Bitbucket Job Trends

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 537 437
Rank change year-on-year -49 -100 +41
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 84 141 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.30% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.14% 2.87% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 57 82 315
10th Percentile £42,250 - £30,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,027 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.92% -9.04% -21.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £66,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £87,125 £105,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 3,917 4,906 8,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.58% 10.59% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,522 2,988 6,497
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,376 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -2.65%

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 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 12 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 March 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 -39 75 £75,000 +49.92% 61
London +53 41 £100,000 +53.85% 12
UK excluding London -96 33 £52,500 +5.00% 51
North of England -19 17 £51,500 -1.90% 10
Work from Home -34 16 £72,500 +52.63% 26
North East +3 11 £51,500 -20.77% 1
South West -16 11 £55,000 -20.29% 14
North West -8 6 £65,000 +26.76% 7
South East -38 3 £55,000 - 12
West Midlands -1 1 - - 4
Wales -9 1 - -
Midlands -14 1 - - 6

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 30 (35.71%) Confluence
2 7 (8.33%) IIS
3 5 (5.95%) Apache
3 5 (5.95%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.38%) JBoss
4 2 (2.38%) nginx
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (10.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.62%) AWS
2 38 (45.24%) Azure
3 17 (20.24%) GitHub
4 15 (17.86%) GCP
5 12 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 11 (13.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (11.90%) Serverless
8 9 (10.71%) Amazon S3
8 9 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (9.52%) Entra ID
10 6 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.95%) CloudFront
11 5 (5.95%) SaaS
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.76%) Azure AKS
13 3 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.10%) DNS
2 7 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.14%) Firewall
4 5 (5.95%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.57%) Network Security
6 2 (2.38%) DHCP
6 2 (2.38%) SAN
6 2 (2.38%) SSL
7 1 (1.19%) SNMP
7 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 21 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (15.48%) MongoDB
4 11 (13.10%) DB2
5 10 (11.90%) MySQL
6 7 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.95%) Oracle Database
8 4 (4.76%) DynamoDB
8 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.57%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.19%) Metadata
11 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (53.57%) JIRA
2 32 (38.10%) Jenkins
3 28 (33.33%) Git
4 23 (27.38%) GitLab
5 15 (17.86%) Selenium
6 13 (15.48%) TeamCity
7 12 (14.29%) Cucumber
7 12 (14.29%) Subversion
8 6 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (7.14%) JMeter
8 6 (7.14%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.57%) Eclipse
9 3 (3.57%) JUnit
9 3 (3.57%) Metasploit
9 3 (3.57%) REST Assured
9 3 (3.57%) Robot Framework
10 2 (2.38%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.38%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.38%) LoadRunner
10 2 (2.38%) Vite
General
1 45 (53.57%) Finance
2 39 (46.43%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.48%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.10%) Banking
5 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (10.71%) Manufacturing
6 9 (10.71%) Telecoms
7 8 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (7.14%) Advertising
9 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Retail
10 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.19%) Electronics
10 1 (1.19%) German Language
10 1 (1.19%) Marketing
10 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (22.62%) Senior
2 18 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (19.05%) Developer
4 15 (17.86%) Senior DevOps
5 10 (11.90%) Java Developer
6 9 (10.71%) Analyst
6 9 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) Consultant
7 8 (9.52%) DevOps Consultant
7 8 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
7 8 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Consultant
8 7 (8.33%) Agile Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Agile Java Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Applications Support
8 7 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
8 7 (8.33%) Lead
8 7 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.33%) Support Analyst
9 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.62%) React
2 17 (20.24%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (19.05%) RESTful
4 13 (15.48%) CSS
4 13 (15.48%) HTML
5 11 (13.10%) Gherkin
6 10 (11.90%) Node.js
7 7 (8.33%) Kafka
8 6 (7.14%) Middleware
8 6 (7.14%) REST
9 4 (4.76%) CSS3
9 4 (4.76%) HTML5
9 4 (4.76%) Playwright
10 3 (3.57%) .NET
10 3 (3.57%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (3.57%) Hibernate
10 3 (3.57%) JSF
10 3 (3.57%) PrimeFaces
10 3 (3.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.95%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (3.57%) PKI
4 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.38%) Clustering
5 2 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Replication
6 1 (1.19%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 44 (52.38%) Linux
2 26 (30.95%) Windows
3 6 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.14%) Unix
4 5 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.95%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (5.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (5.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.57%) Kali Linux
6 2 (2.38%) VMS
7 1 (1.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 44 (52.38%) DevOps
3 41 (48.81%) Agile
4 26 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (27.38%) Microservices
6 21 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 21 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (23.81%) Test Automation
8 17 (20.24%) Collaborative Culture
9 16 (19.05%) Change Management
10 15 (17.86%) BDD
10 15 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (17.86%) Unit Testing
11 14 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 14 (16.67%) Design Patterns
11 14 (16.67%) Scrum
11 14 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 14 (16.67%) User Experience
12 13 (15.48%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.48%) Python
2 28 (33.33%) Java
3 23 (27.38%) Bash
3 23 (27.38%) JavaScript
3 23 (27.38%) SQL
4 22 (26.19%) PowerShell
5 11 (13.10%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.71%) C#
7 3 (3.57%) Go
7 3 (3.57%) RPG
7 3 (3.57%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.19%) Bicep
8 1 (1.19%) C++
8 1 (1.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (16.67%) Degree
2 12 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.90%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.38%) OSCP
7 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.19%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) Accessibility
1 5 (5.95%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (41.67%) Docker
2 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.57%) iptables
5 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (53.57%) Kubernetes
2 32 (38.10%) Ansible
3 22 (26.19%) Terraform
4 17 (20.24%) Grafana
5 13 (15.48%) Prometheus
6 10 (11.90%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (10.71%) Control-M
7 9 (10.71%) Puppet
8 8 (9.52%) Progress Chef
9 4 (4.76%) Kibana
10 3 (3.57%) Argo
10 3 (3.57%) Rancher
11 2 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (2.38%) Nagios
11 2 (2.38%) NetBackup
12 1 (1.19%) Ambari
12 1 (1.19%) Rundeck
12 1 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (39.29%) Atlassian
2 15 (17.86%) Oracle
3 13 (15.48%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.71%) VMware
5 8 (9.52%) Red Hat
6 6 (7.14%) Splunk
7 4 (4.76%) IBM
8 2 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.38%) Cisco
8 2 (2.38%) Dell
8 2 (2.38%) HP
8 2 (2.38%) Informatica
8 2 (2.38%) Juniper
8 2 (2.38%) New Relic
8 2 (2.38%) RedGate
8 2 (2.38%) Talend
8 2 (2.38%) TOWER Software
8 2 (2.38%) Veeam
9 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace