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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 730 386 601
Rank change year-on-year -344 +215 -110
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 80 327 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.66% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.68% 8.63% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46 53 102
10th Percentile £36,750 £38,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £57,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% +3.14% -20.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,563
90th Percentile £92,500 £109,250 £81,675
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -11.89%

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 4,762 3,788 6,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.64% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,939 2,197 3,672
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,150 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,375 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -5.17%

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 2 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 2 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 -313 72 £61,500 +6.96% 153
UK excluding London -330 56 £55,000 +4.76% 100
Work from Home -240 26 £55,000 +4.76% 79
London -70 24 £90,000 +18.03% 71
North of England -164 21 £55,000 +4.76% 28
North West -114 17 £55,000 - 12
South West -60 16 £60,500 +16.35% 14
South East -57 9 £52,500 +31.25% 21
Wales -71 8 £36,750 -47.50% 3
North East -73 3 £70,000 +33.33% 6
East of England -54 1 - - 5
East Midlands -76 1 £58,500 - 2
Midlands -112 1 £58,500 - 11
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 11

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 22 (27.50%) Confluence
2 9 (11.25%) Apache
3 7 (8.75%) nginx
4 5 (6.25%) JBoss
5 2 (2.50%) CMS
6 1 (1.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.25%) IIS
6 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 44 (55.00%) AWS
2 22 (27.50%) Azure
3 15 (18.75%) GitHub
4 12 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (15.00%) Serverless
5 11 (13.75%) Amazon S3
5 11 (13.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (11.25%) AWS Fargate
6 9 (11.25%) GCP
7 8 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (10.00%) OpenShift
8 7 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (6.25%) Datadog
10 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (5.00%) Route 53
10 4 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) IPv4
1 8 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 6 (7.50%) VoIP
3 5 (6.25%) SSL
4 4 (5.00%) LAN
4 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.00%) WAN
5 2 (2.50%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (1.25%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) MySQL
2 11 (13.75%) DynamoDB
2 11 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.25%) SQL Server
5 6 (7.50%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.25%) Db2
8 1 (1.25%) Metadata
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (53.75%) Git
2 42 (52.50%) JIRA
3 26 (32.50%) Jenkins
4 20 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (16.25%) GitLab
6 9 (11.25%) SonarQube
7 7 (8.75%) Cypress.io
7 7 (8.75%) TeamCity
8 6 (7.50%) Selenium
9 4 (5.00%) Subversion
9 4 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (3.75%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.75%) Mercurial
10 3 (3.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.50%) git-flow
12 1 (1.25%) Claude Code
12 1 (1.25%) GoogleTest
12 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
12 1 (1.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 29 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 27 (33.75%) Finance
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.25%) Aerospace
5 6 (7.50%) Electronics
6 5 (6.25%) Automotive
6 5 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.25%) Banking
10 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Senior
2 16 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 14 (17.50%) Developer
4 13 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Lead
6 8 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Applications Support
7 7 (8.75%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Senior Applications Support
7 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Senior Support Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Support Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Applications Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.75%) Terraform
2 21 (26.25%) React
3 15 (18.75%) Node.js
4 9 (11.25%) .NET
5 8 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 7 (8.75%) CSS
6 7 (8.75%) HTML
7 6 (7.50%) CSS3
7 6 (7.50%) HTML5
8 5 (6.25%) AWS CDK
8 5 (6.25%) Kafka
8 5 (6.25%) Keycloak
8 5 (6.25%) OAuth
8 5 (6.25%) OAuth2
8 5 (6.25%) OpenID
8 5 (6.25%) RESTful
8 5 (6.25%) Spring
8 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (5.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 5 (6.25%) Social Media
5 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (5.00%) Replication
6 3 (3.75%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.75%) PKI
6 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (38.75%) Linux
2 16 (20.00%) Windows
3 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.75%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.50%) Debian
6 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.50%) CentOS
8 1 (1.25%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (1.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (78.75%) CI/CD
2 53 (66.25%) Agile
3 29 (36.25%) Containerisation
3 29 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (33.75%) DevOps
5 24 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 22 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (27.50%) Scrum
7 17 (21.25%) Collaborative Culture
7 17 (21.25%) Deployment Automation
7 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 14 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
10 13 (16.25%) Observability
10 13 (16.25%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (13.75%) BDD
11 11 (13.75%) DevSecOps
11 11 (13.75%) Systems Engineering
12 10 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 53 (66.25%) Python
2 36 (45.00%) Java
3 34 (42.50%) SQL
4 28 (35.00%) PowerShell
5 23 (28.75%) Bash
6 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
7 10 (12.50%) C#
8 7 (8.75%) PHP
9 6 (7.50%) C++
9 6 (7.50%) TypeScript
10 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.75%) Go
12 1 (1.25%) C
12 1 (1.25%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 11 (13.75%) Degree
4 9 (11.25%) ISTQB
5 8 (10.00%) CCNA
5 8 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (10.00%) OSCP
5 8 (10.00%) RHCE
5 8 (10.00%) RHCSA
6 5 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (6.25%) Master's Degree
7 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.50%) HNC
9 2 (2.50%) HND
9 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (35.00%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) vSphere
3 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 8 (10.00%) Squid
4 8 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (10.00%) VMware NSX
5 5 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 29 (36.25%) Ansible
3 8 (10.00%) Grafana
3 8 (10.00%) Packer
3 8 (10.00%) ZABBIX
4 7 (8.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (8.75%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (6.25%) Nagios
6 4 (5.00%) Argo
6 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.75%) Control-M
7 3 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.75%) Puppet
7 3 (3.75%) Rancher
8 1 (1.25%) Kibana
8 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (27.50%) Splunk
2 15 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
4 11 (13.75%) Oracle
4 11 (13.75%) VMware
5 10 (12.50%) Atlassian
6 5 (6.25%) New Relic
7 4 (5.00%) Google
7 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.75%) Perforce
9 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.25%) EMC
10 1 (1.25%) IBM
10 1 (1.25%) SAP