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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 573 447
Rank change year-on-year +19 -126 -34
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 85 185 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.28% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.30% 3.00% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 57 99 249
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,400 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £43,750 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £93,750 £65,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £82,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.42% -13.64% -

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 3,694 6,161 6,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.84% 9.22% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 3,515 5,371
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £42,439
25th Percentile £42,570 £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 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.98% +6.36%

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 28 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 28 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 +16 75 £75,000 +50.00% 45
UK excluding London -8 42 £51,500 +8.42% 35
London +61 36 £100,000 +28.21% 18
North of England +28 23 £51,500 +11.96% 10
Work from Home +8 17 £72,500 +52.63% 15
North East - 15 £51,500 - 2
North West +37 8 - - 8
South West -4 8 £55,000 -20.29% 7
South East +15 7 £45,000 -25.00% 16
Midlands +55 1 - -
West Midlands +52 1 - -
Wales +11 1 - -
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 1
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 29 (34.12%) Confluence
2 8 (9.41%) IIS
3 5 (5.88%) Apache
3 5 (5.88%) Tomcat
4 4 (4.71%) Camunda
5 1 (1.18%) CMS
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (7.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.06%) AWS
2 34 (40.00%) Azure
3 14 (16.47%) GCP
3 14 (16.47%) GitHub
4 11 (12.94%) Amazon S3
4 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (12.94%) Serverless
5 9 (10.59%) OpenShift
6 7 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (8.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (7.06%) CloudFront
7 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
7 6 (7.06%) Figma
7 6 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.53%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (2.35%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) DNS
1 4 (4.71%) SAN
2 1 (1.18%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.18%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) Multicast
2 1 (1.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.47%) SQL Server
2 19 (22.35%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (14.12%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.41%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (9.41%) MySQL
5 7 (8.24%) DB2
6 6 (7.06%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.71%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.71%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.35%) Redis
10 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 55 (64.71%) JIRA
2 29 (34.12%) Git
2 29 (34.12%) Jenkins
3 28 (32.94%) GitLab
4 12 (14.12%) Selenium
4 12 (14.12%) SonarQube
4 12 (14.12%) TeamCity
5 10 (11.76%) Subversion
6 9 (10.59%) Cucumber
7 7 (8.24%) Cypress.io
7 7 (8.24%) JUnit
8 6 (7.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (7.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (7.06%) Vite
9 5 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (4.71%) Artifactory
10 4 (4.71%) JMeter
11 3 (3.53%) Postman
11 3 (3.53%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.35%) TestRail
General
1 50 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 37 (43.53%) Finance
3 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Advertising
4 9 (10.59%) Banking
5 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.06%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (7.06%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.35%) Back Office
7 2 (2.35%) Games
7 2 (2.35%) Retail
8 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Electronics
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) iGaming
8 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) Senior
2 21 (24.71%) Developer
3 13 (15.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (14.12%) Senior DevOps
5 11 (12.94%) Lead
6 8 (9.41%) Applications Support
6 8 (9.41%) Java Developer
7 7 (8.24%) Analyst
7 7 (8.24%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Software Developer
7 7 (8.24%) Support Analyst
7 7 (8.24%) Technical Leader
8 6 (7.06%) Agile Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Agile Java Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Consultant
8 6 (7.06%) DevOps Consultant
8 6 (7.06%) Senior Consultant
8 6 (7.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.88%) React
2 15 (17.65%) CSS
2 15 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (17.65%) HTML
3 10 (11.76%) RESTful
4 8 (9.41%) .NET
4 8 (9.41%) Node.js
4 8 (9.41%) REST
5 7 (8.24%) Gherkin
5 7 (8.24%) Kafka
6 6 (7.06%) Jest
6 6 (7.06%) Middleware
6 6 (7.06%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (5.88%) Hibernate
7 5 (5.88%) Next.js
7 5 (5.88%) Spring
8 4 (4.71%) HTML5
8 4 (4.71%) PrimeFaces
8 4 (4.71%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.71%) Clustering
3 4 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.18%) Animation
5 1 (1.18%) CAN bus
5 1 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.18%) FMCG
5 1 (1.18%) FPGA
5 1 (1.18%) IoT
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.00%) Linux
2 20 (23.53%) Windows
3 5 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.35%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 48 (56.47%) DevOps
3 38 (44.71%) Agile
4 29 (34.12%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (22.35%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (21.18%) Computer Science
6 18 (21.18%) Front End Development
6 18 (21.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (20.00%) Microservices
7 17 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 17 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 16 (18.82%) Containerisation
8 16 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (18.82%) Software Engineering
8 16 (18.82%) User Experience
9 15 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
10 14 (16.47%) Design Patterns
11 13 (15.29%) Change Management
11 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
12 12 (14.12%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 32 (37.65%) Java
2 30 (35.29%) SQL
3 29 (34.12%) JavaScript
4 21 (24.71%) Python
5 15 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 13 (15.29%) PowerShell
7 12 (14.12%) C#
8 10 (11.76%) Bash
9 5 (5.88%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.35%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.35%) RPG
10 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.18%) Bicep
11 1 (1.18%) C++
11 1 (1.18%) Go
11 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.18%) Perl
11 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (23.53%) Degree
2 18 (21.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.24%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.06%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (7.06%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (4.71%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.35%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.18%) HNC
8 1 (1.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) Accessibility
1 9 (10.59%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) SEPA
3 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (36.47%) Docker
2 11 (12.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.71%) vSphere
5 1 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (1.18%) Firmware
5 1 (1.18%) iptables
Systems Management
1 31 (36.47%) Kubernetes
2 18 (21.18%) Ansible
3 17 (20.00%) Grafana
4 15 (17.65%) Terraform
5 11 (12.94%) Control-M
5 11 (12.94%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.24%) Kibana
7 6 (7.06%) Puppet
7 6 (7.06%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (5.88%) Progress Chef
9 4 (4.71%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.35%) logstash
10 2 (2.35%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.18%) Ambari
11 1 (1.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 29 (34.12%) Atlassian
2 17 (20.00%) Oracle
3 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.59%) VMware
5 5 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.88%) Splunk
6 4 (4.71%) Informatica
6 4 (4.71%) RedGate
6 4 (4.71%) Talend
7 3 (3.53%) Google
7 3 (3.53%) IBM
8 2 (2.35%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.18%) Adobe
9 1 (1.18%) EMC
9 1 (1.18%) New Relic
9 1 (1.18%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.18%) Veracode