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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 540 436
Rank change year-on-year -39 -104 +38
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 80 159 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.31% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.10% 3.00% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 53 85 332
10th Percentile £42,250 - £30,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £72,500 £111,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 3,801 5,297 8,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.89% 10.38% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,448 3,030 6,479
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 4 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 12 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 4 February 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 -40 71 £75,000 +50.00% 61
London +59 38 £101,250 +55.77% 19
UK excluding London -77 33 £52,000 +4.00% 45
North of England -9 17 £51,500 +0.43% 11
Work from Home -18 17 £72,500 +52.63% 25
North East - 12 £51,500 - 1
South West -6 10 £52,500 -23.91% 13
North West -1 5 £65,000 +26.76% 7
South East -13 4 £55,000 -4.35% 15
West Midlands +22 1 - - 2
Midlands 0 1 - - 5
Wales -2 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 (38.75%) Confluence
2 7 (8.75%) IIS
3 6 (7.50%) Apache
4 5 (6.25%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.50%) JBoss
5 2 (2.50%) nginx
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (11.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.25%) AWS
2 35 (43.75%) Azure
3 15 (18.75%) GCP
4 13 (16.25%) GitHub
5 12 (15.00%) Amazon S3
5 12 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (15.00%) OpenShift
5 12 (15.00%) Serverless
6 11 (13.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 7 (8.75%) CloudFront
10 6 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (6.25%) Figma
12 4 (5.00%) Azure AKS
13 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (3.75%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (3.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) DNS
2 2 (2.50%) DHCP
2 2 (2.50%) Network Security
2 2 (2.50%) SAN
2 2 (2.50%) SSL
2 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (26.25%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (16.25%) MongoDB
4 11 (13.75%) DB2
4 11 (13.75%) MySQL
5 7 (8.75%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (6.25%) Oracle Database
6 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.00%) DynamoDB
7 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.00%) RDBMS
7 4 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.25%) Metadata
10 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (61.25%) JIRA
2 32 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 31 (38.75%) Git
4 25 (31.25%) GitLab
5 15 (18.75%) Selenium
6 13 (16.25%) TeamCity
7 12 (15.00%) Cucumber
7 12 (15.00%) Subversion
8 6 (7.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (7.50%) JMeter
8 6 (7.50%) SonarQube
9 5 (6.25%) Cypress.io
9 5 (6.25%) Vite
10 4 (5.00%) JUnit
11 3 (3.75%) Eclipse
11 3 (3.75%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.75%) Robot Framework
12 2 (2.50%) Artifactory
12 2 (2.50%) TestRail
12 2 (2.50%) webpack
General
1 44 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (48.75%) Finance
3 12 (15.00%) Banking
3 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (11.25%) Manufacturing
5 9 (11.25%) Telecoms
6 8 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (8.75%) Advertising
8 2 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.25%) Electronics
9 1 (1.25%) Front Office
9 1 (1.25%) Games
9 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Senior
2 16 (20.00%) Developer
2 16 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (17.50%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 9 (11.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Lead
6 8 (10.00%) Consultant
6 8 (10.00%) DevOps Consultant
6 8 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
6 8 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Consultant
7 7 (8.75%) Agile Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Agile Java Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Analyst
7 7 (8.75%) Applications Support
7 7 (8.75%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (8.75%) Support Analyst
8 6 (7.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.25%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) React
2 17 (21.25%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (18.75%) RESTful
4 14 (17.50%) CSS
4 14 (17.50%) HTML
5 11 (13.75%) Gherkin
6 10 (12.50%) Node.js
7 7 (8.75%) Kafka
8 6 (7.50%) Middleware
9 5 (6.25%) .NET
9 5 (6.25%) Jest
9 5 (6.25%) Next.js
9 5 (6.25%) Spring
9 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
10 4 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (5.00%) CSS3
10 4 (5.00%) JSF
10 4 (5.00%) Playwright
10 4 (5.00%) PrimeFaces
10 4 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.75%) Clustering
4 3 (3.75%) PKI
4 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Replication
6 1 (1.25%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 38 (47.50%) Linux
2 20 (25.00%) Windows
3 6 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.50%) VMS
6 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (73.75%) CI/CD
2 43 (53.75%) Agile
2 43 (53.75%) DevOps
3 28 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (27.50%) Microservices
5 21 (26.25%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 19 (23.75%) Containerisation
7 19 (23.75%) Test Automation
8 18 (22.50%) Design Patterns
8 18 (22.50%) Front End Development
8 18 (22.50%) Software Engineering
9 16 (20.00%) User Experience
10 15 (18.75%) Change Management
10 15 (18.75%) Computer Science
10 15 (18.75%) Unit Testing
11 14 (17.50%) BDD
11 14 (17.50%) Logistics
11 14 (17.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.00%) Java
2 28 (35.00%) Python
3 27 (33.75%) JavaScript
4 26 (32.50%) SQL
5 17 (21.25%) PowerShell
6 15 (18.75%) Bash
7 13 (16.25%) TypeScript
8 11 (13.75%) C#
9 5 (6.25%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.75%) Go
10 3 (3.75%) RPG
11 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.25%) Bicep
11 1 (1.25%) C++
11 1 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 15 (18.75%) Degree
2 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.50%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (7.50%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 7 (8.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (43.75%) Docker
2 13 (16.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.50%) iptables
4 2 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (46.25%) Kubernetes
2 23 (28.75%) Ansible
3 19 (23.75%) Terraform
4 15 (18.75%) Grafana
5 11 (13.75%) Prometheus
6 10 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (11.25%) Control-M
8 7 (8.75%) Puppet
9 6 (7.50%) Progress Chef
10 4 (5.00%) Kibana
11 3 (3.75%) Rancher
12 2 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (2.50%) Nagios
12 2 (2.50%) NetBackup
13 1 (1.25%) Ambari
13 1 (1.25%) Argo
13 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (42.50%) Atlassian
2 17 (21.25%) Oracle
3 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
4 9 (11.25%) VMware
5 8 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 6 (7.50%) Splunk
7 4 (5.00%) IBM
8 3 (3.75%) Informatica
8 3 (3.75%) RedGate
8 3 (3.75%) Talend
9 2 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (2.50%) Cisco
9 2 (2.50%) Dell
9 2 (2.50%) HP
9 2 (2.50%) Juniper
9 2 (2.50%) New Relic
9 2 (2.50%) Veeam
10 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.25%) SAP
10 1 (1.25%) Siemens