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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 713 392 592
Rank change year-on-year -321 +200 -93
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 88 328 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.66% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.93% 8.29% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 49 55 130
10th Percentile £43,400 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £68,438
90th Percentile £106,000 £114,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% +10.00% -13.04%

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 4,550 3,957 7,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.18% 7.93% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,953 2,430 4,460
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £47,906 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -5.17%

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 25 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 16 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 25 August 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 -270 84 £65,000 +8.33% 92
UK excluding London -297 57 £58,000 +5.45% 60
London -52 29 £95,000 +11.76% 55
Work from Home -234 28 £65,000 +23.81% 61
North of England -148 24 £57,500 -4.17% 13
North West -100 20 £55,000 -15.38% 9
South West -59 16 £60,500 +10.00% 12
South East -47 10 £52,500 +31.25% 14
North East -60 3 £70,000 +33.33% 2
East of England -35 2 £55,000 -
Wales -67 2 £33,250 -52.50% 2
Midlands -93 2 £50,750 - 7
Scotland -44 1 - - 8
West Midlands -60 1 £43,000 - 5
East Midlands -61 1 £58,500 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 3

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 24 (27.27%) Confluence
2 9 (10.23%) Apache
3 7 (7.95%) nginx
4 5 (5.68%) JBoss
5 2 (2.27%) CMS
6 1 (1.14%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.14%) IIS
6 1 (1.14%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.14%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 50 (56.82%) AWS
2 30 (34.09%) Azure
3 19 (21.59%) GitHub
4 14 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (15.91%) Serverless
5 12 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 11 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (10.23%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (10.23%) AWS Fargate
7 9 (10.23%) GCP
8 8 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (7.95%) OpenShift
10 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (5.68%) Datadog
11 5 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (4.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.23%) TCP/IP
2 8 (9.09%) IPv4
2 8 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
3 6 (6.82%) VoIP
4 5 (5.68%) DNS
4 5 (5.68%) Firewall
4 5 (5.68%) HTTPS
4 5 (5.68%) SSL
5 4 (4.55%) LAN
5 4 (4.55%) WAN
6 2 (2.27%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (1.14%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.14%) LTE
7 1 (1.14%) Network Security
7 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.77%) MySQL
1 13 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.64%) MongoDB
3 11 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.23%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.82%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.41%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.14%) Db2
9 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 45 (51.14%) Git
2 39 (44.32%) JIRA
3 26 (29.55%) Jenkins
4 20 (22.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (17.05%) GitLab
6 10 (11.36%) SonarQube
7 7 (7.95%) Cypress.io
7 7 (7.95%) TeamCity
8 6 (6.82%) Selenium
9 4 (4.55%) Subversion
9 4 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (3.41%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.41%) Mercurial
10 3 (3.41%) NUnit
10 3 (3.41%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.27%) git-flow
11 2 (2.27%) Metasploit
12 1 (1.14%) Robot Framework
12 1 (1.14%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (32.95%) Finance
2 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Aerospace
5 6 (6.82%) Electronics
6 5 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.55%) Automotive
7 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.27%) Marketing
9 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.14%) Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.14%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 17 (19.32%) Developer
1 17 (19.32%) Senior
2 14 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (13.64%) Lead
3 12 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 11 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Applications Developer
8 4 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Cloud Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Technical Leader
10 2 (2.27%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.14%) React
2 22 (25.00%) Terraform
3 15 (17.05%) Node.js
4 12 (13.64%) .NET
4 12 (13.64%) AngularJS
5 9 (10.23%) CSS
5 9 (10.23%) HTML
5 9 (10.23%) RESTful
6 7 (7.95%) CSS3
6 7 (7.95%) HTML5
6 7 (7.95%) REST
7 6 (6.82%) Spring
7 6 (6.82%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.68%) AWS CDK
8 5 (5.68%) JSON
8 5 (5.68%) Kafka
8 5 (5.68%) Keycloak
8 5 (5.68%) OAuth
8 5 (5.68%) OAuth2
8 5 (5.68%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.68%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (5.68%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (5.68%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.68%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.68%) Social Media
5 4 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (4.55%) Replication
6 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.27%) PKI
7 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (42.05%) Linux
2 22 (25.00%) Windows
3 9 (10.23%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.95%) Ubuntu
5 6 (6.82%) Debian
5 6 (6.82%) Unix
6 3 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.27%) Android
7 2 (2.27%) CentOS
7 2 (2.27%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (2.27%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.27%) ThreadX
8 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 49 (55.68%) Agile
3 34 (38.64%) DevOps
4 29 (32.95%) Containerisation
4 29 (32.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (28.41%) Test Automation
6 23 (26.14%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (25.00%) Scrum
8 21 (23.86%) Software Engineering
9 16 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (17.05%) Computer Science
11 14 (15.91%) Collaborative Culture
11 14 (15.91%) Observability
12 13 (14.77%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (12.50%) BDD
14 11 (12.50%) Decision-Making
14 11 (12.50%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 60 (68.18%) Python
2 36 (40.91%) Java
3 34 (38.64%) SQL
4 31 (35.23%) Bash
5 29 (32.95%) PowerShell
6 16 (18.18%) JavaScript
7 11 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 9 (10.23%) C#
9 7 (7.95%) PHP
10 5 (5.68%) C++
11 3 (3.41%) Bicep
12 2 (2.27%) C
12 2 (2.27%) Embedded C
12 2 (2.27%) Go
12 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 15 (17.05%) Degree
4 11 (12.50%) OSCP
5 9 (10.23%) ISTQB
6 8 (9.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (9.09%) CCNA
6 8 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (9.09%) RHCE
6 8 (9.09%) RHCSA
7 6 (6.82%) Master's Degree
8 5 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
9 3 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (35.23%) Docker
2 11 (12.50%) vSphere
3 10 (11.36%) Active Directory
4 8 (9.09%) Squid
4 8 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.09%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.27%) Firmware
7 1 (1.14%) iptables
Systems Management
1 39 (44.32%) Kubernetes
2 34 (38.64%) Ansible
3 9 (10.23%) Grafana
4 8 (9.09%) Packer
4 8 (9.09%) ZABBIX
5 7 (7.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (7.95%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (5.68%) Nagios
6 5 (5.68%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.68%) Puppet
7 4 (4.55%) Argo
8 3 (3.41%) Control-M
8 3 (3.41%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (3.41%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.27%) Rancher
10 1 (1.14%) Kibana
10 1 (1.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Splunk
2 21 (23.86%) Microsoft
3 15 (17.05%) Red Hat
4 12 (13.64%) Oracle
5 11 (12.50%) VMware
6 10 (11.36%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.68%) Google
7 5 (5.68%) New Relic
8 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.41%) DevExpress
9 3 (3.41%) Perforce
9 3 (3.41%) TOWER Software
10 1 (1.14%) Adobe
10 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.14%) Salesforce