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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 351 518
Rank change year-on-year -278 +167 +28
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 87 346 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.79% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.10% 8.00% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 56 64 291
10th Percentile £49,375 £44,112 £27,500
25th Percentile £52,188 £49,717 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £96,563 £82,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £110,625 £110,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +15.79% -24.00%

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 4,149 4,325 9,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.59% 9.89% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,728 2,912 6,708
10th Percentile £31,250 £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 £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,001 £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 12 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 12 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 -232 80 £70,000 +16.67% 56
London -9 41 £102,500 +46.43% 11
UK excluding London -274 38 £55,000 - 42
Work from Home -186 22 £72,500 +31.82% 23
North of England -135 17 £65,000 +13.04% 12
South West -37 13 £57,500 -4.17% 9
North West -100 13 £60,000 +9.09% 3
South East -28 5 £48,500 -7.62% 17
North East -36 4 £70,000 +7.69% 1
East of England -37 1 £55,000 +15.79% 3
Scotland -47 1 - -
West Midlands -52 1 £43,000 - 1
Midlands -99 1 £43,000 -4.44% 1

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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 4 (4.60%) Apache
3 3 (3.45%) IIS
3 3 (3.45%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.30%) JBoss
4 2 (2.30%) nginx
5 1 (1.15%) CMS
5 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (5.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (55.17%) AWS
2 34 (39.08%) Azure
3 23 (26.44%) GitHub
4 14 (16.09%) GCP
5 11 (12.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (11.49%) Serverless
7 9 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 9 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (9.20%) Entra ID
8 8 (9.20%) OpenShift
9 7 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (6.90%) CloudFront
10 6 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (5.75%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.75%) SaaS
12 4 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.64%) DNS
2 10 (11.49%) TCP/IP
3 9 (10.34%) Firewall
4 8 (9.20%) HTTPS
5 5 (5.75%) IPv4
5 5 (5.75%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (4.60%) Network Security
7 2 (2.30%) DHCP
7 2 (2.30%) SSL
8 1 (1.15%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.15%) LTE
8 1 (1.15%) SAN
8 1 (1.15%) SNMP
8 1 (1.15%) VPN
8 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.84%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.24%) SQL Server
3 10 (11.49%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.34%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.34%) MySQL
5 8 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (9.20%) DB2
6 6 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.75%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.30%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.15%) Metadata
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.15%) Power BI
10 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (44.83%) Git
2 34 (39.08%) JIRA
3 30 (34.48%) Jenkins
4 25 (28.74%) GitLab
5 12 (13.79%) Selenium
6 10 (11.49%) TeamCity
7 9 (10.34%) Cucumber
8 8 (9.20%) SonarQube
9 7 (8.05%) Subversion
10 5 (5.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (4.60%) Metasploit
12 3 (3.45%) Artifactory
12 3 (3.45%) NUnit
12 3 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
13 2 (2.30%) Eclipse
13 2 (2.30%) JMeter
13 2 (2.30%) JUnit
13 2 (2.30%) Maven
13 2 (2.30%) webpack
General
1 35 (40.23%) Finance
2 29 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 10 (11.49%) Manufacturing
6 8 (9.20%) Banking
7 7 (8.05%) Electronics
8 6 (6.90%) Aerospace
8 6 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (6.90%) Telecoms
9 4 (4.60%) Automotive
10 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.30%) Marketing
10 2 (2.30%) Retail
11 1 (1.15%) German Language
11 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.15%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Senior
2 19 (21.84%) Developer
3 15 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (16.09%) Lead
