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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 363 556
Rank change year-on-year -298 +193 -9
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 80 350 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.79% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 8.40% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 53 69 244
10th Percentile £47,750 £42,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £65,750
90th Percentile £109,250 £115,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% -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 4,198 4,167 9,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.57% 9.42% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,770 2,653 6,488
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,750
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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -249 77 £61,500 +2.50% 40
UK excluding London -290 43 £56,250 +2.27% 33
London -53 34 £100,000 +33.33% 7
Work from Home -199 19 £65,000 +18.18% 20
North of England -136 17 £61,250 +2.08% 7
North West -85 15 £56,250 -13.46% 6
South West -33 14 £59,000 +8.26% 4
South East -35 9 £52,500 +27.27% 14
North East -49 2 £70,000 +33.33%
East of England -24 1 £55,000 -6.38% 3
Scotland -39 1 - - 2
West Midlands -48 1 £43,000 - 1
Midlands -90 1 £43,000 -4.44% 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 22 (27.50%) Confluence
2 5 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) JBoss
3 2 (2.50%) nginx
4 1 (1.25%) CMS
4 1 (1.25%) IIS
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.25%) AWS
2 25 (31.25%) Azure
3 19 (23.75%) GitHub
4 12 (15.00%) Serverless
5 11 (13.75%) Amazon S3
5 11 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (10.00%) GCP
9 7 (8.75%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (7.50%) CloudFront
10 6 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (6.25%) SaaS
12 4 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (11.25%) DNS
2 9 (11.25%) Firewall
3 8 (10.00%) HTTPS
3 8 (10.00%) IPv4
3 8 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (6.25%) VoIP
5 4 (5.00%) Network Security
6 3 (3.75%) LAN
6 3 (3.75%) WAN
7 2 (2.50%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (2.50%) SSL
8 1 (1.25%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.25%) DHCP
8 1 (1.25%) LTE
8 1 (1.25%) SNMP
8 1 (1.25%) VPN
8 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (15.00%) MySQL
3 10 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (10.00%) DynamoDB
5 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.75%) Db2
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.25%) Power BI
9 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (45.00%) Git
2 29 (36.25%) JIRA
3 24 (30.00%) Jenkins
4 19 (23.75%) GitLab
5 8 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (8.75%) SonarQube
7 6 (7.50%) Cypress.io
7 6 (7.50%) Selenium
8 4 (5.00%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.00%) Metasploit
8 4 (5.00%) TeamCity
9 3 (3.75%) NUnit
9 3 (3.75%) Subversion
10 2 (2.50%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.50%) Eclipse
10 2 (2.50%) Maven
10 2 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (1.25%) Robot Framework
11 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (31.25%) Finance
2 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.25%) Aerospace
5 6 (7.50%) Electronics
5 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 4 (5.00%) Automotive
8 3 (3.75%) Banking
9 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.25%) German Language
10 1 (1.25%) Marketing
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.25%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Developer
1 19 (23.75%) Senior
2 15 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) Lead
4 8 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Specialist
8 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Cloud Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.75%) React
2 12 (15.00%) Node.js
3 11 (13.75%) RESTful
4 9 (11.25%) AngularJS
5 8 (10.00%) CSS
5 8 (10.00%) HTML
6 7 (8.75%) REST
7 6 (7.50%) .NET
7 6 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (6.25%) JSON
9 4 (5.00%) boto
9 4 (5.00%) CSS3
9 4 (5.00%) HTML5
9 4 (5.00%) Jest
9 4 (5.00%) pytest
10 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (3.75%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.75%) Playwright
10 3 (3.75%) Swagger
10 3 (3.75%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.75%) PKI
4 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (53.75%) Linux
2 25 (31.25%) Windows
3 9 (11.25%) Unix
3 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.50%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.25%) Debian
6 4 (5.00%) Kali Linux
7 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (2.50%) Android
8 2 (2.50%) CentOS
8 2 (2.50%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (2.50%) ThreadX
9 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 37 (46.25%) Agile
3 34 (42.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (41.25%) DevOps
5 27 (33.75%) Containerisation
6 18 (22.50%) Scrum
7 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
9 13 (16.25%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (16.25%) Test Automation
10 12 (15.00%) DevSecOps
10 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (13.75%) Computer Science
11 11 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
11 11 (13.75%) Microservices
12 10 (12.50%) Incident Response
12 10 (12.50%) SDLC
13 9 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (62.50%) Python
2 36 (45.00%) Bash
3 31 (38.75%) PowerShell
4 29 (36.25%) Java
5 25 (31.25%) SQL
6 11 (13.75%) JavaScript
7 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 7 (8.75%) C#
9 6 (7.50%) PHP
10 4 (5.00%) C++
11 3 (3.75%) Bicep
11 3 (3.75%) Go
12 2 (2.50%) C
12 2 (2.50%) Embedded C
13 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
13 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) AWS Certification
3 12 (15.00%) OSCP
4 11 (13.75%) Degree
5 9 (11.25%) ISTQB
6 8 (10.00%) CCNA
6 8 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (10.00%) RHCE
6 8 (10.00%) RHCSA
7 5 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.25%) HNC
11 1 (1.25%) HND
11 1 (1.25%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (35.00%) Docker
2 10 (12.50%) vSphere
3 9 (11.25%) Active Directory
3 9 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (10.00%) Squid
4 8 (10.00%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.00%) iptables
6 2 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.50%) Firmware
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (51.25%) Kubernetes
2 36 (45.00%) Ansible
3 26 (32.50%) Terraform
4 11 (13.75%) Grafana
5 8 (10.00%) Packer
5 8 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 8 (10.00%) ZABBIX
6 5 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.25%) Puppet
7 4 (5.00%) Argo
8 3 (3.75%) Rancher
8 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.50%) Control-M
9 2 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (2.50%) Kibana
9 2 (2.50%) Nagios
10 1 (1.25%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.25%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.75%) Splunk
3 12 (15.00%) Oracle
4 11 (13.75%) Red Hat
4 11 (13.75%) VMware
5 9 (11.25%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.00%) TOWER Software
7 3 (3.75%) DevExpress
7 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.50%) Google
8 2 (2.50%) New Relic
9 1 (1.25%) Adobe
9 1 (1.25%) Cisco
9 1 (1.25%) Dell
9 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.25%) HP
9 1 (1.25%) Juniper
9 1 (1.25%) Siemens
9 1 (1.25%) Veeam