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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 549 424
Rank change year-on-year -19 -125 +14
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 86 159 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.30% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.33% 2.90% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 53 88 259
10th Percentile £42,250 - £31,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -25.93% -0.10%
75th Percentile £100,000 £65,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £82,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £49,104 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.88% -9.07% -6.09%

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 3,693 5,491 6,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.09% 10.28% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,390 3,152 5,268
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -7 76 £75,000 +50.00% 51
UK excluding London -50 39 £51,500 +4.88% 37
London +66 38 £100,000 +28.21% 10
North of England +20 22 £51,500 +3.00% 9
Work from Home -3 17 £72,500 +52.63% 19
North East - 12 £51,500 - 3
North West +17 10 £65,000 +30.00% 5
South West +1 10 £55,000 -20.29% 12
South East +2 4 £55,000 -6.38% 11
Midlands +23 1 - - 3
West Midlands +20 1 - -
Wales +6 1 - -
Northern Ireland -13 1 - -

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 32 (37.21%) Confluence
2 7 (8.14%) IIS
3 6 (6.98%) Apache
4 5 (5.81%) Tomcat
5 4 (4.65%) Camunda
6 1 (1.16%) JBoss
6 1 (1.16%) nginx
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (10.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 40 (46.51%) AWS
2 34 (39.53%) Azure
3 15 (17.44%) GitHub
4 14 (16.28%) GCP
5 12 (13.95%) Amazon S3
5 12 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (13.95%) OpenShift
5 12 (13.95%) Serverless
6 11 (12.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (9.30%) Entra ID
9 7 (8.14%) CloudFront
10 6 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.81%) Figma
12 4 (4.65%) Azure AKS
13 3 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (3.49%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (3.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) DNS
2 2 (2.33%) Network Security
2 2 (2.33%) SAN
3 1 (1.16%) DHCP
3 1 (1.16%) Firewall
3 1 (1.16%) SSL
3 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (37.21%) SQL Server
2 21 (24.42%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (16.28%) MongoDB
4 11 (12.79%) DB2
4 11 (12.79%) MySQL
5 8 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.81%) Oracle Database
8 4 (4.65%) DynamoDB
8 4 (4.65%) RDBMS
8 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.16%) Metadata
11 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 51 (59.30%) JIRA
2 36 (41.86%) Jenkins
3 31 (36.05%) Git
4 30 (34.88%) GitLab
5 16 (18.60%) Selenium
6 13 (15.12%) TeamCity
7 12 (13.95%) Cucumber
8 11 (12.79%) SonarQube
8 11 (12.79%) Subversion
9 7 (8.14%) Cypress.io
10 6 (6.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (6.98%) JMeter
10 6 (6.98%) JUnit
11 5 (5.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (5.81%) Vite
12 4 (4.65%) REST Assured
13 3 (3.49%) Eclipse
13 3 (3.49%) Postman
13 3 (3.49%) Robot Framework
14 2 (2.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 50 (58.14%) Social Skills
2 40 (46.51%) Finance
3 18 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (15.12%) Banking
5 12 (13.95%) Public Sector
6 9 (10.47%) Manufacturing
6 9 (10.47%) Telecoms
7 8 (9.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (8.14%) Advertising
9 2 (2.33%) Retail
10 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.16%) Electronics
10 1 (1.16%) Front Office
10 1 (1.16%) Games
10 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Marketing
10 1 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Senior
2 20 (23.26%) Developer
3 15 (17.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (16.28%) Senior DevOps
5 10 (11.63%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Lead
6 9 (10.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (9.30%) Consultant
7 8 (9.30%) DevOps Consultant
7 8 (9.30%) Senior Consultant
7 8 (9.30%) Senior DevOps Consultant
8 7 (8.14%) Agile Developer
8 7 (8.14%) Agile Java Developer
8 7 (8.14%) Analyst
8 7 (8.14%) Applications Support
8 7 (8.14%) Applications Support Analyst
8 7 (8.14%) Support Analyst
9 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.74%) React
2 17 (19.77%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (17.44%) RESTful
4 14 (16.28%) CSS
4 14 (16.28%) HTML
5 11 (12.79%) Gherkin
6 10 (11.63%) Node.js
7 8 (9.30%) REST
8 7 (8.14%) Kafka
9 6 (6.98%) Middleware
10 5 (5.81%) .NET
10 5 (5.81%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (5.81%) Jest
10 5 (5.81%) Next.js
10 5 (5.81%) Playwright
10 5 (5.81%) Spring
10 5 (5.81%) Spring Boot
11 4 (4.65%) Hibernate
11 4 (4.65%) JSF
11 4 (4.65%) PrimeFaces
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.81%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.49%) Clustering
4 3 (3.49%) PKI
4 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.16%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.16%) Replication
6 1 (1.16%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 38 (44.19%) Linux
2 21 (24.42%) Windows
3 6 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (5.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (5.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.33%) Unix
5 2 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (70.93%) CI/CD
2 49 (56.98%) DevOps
3 46 (53.49%) Agile
4 33 (38.37%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (25.58%) Microservices
5 22 (25.58%) Unit Testing
6 21 (24.42%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (24.42%) Test Automation
7 20 (23.26%) Collaborative Culture
7 20 (23.26%) Containerisation
7 20 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (22.09%) Front End Development
8 19 (22.09%) Software Engineering
9 18 (20.93%) Design Patterns
9 18 (20.93%) User Experience
10 15 (17.44%) Change Management
10 15 (17.44%) Computer Science
10 15 (17.44%) Scrum
11 14 (16.28%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.35%) Java
2 31 (36.05%) SQL
3 28 (32.56%) JavaScript
4 27 (31.40%) Python
5 16 (18.60%) PowerShell
5 16 (18.60%) TypeScript
6 14 (16.28%) Bash
7 11 (12.79%) C#
8 5 (5.81%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.49%) Go
9 3 (3.49%) RPG
10 1 (1.16%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.16%) Bicep
10 1 (1.16%) C++
10 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 15 (17.44%) Degree
2 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.30%) AWS Certification
3 8 (9.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (6.98%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (6.98%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (5.81%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) QA
2 7 (8.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (41.86%) Docker
2 13 (15.12%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.33%) iptables
4 2 (2.33%) vSphere
5 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (44.19%) Kubernetes
2 22 (25.58%) Ansible
3 18 (20.93%) Terraform
4 15 (17.44%) Grafana
5 11 (12.79%) Prometheus
6 9 (10.47%) Control-M
6 9 (10.47%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (8.14%) Puppet
8 6 (6.98%) Progress Chef
9 5 (5.81%) Kibana
10 3 (3.49%) Rancher
11 2 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (1.16%) Ambari
12 1 (1.16%) Argo
12 1 (1.16%) Nagios
12 1 (1.16%) NetBackup
12 1 (1.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (39.53%) Atlassian
2 18 (20.93%) Oracle
3 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
4 8 (9.30%) VMware
5 7 (8.14%) Red Hat
6 5 (5.81%) Splunk
7 4 (4.65%) IBM
8 3 (3.49%) Informatica
8 3 (3.49%) RedGate
8 3 (3.49%) Talend
9 2 (2.33%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.16%) Dell
10 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.16%) Google
10 1 (1.16%) HP
10 1 (1.16%) New Relic
10 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.16%) Siemens
10 1 (1.16%) Veeam