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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 368 573
Rank change year-on-year -291 +205 -25
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 80 346 374
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.77% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.89% 8.42% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 51 67 240
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £65,188
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -16.67%

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 4,235 4,110 9,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 9.16% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,801 2,599 6,485
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -263 78 £60,500 -6.92% 27
UK excluding London -264 47 £57,500 +4.55% 27
London -38 31 £90,000 +20.00% 5
North of England -123 19 £57,500 -8.00% 8
Work from Home -203 19 £65,000 +18.18% 12
North West -82 16 £55,000 -15.38% 5
South West -50 15 £59,000 +8.26% 2
South East -41 9 £52,500 +23.53% 8
North East -54 3 £70,000 +33.33% 1
East of England -27 2 £55,000 -6.38% 1
Scotland -38 1 - - 2
West Midlands -44 1 £43,000 - 1
Midlands -92 1 £43,000 -4.44% 2

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 20 (25.00%) Confluence
2 5 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) CMS
4 1 (1.25%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.25%) IIS
4 1 (1.25%) JBoss
4 1 (1.25%) nginx
4 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 42 (52.50%) AWS
2 24 (30.00%) Azure
3 21 (26.25%) GitHub
4 14 (17.50%) Serverless
5 13 (16.25%) Amazon S3
5 13 (16.25%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (10.00%) GCP
9 7 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (8.75%) AWS Fargate
9 7 (8.75%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (7.50%) CloudFront
10 6 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (6.25%) SaaS
12 4 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.25%) TCP/IP
2 9 (11.25%) DNS
2 9 (11.25%) Firewall
3 8 (10.00%) HTTPS
3 8 (10.00%) IPv4
3 8 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (7.50%) VoIP
5 4 (5.00%) LAN
5 4 (5.00%) Network Security
5 4 (5.00%) WAN
6 2 (2.50%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (1.25%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.25%) DHCP
7 1 (1.25%) LTE
7 1 (1.25%) SNMP
7 1 (1.25%) SSL
7 1 (1.25%) VPN
7 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) MySQL
1 13 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (13.75%) MongoDB
3 10 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 8 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.25%) Db2
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 34 (42.50%) Git
2 30 (37.50%) JIRA
3 21 (26.25%) Jenkins
4 18 (22.50%) GitLab
5 11 (13.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (10.00%) SonarQube
7 6 (7.50%) Cypress.io
8 4 (5.00%) Metasploit
8 4 (5.00%) Selenium
9 3 (3.75%) Artifactory
9 3 (3.75%) NUnit
9 3 (3.75%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (3.75%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.50%) Eclipse
10 2 (2.50%) Maven
11 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.25%) GoogleTest
11 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (30.00%) Finance
2 12 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Aerospace
3 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Electronics
5 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.00%) Automotive
6 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
8 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) German Language
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.25%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Senior
2 16 (20.00%) Developer
2 16 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Lead
4 8 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Specialist
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.50%) Senior Sales Consultant
10 2 (2.50%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.50%) React
2 13 (16.25%) Node.js
3 10 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 9 (11.25%) RESTful
5 7 (8.75%) REST
6 6 (7.50%) .NET
7 5 (6.25%) CSS
7 5 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (6.25%) HTML
7 5 (6.25%) JSON
7 5 (6.25%) Spring
8 4 (5.00%) boto
8 4 (5.00%) Jest
8 4 (5.00%) Kafka
8 4 (5.00%) pytest
8 4 (5.00%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.75%) CSS3
9 3 (3.75%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.75%) Playwright
9 3 (3.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.50%) PKI
5 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 44 (55.00%) Linux
2 26 (32.50%) Windows
3 9 (11.25%) Unix
3 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.75%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.50%) Debian
6 4 (5.00%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.50%) Android
7 2 (2.50%) CentOS
7 2 (2.50%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.50%) ThreadX
8 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (83.75%) CI/CD
2 38 (47.50%) Agile
3 34 (42.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (41.25%) DevOps
5 27 (33.75%) Containerisation
6 17 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (21.25%) Scrum
7 16 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 15 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
8 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (17.50%) Computer Science
9 14 (17.50%) Test Automation
10 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (13.75%) DevSecOps
11 11 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
12 10 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
12 10 (12.50%) Incident Response
12 10 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (66.25%) Python
2 36 (45.00%) Bash
3 32 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 29 (36.25%) Java
5 25 (31.25%) SQL
6 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
8 7 (8.75%) C#
8 7 (8.75%) PHP
9 4 (5.00%) C++
10 3 (3.75%) Bicep
10 3 (3.75%) Go
11 2 (2.50%) C
11 2 (2.50%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 14 (17.50%) Degree
4 12 (15.00%) OSCP
5 9 (11.25%) ISTQB
6 8 (10.00%) CCNA
6 8 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (10.00%) RHCE
6 8 (10.00%) RHCSA
7 7 (8.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 4 (5.00%) Master's Degree
9 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.25%) HNC
11 1 (1.25%) HND
11 1 (1.25%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (32.50%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) vSphere
3 9 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (10.00%) Squid
4 8 (10.00%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.00%) iptables
6 2 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.50%) Firmware
7 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 36 (45.00%) Ansible
3 26 (32.50%) Terraform
4 12 (15.00%) Grafana
5 8 (10.00%) Packer
5 8 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 8 (10.00%) ZABBIX
6 5 (6.25%) Argo
6 5 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.25%) Puppet
7 3 (3.75%) Control-M
7 3 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.75%) Rancher
8 2 (2.50%) Kibana
9 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.25%) Nagios
9 1 (1.25%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.25%) Rundeck
9 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.00%) Splunk
3 12 (15.00%) VMware
4 11 (13.75%) Oracle
5 9 (11.25%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.25%) Atlassian
7 4 (5.00%) TOWER Software
8 3 (3.75%) DevExpress
8 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.50%) Google
10 1 (1.25%) Adobe
10 1 (1.25%) Cisco
10 1 (1.25%) Dell
10 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.25%) HP
10 1 (1.25%) Juniper
10 1 (1.25%) New Relic
10 1 (1.25%) Veeam