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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 523 495
Rank change year-on-year -110 -28 +1
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 91 112 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.27% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.18% 2.61% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 62 71 315
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £46,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £111,125 £96,250 £85,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,277 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.26% +2.55% -20.00%

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 4,177 4,298 9,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.87% 10.36% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,755 3,017 6,817
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

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 16 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 13 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 April 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 -101 81 £75,000 +25.00% 56
London +12 45 £100,000 +42.86% 15
UK excluding London -110 35 £55,000 +7.26% 44
Work from Home -21 24 £72,500 +52.63% 20
North of England -56 16 £55,000 -4.35% 17
South West -53 12 £55,000 -20.29% 8
North West -30 11 £65,000 +18.18% 6
North East -29 5 £51,000 -21.54% 2
South East -60 4 £55,000 +4.76% 12
West Midlands -17 1 £43,000 -28.33% 1
East of England -45 1 £55,000 +15.79% 2
Midlands -48 1 £43,000 -18.10% 2
Scotland - 1 - - 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 33 (36.26%) Confluence
2 7 (7.69%) IIS
3 5 (5.49%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.30%) Apache
5 2 (2.20%) JBoss
5 2 (2.20%) nginx
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (50.55%) AWS
2 40 (43.96%) Azure
3 23 (25.27%) GitHub
4 16 (17.58%) GCP
5 14 (15.38%) OpenShift
6 13 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (12.09%) Entra ID
8 9 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.79%) Serverless
10 7 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.59%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.49%) SaaS
13 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.40%) CloudFront
13 4 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.38%) DNS
2 10 (10.99%) TCP/IP
3 9 (9.89%) Firewall
4 8 (8.79%) HTTPS
5 4 (4.40%) Network Security
6 2 (2.20%) DHCP
6 2 (2.20%) IPv4
6 2 (2.20%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.20%) SSL
7 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.10%) LTE
7 1 (1.10%) SAN
7 1 (1.10%) SNMP
7 1 (1.10%) VPN
7 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.27%) SQL Server
2 22 (24.18%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 12 (13.19%) MySQL
5 10 (10.99%) DB2
6 6 (6.59%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
9 3 (3.30%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.10%) Metadata
11 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (41.76%) JIRA
2 33 (36.26%) Jenkins
3 32 (35.16%) Git
4 27 (29.67%) GitLab
5 12 (13.19%) Selenium
6 11 (12.09%) Cucumber
7 10 (10.99%) Subversion
7 10 (10.99%) TeamCity
8 8 (8.79%) SonarQube
9 7 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (4.40%) Eclipse
10 4 (4.40%) JMeter
10 4 (4.40%) Metasploit
11 3 (3.30%) NUnit
11 3 (3.30%) Robot Framework
12 2 (2.20%) JUnit
12 2 (2.20%) Maven
12 2 (2.20%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.20%) webpack
13 1 (1.10%) IntelliJ
General
1 43 (47.25%) Finance
2 33 (36.26%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (16.48%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.09%) Manufacturing
5 10 (10.99%) Banking
6 9 (9.89%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (9.89%) Telecoms
7 5 (5.49%) Electronics
8 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.20%) Automotive
9 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Marketing
9 2 (2.20%) Retail
10 1 (1.10%) Advertising
10 1 (1.10%) German Language
10 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.10%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 24 (26.37%) Senior
2 18 (19.78%) Developer
2 18 (19.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (18.68%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (10.99%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Lead
5 9 (9.89%) Consultant
5 9 (9.89%) Senior Consultant
5 9 (9.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) DevOps Consultant
6 8 (8.79%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Senior DevOps Consultant
7 7 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Agile Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Agile Java Developer
9 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.98%) RESTful
2 18 (19.78%) React
3 15 (16.48%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (15.38%) CSS
4 14 (15.38%) HTML
5 11 (12.09%) Node.js
6 10 (10.99%) Gherkin
7 6 (6.59%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.59%) Kafka
7 6 (6.59%) Middleware
7 6 (6.59%) REST
8 5 (5.49%) .NET
8 5 (5.49%) CSS3
8 5 (5.49%) HTML5
9 4 (4.40%) .NET Framework
9 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
9 4 (4.40%) Entity Framework
9 4 (4.40%) JSON
10 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (3.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (8.79%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.40%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (4.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.30%) PKI
6 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.20%) Clustering
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 42 (46.15%) Linux
2 26 (28.57%) Windows
3 10 (10.99%) Unix
4 7 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.40%) Kali Linux
8 2 (2.20%) Android
8 2 (2.20%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (2.20%) ThreadX
8 2 (2.20%) VMS
9 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (78.02%) CI/CD
2 50 (54.95%) DevOps
3 41 (45.05%) Agile
4 35 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (24.18%) Containerisation
6 22 (24.18%) Test Automation
7 20 (21.98%) Microservices
8 18 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (19.78%) Software Engineering
9 17 (18.68%) Collaborative Culture
10 15 (16.48%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (16.48%) Scrum
10 15 (16.48%) User Experience
11 14 (15.38%) BDD
12 13 (14.29%) Configuration Management
12 13 (14.29%) DevSecOps
12 13 (14.29%) Integration Testing
13 12 (13.19%) Change Management
13 12 (13.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.05%) Python
2 30 (32.97%) Bash
2 30 (32.97%) SQL
3 28 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 27 (29.67%) Java
5 18 (19.78%) JavaScript
6 12 (13.19%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.40%) C#
7 4 (4.40%) Go
8 3 (3.30%) Bicep
8 3 (3.30%) RPG
8 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.20%) C
9 2 (2.20%) C++
9 2 (2.20%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.10%) Perl
10 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.09%) Degree
3 7 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.59%) OSCP
5 5 (5.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (4.40%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.30%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.20%) CCNA
8 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.20%) RHCE
8 2 (2.20%) RHCSA
8 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.10%) LPIC
9 1 (1.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (37.36%) Docker
2 15 (16.48%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.40%) iptables
5 3 (3.30%) vSphere
6 2 (2.20%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.20%) Firmware
6 2 (2.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.20%) Squid
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (51.65%) Kubernetes
2 38 (41.76%) Ansible
3 25 (27.47%) Terraform
4 13 (14.29%) Grafana
5 10 (10.99%) Puppet
5 10 (10.99%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (9.89%) Progress Chef
6 9 (9.89%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.40%) Rancher
8 3 (3.30%) Argo
8 3 (3.30%) Control-M
8 3 (3.30%) Kibana
8 3 (3.30%) ZABBIX
9 2 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.20%) Nagios
9 2 (2.20%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.20%) Packer
10 1 (1.10%) Ambari
10 1 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.10%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 27 (29.67%) Atlassian
2 20 (21.98%) Microsoft
3 14 (15.38%) Oracle
4 10 (10.99%) Red Hat
4 10 (10.99%) VMware
5 9 (9.89%) Splunk
6 4 (4.40%) IBM
6 4 (4.40%) TOWER Software
7 3 (3.30%) DevExpress
8 2 (2.20%) Cisco
8 2 (2.20%) Dell
8 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.20%) Google
8 2 (2.20%) HP
8 2 (2.20%) Informatica
8 2 (2.20%) Juniper
8 2 (2.20%) New Relic
8 2 (2.20%) RedGate
8 2 (2.20%) Talend
8 2 (2.20%) Veeam