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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 728 374 598
Rank change year-on-year -354 +224 -98
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 79 325 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.66% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.75% 8.69% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 46 51 107
10th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% - -17.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £112,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,506 3,738 6,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.96% 7.61% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,859 2,215 3,879
10th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £101,250 £95,600 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,893 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.07% +3.44% -5.17%

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 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 14 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 15 September 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 -290 72 £65,000 +13.04% 165
UK excluding London -303 56 £55,000 - 94
Work from Home -233 28 £56,750 +8.10% 87
London -60 23 £90,000 +12.50% 92
North of England -151 23 £56,250 +7.14% 23
North West -103 19 £55,000 - 12
South West -71 15 £60,500 +16.35% 14
South East -49 9 £56,250 +40.63% 21
Wales -69 7 £35,000 -50.00% 4
North East -68 3 £70,000 +33.33% 5
East of England -42 1 - - 2
East Midlands -66 1 £58,500 - 3
Midlands -111 1 £58,500 - 12
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 7

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 22 (27.85%) Confluence
2 9 (11.39%) Apache
3 7 (8.86%) nginx
4 5 (6.33%) JBoss
5 2 (2.53%) CMS
6 1 (1.27%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.27%) IIS
6 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 43 (54.43%) AWS
2 23 (29.11%) Azure
3 15 (18.99%) GitHub
4 12 (15.19%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (15.19%) Serverless
5 11 (13.92%) Amazon S3
5 11 (13.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (11.39%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (11.39%) AWS Fargate
6 9 (11.39%) GCP
7 8 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (10.13%) OpenShift
8 7 (8.86%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (6.33%) Datadog
10 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (5.06%) Route 53
10 4 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.13%) IPv4
1 8 (10.13%) Software-Defined Networking
2 6 (7.59%) VoIP
3 5 (6.33%) SSL
4 4 (5.06%) LAN
4 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.06%) WAN
5 2 (2.53%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.46%) MySQL
2 11 (13.92%) DynamoDB
2 11 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.66%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
5 6 (7.59%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.80%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.27%) Db2
8 1 (1.27%) Metadata
8 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (53.16%) Git
2 41 (51.90%) JIRA
3 24 (30.38%) Jenkins
4 20 (25.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (16.46%) GitLab
6 9 (11.39%) SonarQube
7 7 (8.86%) Cypress.io
7 7 (8.86%) TeamCity
8 6 (7.59%) Selenium
9 4 (5.06%) Subversion
9 4 (5.06%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (3.80%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.80%) Mercurial
10 3 (3.80%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.53%) git-flow
11 2 (2.53%) NUnit
12 1 (1.27%) Claude Code
12 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
12 1 (1.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 29 (36.71%) Social Skills
2 25 (31.65%) Finance
3 15 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.13%) Aerospace
5 5 (6.33%) Electronics
5 5 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Automotive
6 4 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.80%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.53%) Marketing
8 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.27%) Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Senior
2 16 (20.25%) Applications Engineer
2 16 (20.25%) Developer
3 12 (15.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (15.19%) Lead
4 9 (11.39%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Applications Support
6 7 (8.86%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Applications Support
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Support Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Applications Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Cloud Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.85%) Terraform
2 21 (26.58%) React
3 15 (18.99%) Node.js
4 11 (13.92%) .NET
5 10 (12.66%) AngularJS
6 8 (10.13%) CSS
6 8 (10.13%) HTML
7 7 (8.86%) RESTful
8 6 (7.59%) CSS3
8 6 (7.59%) HTML5
9 5 (6.33%) AWS CDK
9 5 (6.33%) Kafka
9 5 (6.33%) Keycloak
9 5 (6.33%) OAuth
9 5 (6.33%) OAuth2
9 5 (6.33%) OpenID
9 5 (6.33%) Spring
9 5 (6.33%) Spring Boot
10 4 (5.06%) Jest
10 4 (5.06%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.33%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.33%) Private Cloud
4 5 (6.33%) Social Media
5 4 (5.06%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (5.06%) Replication
6 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.80%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.80%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.53%) PKI
8 1 (1.27%) Derivative
8 1 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (37.97%) Linux
2 16 (20.25%) Windows
3 9 (11.39%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.86%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.59%) Debian
6 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.53%) CentOS
8 1 (1.27%) Android
8 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.27%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (1.27%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (79.75%) CI/CD
2 51 (64.56%) Agile
3 28 (35.44%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (34.18%) Containerisation
4 27 (34.18%) DevOps
5 24 (30.38%) Test Automation
6 23 (29.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (26.58%) Scrum
8 17 (21.52%) Collaborative Culture
8 17 (21.52%) Deployment Automation
8 17 (21.52%) Software Engineering
9 16 (20.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (16.46%) Mentoring
10 13 (16.46%) Observability
11 12 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (15.19%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (13.92%) BDD
12 11 (13.92%) DevSecOps
12 11 (13.92%) Systems Engineering
13 10 (12.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 51 (64.56%) Python
2 35 (44.30%) Java
2 35 (44.30%) SQL
3 28 (35.44%) PowerShell
4 23 (29.11%) Bash
5 14 (17.72%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.39%) C#
7 8 (10.13%) TypeScript
8 7 (8.86%) PHP
9 5 (6.33%) C++
10 4 (5.06%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.80%) Go
12 2 (2.53%) Bicep
13 1 (1.27%) C
13 1 (1.27%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 18 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.99%) AWS Certification
3 10 (12.66%) Degree
4 9 (11.39%) ISTQB
5 8 (10.13%) CCNA
5 8 (10.13%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (10.13%) OSCP
5 8 (10.13%) RHCE
5 8 (10.13%) RHCSA
6 5 (6.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (6.33%) Master's Degree
7 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.27%) HNC
10 1 (1.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.06%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (34.18%) Docker
2 11 (13.92%) vSphere
3 10 (12.66%) Active Directory
4 8 (10.13%) Squid
4 8 (10.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (10.13%) VMware NSX
5 5 (6.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (1.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (41.77%) Kubernetes
2 27 (34.18%) Ansible
3 8 (10.13%) Grafana
3 8 (10.13%) Packer
3 8 (10.13%) ZABBIX
4 7 (8.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (8.86%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (6.33%) Nagios
6 4 (5.06%) Argo
6 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.80%) Control-M
7 3 (3.80%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.80%) Puppet
7 3 (3.80%) Rancher
8 1 (1.27%) Kibana
8 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (27.85%) Splunk
2 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
3 15 (18.99%) Red Hat
4 11 (13.92%) Oracle
4 11 (13.92%) VMware
5 10 (12.66%) Atlassian
6 5 (6.33%) Google
6 5 (6.33%) New Relic
7 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.80%) Perforce
9 2 (2.53%) DevExpress
9 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.27%) Adobe
10 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.27%) SAP