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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 367 555
Rank change year-on-year -281 +188 -12
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 80 349 373
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.79% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.92% 8.41% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 53 67 244
10th Percentile £47,750 £42,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £65,750
90th Percentile £106,000 £115,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -16.67%

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 4,158 4,148 9,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 9.38% 8.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,747 2,637 6,514
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -261 77 £61,500 +2.50% 40
UK excluding London -262 44 £57,500 +4.55% 33
London -22 33 £95,000 +35.71% 7
Work from Home -191 19 £65,000 +13.04% 20
North of England -129 18 £65,000 +4.00% 7
North West -85 15 £56,250 -13.46% 6
South West -41 14 £59,000 +8.26% 4
South East -34 9 £52,500 +27.27% 14
North East -45 3 £70,000 +33.33%
East of England -29 1 £55,000 -6.38% 3
Scotland -33 1 - - 2
West Midlands -46 1 £43,000 - 1
Midlands -83 1 £43,000 -4.44% 2

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 21 (26.25%) Confluence
2 5 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) JBoss
3 2 (2.50%) nginx
4 1 (1.25%) CMS
4 1 (1.25%) IIS
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (52.50%) AWS
2 26 (32.50%) Azure
3 19 (23.75%) GitHub
4 12 (15.00%) Serverless
5 11 (13.75%) Amazon S3
5 11 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (11.25%) GCP
8 7 (8.75%) OpenShift
9 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (7.50%) CloudFront
9 6 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (6.25%) SaaS
11 4 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (11.25%) DNS
2 9 (11.25%) Firewall
3 8 (10.00%) HTTPS
3 8 (10.00%) IPv4
3 8 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (6.25%) VoIP
5 4 (5.00%) Network Security
6 3 (3.75%) LAN
6 3 (3.75%) WAN
7 2 (2.50%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (2.50%) SSL
8 1 (1.25%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.25%) DHCP
8 1 (1.25%) LTE
8 1 (1.25%) SNMP
8 1 (1.25%) VPN
8 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (15.00%) MySQL
3 10 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (10.00%) DynamoDB
5 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.50%) Db2
8 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.25%) Power BI
8 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (45.00%) Git
2 29 (36.25%) JIRA
3 23 (28.75%) Jenkins
4 19 (23.75%) GitLab
5 8 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (10.00%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.50%) Cypress.io
7 5 (6.25%) Selenium
8 4 (5.00%) Metasploit
8 4 (5.00%) TeamCity
9 3 (3.75%) Artifactory
9 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.75%) NUnit
9 3 (3.75%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (3.75%) Subversion
10 2 (2.50%) Eclipse
10 2 (2.50%) Maven
11 1 (1.25%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.25%) JMeter
11 1 (1.25%) Toad
General
1 25 (31.25%) Finance
2 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.25%) Aerospace
5 6 (7.50%) Electronics
5 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 4 (5.00%) Automotive
8 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.50%) Banking
9 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.25%) German Language
10 1 (1.25%) Marketing
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.25%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Senior
2 18 (22.50%) Developer
3 16 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (13.75%) Lead
5 8 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (7.50%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Lead Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Specialist
10 3 (3.75%) Cloud Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Consultant
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.50%) React
2 11 (13.75%) Node.js
3 10 (12.50%) RESTful
4 9 (11.25%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.75%) CSS
5 7 (8.75%) HTML
5 7 (8.75%) REST
6 6 (7.50%) .NET
6 6 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (6.25%) JSON
8 4 (5.00%) boto
8 4 (5.00%) CSS3
8 4 (5.00%) HTML5
8 4 (5.00%) Jest
8 4 (5.00%) pytest
9 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.75%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.75%) Kafka
9 3 (3.75%) Playwright
9 3 (3.75%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.75%) PKI
4 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (55.00%) Linux
2 26 (32.50%) Windows
3 9 (11.25%) Unix
3 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.50%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.25%) Debian
6 4 (5.00%) Kali Linux
7 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (2.50%) Android
8 2 (2.50%) CentOS
8 2 (2.50%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (2.50%) ThreadX
9 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 36 (45.00%) Agile
3 34 (42.50%) DevOps
3 34 (42.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (33.75%) Containerisation
5 17 (21.25%) Scrum
6 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (17.50%) Deployment Automation
7 14 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
9 12 (15.00%) Computer Science
9 12 (15.00%) DevSecOps
9 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (15.00%) Test Automation
10 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
11 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (12.50%) Incident Response
11 10 (12.50%) Microservices
11 10 (12.50%) SDLC
12 9 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (63.75%) Python
2 36 (45.00%) Bash
3 32 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 29 (36.25%) Java
5 25 (31.25%) SQL
6 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (10.00%) C#
8 6 (7.50%) PHP
9 4 (5.00%) C++
10 3 (3.75%) Bicep
10 3 (3.75%) Go
11 2 (2.50%) C
11 2 (2.50%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) AWS Certification
3 12 (15.00%) Degree
3 12 (15.00%) OSCP
4 9 (11.25%) ISTQB
5 8 (10.00%) CCNA
5 8 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (10.00%) RHCE
5 8 (10.00%) RHCSA
6 5 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (35.00%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) vSphere
3 9 (11.25%) Active Directory
3 9 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (10.00%) Squid
4 8 (10.00%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.00%) iptables
6 2 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.50%) Firmware
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (51.25%) Kubernetes
2 37 (46.25%) Ansible
3 27 (33.75%) Terraform
4 12 (15.00%) Grafana
5 8 (10.00%) Packer
5 8 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 8 (10.00%) ZABBIX
6 5 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.25%) Puppet
7 4 (5.00%) Argo
8 3 (3.75%) Control-M
8 3 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (3.75%) Rancher
8 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.50%) Kibana
9 2 (2.50%) Nagios
10 1 (1.25%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.25%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.75%) Splunk
3 12 (15.00%) Oracle
3 12 (15.00%) VMware
4 11 (13.75%) Red Hat
5 9 (11.25%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.00%) TOWER Software
7 3 (3.75%) DevExpress
7 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.50%) Google
8 2 (2.50%) New Relic
9 1 (1.25%) Adobe
9 1 (1.25%) Cisco
9 1 (1.25%) Dell
9 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.25%) HP
9 1 (1.25%) Juniper
9 1 (1.25%) Siemens
9 1 (1.25%) Veeam