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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 572 445
Rank change year-on-year -7 -127 -50
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 84 184 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.27% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.26% 3.07% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 58 98 244
10th Percentile £37,050 £41,225 £45,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £43,750 £52,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £81,875 £65,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £82,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -

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 3,722 5,990 6,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.03% 8.81% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,380 3,333 5,559
10th Percentile £30,225 £37,574 £42,431
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 14 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 14 November 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 -3 76 £57,649 +15.30% 103
UK excluding London -21 43 £51,500 +3.00% 55
London +65 34 £100,000 +32.89% 53
North of England +31 23 £51,500 +11.96% 23
Work from Home -8 18 £65,000 +36.84% 53
North East +23 16 £51,500 +21.18% 6
South West +11 8 £52,000 -24.64% 12
South East +3 8 £40,000 -33.33% 12
North West +29 7 - - 15
Midlands +49 1 - - 3
West Midlands +34 1 - - 1
Wales +7 1 - -
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 £65,000 -

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 25 (29.76%) Confluence
2 8 (9.52%) IIS
3 5 (5.95%) Apache
4 4 (4.76%) Camunda
5 3 (3.57%) CMS
5 3 (3.57%) Tomcat
5 3 (3.57%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (5.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.19%) Notion
2 1 (1.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.24%) AWS
2 33 (39.29%) Azure
3 18 (21.43%) GitHub
4 11 (13.10%) Amazon S3
5 10 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (11.90%) GCP
5 10 (11.90%) Serverless
6 6 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (7.14%) CloudFront
6 6 (7.14%) Figma
6 6 (7.14%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) DNS
1 3 (3.57%) SAN
2 1 (1.19%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.19%) Firewall
2 1 (1.19%) Multicast
2 1 (1.19%) Network Security
2 1 (1.19%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 19 (22.62%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.71%) MySQL
5 7 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (7.14%) RDBMS
7 5 (5.95%) DB2
8 3 (3.57%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.38%) Redis
10 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.19%) Big Data
10 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.19%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (61.90%) JIRA
2 30 (35.71%) Git
3 24 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 23 (27.38%) GitLab
5 12 (14.29%) SonarQube
6 10 (11.90%) Selenium
7 9 (10.71%) TeamCity
8 8 (9.52%) Subversion
8 8 (9.52%) Vite
9 7 (8.33%) Cucumber
9 7 (8.33%) Cypress.io
9 7 (8.33%) JUnit
10 6 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (4.76%) JMeter
11 4 (4.76%) Visual Studio
12 3 (3.57%) Postman
12 3 (3.57%) REST Assured
12 3 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 30 (35.71%) Finance
3 13 (15.48%) Advertising
3 13 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.33%) Banking
4 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.95%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.76%) Back Office
6 4 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.38%) Electronics
7 2 (2.38%) Games
7 2 (2.38%) Marketing
8 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.19%) Automotive
8 1 (1.19%) Front Office
8 1 (1.19%) iGaming
8 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Publishing
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Developer
2 21 (25.00%) Senior
3 13 (15.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (10.71%) Applications Support
5 9 (10.71%) Lead
6 7 (8.33%) DBA
6 7 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 7 (8.33%) SQL DBA
7 6 (7.14%) Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Applications Support Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Support Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Technical Leader
8 5 (5.95%) Agile Developer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Technical Manager
8 5 (5.95%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.81%) React
2 16 (19.05%) CSS
2 16 (19.05%) HTML
3 12 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (11.90%) .NET
5 7 (8.33%) REST
5 7 (8.33%) RESTful
6 6 (7.14%) .NET Framework
6 6 (7.14%) Jest
6 6 (7.14%) Node.js
6 6 (7.14%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.95%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.95%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (5.95%) Gherkin
7 5 (5.95%) Hibernate
7 5 (5.95%) Kafka
7 5 (5.95%) Next.js
7 5 (5.95%) Sass
7 5 (5.95%) Spring
8 4 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.14%) Clustering
2 5 (5.95%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.95%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.38%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.38%) IoT
4 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.19%) Animation
5 1 (1.19%) CAN bus
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.19%) FMCG
5 1 (1.19%) FPGA
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (35.71%) Linux
2 16 (19.05%) Windows
3 3 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.57%) Unix
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 43 (51.19%) DevOps
3 34 (40.48%) Agile
4 26 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (22.62%) Computer Science
5 19 (22.62%) Front End Development
6 16 (19.05%) Test Automation
6 16 (19.05%) User Experience
7 15 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (17.86%) Unit Testing
8 14 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 14 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 13 (15.48%) Containerisation
9 13 (15.48%) High Availability
9 13 (15.48%) Microservices
10 12 (14.29%) Design Patterns
11 11 (13.10%) Collaborative Culture
11 11 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.29%) SQL
2 28 (33.33%) Java
2 28 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 18 (21.43%) Python
4 13 (15.48%) C#
4 13 (15.48%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.71%) Bash
7 8 (9.52%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.38%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.38%) C++
8 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.19%) Bicep
9 1 (1.19%) C
9 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.19%) Perl
9 1 (1.19%) PHP
9 1 (1.19%) RPG
Qualifications
1 22 (26.19%) Degree
2 18 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 6 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (5.95%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (5.95%) DBS Check
4 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.19%) HNC
7 1 (1.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.71%) QA
3 2 (2.38%) SEPA
4 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (32.14%) Docker
2 7 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.57%) vSphere
5 1 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (1.19%) Firmware
5 1 (1.19%) iptables
Systems Management
1 24 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 14 (16.67%) Ansible
2 14 (16.67%) Grafana
2 14 (16.67%) Terraform
3 10 (11.90%) Prometheus
4 9 (10.71%) Control-M
5 7 (8.33%) Kibana
6 5 (5.95%) Puppet
7 4 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (2.38%) logstash
9 2 (2.38%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.19%) Ambari
Vendors
1 24 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 15 (17.86%) Oracle
3 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.33%) Informatica
4 7 (8.33%) RedGate
4 7 (8.33%) Talend
5 6 (7.14%) VMware
6 4 (4.76%) Splunk
7 3 (3.57%) Google
7 3 (3.57%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.38%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.38%) IBM
8 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.19%) Adobe
9 1 (1.19%) EMC
9 1 (1.19%) New Relic
9 1 (1.19%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.19%) Veracode