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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 382 606
Rank change year-on-year -303 +224 -121
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 90 334 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.67% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.96% 8.34% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 49 62 123
10th Percentile £46,750 £41,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -19.12%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,063 £69,375
90th Percentile £106,000 £114,750 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% +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 4,589 4,004 7,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.27% 8.02% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,970 2,474 4,498
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
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 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 19 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 15 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 19 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 -251 87 £65,000 +8.33% 83
UK excluding London -283 55 £58,000 +5.45% 50
London -44 33 £90,000 - 50
Work from Home -219 28 £65,000 +23.81% 49
North of England -138 23 £56,250 -6.25% 10
North West -97 20 £55,000 -15.38% 6
South West -54 16 £60,500 +5.22% 5
South East -39 10 £52,500 +27.27% 13
North East -63 3 £70,000 +33.33% 2
East of England -40 2 £55,000 +15.79% 1
Midlands -101 2 £50,750 +12.78% 10
West Midlands -51 1 £43,000 - 6
Scotland -52 1 - - 7
East Midlands -58 1 £58,500 +30.00% 3
Wales -60 1 £31,500 -55.00% 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 24 (26.67%) Confluence
2 9 (10.00%) Apache
3 7 (7.78%) nginx
4 5 (5.56%) JBoss
5 2 (2.22%) CMS
6 1 (1.11%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.11%) IIS
6 1 (1.11%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.11%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 51 (56.67%) AWS
2 31 (34.44%) Azure
3 22 (24.44%) GitHub
4 14 (15.56%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (15.56%) Serverless
5 12 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 11 (12.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
7 9 (10.00%) GCP
8 8 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (7.78%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (5.56%) Datadog
10 5 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (4.44%) Route 53
11 4 (4.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) TCP/IP
2 8 (8.89%) IPv4
2 8 (8.89%) Software-Defined Networking
3 7 (7.78%) DNS
3 7 (7.78%) Firewall
3 7 (7.78%) HTTPS
4 6 (6.67%) VoIP
5 5 (5.56%) SSL
6 4 (4.44%) LAN
6 4 (4.44%) WAN
7 2 (2.22%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (1.11%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.11%) LTE
8 1 (1.11%) Network Security
8 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.44%) MySQL
1 13 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 11 (12.22%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.78%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.67%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.33%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.11%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.11%) Db2
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 45 (50.00%) Git
2 37 (41.11%) JIRA
3 26 (28.89%) Jenkins
4 20 (22.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (16.67%) GitLab
6 10 (11.11%) SonarQube
7 7 (7.78%) TeamCity
8 6 (6.67%) Cypress.io
9 5 (5.56%) Selenium
10 4 (4.44%) Subversion
10 4 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (3.33%) Artifactory
11 3 (3.33%) Mercurial
11 3 (3.33%) Metasploit
11 3 (3.33%) NUnit
11 3 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.22%) git-flow
13 1 (1.11%) Robot Framework
13 1 (1.11%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (33.33%) Finance
2 21 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Aerospace
5 6 (6.67%) Electronics
6 5 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.44%) Automotive
7 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Marketing
9 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.11%) Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.11%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 18 (20.00%) Developer
2 16 (17.78%) Senior
3 14 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Lead
4 12 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Applications Developer
9 4 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Cyber Threat Specialist
10 3 (3.33%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.44%) React
2 15 (16.67%) Node.js
3 12 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 11 (12.22%) .NET
5 9 (10.00%) CSS
5 9 (10.00%) HTML
6 8 (8.89%) RESTful
7 7 (7.78%) CSS3
7 7 (7.78%) HTML5
8 6 (6.67%) REST
8 6 (6.67%) Spring
8 6 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 5 (5.56%) AWS CDK
9 5 (5.56%) JSON
9 5 (5.56%) Kafka
9 5 (5.56%) Keycloak
9 5 (5.56%) OAuth
9 5 (5.56%) OAuth2
9 5 (5.56%) OpenID
10 4 (4.44%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.78%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 5 (5.56%) Social Media
6 4 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.44%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (4.44%) Replication
7 3 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (3.33%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.22%) PKI
8 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (43.33%) Linux
2 24 (26.67%) Windows
3 9 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.89%) Unix
5 7 (7.78%) Ubuntu
6 6 (6.67%) Debian
7 3 (3.33%) Kali Linux
7 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (2.22%) Android
8 2 (2.22%) CentOS
8 2 (2.22%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (2.22%) ThreadX
9 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (82.22%) CI/CD
2 47 (52.22%) Agile
3 34 (37.78%) DevOps
4 31 (34.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (32.22%) Containerisation
6 24 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 22 (24.44%) Scrum
8 21 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (22.22%) Software Engineering
10 16 (17.78%) Computer Science
10 16 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
12 14 (15.56%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (15.56%) Observability
12 14 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (12.22%) Decision-Making
13 11 (12.22%) DevSecOps
13 11 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (12.22%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 62 (68.89%) Python
2 36 (40.00%) Java
3 33 (36.67%) Bash
3 33 (36.67%) SQL
4 30 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 16 (17.78%) JavaScript
6 10 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.89%) C#
8 7 (7.78%) PHP
9 5 (5.56%) C++
10 3 (3.33%) Bicep
11 2 (2.22%) C
11 2 (2.22%) Embedded C
11 2 (2.22%) Go
11 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.78%) AWS Certification
2 16 (17.78%) Degree
3 12 (13.33%) OSCP
4 9 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (10.00%) ISTQB
5 8 (8.89%) CCNA
5 8 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (8.89%) RHCE
5 8 (8.89%) RHCSA
6 6 (6.67%) Master's Degree
7 5 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared
8 4 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (34.44%) Docker
2 11 (12.22%) vSphere
3 10 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 8 (8.89%) Squid
4 8 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.89%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.22%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.22%) Firmware
7 1 (1.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 43 (47.78%) Kubernetes
2 36 (40.00%) Ansible
3 24 (26.67%) Terraform
4 9 (10.00%) Grafana
5 8 (8.89%) Packer
5 8 (8.89%) ZABBIX
6 7 (7.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (7.78%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (6.67%) Argo
8 5 (5.56%) Nagios
8 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
8 5 (5.56%) Puppet
9 3 (3.33%) Control-M
9 3 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (3.33%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.22%) Rancher
11 1 (1.11%) Kibana
11 1 (1.11%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (24.44%) Splunk
2 21 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 15 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 12 (13.33%) Oracle
5 11 (12.22%) VMware
6 10 (11.11%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.56%) Google
7 5 (5.56%) New Relic
8 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.44%) TOWER Software
9 3 (3.33%) DevExpress
9 3 (3.33%) Perforce
10 1 (1.11%) Adobe
10 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.11%) Salesforce