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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 686 386 572
Rank change year-on-year -300 +186 -39
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 83 343 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.70% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 8.20% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51 70 181
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% +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 4,340 4,184 8,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.33% 8.52% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,919 2,649 5,427
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -259 81 £62,500 -3.85% 44
UK excluding London -281 50 £56,250 +2.27% 36
London -48 31 £90,000 - 14
North of England -129 23 £56,250 -6.25% 10
Work from Home -222 22 £65,000 +23.81% 18
North West -89 20 £55,000 -15.38% 3
South West -49 14 £60,500 +0.83% 4
South East -34 9 £52,500 +23.53% 10
North East -60 3 £70,000 +33.33% 2
East of England -22 2 £55,000 -6.38% 1
Scotland -28 1 - - 5
West Midlands -54 1 £43,000 - 5
Midlands -93 1 £43,000 -4.44% 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 22 (26.51%) Confluence
2 6 (7.23%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) CMS
3 2 (2.41%) JBoss
3 2 (2.41%) nginx
4 1 (1.20%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.20%) IIS
4 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.20%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 44 (53.01%) AWS
2 23 (27.71%) Azure
2 23 (27.71%) GitHub
3 15 (18.07%) Serverless
4 14 (16.87%) Amazon S3
4 14 (16.87%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (10.84%) AWS Fargate
5 9 (10.84%) GCP
6 8 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (9.64%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (8.43%) OpenShift
8 5 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.02%) CloudFront
8 5 (6.02%) SaaS
8 5 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.82%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.46%) TCP/IP
2 9 (10.84%) Firewall
3 8 (9.64%) DNS
3 8 (9.64%) HTTPS
3 8 (9.64%) IPv4
3 8 (9.64%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (7.23%) VoIP
5 4 (4.82%) LAN
5 4 (4.82%) WAN
6 3 (3.61%) Network Security
7 2 (2.41%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (2.41%) SSL
8 1 (1.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.20%) LTE
8 1 (1.20%) SNMP
8 1 (1.20%) VPN
8 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.46%) MongoDB
2 12 (14.46%) MySQL
3 11 (13.25%) DynamoDB
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (8.43%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.20%) Db2
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (42.17%) Git
2 33 (39.76%) JIRA
3 22 (26.51%) Jenkins
4 16 (19.28%) GitLab
5 15 (18.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (8.43%) SonarQube
7 6 (7.23%) Cypress.io
8 5 (6.02%) Selenium
9 4 (4.82%) Metasploit
9 4 (4.82%) TeamCity
10 3 (3.61%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.61%) NUnit
10 3 (3.61%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (2.41%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.41%) Maven
12 1 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 1 (1.20%) GoogleTest
12 1 (1.20%) JUnit
12 1 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 30 (36.14%) Finance
2 14 (16.87%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.64%) Aerospace
5 6 (7.23%) Electronics
6 4 (4.82%) Automotive
6 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.41%) Marketing
8 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.20%) Banking
9 1 (1.20%) German Language
9 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.20%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.20%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 17 (20.48%) Senior
2 16 (19.28%) Developer
3 14 (16.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (14.46%) Lead
5 9 (10.84%) Applications Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Cyber Threat Specialist
9 4 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.41%) Technical Consultant
11 2 (2.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.10%) React
2 15 (18.07%) Node.js
3 13 (15.66%) AngularJS
4 8 (9.64%) RESTful
5 7 (8.43%) .NET
5 7 (8.43%) REST
5 7 (8.43%) Spring
6 6 (7.23%) CSS
6 6 (7.23%) HTML
6 6 (7.23%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.02%) JSON
7 5 (6.02%) Kafka
8 4 (4.82%) boto
8 4 (4.82%) CSS3
8 4 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.82%) HTML5
8 4 (4.82%) Jest
8 4 (4.82%) pytest
9 3 (3.61%) Playwright
9 3 (3.61%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.64%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (9.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.82%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (4.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.82%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.41%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Replication
5 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 41 (49.40%) Linux
2 25 (30.12%) Windows
3 9 (10.84%) Unix
3 9 (10.84%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.43%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.23%) Debian
6 4 (4.82%) Kali Linux
7 3 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (2.41%) Android
8 2 (2.41%) CentOS
8 2 (2.41%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (2.41%) ThreadX
9 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (85.54%) CI/CD
2 39 (46.99%) Agile
3 32 (38.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (37.35%) DevOps
5 26 (31.33%) Containerisation
6 18 (21.69%) Test Automation
7 17 (20.48%) Scrum
7 17 (20.48%) Software Engineering
8 16 (19.28%) Computer Science
8 16 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (18.07%) Deployment Automation
10 14 (16.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (15.66%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (14.46%) Collaborative Culture
12 12 (14.46%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (14.46%) Observability
13 11 (13.25%) DevSecOps
13 11 (13.25%) SDLC
14 10 (12.05%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 55 (66.27%) Python
2 35 (42.17%) Bash
3 31 (37.35%) Java
4 30 (36.14%) PowerShell
4 30 (36.14%) SQL
5 11 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.43%) PHP
7 6 (7.23%) C#
8 4 (4.82%) C++
9 3 (3.61%) Bicep
10 2 (2.41%) C
10 2 (2.41%) Embedded C
10 2 (2.41%) Go
11 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (19.28%) AWS Certification
1 16 (19.28%) Degree
2 13 (15.66%) Security Cleared
3 12 (14.46%) OSCP
4 9 (10.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (10.84%) ISTQB
5 8 (9.64%) CCNA
5 8 (9.64%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (9.64%) RHCE
5 8 (9.64%) RHCSA
6 6 (7.23%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.82%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.61%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.20%) HNC
10 1 (1.20%) HND
10 1 (1.20%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.61%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (32.53%) Docker
2 11 (13.25%) vSphere
3 8 (9.64%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.64%) Squid
3 8 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.64%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.61%) iptables
5 2 (2.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (2.41%) Firmware
5 2 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (49.40%) Kubernetes
2 33 (39.76%) Ansible
3 23 (27.71%) Terraform
4 12 (14.46%) Grafana
5 8 (9.64%) Packer
5 8 (9.64%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.64%) ZABBIX
6 6 (7.23%) Argo
7 5 (6.02%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.02%) Puppet
8 3 (3.61%) Control-M
8 3 (3.61%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.41%) Kibana
9 2 (2.41%) Nagios
9 2 (2.41%) Rancher
9 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 19 (22.89%) Splunk
3 11 (13.25%) Oracle
3 11 (13.25%) VMware
4 10 (12.05%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.02%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.82%) TOWER Software
7 3 (3.61%) DevExpress
8 2 (2.41%) Google
8 2 (2.41%) New Relic
9 1 (1.20%) Adobe
9 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace