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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 713 385 603
Rank change year-on-year -328 +218 -111
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 80 325 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.66% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.78% 8.60% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 47 51 109
10th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% - -17.86%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

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 4,502 3,778 6,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.97% 7.62% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,860 2,253 3,944
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,650 £38,575
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,218 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.49% +4.03% -6.78%

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 13 September 2026.

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 13 September 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 -274 73 £65,000 +13.04% 89
UK excluding London -305 56 £55,000 - 54
Work from Home -237 28 £58,500 +11.43% 121
London -56 24 £90,000 +12.50% 50
North of England -152 23 £56,250 +7.14% 17
North West -98 19 £55,000 - 8
South West -61 14 £60,500 +16.35% 7
South East -48 9 £56,250 +40.63% 11
Wales -72 6 £35,000 -50.00% 3
North East -67 3 £70,000 +33.33% 3
Midlands -117 2 £50,750 - 6
Scotland -41 1 - - 4
East of England -44 1 - -
West Midlands -62 1 £43,000 - 6
East Midlands -71 1 £58,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 7

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 23 (28.75%) Confluence
2 9 (11.25%) Apache
3 7 (8.75%) nginx
4 5 (6.25%) JBoss
5 2 (2.50%) CMS
6 1 (1.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.25%) IIS
6 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 44 (55.00%) AWS
2 23 (28.75%) Azure
3 16 (20.00%) GitHub
4 13 (16.25%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (16.25%) Serverless
5 11 (13.75%) Amazon S3
5 11 (13.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (11.25%) AWS Fargate
7 8 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (10.00%) GCP
8 7 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (8.75%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (6.25%) Datadog
10 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (5.00%) Route 53
10 4 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) IPv4
1 8 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 6 (7.50%) VoIP
3 5 (6.25%) SSL
4 4 (5.00%) LAN
4 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.00%) WAN
5 2 (2.50%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) MySQL
2 11 (13.75%) DynamoDB
2 11 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.25%) MongoDB
3 9 (11.25%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.25%) Db2
8 1 (1.25%) Metadata
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (53.75%) Git
2 41 (51.25%) JIRA
3 24 (30.00%) Jenkins
4 20 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (16.25%) GitLab
6 9 (11.25%) SonarQube
7 7 (8.75%) Cypress.io
7 7 (8.75%) TeamCity
8 6 (7.50%) Selenium
9 4 (5.00%) Subversion
9 4 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (3.75%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.75%) Mercurial
10 3 (3.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.50%) git-flow
11 2 (2.50%) NUnit
12 1 (1.25%) Claude Code
12 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
12 1 (1.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 27 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 25 (31.25%) Finance
3 15 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 5 (6.25%) Electronics
5 5 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Automotive
6 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
8 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) Senior
2 16 (20.00%) Developer
3 15 (18.75%) Applications Engineer
4 12 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (15.00%) Lead
5 10 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Applications Support
8 6 (7.50%) Applications Support Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Applications Support
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Support Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Applications Developer
9 4 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) React
2 21 (26.25%) Terraform
3 15 (18.75%) Node.js
4 11 (13.75%) .NET
5 10 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 8 (10.00%) CSS
6 8 (10.00%) HTML
7 6 (7.50%) CSS3
7 6 (7.50%) HTML5
7 6 (7.50%) RESTful
8 5 (6.25%) AWS CDK
8 5 (6.25%) Kafka
8 5 (6.25%) Keycloak
8 5 (6.25%) OAuth
8 5 (6.25%) OAuth2
8 5 (6.25%) OpenID
8 5 (6.25%) REST
8 5 (6.25%) Spring
8 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 5 (6.25%) Social Media
5 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (5.00%) Replication
6 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.75%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.50%) PKI
7 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (36.25%) Linux
2 16 (20.00%) Windows
3 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.75%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.50%) Debian
6 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.50%) CentOS
8 1 (1.25%) Android
8 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.25%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (1.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (78.75%) CI/CD
2 50 (62.50%) Agile
3 27 (33.75%) Containerisation
3 27 (33.75%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (32.50%) DevOps
5 25 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 23 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (27.50%) Scrum
8 17 (21.25%) Deployment Automation
8 17 (21.25%) Software Engineering
9 15 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
9 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (17.50%) Observability
11 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
12 12 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (13.75%) BDD
13 11 (13.75%) Computer Science
13 11 (13.75%) DevSecOps
14 10 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (65.00%) Python
2 35 (43.75%) Java
2 35 (43.75%) SQL
3 27 (33.75%) PowerShell
4 23 (28.75%) Bash
5 15 (18.75%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.25%) C#
6 9 (11.25%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.75%) PHP
8 5 (6.25%) C++
9 3 (3.75%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.50%) Bicep
10 2 (2.50%) Go
11 1 (1.25%) C
11 1 (1.25%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 17 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 11 (13.75%) Degree
4 9 (11.25%) ISTQB
5 8 (10.00%) CCNA
5 8 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (10.00%) OSCP
5 8 (10.00%) RHCE
5 8 (10.00%) RHCSA
6 5 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (6.25%) Master's Degree
7 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.25%) HNC
10 1 (1.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (35.00%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) vSphere
3 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 8 (10.00%) Squid
4 8 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (10.00%) VMware NSX
5 5 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.25%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (41.25%) Kubernetes
2 26 (32.50%) Ansible
3 8 (10.00%) Grafana
3 8 (10.00%) Packer
3 8 (10.00%) ZABBIX
4 7 (8.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (8.75%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (6.25%) Nagios
6 4 (5.00%) Argo
6 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.75%) Control-M
7 3 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.75%) Puppet
8 2 (2.50%) Rancher
9 1 (1.25%) Kibana
9 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (27.50%) Splunk
2 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
3 15 (18.75%) Red Hat
4 11 (13.75%) Oracle
4 11 (13.75%) VMware
5 10 (12.50%) Atlassian
6 5 (6.25%) Google
6 5 (6.25%) New Relic
7 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.75%) Perforce
9 2 (2.50%) DevExpress
9 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.25%) Adobe
10 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.25%) SAP