5 11 (12.64%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (8.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Consultant
6 7 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Senior Consultant
6 7 (8.05%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Analyst
8 5 (5.75%) DevOps Consultant
8 5 (5.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior DevOps Consultant
9 4 (4.60%) Cyber Threat Specialist
9 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.99%) React
2 17 (19.54%) RESTful
3 13 (14.94%) CSS
3 13 (14.94%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (14.94%) HTML
4 11 (12.64%) Node.js
5 8 (9.20%) AngularJS
5 8 (9.20%) Gherkin
5 8 (9.20%) REST
6 6 (6.90%) CSS3
6 6 (6.90%) HTML5
7 5 (5.75%) JSON
7 5 (5.75%) Middleware
8 4 (4.60%) .NET
8 4 (4.60%) Playwright
9 3 (3.45%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.45%) ASP.NET
9 3 (3.45%) Entity Framework
9 3 (3.45%) Kafka
9 3 (3.45%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.60%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (4.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (4.60%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.60%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.45%) PKI
5 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.30%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 42 (48.28%) Linux
2 26 (29.89%) Windows
3 9 (10.34%) Unix
4 8 (9.20%) Windows Server
5 5 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.60%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.30%) Android
7 2 (2.30%) CentOS
7 2 (2.30%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (2.30%) ThreadX
7 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (80.46%) CI/CD
2 42 (48.28%) DevOps
3 38 (43.68%) Agile
4 36 (41.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (29.89%) Containerisation
6 22 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (22.99%) Test Automation
8 17 (19.54%) Microservices
8 17 (19.54%) Scrum
9 16 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (18.39%) Software Engineering
10 14 (16.09%) Collaborative Culture
10 14 (16.09%) Deployment Automation
10 14 (16.09%) DevSecOps
10 14 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (14.94%) Integration Testing
11 13 (14.94%) User Experience
12 12 (13.79%) BDD
12 12 (13.79%) Mentoring
12 12 (13.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 48 (55.17%) Python
2 32 (36.78%) Java
3 30 (34.48%) Bash
4 29 (33.33%) SQL
5 28 (32.18%) PowerShell
6 19 (21.84%) JavaScript
7 14 (16.09%) TypeScript
8 8 (9.20%) C#
9 4 (4.60%) C++
9 4 (4.60%) Go
10 3 (3.45%) Bicep
11 2 (2.30%) C
11 2 (2.30%) Embedded C
11 2 (2.30%) RPG
12 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
12 1 (1.15%) Perl
12 1 (1.15%) PHP
12 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.79%) Degree
3 10 (11.49%) AWS Certification
4 9 (10.34%) OSCP
5 6 (6.90%) ISTQB
6 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.75%) CCNA
6 5 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.75%) RHCE
6 5 (5.75%) RHCSA
7 4 (4.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) QA
2 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (39.08%) Docker
2 12 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 9 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.20%) vSphere
5 5 (5.75%) Squid
5 5 (5.75%) VMware NSX
6 4 (4.60%) iptables
7 2 (2.30%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (2.30%) Firmware
7 2 (2.30%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (51.72%) Kubernetes
2 37 (42.53%) Ansible
3 27 (31.03%) Terraform
4 13 (14.94%) Grafana
5 8 (9.20%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.05%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (6.90%) Progress Chef
7 6 (6.90%) Puppet
8 5 (5.75%) Packer
8 5 (5.75%) ZABBIX
9 4 (4.60%) Control-M
9 4 (4.60%) Rancher
10 3 (3.45%) Argo
10 3 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (3.45%) Kibana
11 2 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (2.30%) Nagios
11 2 (2.30%) NetBackup
12 1 (1.15%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 24 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 19 (21.84%) Atlassian
3 12 (13.79%) VMware
4 11 (12.64%) Oracle
5 10 (11.49%) Red Hat
5 10 (11.49%) Splunk
6 4 (4.60%) TOWER Software
7 3 (3.45%) DevExpress
8 2 (2.30%) Cisco
8 2 (2.30%) Dell
8 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.30%) Google
8 2 (2.30%) HP
8 2 (2.30%) IBM
8 2 (2.30%) Juniper
8 2 (2.30%) New Relic
8 2 (2.30%) Veeam
9 1 (1.15%) Adobe
9 1 (1.15%) SAP
9 1 (1.15%) Siemens