Bitbucket Job Trends
Bitbucket
UK
The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs citing Bitbucket skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 23 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 763 | 377 | 577 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -386 | +200 | -99 |
| Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket | 76 | 319 | 175 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK | 0.063% | 0.65% | 0.25% |
| As % of the Development Applications category | 1.56% | 8.47% | 2.90% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 42 | 45 | 96 |
| 10th Percentile | £36,750 | £34,650 | £40,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £44,688 | £42,250 | £43,750 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £60,500 | £52,500 | £50,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +15.24% | +5.00% | -28.57% |
| 75th Percentile | £80,000 | £76,250 | £66,188 |
| 90th Percentile | £91,875 | £104,750 | £82,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £55,000 | £51,500 | £50,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +6.80% | +3.00% | -10.71% |
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 citing development application skills.
| 6 months to 23 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies citing development application skills | 4,859 | 3,767 | 6,031 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 4.02% | 7.65% | 8.73% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 2,937 | 2,208 | 3,378 |
| 10th Percentile | £37,500 | £33,750 | £38,175 |
| 25th Percentile | £47,500 | £46,370 | £47,235 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £62,500 | £62,000 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +0.81% | +3.33% | -7.69% |
| 75th Percentile | £80,000 | £80,000 | £77,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £101,250 | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £57,500 | £55,000 | £55,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +4.55% | - | -5.17% |
Bitbucket Job Vacancy Trend
Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bitbucket relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.
Bitbucket Salary Trend
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 October 2026.
Bitbucket Top 15 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 October 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Salary Past 6 Months |
Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | -328 | 65 | £61,500 | +17.14% | 121 |
| UK excluding London | -349 | 57 | £55,000 | +6.80% | 79 |
| Work from Home | -265 | 23 | £58,500 | +8.84% | 68 |
| North of England | -174 | 21 | £65,000 | +25.00% | 22 |
| London | -96 | 17 | £75,000 | -6.25% | 52 |
| North West | -117 | 16 | £55,000 | - | 8 |
| South West | -68 | 14 | £60,500 | +16.35% | 12 |
| South East | -71 | 11 | £52,500 | +31.25% | 24 |
| Wales | -60 | 8 | £36,750 | - | 4 |
| North East | -76 | 4 | £70,000 | +34.62% | 2 |
| East of England | -52 | 1 | - | - | 4 |
| East Midlands | -78 | 1 | £58,500 | - | 1 |
| Northern Ireland | -81 | 1 | - | - | 5 |
| Midlands | -127 | 1 | £58,500 | - | 4 |
| Yorkshire | - | 1 | £65,000 | - | 12 |
Bitbucket Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Development Applications
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JIRA | 55.3% | 42 |
| 2 | Git | 50.0% | 38 |
| 3 | Jenkins | 31.6% | 24 |
| 4 | Atlassian Bamboo | 25.0% | 19 |
| 5 | GitLab | 14.5% | 11 |
| 6 | SonarQube | 11.8% | 9 |
| 7 | TeamCity | 10.5% | 8 |
| 8 | Artifactory | 9.2% | 7 |
| 8 | Cypress.io | 9.2% | 7 |
| 10 | Octopus Deploy | 5.3% | 4 |
| 10 | Selenium | 5.3% | 4 |
| 10 | Subversion | 5.3% | 4 |
| 13 | Claude Code | 3.9% | 3 |
| 13 | Mercurial | 3.9% | 3 |
| 13 | Visual Studio Code | 3.9% | 3 |
| 16 | git-flow | 2.6% | 2 |
| 17 | REST Assured | 1.3% | 1 |
| 17 | Robot Framework | 1.3% | 1 |
| 17 | Visual Studio Team System | 1.3% | 1 |