Science
7 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.23%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 31 (38.27%) Linux
2 16 (19.75%) Windows
3 9 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.64%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.41%) Debian
6 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.47%) CentOS
8 1 (1.23%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (1.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (80.25%) CI/CD
2 54 (66.67%) Agile
3 31 (38.27%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (35.80%) Containerisation
5 28 (34.57%) DevOps
6 24 (29.63%) Test Automation
7 22 (27.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (25.93%) Scrum
9 18 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (20.99%) Collaborative Culture
10 17 (20.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (17.28%) Software Engineering
13 13 (16.05%) Mentoring
13 13 (16.05%) Observability
13 13 (16.05%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (13.58%) DevSecOps
14 11 (13.58%) Systems Engineering
15 10 (12.35%) BDD
15 10 (12.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (65.43%) Python
2 35 (43.21%) Java
3 33 (40.74%) SQL
4 28 (34.57%) PowerShell
5 23 (28.40%) Bash
6 15 (18.52%) JavaScript
7 10 (12.35%) C#
8 7 (8.64%) PHP
9 6 (7.41%) C++
9 6 (7.41%) TypeScript
10 4 (4.94%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.70%) Go
12 2 (2.47%) Apex Code
12 2 (2.47%) SOQL
13 1 (1.23%) C
13 1 (1.23%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 19 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.52%) AWS Certification
3 11 (13.58%) Degree
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%) OSCP
5 8 (9.88%) RHCE
5 8 (9.88%) RHCSA
6 5 (6.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (6.17%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.47%) HNC
9 2 (2.47%) HND
9 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (33.33%) Docker
2 11 (13.58%) vSphere
3 10 (12.35%) Active Directory
4 8 (9.88%) Squid
4 8 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.88%) VMware NSX
5 5 (6.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.47%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (41.98%) Kubernetes
2 29 (35.80%) Ansible
3 8 (9.88%) Grafana
3 8 (9.88%) Packer
3 8 (9.88%) ZABBIX
4 7 (8.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (8.64%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (6.17%) Nagios
6 4 (4.94%) Argo
6 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.70%) Control-M
7 3 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.70%) Puppet
7 3 (3.70%) Rancher
8 1 (1.23%) Kibana
8 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (27.16%) Splunk
2 15 (18.52%) Red Hat
3 14 (17.28%) Microsoft
4 11 (13.58%) Oracle
4 11 (13.58%) VMware
5 10 (12.35%) Atlassian
6 5 (6.17%) New Relic
7 4 (4.94%) Google
7 4 (4.94%) Salesforce
7 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.70%) Perforce
9 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.23%) EMC
9 1 (1.23%) IBM
9 1 (1.23%) SAP