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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 584 473
Rank change year-on-year +204 -111 -61
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 319 176 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.26% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.49% 2.92% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 45 97 238
10th Percentile £34,650 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £43,750 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £104,750 £82,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% -10.71% +1.82%

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 3,759 6,037 7,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.60% 8.76% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,208 3,374 5,866
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,750 £42,450
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +5.45%

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 24 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 16 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 24 October 2025. 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
UK excluding London +175 288 £51,500 +3.00% 90
England +173 265 £52,500 +5.00% 120
Work from Home +205 264 £53,750 +13.16% 78
North of England +109 133 £52,000 -0.95% 29
North West +94 116 - - 14
Midlands +96 64 - - 3
Scotland - 50 £65,000 -
East Midlands +51 39 - - 1
London +63 26 £80,000 +10.34% 50
West Midlands +61 25 - - 2
North East +31 17 £52,000 +22.35% 12
South East +15 17 £40,000 -33.33% 41
East of England -8 15 - - 4
South West +31 8 £52,000 -7.96% 10
Wales +14 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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
1 176 (55.17%) Confluence
2 5 (1.57%) Apache
3 4 (1.25%) Camunda
3 4 (1.25%) IIS
4 3 (0.94%) CMS
4 3 (0.94%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.31%) CICS
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Notion
2 1 (0.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 277 (86.83%) AWS
2 274 (85.89%) Azure
3 163 (51.10%) GCP
4 13 (4.08%) GitHub
5 11 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (3.13%) Serverless
7 6 (1.88%) CloudFront
7 6 (1.88%) Figma
8 5 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.25%) npm
10 3 (0.94%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (0.94%) Datadog
10 3 (0.94%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.94%) SAN
2 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) Multicast
2 1 (0.31%) Network Security
2 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (83.39%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.19%) MySQL
5 6 (1.88%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.57%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.94%) DB2
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.63%) Redis
9 1 (0.31%) Big Data
9 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 292 (91.54%) JIRA
2 266 (83.39%) GitLab
3 258 (80.88%) SonarQube
4 254 (79.62%) Selenium
4 254 (79.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 251 (78.68%) Cucumber
6 248 (77.74%) Maven
7 32 (10.03%) Git
8 19 (5.96%) Jenkins
9 8 (2.51%) Vite
10 7 (2.19%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.19%) JUnit
11 6 (1.88%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (1.88%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.57%) Subversion
13 4 (1.25%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.94%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.94%) JMeter
14 3 (0.94%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 266 (83.39%) Finance
2 251 (78.68%) Banking
3 247 (77.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (28.53%) Investment Banking
4 91 (28.53%) Retail
5 90 (28.21%) Corporate Banking
6 39 (12.23%) Social Skills
7 13 (4.08%) Advertising
8 10 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Back Office
9 4 (1.25%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.63%) Electronics
10 2 (0.63%) Games
10 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.63%) Marketing
10 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.31%) Automotive
11 1 (0.31%) iGaming
11 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 253 (79.31%) Software Engineer
2 22 (6.90%) Developer
3 17 (5.33%) Senior
4 10 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (2.82%) Applications Support
5 9 (2.82%) Lead
6 7 (2.19%) Software Developer
7 6 (1.88%) Analyst
7 6 (1.88%) Applications Support Analyst
7 6 (1.88%) Support Analyst
7 6 (1.88%) Technical Leader
8 5 (1.57%) DBA
8 5 (1.57%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (1.57%) Senior Manager
8 5 (1.57%) Senior Technical Manager
8 5 (1.57%) SQL DBA
8 5 (1.57%) Technical Manager
9 4 (1.25%) Backend Developer
9 4 (1.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (83.07%) React
2 261 (81.82%) CSS
2 261 (81.82%) HTML
3 253 (79.31%) Spring Boot
4 252 (79.00%) Spring
5 249 (78.06%) Kafka
6 248 (77.74%) JPA
6 248 (77.74%) Redux
7 162 (50.78%) Hibernate
8 97 (30.41%) Jest
8 97 (30.41%) REST
9 95 (29.78%) Sass
10 94 (29.47%) RESTful
11 93 (29.15%) HTML5
12 92 (28.84%) CSS3
13 9 (2.82%) .NET
14 8 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
15 5 (1.57%) .NET Framework
15 5 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
15 5 (1.57%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 248 (77.74%) Product Ownership
2 247 (77.43%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (1.88%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.57%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.25%) Clustering
6 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.63%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.63%) IoT
6 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.31%) Animation
7 1 (0.31%) CAN bus
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.31%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.31%) FMCG
7 1 (0.31%) FPGA
7 1 (0.31%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.46%) Linux
2 13 (4.08%) Windows
3 3 (0.94%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (88.71%) CI/CD
2 280 (87.77%) DevOps
3 274 (85.89%) Agile
4 264 (82.76%) Front End Development
5 260 (81.50%) Containerisation
5 260 (81.50%) Test Automation
6 259 (81.19%) Software Engineering
7 258 (80.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 257 (80.56%) Microservices
9 254 (79.62%) SDLC
10 248 (77.74%) Performance Optimisation
11 171 (53.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 159 (49.84%) TDD
13 157 (49.22%) Clean Code
14 104 (32.60%) Mentoring
15 103 (32.29%) User Experience
16 100 (31.35%) Strategic Thinking
17 93 (29.15%) Migration
18 90 (28.21%) Responsive Web Design
19 20 (6.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 274 (85.89%) SQL
2 273 (85.58%) Java
2 273 (85.58%) JavaScript
3 104 (32.60%) TypeScript
4 16 (5.02%) Python
5 13 (4.08%) C#
6 7 (2.19%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.88%) Bash
7 6 (1.88%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.63%) C++
8 2 (0.63%) PHP
8 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.31%) Bicep
9 1 (0.31%) C
9 1 (0.31%) COBOL
9 1 (0.31%) Go
9 1 (0.31%) Groovy
9 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (6.90%) Degree
2 18 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.88%) AWS Certification
3 6 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (1.57%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.25%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.94%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.63%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.31%) HNC
8 1 (0.31%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (80.25%) QA
2 101 (31.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.63%) SEPA
4 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 267 (83.70%) Docker
2 3 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.94%) vSphere
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.31%) Firmware
3 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 263 (82.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.70%) Grafana
3 11 (3.45%) Ansible
3 11 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 11 (3.45%) Terraform
4 9 (2.82%) Control-M
5 7 (2.19%) Kibana
6 3 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.63%) logstash
7 2 (0.63%) Puppet
7 2 (0.63%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.31%) Ambari
8 1 (0.31%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 247 (77.43%) Solace
2 14 (4.39%) Atlassian
3 11 (3.45%) Oracle
4 5 (1.57%) Informatica
4 5 (1.57%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.57%) RedGate
4 5 (1.57%) Talend
5 4 (1.25%) Splunk
6 3 (0.94%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.94%) Google
6 3 (0.94%) VMware
7 2 (0.63%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.31%) Adobe
8 1 (0.31%) EMC
8 1 (0.31%) IBM
8 1 (0.31%) New Relic
8 1 (0.31%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.31%) SAP