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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 468 501
Rank change year-on-year -167 +33 +44
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 91 189 418
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.44% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.20% 4.52% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 60 68 299
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £48,527 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £101,250 £76,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £104,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -20.00%

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 4,142 4,177 9,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.55% 9.72% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,717 2,942 6,731
10th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% +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 5 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 5 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 -115 83 £75,000 +25.00% 51
London -1 47 £100,000 +42.86% 10
UK excluding London -178 35 £55,000 - 39
Work from Home -88 23 £72,500 +31.82% 20
North of England -86 15 £60,000 +4.35% 11
North West -46 13 £60,000 +9.09% 4
South West -41 12 £55,000 -8.33% 11
South East -47 5 £48,500 -7.62% 11
North East -30 2 - - 1
East of England -23 1 £55,000 +15.79% 3
Scotland -36 1 - - 2
West Midlands -38 1 £43,000 -28.33% 1
Midlands -73 1 £43,000 -18.10% 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 31 (34.07%) Confluence
2 6 (6.59%) IIS
3 5 (5.49%) Tomcat
4 4 (4.40%) Apache
5 2 (2.20%) JBoss
5 2 (2.20%) nginx
6 1 (1.10%) CMS
6 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (6.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 50 (54.95%) AWS
2 35 (38.46%) Azure
3 22 (24.18%) GitHub
4 14 (15.38%) GCP
5 13 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (13.19%) OpenShift
7 9 (9.89%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (9.89%) Entra ID
7 9 (9.89%) Serverless
8 8 (8.79%) Amazon S3
8 8 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.59%) CloudFront
10 6 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.49%) SaaS
12 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.29%) DNS
2 10 (10.99%) TCP/IP
3 9 (9.89%) Firewall
4 8 (8.79%) HTTPS
5 4 (4.40%) IPv4
5 4 (4.40%) Network Security
5 4 (4.40%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.20%) DHCP
6 2 (2.20%) SSL
7 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.10%) LTE
7 1 (1.10%) SAN
7 1 (1.10%) SNMP
7 1 (1.10%) VPN
7 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.98%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (18.68%) SQL Server
3 11 (12.09%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.99%) MySQL
5 9 (9.89%) DB2
6 8 (8.79%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (8.79%) DynamoDB
7 6 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.30%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
12 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
12 1 (1.10%) Metadata
12 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 12c
12 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (1.10%) Power BI
12 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (40.66%) Git
2 35 (38.46%) JIRA
3 33 (36.26%) Jenkins
4 26 (28.57%) GitLab
5 12 (13.19%) Selenium
6 10 (10.99%) Cucumber
7 9 (9.89%) TeamCity
8 8 (8.79%) Subversion
9 7 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (7.69%) SonarQube
10 4 (4.40%) Metasploit
11 3 (3.30%) Eclipse
11 3 (3.30%) JMeter
11 3 (3.30%) NUnit
12 2 (2.20%) JUnit
12 2 (2.20%) Maven
12 2 (2.20%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.20%) Robot Framework
12 2 (2.20%) webpack
13 1 (1.10%) utPLSQL
General
1 39 (42.86%) Finance
2 31 (34.07%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.19%) Public Sector
5 11 (12.09%) Manufacturing
6 9 (9.89%) Banking
7 7 (7.69%) Electronics
7 7 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (7.69%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.49%) Aerospace
9 4 (4.40%) Automotive
10 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Marketing
10 2 (2.20%) Retail
11 1 (1.10%) German Language
11 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.10%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 24 (26.37%) Senior
2 20 (21.98%) Developer
3 17 (18.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (16.48%) Senior DevOps
5 13 (14.29%) Lead
6 10 (10.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Consultant
8 7 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (7.69%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) DevOps Consultant
9 6 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Senior DevOps Consultant
10 5 (5.49%) Analyst
10 5 (5.49%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Agile Java Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.98%) React
2 19 (20.88%) RESTful
3 14 (15.38%) CSS
3 14 (15.38%) HTML
4 13 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (13.19%) Node.js
6 9 (9.89%) Gherkin
7 8 (8.79%) REST
8 7 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 7 (7.69%) Middleware
9 6 (6.59%) CSS3
9 6 (6.59%) HTML5
10 5 (5.49%) .NET
10 5 (5.49%) JSON
10 5 (5.49%) Kafka
11 4 (4.40%) .NET Framework
11 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
11 4 (4.40%) Entity Framework
12 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
12 3 (3.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (8.79%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.40%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (4.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.40%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.30%) PKI
4 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (47.25%) Linux
2 26 (28.57%) Windows
3 9 (9.89%) Unix
3 9 (9.89%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.40%) Kali Linux
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (2.20%) Android
6 2 (2.20%) CentOS
6 2 (2.20%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (2.20%) ThreadX
6 2 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (79.12%) CI/CD
2 47 (51.65%) DevOps
3 41 (45.05%) Agile
4 39 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (27.47%) Containerisation
6 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 19 (20.88%) Microservices
9 17 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (18.68%) Scrum
9 17 (18.68%) Software Engineering
10 15 (16.48%) Collaborative Culture
11 14 (15.38%) Integration Testing
11 14 (15.38%) User Experience
12 13 (14.29%) BDD
12 13 (14.29%) DevSecOps
12 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (13.19%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (13.19%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (13.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (50.55%) Python
2 32 (35.16%) Bash
3 29 (31.87%) Java
3 29 (31.87%) SQL
4 28 (30.77%) PowerShell
5 19 (20.88%) JavaScript
6 14 (15.38%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.49%) C#
8 4 (4.40%) Go
9 3 (3.30%) Bicep
9 3 (3.30%) C++
10 2 (2.20%) C
10 2 (2.20%) Embedded C
10 2 (2.20%) RPG
11 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.10%) Perl
11 1 (1.10%) PHP
11 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.99%) Degree
3 9 (9.89%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.79%) OSCP
5 5 (5.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.49%) ISTQB
6 4 (4.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (4.40%) CCNA
6 4 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.40%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.40%) RHCE
6 4 (4.40%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.10%) LPIC
7 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.10%) PhD
7 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (38.46%) Docker
2 14 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 10 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.49%) vSphere
5 4 (4.40%) iptables
5 4 (4.40%) Squid
5 4 (4.40%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.20%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.20%) Firmware
6 2 (2.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (51.65%) Kubernetes
2 38 (41.76%) Ansible
3 28 (30.77%) Terraform
4 11 (12.09%) Grafana
5 8 (8.79%) Progress Chef
5 8 (8.79%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.79%) Puppet
5 8 (8.79%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (4.40%) Packer
6 4 (4.40%) Rancher
6 4 (4.40%) ZABBIX
7 3 (3.30%) Argo
7 3 (3.30%) Kibana
8 2 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.20%) Control-M
8 2 (2.20%) Nagios
8 2 (2.20%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.10%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (24.18%) Atlassian
1 22 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.29%) Oracle
3 11 (12.09%) Red Hat
3 11 (12.09%) VMware
4 10 (10.99%) Splunk
5 4 (4.40%) TOWER Software
6 3 (3.30%) DevExpress
6 3 (3.30%) IBM
7 2 (2.20%) Cisco
7 2 (2.20%) Dell
7 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.20%) Google
7 2 (2.20%) HP
7 2 (2.20%) Juniper
7 2 (2.20%) New Relic
7 2 (2.20%) Veeam
8 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.10%) Siemens