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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 565 432
Rank change year-on-year -10 -133 -13
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 79 177 296
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.28% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.22% 2.94% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52 99 260
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,400 £31,500
25th Percentile £54,063 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £65,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,125 £82,000 £112,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £47,500 £54,250
% change year-on-year +8.42% -12.44% -1.36%

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 3,563 6,030 6,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.32% 9.71% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,314 3,510 5,328
10th Percentile £28,750 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,425
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.86% +6.23%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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
England 0 70 £75,000 +50.00% 69
UK excluding London -20 36 £51,500 +8.42% 61
London +77 35 £100,000 +28.21% 15
North of England +30 22 £51,500 +11.96% 13
Work from Home +2 16 £72,500 +52.63% 47
North East - 14 £51,500 - 3
North West +31 8 - - 8
South West +5 7 £62,500 -9.42% 15
South East +13 4 £67,500 +12.50% 17
West Midlands +29 1 - - 3
Midlands +28 1 - - 7
Wales +5 1 - -
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 4

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 29 (36.71%) Confluence
2 7 (8.86%) IIS
3 5 (6.33%) Apache
3 5 (6.33%) Tomcat
4 4 (5.06%) Camunda
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (8.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.84%) AWS
2 32 (40.51%) Azure
3 15 (18.99%) GitHub
4 13 (16.46%) GCP
5 12 (15.19%) Amazon S3
6 11 (13.92%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (13.92%) Serverless
7 9 (11.39%) OpenShift
8 8 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (8.86%) Entra ID
10 6 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (7.59%) CloudFront
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (6.33%) Figma
12 4 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (3.80%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
2 3 (3.80%) SAN
3 1 (1.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.27%) Firewall
3 1 (1.27%) Multicast
3 1 (1.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (39.24%) SQL Server
2 18 (22.78%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (15.19%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.13%) DB2
4 8 (10.13%) MySQL
5 7 (8.86%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (7.59%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.06%) Oracle Database
7 4 (5.06%) RDBMS
7 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.27%) Metadata
10 1 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (65.82%) JIRA
2 30 (37.97%) Jenkins
3 28 (35.44%) GitLab
4 25 (31.65%) Git
5 14 (17.72%) Selenium
6 12 (15.19%) SonarQube
7 11 (13.92%) TeamCity
8 10 (12.66%) Cucumber
9 9 (11.39%) Subversion
10 7 (8.86%) Cypress.io
10 7 (8.86%) JUnit
11 6 (7.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (7.59%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (6.33%) JMeter
12 5 (6.33%) Vite
13 4 (5.06%) REST Assured
14 3 (3.80%) Artifactory
14 3 (3.80%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (3.80%) Postman
15 2 (2.53%) Robot Framework
General
1 47 (59.49%) Social Skills
2 35 (44.30%) Finance
3 17 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.66%) Banking
5 9 (11.39%) Public Sector
6 8 (10.13%) Advertising
7 7 (8.86%) Manufacturing
7 7 (8.86%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (8.86%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Back Office
8 1 (1.27%) Electronics
8 1 (1.27%) Front Office
8 1 (1.27%) Games
8 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Publishing
8 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (27.85%) Senior
2 17 (21.52%) Developer
3 12 (15.19%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (13.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.66%) Lead
6 9 (11.39%) Java Developer
7 8 (10.13%) Applications Support
8 7 (8.86%) Agile Developer
8 7 (8.86%) Agile Java Developer
8 7 (8.86%) Analyst
8 7 (8.86%) Applications Support Analyst
8 7 (8.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (8.86%) Consultant
8 7 (8.86%) DevOps Consultant
8 7 (8.86%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (8.86%) Senior DevOps Consultant
8 7 (8.86%) Support Analyst
9 6 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.32%) React
2 15 (18.99%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (13.92%) CSS
3 11 (13.92%) HTML
4 10 (12.66%) RESTful
5 9 (11.39%) Node.js
6 8 (10.13%) Gherkin
6 8 (10.13%) REST
7 7 (8.86%) Kafka
8 6 (7.59%) Jest
8 6 (7.59%) Spring Boot
9 5 (6.33%) .NET
9 5 (6.33%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (6.33%) Hibernate
9 5 (6.33%) Middleware
9 5 (6.33%) Next.js
9 5 (6.33%) Playwright
9 5 (6.33%) Spring
10 4 (5.06%) JSF
10 4 (5.06%) PrimeFaces
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.33%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.06%) Clustering
3 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.53%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.27%) CAN bus
5 1 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.27%) FMCG
5 1 (1.27%) FPGA
5 1 (1.27%) IoT
5 1 (1.27%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 32 (40.51%) Linux
2 19 (24.05%) Windows
3 5 (6.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (6.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (6.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.53%) Unix
4 2 (2.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (65.82%) CI/CD
2 46 (58.23%) DevOps
3 39 (49.37%) Agile
4 28 (35.44%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (24.05%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (24.05%) Unit Testing
6 18 (22.78%) Microservices
6 18 (22.78%) Test Automation
7 17 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (21.52%) Software Engineering
8 16 (20.25%) Collaborative Culture
8 16 (20.25%) Front End Development
8 16 (20.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (18.99%) Computer Science
9 15 (18.99%) Containerisation
9 15 (18.99%) Design Patterns
9 15 (18.99%) User Experience
10 14 (17.72%) Change Management
11 13 (16.46%) Logistics
11 13 (16.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.77%) Java
2 28 (35.44%) SQL
3 26 (32.91%) JavaScript
4 21 (26.58%) Python
5 15 (18.99%) TypeScript
6 12 (15.19%) PowerShell
7 10 (12.66%) Bash
8 9 (11.39%) C#
9 5 (6.33%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.53%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.53%) RPG
11 1 (1.27%) Bicep
11 1 (1.27%) Go
11 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.27%) Perl
11 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (21.52%) Degree
2 15 (18.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.86%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.59%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (7.59%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.53%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.27%) HNC
8 1 (1.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) QA
2 7 (8.86%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.53%) SEPA
4 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (39.24%) Docker
2 12 (15.19%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.80%) vSphere
5 1 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (1.27%) Firmware
5 1 (1.27%) iptables
Systems Management
1 31 (39.24%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.25%) Ansible
2 16 (20.25%) Grafana
3 13 (16.46%) Terraform
4 11 (13.92%) Prometheus
5 10 (12.66%) Control-M
6 7 (8.86%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (7.59%) Kibana
7 6 (7.59%) Puppet
8 5 (6.33%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.80%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.53%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.27%) Ambari
11 1 (1.27%) Argo
11 1 (1.27%) logstash
11 1 (1.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (37.97%) Atlassian
2 16 (20.25%) Oracle
3 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.13%) VMware
5 5 (6.33%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.06%) Informatica
6 4 (5.06%) RedGate
6 4 (5.06%) Splunk
6 4 (5.06%) Talend
7 3 (3.80%) IBM
8 2 (2.53%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.53%) Google
8 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.27%) EMC
9 1 (1.27%) New Relic
9 1 (1.27%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.27%) Veracode