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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 716 383 590
Rank change year-on-year -333 +207 -101
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 85 325 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.66% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.86% 8.65% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 50 54 122
10th Percentile £38,325 £38,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +2.17% -17.86%
75th Percentile £79,375 £79,063 £71,875
90th Percentile £105,500 £114,250 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

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 4,558 3,756 6,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.13% 7.66% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,964 2,267 4,133
10th Percentile £35,250 £37,200 £38,050
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -6.78%

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 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 16 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 September 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 -260 78 £65,000 +8.33% 133
UK excluding London -307 58 £55,000 - 81
Work from Home -241 29 £60,500 +15.24% 85
London -60 26 £90,000 - 78
North of England -154 24 £57,500 +9.52% 24
North West -100 20 £55,000 -38.89% 14
South West -65 14 £60,500 +16.35% 13
South East -51 10 £52,500 +31.25% 17
Wales -69 5 £35,000 -50.00% 5
North East -69 3 £70,000 +33.33% 5
East of England -37 2 £55,000 -
Midlands -98 2 £50,750 - 8
Scotland -42 1 - - 9
West Midlands -50 1 £43,000 - 6
East Midlands -70 1 £58,500 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 7

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 24 (28.24%) Confluence
2 9 (10.59%) Apache
3 7 (8.24%) nginx
4 5 (5.88%) JBoss
5 2 (2.35%) CMS
6 1 (1.18%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.18%) IIS
6 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.18%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.12%) AWS
2 27 (31.76%) Azure
3 18 (21.18%) GitHub
4 13 (15.29%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (15.29%) Serverless
5 11 (12.94%) Amazon S3
5 11 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (10.59%) AWS Fargate
6 9 (10.59%) GCP
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (8.24%) OpenShift
9 5 (5.88%) Datadog
10 4 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (4.71%) Route 53
10 4 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) IPv4
1 8 (9.41%) Software-Defined Networking
2 6 (7.06%) VoIP
3 5 (5.88%) SSL
3 5 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.71%) LAN
4 4 (4.71%) WAN
5 2 (2.35%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (1.18%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.18%) DNS
6 1 (1.18%) Firewall
6 1 (1.18%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.18%) LTE
6 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.29%) MySQL
1 13 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (12.94%) DynamoDB
2 11 (12.94%) MongoDB
3 9 (10.59%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (7.06%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.53%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.18%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.18%) Db2
7 1 (1.18%) Metadata
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 47 (55.29%) Git
2 42 (49.41%) JIRA
3 25 (29.41%) Jenkins
4 20 (23.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (17.65%) GitLab
6 10 (11.76%) SonarQube
7 7 (8.24%) Cypress.io
7 7 (8.24%) TeamCity
8 6 (7.06%) Selenium
9 4 (4.71%) Subversion
9 4 (4.71%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (3.53%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.53%) Mercurial
10 3 (3.53%) NUnit
10 3 (3.53%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.35%) git-flow
12 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
12 1 (1.18%) Robot Framework
12 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (30.59%) Finance
1 26 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Aerospace
4 6 (7.06%) Electronics
5 5 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Automotive
6 4 (4.71%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.35%) Marketing
8 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.18%) Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.18%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Senior
2 17 (20.00%) Developer
3 14 (16.47%) Applications Engineer
4 13 (15.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (15.29%) Lead
5 12 (14.12%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Applications Support
9 5 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Senior Applications Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Senior Applications Support
9 5 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Applications Developer
10 4 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Cloud Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.06%) React
2 21 (24.71%) Terraform
3 15 (17.65%) Node.js
4 12 (14.12%) .NET
5 11 (12.94%) AngularJS
6 9 (10.59%) CSS
6 9 (10.59%) HTML
7 8 (9.41%) RESTful
8 7 (8.24%) CSS3
8 7 (8.24%) HTML5
9 6 (7.06%) REST
9 6 (7.06%) Spring
9 6 (7.06%) Spring Boot
10 5 (5.88%) AWS CDK
10 5 (5.88%) JSON
10 5 (5.88%) Kafka
10 5 (5.88%) Keycloak
10 5 (5.88%) OAuth
10 5 (5.88%) OAuth2
10 5 (5.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.06%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.88%) Social Media
5 4 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.71%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (4.71%) Replication
6 3 (3.53%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.35%) PKI
7 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (36.47%) Linux
2 17 (20.00%) Windows
3 9 (10.59%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.24%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.06%) Debian
6 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.35%) CentOS
7 2 (2.35%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (2.35%) ThreadX
7 2 (2.35%) Unix
8 1 (1.18%) Android
8 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (78.82%) CI/CD
2 51 (60.00%) Agile
3 31 (36.47%) DevOps
4 28 (32.94%) Containerisation
5 26 (30.59%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (29.41%) Test Automation
7 23 (27.06%) Scrum
8 21 (24.71%) Software Engineering
9 17 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (18.82%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (16.47%) Observability
13 13 (15.29%) Computer Science
13 13 (15.29%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (14.12%) DevSecOps
14 12 (14.12%) Mentoring
15 11 (12.94%) Decision-Making
15 11 (12.94%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (63.53%) Python
2 37 (43.53%) SQL
3 36 (42.35%) Java
4 27 (31.76%) PowerShell
5 24 (28.24%) Bash
6 16 (18.82%) JavaScript
7 10 (11.76%) TypeScript
8 9 (10.59%) C#
9 7 (8.24%) PHP
10 5 (5.88%) C++
11 4 (4.71%) PL/SQL
12 3 (3.53%) Bicep
13 2 (2.35%) C
13 2 (2.35%) Embedded C
13 2 (2.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (21.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.65%) AWS Certification
3 13 (15.29%) Degree
4 9 (10.59%) ISTQB
4 9 (10.59%) OSCP
5 8 (9.41%) CCNA
5 8 (9.41%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (9.41%) RHCE
5 8 (9.41%) RHCSA
6 6 (7.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (7.06%) Master's Degree
7 5 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
9 3 (3.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.18%) HNC
11 1 (1.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (34.12%) Docker
2 11 (12.94%) vSphere
3 10 (11.76%) Active Directory
4 8 (9.41%) Squid
4 8 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.41%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 27 (31.76%) Ansible
3 8 (9.41%) Grafana
3 8 (9.41%) Packer
3 8 (9.41%) ZABBIX
4 7 (8.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (8.24%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (5.88%) Nagios
6 4 (4.71%) Argo
6 4 (4.71%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.53%) Control-M
7 3 (3.53%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.53%) Puppet
8 2 (2.35%) Rancher
9 1 (1.18%) Kibana
9 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (25.88%) Splunk
2 19 (22.35%) Microsoft
3 15 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 12 (14.12%) Oracle
5 11 (12.94%) VMware
6 10 (11.76%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.88%) Google
7 5 (5.88%) New Relic
8 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.53%) DevExpress
9 3 (3.53%) Perforce
10 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.18%) Adobe
11 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
11 1 (1.18%) SAP
11 1 (1.18%) TOWER Software