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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 348 528
Rank change year-on-year -305 +180 +14
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 83 341 392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.80% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.95% 8.60% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 55 60 273
10th Percentile £47,750 £44,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +25.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £89,375 £84,688 £65,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% -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 4,264 3,965 9,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.59% 9.33% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 2,576 6,592
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +9.20% -8.42%
75th Percentile £79,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -240 78 £65,258 +0.40% 42
UK excluding London -267 40 £56,250 +2.27% 36
London -23 37 £103,750 +48.21% 8
Work from Home -192 20 £67,500 +12.50% 11
North of England -127 15 £65,000 +10.64% 12
South West -47 14 £57,500 -4.17% 3
North West -97 13 £60,000 -7.69% 5
South East -31 8 £52,500 - 15
North East -42 2 £70,000 +33.33% 1
East of England -43 1 £55,000 -6.38% 3
Scotland -50 1 - - 2
West Midlands -63 1 £43,000 -
Midlands -100 1 £43,000 -4.44% 1

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 25 (30.12%) Confluence
2 5 (6.02%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) JBoss
3 2 (2.41%) nginx
4 1 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (1.20%) IIS
4 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (53.01%) AWS
2 29 (34.94%) Azure
3 21 (25.30%) GitHub
4 11 (13.25%) GCP
5 10 (12.05%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (12.05%) Amazon S3
5 10 (12.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (12.05%) Serverless
6 9 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (8.43%) OpenShift
8 6 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (7.23%) CloudFront
8 6 (7.23%) Entra ID
8 6 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (6.02%) SaaS
10 4 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.82%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.46%) TCP/IP
2 10 (12.05%) DNS
3 9 (10.84%) Firewall
4 8 (9.64%) HTTPS
5 7 (8.43%) IPv4
5 7 (8.43%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (4.82%) Network Security
6 4 (4.82%) VoIP
7 2 (2.41%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (2.41%) DHCP
7 2 (2.41%) LAN
7 2 (2.41%) SSL
7 2 (2.41%) WAN
8 1 (1.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.20%) LTE
8 1 (1.20%) SNMP
8 1 (1.20%) VPN
8 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.28%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.46%) MySQL
3 9 (10.84%) MongoDB
3 9 (10.84%) SQL Server
4 8 (9.64%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (9.64%) DynamoDB
5 6 (7.23%) DB2
6 5 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.20%) Power BI
8 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (44.58%) Git
2 31 (37.35%) JIRA
3 27 (32.53%) Jenkins
4 22 (26.51%) GitLab
5 10 (12.05%) Selenium
6 8 (9.64%) SonarQube
7 7 (8.43%) Cucumber
7 7 (8.43%) TeamCity
8 5 (6.02%) Cypress.io
8 5 (6.02%) Subversion
9 4 (4.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (4.82%) Metasploit
10 3 (3.61%) NUnit
11 2 (2.41%) Artifactory
11 2 (2.41%) Eclipse
11 2 (2.41%) JMeter
11 2 (2.41%) Maven
11 2 (2.41%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.41%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.41%) webpack
General
1 27 (32.53%) Finance
2 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.64%) Aerospace
5 8 (9.64%) Manufacturing
6 7 (8.43%) Electronics
7 6 (7.23%) Banking
8 5 (6.02%) Telecoms
9 4 (4.82%) Automotive
9 4 (4.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.41%) Marketing
10 2 (2.41%) Retail
11 1 (1.20%) German Language
11 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.20%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.20%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Developer
1 21 (25.30%) Senior
2 14 (16.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (15.66%) Lead
4 9 (10.84%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Lead Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Consultant
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (4.82%) Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Cyber Threat Specialist
8 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.30%) React
2 15 (18.07%) RESTful
3 11 (13.25%) CSS
3 11 (13.25%) HTML
3 11 (13.25%) Node.js
4 10 (12.05%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (9.64%) AngularJS
6 7 (8.43%) REST
7 6 (7.23%) CSS3
7 6 (7.23%) Gherkin
7 6 (7.23%) HTML5
8 5 (6.02%) .NET
8 5 (6.02%) JSON
9 4 (4.82%) Playwright
9 4 (4.82%) pytest
10 3 (3.61%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (3.61%) boto
10 3 (3.61%) Jest
10 3 (3.61%) Swagger
10 3 (3.61%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (8.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.82%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (4.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.82%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.61%) PKI
5 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.41%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (51.81%) Linux
2 24 (28.92%) Windows
3 9 (10.84%) Unix
4 8 (9.64%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.02%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.82%) Debian
6 4 (4.82%) Kali Linux
7 3 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (2.41%) Android
8 2 (2.41%) CentOS
8 2 (2.41%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (2.41%) ThreadX
9 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (80.72%) CI/CD
2 37 (44.58%) Agile
3 36 (43.37%) DevOps
3 36 (43.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (31.33%) Containerisation
5 19 (22.89%) Scrum
6 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (20.48%) Test Automation
8 14 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (16.87%) DevSecOps
8 14 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (16.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (16.87%) Microservices
8 14 (16.87%) Software Engineering
9 13 (15.66%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (14.46%) Mentoring
10 12 (14.46%) SDLC
11 11 (13.25%) Computer Science
11 11 (13.25%) Integration Testing
11 11 (13.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 49 (59.04%) Python
2 33 (39.76%) Bash
3 31 (37.35%) Java
4 28 (33.73%) PowerShell
5 27 (32.53%) SQL
6 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
7 12 (14.46%) TypeScript
8 7 (8.43%) C#
9 5 (6.02%) PHP
10 4 (4.82%) C++
10 4 (4.82%) Go
11 3 (3.61%) Bicep
12 2 (2.41%) C
12 2 (2.41%) Embedded C
12 2 (2.41%) RPG
13 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
13 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.25%) AWS Certification
2 11 (13.25%) Degree
2 11 (13.25%) OSCP
3 8 (9.64%) ISTQB
4 7 (8.43%) CCNA
4 7 (8.43%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (8.43%) RHCE
4 7 (8.43%) RHCSA
5 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.20%) LPIC
8 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (37.35%) Docker
2 10 (12.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.84%) vSphere
4 7 (8.43%) Squid
4 7 (8.43%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.82%) iptables
6 2 (2.41%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.41%) Firmware
6 2 (2.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (50.60%) Kubernetes
2 37 (44.58%) Ansible
3 28 (33.73%) Terraform
4 11 (13.25%) Grafana
5 8 (9.64%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.43%) Packer
6 7 (8.43%) ZABBIX
7 5 (6.02%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.02%) Puppet
7 5 (6.02%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (4.82%) Rancher
9 3 (3.61%) Argo
10 2 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.41%) Control-M
10 2 (2.41%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.41%) Kibana
10 2 (2.41%) Nagios
10 2 (2.41%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 23 (27.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.46%) Atlassian
2 12 (14.46%) Splunk
3 11 (13.25%) Oracle
3 11 (13.25%) VMware
4 10 (12.05%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.82%) TOWER Software
6 3 (3.61%) DevExpress
7 2 (2.41%) Cisco
7 2 (2.41%) Dell
7 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.41%) Google
7 2 (2.41%) HP
7 2 (2.41%) IBM
7 2 (2.41%) Juniper
7 2 (2.41%) New Relic
7 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.41%) Veeam
8 1 (1.20%) Adobe
8 1 (1.20%) SAP