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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 353 512
Rank change year-on-year -309 +159 +34
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 82 342 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.78% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.95% 8.07% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 53 61 279
10th Percentile £47,950 £45,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £66,625
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,195 4,236 9,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 9.61% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,746 2,848 6,647
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £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 19 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 19 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 -253 76 £70,000 +12.00% 65
London -24 39 £102,500 +46.43% 13
UK excluding London -284 36 £55,000 - 50
Work from Home -178 21 £70,000 +24.44% 24
North of England -129 15 £65,000 - 13
South West -45 14 £57,500 -4.17% 10
North West -86 13 £60,000 +2.13% 5
South East -40 4 £42,000 -20.00% 22
North East -40 2 £70,000 +7.69% 1
East of England -38 1 £55,000 +15.79% 2
West Midlands -44 1 £43,000 - 1
Scotland -50 1 - - 1
Midlands -97 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 27 (32.93%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) IIS
3 2 (2.44%) JBoss
3 2 (2.44%) nginx
3 2 (2.44%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.22%) CMS
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (4.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (56.10%) AWS
2 30 (36.59%) Azure
3 22 (26.83%) GitHub
4 12 (14.63%) GCP
5 11 (13.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (13.41%) Serverless
6 10 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (12.20%) Amazon S3
6 10 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (10.98%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (8.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (8.54%) Entra ID
8 7 (8.54%) OpenShift
9 6 (7.32%) CloudFront
9 6 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (6.10%) SaaS
11 4 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (4.88%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.20%) DNS
1 10 (12.20%) TCP/IP
2 9 (10.98%) Firewall
3 8 (9.76%) HTTPS
4 6 (7.32%) IPv4
4 6 (7.32%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (4.88%) Network Security
6 2 (2.44%) DHCP
6 2 (2.44%) SSL
7 1 (1.22%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.22%) LTE
7 1 (1.22%) SNMP
7 1 (1.22%) VPN
7 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.95%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (13.41%) SQL Server
3 10 (12.20%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.98%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.98%) MySQL
5 8 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (8.54%) DB2
7 6 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (6.10%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.44%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.22%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.22%) Power BI
10 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (46.34%) Git
2 30 (36.59%) JIRA
3 28 (34.15%) Jenkins
4 24 (29.27%) GitLab
5 11 (13.41%) Selenium
6 8 (9.76%) Cucumber
6 8 (9.76%) TeamCity
7 7 (8.54%) SonarQube
8 6 (7.32%) Subversion
9 4 (4.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (4.88%) Metasploit
10 3 (3.66%) NUnit
11 2 (2.44%) Artifactory
11 2 (2.44%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.44%) JMeter
11 2 (2.44%) JUnit
11 2 (2.44%) Maven
11 2 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.44%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 29 (35.37%) Finance
2 24 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.98%) Manufacturing
6 7 (8.54%) Aerospace
6 7 (8.54%) Banking
6 7 (8.54%) Electronics
7 5 (6.10%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (6.10%) Telecoms
8 4 (4.88%) Automotive
9 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.44%) Marketing
9 2 (2.44%) Retail
10 1 (1.22%) German Language
10 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.22%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 20 (24.39%) Senior
2 18 (21.95%) Developer
3 14 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (15.85%) Lead
5 10 (12.20%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Consultant
7 6 (7.32%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Senior Consultant
7 6 (7.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Java Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) Cyber Threat Specialist
9 4 (4.88%) DevOps Consultant
9 4 (4.88%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.17%) React
2 16 (19.51%) RESTful
3 12 (14.63%) CSS
3 12 (14.63%) HTML
4 11 (13.41%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (12.20%) Node.js
6 8 (9.76%) AngularJS
7 7 (8.54%) Gherkin
7 7 (8.54%) REST
8 6 (7.32%) CSS3
8 6 (7.32%) HTML5
9 5 (6.10%) JSON
10 4 (4.88%) .NET
10 4 (4.88%) Playwright
11 3 (3.66%) ASP.NET
11 3 (3.66%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (3.66%) GraphQL
11 3 (3.66%) Middleware
11 3 (3.66%) Swagger
11 3 (3.66%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (7.32%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.10%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.88%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (4.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.66%) PKI
5 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.22%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 40 (48.78%) Linux
2 24 (29.27%) Windows
3 9 (10.98%) Unix
4 8 (9.76%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.88%) Kali Linux
5 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (2.44%) Android
6 2 (2.44%) CentOS
6 2 (2.44%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (2.44%) ThreadX
6 2 (2.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.22%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (80.49%) CI/CD
2 38 (46.34%) DevOps
3 36 (43.90%) Agile
4 35 (42.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (30.49%) Containerisation
6 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (21.95%) Test Automation
8 17 (20.73%) Scrum
9 15 (18.29%) Microservices
9 15 (18.29%) Software Engineering
10 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (17.07%) DevSecOps
10 14 (17.07%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (15.85%) Collaborative Culture
11 13 (15.85%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (14.63%) Integration Testing
12 12 (14.63%) Mentoring
12 12 (14.63%) SDLC
12 12 (14.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 46 (56.10%) Python
2 31 (37.80%) Java
3 30 (36.59%) Bash
4 28 (34.15%) SQL
5 27 (32.93%) PowerShell
6 17 (20.73%) JavaScript
7 14 (17.07%) TypeScript
8 7 (8.54%) C#
9 4 (4.88%) C++
9 4 (4.88%) Go
10 3 (3.66%) Bicep
11 2 (2.44%) C
11 2 (2.44%) Embedded C
11 2 (2.44%) RPG
12 1 (1.22%) Perl
12 1 (1.22%) PHP
12 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.41%) AWS Certification
3 10 (12.20%) Degree
3 10 (12.20%) OSCP
4 7 (8.54%) ISTQB
5 6 (7.32%) CCNA
5 6 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (7.32%) RHCE
5 6 (7.32%) RHCSA
6 5 (6.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.88%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) QA
2 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (39.02%) Docker
2 11 (13.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (10.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.76%) vSphere
5 6 (7.32%) Squid
5 6 (7.32%) VMware NSX
6 4 (4.88%) iptables
7 2 (2.44%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (2.44%) Firmware
7 2 (2.44%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (51.22%) Kubernetes
2 36 (43.90%) Ansible
3 27 (32.93%) Terraform
4 11 (13.41%) Grafana
5 7 (8.54%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.32%) Packer
6 6 (7.32%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (7.32%) ZABBIX
7 5 (6.10%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.10%) Puppet
8 4 (4.88%) Rancher
9 3 (3.66%) Argo
9 3 (3.66%) Kibana
10 2 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.44%) Control-M
10 2 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.44%) Nagios
10 2 (2.44%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.22%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 23 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.29%) Atlassian
3 11 (13.41%) Oracle
3 11 (13.41%) Splunk
3 11 (13.41%) VMware
4 10 (12.20%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.88%) TOWER Software
6 3 (3.66%) DevExpress
7 2 (2.44%) Cisco
7 2 (2.44%) Dell
7 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.44%) Google
7 2 (2.44%) HP
7 2 (2.44%) IBM
7 2 (2.44%) Juniper
7 2 (2.44%) New Relic
7 2 (2.44%) Veeam
8 1 (1.22%) Adobe
8 1 (1.22%) SAP
8 1 (1.22%) Siemens