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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 693 380 593
Rank change year-on-year -313 +213 -83
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 89 328 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.66% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.94% 8.30% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 51 55 130
10th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,875 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £68,438
90th Percentile £105,000 £114,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -13.04%

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 4,579 3,951 7,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.19% 7.89% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,970 2,429 4,456
10th Percentile £35,250 £37,500 £37,537
25th Percentile £46,745 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 27 August 2026.

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 27 August 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 -266 84 £65,000 +8.33% 131
UK excluding London -295 58 £57,500 +4.55% 82
London -57 29 £90,000 +5.88% 77
Work from Home -238 29 £63,750 +21.43% 83
North of England -143 24 £57,500 -4.17% 21
North West -95 20 £55,000 -15.38% 15
South West -63 16 £60,500 +10.00% 15
South East -36 10 £52,500 +31.25% 17
Wales -64 3 £35,000 -50.00% 5
North East -65 3 £70,000 +33.33% 4
East of England -42 2 £55,000 -
Midlands -91 2 £50,750 - 10
Scotland -41 1 - - 9
West Midlands -57 1 £43,000 - 7
East Midlands -58 1 £58,500 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 3

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 (26.97%) Confluence
2 9 (10.11%) Apache
3 7 (7.87%) nginx
4 5 (5.62%) JBoss
5 2 (2.25%) CMS
6 1 (1.12%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.12%) IIS
6 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 49 (55.06%) AWS
2 30 (33.71%) Azure
3 19 (21.35%) GitHub
4 14 (15.73%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (15.73%) Serverless
5 12 (13.48%) Amazon S3
6 11 (12.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (10.11%) AWS Fargate
7 9 (10.11%) GCP
8 8 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (7.87%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.62%) Datadog
10 5 (5.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (4.49%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (4.49%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.99%) IPv4
1 8 (8.99%) Software-Defined Networking
1 8 (8.99%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.74%) VoIP
3 5 (5.62%) SSL
4 4 (4.49%) DNS
4 4 (4.49%) Firewall
4 4 (4.49%) HTTPS
4 4 (4.49%) LAN
4 4 (4.49%) WAN
5 2 (2.25%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (1.12%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.12%) LTE
6 1 (1.12%) Network Security
6 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) MySQL
1 13 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.48%) MongoDB
3 11 (12.36%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.87%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.74%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.37%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.12%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.12%) Db2
9 1 (1.12%) Metadata
9 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 47 (52.81%) Git
2 40 (44.94%) JIRA
3 26 (29.21%) Jenkins
4 20 (22.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (16.85%) GitLab
6 10 (11.24%) SonarQube
7 7 (7.87%) Cypress.io
7 7 (7.87%) TeamCity
8 6 (6.74%) Selenium
9 4 (4.49%) Subversion
9 4 (4.49%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (3.37%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.37%) Mercurial
10 3 (3.37%) NUnit
10 3 (3.37%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.25%) git-flow
11 2 (2.25%) Metasploit
12 1 (1.12%) JUnit
12 1 (1.12%) Maven
General
1 28 (31.46%) Finance
2 24 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.99%) Aerospace
5 6 (6.74%) Electronics
6 5 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.49%) Automotive
7 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.37%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.25%) Marketing
9 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.12%) Banking
10 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.12%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 18 (20.22%) Senior
2 17 (19.10%) Developer
3 15 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) Lead
5 12 (13.48%) Applications Engineer
5 12 (13.48%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Applications Developer
9 4 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Cloud Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Applications Support Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Applications Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Applications Support
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Support Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.84%) React
2 22 (24.72%) Terraform
3 15 (16.85%) Node.js
4 12 (13.48%) .NET
4 12 (13.48%) AngularJS
5 9 (10.11%) CSS
5 9 (10.11%) HTML
5 9 (10.11%) RESTful
6 7 (7.87%) CSS3
6 7 (7.87%) HTML5
6 7 (7.87%) REST
7 6 (6.74%) Spring
7 6 (6.74%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.62%) AWS CDK
8 5 (5.62%) JSON
8 5 (5.62%) Kafka
8 5 (5.62%) Keycloak
8 5 (5.62%) OAuth
8 5 (5.62%) OAuth2
8 5 (5.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.62%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (5.62%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.62%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.62%) Social Media
5 4 (4.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (4.49%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.49%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (4.49%) Replication
6 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.25%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.25%) PKI
7 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (40.45%) Linux
2 21 (23.60%) Windows
3 9 (10.11%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.87%) Ubuntu
5 6 (6.74%) Debian
6 5 (5.62%) Unix
7 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (2.25%) Android
8 2 (2.25%) CentOS
8 2 (2.25%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (2.25%) Kali Linux
8 2 (2.25%) ThreadX
9 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (80.90%) CI/CD
2 51 (57.30%) Agile
3 34 (38.20%) DevOps
4 29 (32.58%) Containerisation
5 28 (31.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (29.21%) Test Automation
7 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (25.84%) Scrum
9 21 (23.60%) Software Engineering
10 17 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (19.10%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (16.85%) Collaborative Culture
13 14 (15.73%) Computer Science
13 14 (15.73%) Observability
14 13 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
15 12 (13.48%) DevSecOps
15 12 (13.48%) Full-Stack Development
16 11 (12.36%) BDD
16 11 (12.36%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 59 (66.29%) Python
2 36 (40.45%) Java
3 35 (39.33%) SQL
4 30 (33.71%) Bash
5 29 (32.58%) PowerShell
6 16 (17.98%) JavaScript
7 11 (12.36%) TypeScript
8 9 (10.11%) C#
9 7 (7.87%) PHP
10 5 (5.62%) C++
11 3 (3.37%) Bicep
11 3 (3.37%) PL/SQL
12 2 (2.25%) C
12 2 (2.25%) Embedded C
12 2 (2.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.98%) AWS Certification
3 14 (15.73%) Degree
4 10 (11.24%) OSCP
5 9 (10.11%) ISTQB
6 8 (8.99%) CCNA
6 8 (8.99%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (8.99%) RHCE
6 8 (8.99%) RHCSA
7 7 (7.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (6.74%) Master's Degree
9 5 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
10 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
10 3 (3.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (1.12%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) QA
2 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (34.83%) Docker
2 11 (12.36%) vSphere
3 10 (11.24%) Active Directory
4 8 (8.99%) Squid
4 8 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.99%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.25%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.25%) Firmware
7 1 (1.12%) iptables
Systems Management
1 38 (42.70%) Kubernetes
2 33 (37.08%) Ansible
3 9 (10.11%) Grafana
4 8 (8.99%) Packer
4 8 (8.99%) ZABBIX
5 7 (7.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (7.87%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (5.62%) Nagios
6 5 (5.62%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.62%) Puppet
7 4 (4.49%) Argo
8 3 (3.37%) Control-M
8 3 (3.37%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.25%) Rancher
10 1 (1.12%) Kibana
10 1 (1.12%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (24.72%) Splunk
2 20 (22.47%) Microsoft
3 15 (16.85%) Red Hat
4 12 (13.48%) Oracle
5 11 (12.36%) VMware
6 10 (11.24%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.62%) Google
7 5 (5.62%) New Relic
8 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.37%) DevExpress
9 3 (3.37%) Perforce
10 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
10 2 (2.25%) TOWER Software
11 1 (1.12%) Adobe
11 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 1 (1.12%) SAP