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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 522 445
Rank change year-on-year -75 -77 +48
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 85 135 429
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.31% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.09% 2.86% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 60 79 328
10th Percentile £42,250 - £30,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% -4.55% -18.68%
75th Percentile £95,313 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £110,125 £91,000 £95,375
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 4,075 4,724 8,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.54% 10.81% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,661 3,067 6,702
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -3.51%

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 12 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 12 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 -71 76 £75,000 +42.86% 54
London +34 39 £100,000 +42.86% 12
UK excluding London -93 35 £52,500 +5.00% 44
North of England -34 18 £51,500 -10.43% 10
Work from Home -28 17 £72,500 +52.63% 29
South West -22 12 £52,500 -23.91% 11
North East -8 11 £51,500 -20.77% 1
North West -19 7 £65,000 +18.18% 6
South East -42 3 £55,000 - 11
West Midlands -1 1 - - 4
Midlands -26 1 - - 5
East of England -34 1 £55,000 +15.79% 3

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 (35.29%) Confluence
2 7 (8.24%) IIS
3 5 (5.88%) Apache
3 5 (5.88%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.35%) JBoss
4 2 (2.35%) nginx
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (9.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (49.41%) Azure
2 40 (47.06%) AWS
3 18 (21.18%) GitHub
4 16 (18.82%) GCP
5 12 (14.12%) OpenShift
6 11 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (10.59%) Entra ID
7 9 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (10.59%) Serverless
8 8 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (9.41%) Amazon S3
8 8 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (4.71%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.71%) SaaS
11 4 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.29%) DNS
2 9 (10.59%) TCP/IP
3 8 (9.41%) Firewall
4 7 (8.24%) HTTPS
5 4 (4.71%) Network Security
6 2 (2.35%) DHCP
6 2 (2.35%) SAN
6 2 (2.35%) SSL
7 1 (1.18%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.18%) LTE
7 1 (1.18%) SNMP
7 1 (1.18%) VPN
7 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (34.12%) SQL Server
2 20 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (17.65%) MongoDB
4 11 (12.94%) MySQL
5 10 (11.76%) DB2
6 7 (8.24%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.71%) DynamoDB
7 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.53%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.18%) Metadata
9 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (48.24%) JIRA
2 30 (35.29%) Jenkins
3 29 (34.12%) Git
4 24 (28.24%) GitLab
5 12 (14.12%) TeamCity
6 11 (12.94%) Selenium
7 10 (11.76%) Cucumber
7 10 (11.76%) Subversion
8 7 (8.24%) SonarQube
9 6 (7.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (4.71%) JMeter
10 4 (4.71%) Metasploit
11 3 (3.53%) Eclipse
11 3 (3.53%) JUnit
11 3 (3.53%) Robot Framework
12 2 (2.35%) Artifactory
12 2 (2.35%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (2.35%) webpack
13 1 (1.18%) Maven
13 1 (1.18%) Toad
General
1 47 (55.29%) Finance
2 35 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.47%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.76%) Banking
6 9 (10.59%) Manufacturing
6 9 (10.59%) Telecoms
7 8 (9.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (7.06%) Advertising
9 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Electronics
9 2 (2.35%) Retail
10 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.18%) German Language
10 1 (1.18%) Marketing
10 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.18%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 20 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
1 20 (23.53%) Senior
2 17 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 15 (17.65%) Developer
4 10 (11.76%) Analyst
5 9 (10.59%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Java Developer
5 9 (10.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Consultant
6 8 (9.41%) DevOps Consultant
6 8 (9.41%) Senior Consultant
6 8 (9.41%) Senior DevOps Consultant
7 7 (8.24%) Applications Support
7 7 (8.24%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (8.24%) Support Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) Agile Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Agile Java Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Lead
8 6 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) React
1 17 (20.00%) RESTful
2 16 (18.82%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (15.29%) CSS
3 13 (15.29%) HTML
4 10 (11.76%) Gherkin
5 9 (10.59%) Node.js
6 6 (7.06%) Middleware
7 5 (5.88%) CSS3
7 5 (5.88%) HTML5
7 5 (5.88%) Kafka
7 5 (5.88%) REST
8 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.53%) .NET
9 3 (3.53%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (3.53%) Hibernate
9 3 (3.53%) JSF
9 3 (3.53%) PrimeFaces
10 2 (2.35%) Keycloak
10 2 (2.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (8.24%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.71%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (4.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (3.53%) PKI
5 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.35%) Clustering
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.18%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) IoT
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.18%) NB-IoT
7 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (54.12%) Linux
2 29 (34.12%) Windows
3 9 (10.59%) Unix
4 6 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.71%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.35%) VMS
8 1 (1.18%) Android
8 1 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.18%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (1.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (75.29%) CI/CD
2 47 (55.29%) DevOps
3 38 (44.71%) Agile
4 29 (34.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (27.06%) Containerisation
5 23 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.53%) Microservices
7 18 (21.18%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (18.82%) Change Management
8 16 (18.82%) Collaborative Culture
8 16 (18.82%) Test Automation
9 15 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 15 (17.65%) Unit Testing
10 14 (16.47%) BDD
10 14 (16.47%) Computer Science
10 14 (16.47%) Scrum
11 13 (15.29%) Configuration Management
12 12 (14.12%) User Experience
13 11 (12.94%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.35%) Python
2 26 (30.59%) Bash
3 25 (29.41%) PowerShell
4 24 (28.24%) Java
5 22 (25.88%) SQL
6 19 (22.35%) JavaScript
7 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
8 6 (7.06%) C#
9 3 (3.53%) Go
9 3 (3.53%) RPG
9 3 (3.53%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.35%) Bicep
11 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.18%) C
11 1 (1.18%) C++
11 1 (1.18%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.18%) Perl
11 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Degree
2 11 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.06%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (3.53%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (3.53%) OSCP
7 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.18%) LPIC
8 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (36.47%) Docker
2 13 (15.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.71%) iptables
5 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.35%) vSphere
6 1 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (55.29%) Kubernetes
2 35 (41.18%) Ansible
3 23 (27.06%) Terraform
4 18 (21.18%) Grafana
5 14 (16.47%) Prometheus
6 10 (11.76%) Puppet
6 10 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (10.59%) Control-M
7 9 (10.59%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.71%) Kibana
9 3 (3.53%) Argo
9 3 (3.53%) Rancher
10 2 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.35%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.35%) Nagios
10 2 (2.35%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.18%) Ambari
11 1 (1.18%) Rundeck
11 1 (1.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (37.65%) Atlassian
2 15 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 14 (16.47%) Oracle
4 9 (10.59%) VMware
5 8 (9.41%) Red Hat
6 6 (7.06%) Splunk
7 4 (4.71%) IBM
8 3 (3.53%) TOWER Software
9 2 (2.35%) Cisco
9 2 (2.35%) Dell
9 2 (2.35%) HP
9 2 (2.35%) Informatica
9 2 (2.35%) Juniper
9 2 (2.35%) New Relic
9 2 (2.35%) RedGate
9 2 (2.35%) Talend
9 2 (2.35%) Veeam
10 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.18%) DevExpress
10 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace