Bitbucket Job Trends

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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 562 477
Rank change year-on-year +9 -85 -74
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 113 181 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.27% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.06% 3.04% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 51 98 236
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,225 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £66,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £82,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -

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 3,688 5,958 6,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.27% 8.75% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 3,304 5,625
10th Percentile £32,125 £37,574 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +4.55%

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 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 +32 106 £52,500 +5.00% 173
UK excluding London -7 80 £51,500 +3.00% 134
North of England +42 53 £51,500 +11.35% 41
Work from Home +15 53 £58,750 +23.68% 102
North West +36 36 - - 28
London +44 27 £95,000 +31.03% 81
North East +26 17 £51,500 +21.18% 9
South East +4 9 £40,000 -33.33% 65
South West +15 8 £52,000 -24.64% 14
Midlands +46 6 - - 4
West Midlands +42 4 - - 1
East Midlands +27 2 - - 3
Wales +10 1 - -
East of England -9 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9
Scotland - 1 £65,000 -

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 (19.47%) Confluence
2 6 (5.31%) IIS
3 5 (4.42%) Apache
4 4 (3.54%) Camunda
5 3 (2.65%) CMS
5 3 (2.65%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.77%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Notion
2 1 (0.88%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 69 (61.06%) AWS
2 66 (58.41%) Azure
3 17 (15.04%) GitHub
4 11 (9.73%) Amazon S3
5 10 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (8.85%) Serverless
6 8 (7.08%) GCP
7 6 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.31%) CloudFront
7 6 (5.31%) Figma
8 5 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.54%) npm
10 3 (2.65%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) SAN
2 2 (1.77%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) Multicast
3 1 (0.88%) Network Security
3 1 (0.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (53.10%) SQL Server
2 17 (15.04%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (11.50%) MongoDB
4 9 (7.96%) MySQL
5 7 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (5.31%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.42%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.65%) DB2
8 3 (2.65%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.77%) Redis
10 1 (0.88%) Big Data
10 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 84 (74.34%) JIRA
2 57 (50.44%) GitLab
3 47 (41.59%) SonarQube
4 44 (38.94%) Selenium
5 42 (37.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 41 (36.28%) Cucumber
7 37 (32.74%) Maven
8 31 (27.43%) Git
9 20 (17.70%) Jenkins
10 8 (7.08%) Vite
11 7 (6.19%) Cypress.io
11 7 (6.19%) JUnit
11 7 (6.19%) Subversion
11 7 (6.19%) TeamCity
12 6 (5.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (3.54%) Visual Studio
14 3 (2.65%) JMeter
14 3 (2.65%) Postman
14 3 (2.65%) REST Assured
14 3 (2.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (53.10%) Finance
2 43 (38.05%) Social Skills
3 41 (36.28%) Banking
4 37 (32.74%) Investment Banking
4 37 (32.74%) Retail
5 36 (31.86%) Corporate Banking
5 36 (31.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (11.50%) Advertising
7 12 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.54%) Back Office
9 4 (3.54%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.54%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.77%) Electronics
11 2 (1.77%) Games
11 2 (1.77%) Marketing
12 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.88%) iGaming
12 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (36.28%) Software Engineer
2 23 (20.35%) Developer
3 19 (16.81%) Senior
4 10 (8.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Applications Support
5 9 (7.96%) Lead
6 7 (6.19%) DBA
6 7 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (6.19%) Software Developer
6 7 (6.19%) SQL DBA
7 6 (5.31%) Analyst
7 6 (5.31%) Applications Support Analyst
7 6 (5.31%) Support Analyst
7 6 (5.31%) Technical Leader
8 5 (4.42%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Technical Manager
8 5 (4.42%) Technical Manager
9 4 (3.54%) .NET Developer
9 4 (3.54%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (48.67%) React
2 51 (45.13%) CSS
2 51 (45.13%) HTML
3 43 (38.05%) Jest
3 43 (38.05%) REST
4 42 (37.17%) Spring Boot
5 41 (36.28%) Sass
5 41 (36.28%) Spring
6 40 (35.40%) Kafka
6 40 (35.40%) RESTful
7 39 (34.51%) HTML5
8 38 (33.63%) CSS3
9 37 (32.74%) JPA
9 37 (32.74%) Redux
10 9 (7.96%) .NET
10 9 (7.96%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (4.42%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (4.42%) Hibernate
11 5 (4.42%) Next.js
11 5 (4.42%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (32.74%) Product Ownership
2 36 (31.86%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.31%) Clustering
4 5 (4.42%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.77%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.77%) IoT
6 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.88%) Animation
7 1 (0.88%) CAN bus
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.88%) FMCG
7 1 (0.88%) FPGA
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.66%) Linux
2 14 (12.39%) Windows
3 3 (2.65%) Unix
4 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.77%) VMS
4 2 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (66.37%) CI/CD
2 73 (64.60%) DevOps
3 65 (57.52%) Agile
4 54 (47.79%) Front End Development
5 50 (44.25%) Mentoring
5 50 (44.25%) Test Automation
5 50 (44.25%) User Experience
6 49 (43.36%) Containerisation
7 48 (42.48%) Software Engineering
8 47 (41.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 46 (40.71%) Microservices
9 46 (40.71%) Strategic Thinking
10 42 (37.17%) SDLC
11 39 (34.51%) Migration
12 37 (32.74%) Performance Optimisation
13 36 (31.86%) Responsive Web Design
14 24 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (16.81%) Computer Science
16 14 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 13 (11.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 66 (58.41%) SQL
2 63 (55.75%) JavaScript
3 62 (54.87%) Java
4 50 (44.25%) TypeScript
5 17 (15.04%) Python
6 13 (11.50%) C#
7 8 (7.08%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.08%) T-SQL
8 7 (6.19%) Bash
9 2 (1.77%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.77%) C++
9 2 (1.77%) PHP
9 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.88%) Bicep
10 1 (0.88%) C
10 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.88%) Perl
10 1 (0.88%) RPG
Qualifications
1 22 (19.47%) Degree
2 18 (15.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.31%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (5.31%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (4.42%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (4.42%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.54%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.88%) HNC
8 1 (0.88%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (41.59%) Accessibility
2 45 (39.82%) QA
3 2 (1.77%) SEPA
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (52.21%) Docker
2 5 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.65%) vSphere
4 1 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.88%) Firmware
4 1 (0.88%) iptables
Systems Management
1 55 (48.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (12.39%) Grafana
3 12 (10.62%) Ansible
4 11 (9.73%) Terraform
5 10 (8.85%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.96%) Control-M
7 7 (6.19%) Kibana
8 4 (3.54%) Puppet
9 3 (2.65%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (2.65%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.77%) logstash
10 2 (1.77%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.88%) Ambari
Vendors
1 36 (31.86%) Solace
2 19 (16.81%) Atlassian
3 13 (11.50%) Oracle
4 7 (6.19%) Informatica
4 7 (6.19%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.19%) RedGate
4 7 (6.19%) Talend
5 5 (4.42%) VMware
6 3 (2.65%) Google
6 3 (2.65%) Splunk
7 2 (1.77%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.77%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe
8 1 (0.88%) EMC
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) Veracode