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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 532 477
Rank change year-on-year -93 -55 +38
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 91 115 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.28% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.18% 2.70% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 61 73 315
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £99,250 £85,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 4,173 4,255 9,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.80% 10.19% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,748 3,007 6,798
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £75,900 £82,125 £77,715
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,401 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -89 81 £75,000 +25.00% 58
London +4 45 £100,000 +42.86% 15
UK excluding London -98 35 £55,000 +4.76% 45
Work from Home -14 25 £72,500 +52.63% 20
North of England -58 16 £55,000 -4.35% 17
North West -21 12 £65,000 +18.18% 6
South West -48 12 £55,000 -20.29% 9
North East -29 4 £51,000 -21.54% 3
South East -68 4 £55,000 +4.76% 10
West Midlands -28 1 £43,000 -28.33% 1
Midlands -45 1 £43,000 -18.10% 2
East of England -48 1 £55,000 +15.79% 3
Scotland - 1 - - 4

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 33 (36.26%) Confluence
2 6 (6.59%) IIS
3 5 (5.49%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.30%) Apache
5 2 (2.20%) JBoss
5 2 (2.20%) nginx
6 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (7.69%) 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 47 (51.65%) AWS
2 38 (41.76%) Azure
3 24 (26.37%) GitHub
4 16 (17.58%) GCP
5 14 (15.38%) OpenShift
6 13 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (12.09%) Entra ID
8 9 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.79%) Serverless
10 7 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.59%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.49%) SaaS
13 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (4.40%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.40%) CloudFront
13 4 (4.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.38%) DNS
2 10 (10.99%) TCP/IP
3 9 (9.89%) Firewall
4 8 (8.79%) HTTPS
5 4 (4.40%) Network Security
6 3 (3.30%) IPv4
6 3 (3.30%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (2.20%) DHCP
7 2 (2.20%) SSL
8 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.10%) LTE
8 1 (1.10%) SAN
8 1 (1.10%) SNMP
8 1 (1.10%) VPN
8 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
1 21 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 14 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 12 (13.19%) MySQL
4 10 (10.99%) DB2
5 6 (6.59%) DynamoDB
5 6 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.30%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.10%) Metadata
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (40.66%) JIRA
2 33 (36.26%) Git
2 33 (36.26%) Jenkins
3 28 (30.77%) GitLab
4 12 (13.19%) Selenium
5 11 (12.09%) Cucumber
6 10 (10.99%) Subversion
6 10 (10.99%) TeamCity
7 8 (8.79%) SonarQube
8 7 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (4.40%) Eclipse
9 4 (4.40%) JMeter
9 4 (4.40%) Metasploit
10 3 (3.30%) NUnit
10 3 (3.30%) Robot Framework
11 2 (2.20%) JUnit
11 2 (2.20%) Maven
11 2 (2.20%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.20%) webpack
12 1 (1.10%) IntelliJ
General
1 42 (46.15%) Finance
2 31 (34.07%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 12 (13.19%) Manufacturing
6 10 (10.99%) Banking
7 9 (9.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (9.89%) Telecoms
8 6 (6.59%) Electronics
9 4 (4.40%) Aerospace
10 3 (3.30%) Automotive
11 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.20%) Marketing
11 2 (2.20%) Retail
12 1 (1.10%) German Language
12 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
12 1 (1.10%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) Senior
2 19 (20.88%) Developer
3 18 (19.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (18.68%) Senior DevOps
5 11 (12.09%) Lead
6 10 (10.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Consultant
7 9 (9.89%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (9.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.79%) DevOps Consultant
8 8 (8.79%) Java Developer
8 8 (8.79%) Senior DevOps Consultant
9 7 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (5.49%) Agile Developer
11 5 (5.49%) Agile Java Developer
11 5 (5.49%) Analyst
11 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (5.49%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.98%) RESTful
2 19 (20.88%) React
3 15 (16.48%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (15.38%) CSS
4 14 (15.38%) HTML
5 12 (13.19%) Node.js
6 10 (10.99%) Gherkin
7 6 (6.59%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.59%) Kafka
7 6 (6.59%) Middleware
7 6 (6.59%) REST
8 5 (5.49%) .NET
8 5 (5.49%) CSS3
8 5 (5.49%) HTML5
9 4 (4.40%) .NET Framework
9 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
9 4 (4.40%) Entity Framework
9 4 (4.40%) JSON
10 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (3.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (8.79%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.40%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (4.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) PKI
5 3 (3.30%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.20%) Clustering
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 42 (46.15%) Linux
2 26 (28.57%) Windows
3 9 (9.89%) Unix
4 8 (8.79%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.40%) Kali Linux
8 2 (2.20%) Android
8 2 (2.20%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (2.20%) ThreadX
8 2 (2.20%) VMS
9 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (79.12%) CI/CD
2 49 (53.85%) DevOps
3 41 (45.05%) Agile
4 36 (39.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (24.18%) Containerisation
6 22 (24.18%) Test Automation
7 20 (21.98%) Microservices
8 18 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (19.78%) Software Engineering
9 17 (18.68%) Collaborative Culture
10 16 (17.58%) Scrum
11 15 (16.48%) User Experience
12 14 (15.38%) BDD
12 14 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (15.38%) DevSecOps
12 14 (15.38%) Integration Testing
13 13 (14.29%) Configuration Management
14 12 (13.19%) SDLC
14 12 (13.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.15%) Python
2 31 (34.07%) Bash
3 30 (32.97%) SQL
4 29 (31.87%) PowerShell
5 28 (30.77%) Java
6 18 (19.78%) JavaScript
7 13 (14.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.40%) C#
8 4 (4.40%) Go
9 3 (3.30%) Bicep
9 3 (3.30%) RPG
9 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.20%) C
10 2 (2.20%) C++
10 2 (2.20%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.10%) Perl
11 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.99%) Degree
3 8 (8.79%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.69%) OSCP
5 5 (5.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (4.40%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.40%) ISTQB
7 3 (3.30%) CCNA
7 3 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.30%) RHCE
7 3 (3.30%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.10%) LPIC
8 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 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 16 (17.58%) Active Directory
3 10 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.40%) iptables
4 4 (4.40%) vSphere
5 3 (3.30%) Squid
5 3 (3.30%) 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 39 (42.86%) Ansible
3 26 (28.57%) Terraform
4 11 (12.09%) Grafana
5 10 (10.99%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (9.89%) Progress Chef
6 9 (9.89%) Puppet
7 8 (8.79%) Prometheus
8 4 (4.40%) Rancher
9 3 (3.30%) Argo
9 3 (3.30%) Kibana
9 3 (3.30%) Packer
9 3 (3.30%) ZABBIX
10 2 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.20%) Control-M
10 2 (2.20%) Nagios
10 2 (2.20%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.10%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 27 (29.67%) Atlassian
2 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 14 (15.38%) Oracle
4 11 (12.09%) Red Hat
4 11 (12.09%) VMware
5 10 (10.99%) Splunk
6 4 (4.40%) IBM
6 4 (4.40%) TOWER Software
7 3 (3.30%) DevExpress
8 2 (2.20%) Cisco
8 2 (2.20%) Dell
8 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.20%) Google
8 2 (2.20%) HP
8 2 (2.20%) Informatica
8 2 (2.20%) Juniper
8 2 (2.20%) New Relic
8 2 (2.20%) RedGate
8 2 (2.20%) Talend
8 2 (2.20%) Veeam