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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 552 430
Rank change year-on-year -13 -122 +10
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 84 159 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.30% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.29% 2.88% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53 88 255
10th Percentile £42,250 - £31,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -25.93% -0.20%
75th Percentile £100,000 £65,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £82,000 £115,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £49,104 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.88% -9.07% -6.09%

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 3,668 5,517 6,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.08% 10.29% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 3,171 5,211
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.35% +4.55%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -20 74 £75,000 +50.00% 45
UK excluding London -56 38 £51,500 +4.88% 36
London +75 37 £100,000 +28.21% 8
North of England +14 21 £51,500 +3.00% 9
Work from Home -5 16 £72,500 +52.63% 17
North East - 12 £51,500 - 3
South West -11 10 £55,000 -20.29% 12
North West +15 9 £65,000 +30.00% 5
South East -2 4 £55,000 -6.38% 12
Midlands +13 1 - - 2
West Midlands +13 1 - -
Wales +6 1 - -
Northern Ireland -12 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 32 (38.10%) Confluence
2 7 (8.33%) IIS
3 6 (7.14%) Apache
4 5 (5.95%) Tomcat
5 4 (4.76%) Camunda
6 1 (1.19%) JBoss
6 1 (1.19%) nginx
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (10.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.24%) AWS
2 32 (38.10%) Azure
3 15 (17.86%) GitHub
4 13 (15.48%) GCP
5 12 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 12 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (14.29%) Serverless
6 10 (11.90%) OpenShift
7 9 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (9.52%) Entra ID
9 7 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (8.33%) CloudFront
10 6 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.95%) Figma
12 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (3.57%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) DNS
2 2 (2.38%) Network Security
2 2 (2.38%) SAN
3 1 (1.19%) DHCP
3 1 (1.19%) Firewall
3 1 (1.19%) SSL
3 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 20 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 11 (13.10%) DB2
5 9 (10.71%) MySQL
6 7 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
8 5 (5.95%) Oracle Database
9 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.76%) RDBMS
9 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (3.57%) DynamoDB
11 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
12 1 (1.19%) Metadata
12 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database 12c
12 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 51 (60.71%) JIRA
2 35 (41.67%) Jenkins
3 30 (35.71%) Git
4 29 (34.52%) GitLab
5 16 (19.05%) Selenium
6 13 (15.48%) TeamCity
7 12 (14.29%) Cucumber
8 11 (13.10%) Subversion
9 10 (11.90%) SonarQube
10 7 (8.33%) Cypress.io
11 6 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (7.14%) JUnit
12 5 (5.95%) JMeter
12 5 (5.95%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (5.95%) Vite
13 4 (4.76%) REST Assured
14 3 (3.57%) Postman
15 2 (2.38%) Robot Framework
15 2 (2.38%) TestRail
15 2 (2.38%) webpack
General
1 49 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 40 (47.62%) Finance
3 18 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (15.48%) Banking
5 12 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 9 (10.71%) Manufacturing
6 9 (10.71%) Telecoms
7 8 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (8.33%) Advertising
9 2 (2.38%) Retail
10 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.19%) Electronics
10 1 (1.19%) Front Office
10 1 (1.19%) Games
10 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.19%) Marketing
10 1 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Senior
2 20 (23.81%) Developer
3 14 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (11.90%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.90%) Lead
5 8 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Consultant
5 8 (9.52%) DevOps Consultant
5 8 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
5 8 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Consultant
6 7 (8.33%) Agile Developer
6 7 (8.33%) Agile Java Developer
6 7 (8.33%) Analyst
6 7 (8.33%) Applications Support
6 7 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (8.33%) Support Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.38%) React
2 16 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (16.67%) CSS
3 14 (16.67%) HTML
3 14 (16.67%) RESTful
4 11 (13.10%) Gherkin
5 10 (11.90%) Node.js
6 8 (9.52%) REST
7 7 (8.33%) Kafka
8 6 (7.14%) Middleware
9 5 (5.95%) .NET
9 5 (5.95%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (5.95%) Jest
9 5 (5.95%) Next.js
9 5 (5.95%) Playwright
9 5 (5.95%) Spring
9 5 (5.95%) Spring Boot
10 4 (4.76%) Hibernate
10 4 (4.76%) JSF
10 4 (4.76%) PrimeFaces
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.95%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.57%) Clustering
3 3 (3.57%) PKI
4 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Replication
5 1 (1.19%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 36 (42.86%) Linux
2 20 (23.81%) Windows
3 6 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.95%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (5.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (5.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.38%) Unix
5 2 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (70.24%) CI/CD
2 47 (55.95%) DevOps
3 44 (52.38%) Agile
4 31 (36.90%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (26.19%) Unit Testing
6 21 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (25.00%) Microservices
7 20 (23.81%) Test Automation
8 19 (22.62%) Containerisation
8 19 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (22.62%) Front End Development
8 19 (22.62%) Software Engineering
9 18 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
9 18 (21.43%) Design Patterns
9 18 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (21.43%) User Experience
10 15 (17.86%) Change Management
10 15 (17.86%) Computer Science
10 15 (17.86%) Scrum
11 14 (16.67%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.24%) Java
2 30 (35.71%) SQL
3 28 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 26 (30.95%) Python
5 16 (19.05%) TypeScript
6 15 (17.86%) PowerShell
7 13 (15.48%) Bash
8 11 (13.10%) C#
9 5 (5.95%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.57%) RPG
11 2 (2.38%) Go
12 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
12 1 (1.19%) Bicep
12 1 (1.19%) C++
12 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 15 (17.86%) Degree
2 8 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 8 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
3 6 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) QA
2 7 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (41.67%) Docker
2 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.38%) iptables
4 2 (2.38%) vSphere
5 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 20 (23.81%) Ansible
3 16 (19.05%) Terraform
4 15 (17.86%) Grafana
5 11 (13.10%) Prometheus
6 9 (10.71%) Control-M
6 9 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (8.33%) Puppet
8 6 (7.14%) Progress Chef
9 5 (5.95%) Kibana
10 2 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.38%) Rancher
11 1 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (1.19%) Ambari
11 1 (1.19%) Argo
11 1 (1.19%) Nagios
11 1 (1.19%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (39.29%) Atlassian
2 17 (20.24%) Oracle
3 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 8 (9.52%) VMware
5 7 (8.33%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.76%) IBM
6 4 (4.76%) Splunk
7 3 (3.57%) Informatica
7 3 (3.57%) RedGate
7 3 (3.57%) Talend
8 2 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.19%) Dell
9 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.19%) Google
9 1 (1.19%) HP
9 1 (1.19%) New Relic
9 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.19%) Siemens
9 1 (1.19%) Veeam