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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 696 376 616
Rank change year-on-year -320 +240 -111
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 91 339 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.68% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.99% 8.27% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 51 65 125
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £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% -20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £78,750
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 4,573 4,097 7,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 8.26% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 2,561 4,619
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 14 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 7 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 -255 89 £62,500 -3.85% 72
UK excluding London -284 56 £57,500 +4.55% 52
London -39 33 £90,000 - 33
Work from Home -219 27 £65,000 +23.81% 33
North of England -144 24 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North West -92 21 £55,000 -15.38% 5
South West -52 17 £60,500 +5.22% 5
South East -33 10 £52,500 +27.27% 17
North East -59 3 £70,000 +33.33% 2
East of England -42 2 £55,000 -6.38% 2
Midlands -97 2 £50,750 +12.78% 9
Scotland -33 1 - - 8
West Midlands -56 1 £43,000 - 5
East Midlands -65 1 £58,500 +30.00% 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 25 (27.47%) Confluence
2 9 (9.89%) Apache
3 7 (7.69%) nginx
4 5 (5.49%) JBoss
5 2 (2.20%) CMS
6 1 (1.10%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.10%) IIS
6 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.10%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 51 (56.04%) AWS
2 31 (34.07%) Azure
3 23 (25.27%) GitHub
4 16 (17.58%) Serverless
5 15 (16.48%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 11 (12.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (10.99%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (9.89%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (9.89%) AWS Fargate
9 9 (9.89%) GCP
10 8 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (7.69%) OpenShift
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (5.49%) Datadog
13 5 (5.49%) SaaS
14 4 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (4.40%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) TCP/IP
2 9 (9.89%) Firewall
3 8 (8.79%) DNS
3 8 (8.79%) HTTPS
3 8 (8.79%) IPv4
3 8 (8.79%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (6.59%) VoIP
5 5 (5.49%) SSL
6 4 (4.40%) LAN
6 4 (4.40%) WAN
7 2 (2.20%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (2.20%) Network Security
8 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.10%) LTE
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 14 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 12 (13.19%) MySQL
4 11 (12.09%) DynamoDB
5 9 (9.89%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.79%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.30%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.10%) Db2
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 43 (47.25%) Git
2 37 (40.66%) JIRA
3 25 (27.47%) Jenkins
4 19 (20.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (16.48%) GitLab
6 9 (9.89%) SonarQube
7 6 (6.59%) Cypress.io
7 6 (6.59%) TeamCity
8 5 (5.49%) Selenium
9 4 (4.40%) Metasploit
9 4 (4.40%) Subversion
9 4 (4.40%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (3.30%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.30%) NUnit
10 3 (3.30%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.20%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.20%) git-flow
11 2 (2.20%) Maven
11 2 (2.20%) Mercurial
12 1 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (32.97%) Finance
2 20 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Aerospace
5 6 (6.59%) Electronics
5 6 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.40%) Automotive
7 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Marketing
9 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.10%) Banking
10 1 (1.10%) German Language
10 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.10%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Developer
2 16 (17.58%) Senior
3 14 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Lead
5 11 (12.09%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Cloud Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Analyst
10 4 (4.40%) Applications Developer
10 4 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Cyber Threat Analyst
10 4 (4.40%) Cyber Threat Specialist
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.27%) React
2 15 (16.48%) Node.js
3 13 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 10 (10.99%) .NET
5 9 (9.89%) CSS
5 9 (9.89%) HTML
6 8 (8.79%) RESTful
7 7 (7.69%) CSS3
7 7 (7.69%) HTML5
7 7 (7.69%) REST
7 7 (7.69%) Spring
8 6 (6.59%) Spring Boot
9 5 (5.49%) AWS CDK
9 5 (5.49%) JSON
9 5 (5.49%) Kafka
9 5 (5.49%) Keycloak
9 5 (5.49%) OAuth
9 5 (5.49%) OAuth2
9 5 (5.49%) OpenID
10 4 (4.40%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.79%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (8.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.59%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (5.49%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.49%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.49%) Social Media
5 4 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (4.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.40%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (4.40%) Replication
6 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (45.05%) Linux
2 26 (28.57%) Windows
3 9 (9.89%) Unix
3 9 (9.89%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.69%) Ubuntu
5 6 (6.59%) Debian
6 4 (4.40%) Kali Linux
7 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (2.20%) Android
8 2 (2.20%) CentOS
8 2 (2.20%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (2.20%) ThreadX
9 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (82.42%) CI/CD
2 46 (50.55%) Agile
3 34 (37.36%) DevOps
4 32 (35.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (31.87%) Containerisation
6 23 (25.27%) Test Automation
7 21 (23.08%) Scrum
8 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (20.88%) Software Engineering
9 18 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (17.58%) Computer Science
10 16 (17.58%) Deployment Automation
11 15 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (15.38%) Observability
13 13 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
13 13 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (13.19%) BDD
14 12 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (13.19%) Incident Response
15 11 (12.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 63 (69.23%) Python
2 36 (39.56%) Bash
3 35 (38.46%) Java
4 32 (35.16%) SQL
5 31 (34.07%) PowerShell
6 16 (17.58%) JavaScript
7 11 (12.09%) TypeScript
8 7 (7.69%) C#
8 7 (7.69%) PHP
9 4 (4.40%) C++
10 3 (3.30%) Bicep
11 2 (2.20%) C
11 2 (2.20%) Embedded C
11 2 (2.20%) Go
12 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) AWS Certification
1 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) Degree
3 12 (13.19%) OSCP
4 9 (9.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (9.89%) ISTQB
5 8 (8.79%) CCNA
5 8 (8.79%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (8.79%) RHCE
5 8 (8.79%) RHCSA
6 6 (6.59%) Master's Degree
7 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
8 4 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (4.40%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.30%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (34.07%) Docker
2 11 (12.09%) vSphere
3 10 (10.99%) Active Directory
4 8 (8.79%) Squid
4 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.79%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.20%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.20%) Firmware
6 2 (2.20%) iptables
Systems Management
1 43 (47.25%) Kubernetes
2 37 (40.66%) Ansible
3 24 (26.37%) Terraform
4 11 (12.09%) Grafana
5 8 (8.79%) Packer
5 8 (8.79%) ZABBIX
6 7 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (6.59%) Argo
7 6 (6.59%) Puppet
8 5 (5.49%) Nagios
9 4 (4.40%) Progress Chef
10 3 (3.30%) Control-M
10 3 (3.30%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (2.20%) Kibana
11 2 (2.20%) Rancher
12 1 (1.10%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (24.18%) Splunk
2 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 15 (16.48%) Red Hat
4 12 (13.19%) Oracle
5 11 (12.09%) VMware
6 10 (10.99%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.49%) New Relic
8 4 (4.40%) Google
8 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.40%) TOWER Software
9 3 (3.30%) DevExpress
10 2 (2.20%) Perforce
11 1 (1.10%) Adobe
11 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
11 1 (1.10%) Salesforce