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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 693 388 601
Rank change year-on-year -305 +213 -104
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 91 335 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.67% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.99% 8.24% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50 63 126
10th Percentile £47,125 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +9.09% -20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £68,438
90th Percentile £105,500 £114,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -15.97%

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 4,578 4,065 7,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.32% 8.16% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,982 2,532 4,571
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +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 12 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 12 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 -243 89 £63,750 +6.25% 128
UK excluding London -299 56 £57,500 +4.55% 79
London -51 33 £90,000 - 71
Work from Home -225 27 £65,000 +23.81% 76
North of England -144 24 £55,000 -8.33% 14
North West -103 21 £55,000 -15.38% 9
South West -50 17 £60,500 +5.22% 11
South East -41 10 £52,500 +27.27% 19
North East -62 3 £70,000 +33.33% 3
East of England -45 2 £55,000 +15.79% 3
Midlands -83 2 £50,750 +12.78% 14
Scotland -36 1 - - 11
West Midlands -45 1 £43,000 - 8
East Midlands -59 1 £58,500 +30.00% 6

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 50 (54.95%) AWS
2 31 (34.07%) Azure
3 23 (25.27%) GitHub
4 15 (16.48%) Serverless
5 14 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (13.19%) Amazon S3
7 11 (12.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (9.89%) AWS Fargate
8 9 (9.89%) GCP
9 8 (8.79%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (7.69%) OpenShift
11 5 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.49%) Datadog
11 5 (5.49%) SaaS
11 5 (5.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudTrail
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
8 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.10%) LTE
8 1 (1.10%) Network Security
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
2 13 (14.29%) MySQL
3 11 (12.09%) DynamoDB
4 9 (9.89%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.30%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.10%) Db2
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 44 (48.35%) 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 31 (34.07%) 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 4 (4.40%) Automotive
6 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Marketing
8 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.10%) Banking
9 1 (1.10%) German Language
9 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.10%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Developer
2 15 (16.48%) 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%) Data 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%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.20%) PKI
7 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (45.05%) Linux
2 25 (27.47%) 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 31 (34.07%) 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
10 16 (17.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (15.38%) Observability
11 14 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
13 12 (13.19%) BDD
13 12 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (13.19%) Incident Response
14 11 (12.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 63 (69.23%) Python
2 36 (39.56%) Java
3 35 (38.46%) Bash
4 32 (35.16%) SQL
5 30 (32.97%) PowerShell
6 16 (17.58%) JavaScript
7 11 (12.09%) TypeScript
8 8 (8.79%) C#
9 7 (7.69%) PHP
10 5 (5.49%) C++
11 3 (3.30%) Bicep
12 2 (2.20%) C
12 2 (2.20%) Embedded C
12 2 (2.20%) Go
13 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) AWS Certification
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%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.10%) LPIC
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
7 1 (1.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 44 (48.35%) Kubernetes
2 37 (40.66%) Ansible
3 24 (26.37%) Terraform
4 10 (10.99%) Grafana
5 8 (8.79%) Packer
5 8 (8.79%) ZABBIX
6 7 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (6.59%) Argo
7 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
8 5 (5.49%) Nagios
8 5 (5.49%) Puppet
9 3 (3.30%) Control-M
9 3 (3.30%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (3.30%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.20%) Kibana
10 2 (2.20%) Rancher
11 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