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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 539 439
Rank change year-on-year -26 -100 -3
Permanent jobs citing Bitbucket 85 161 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.30% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.30% 2.96% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 54 87 263
10th Percentile £42,250 - £31,500
25th Percentile £52,188 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -25.93% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £65,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £110,000 £82,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £49,552 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.94% -8.24% -10.00%

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 3,703 5,437 6,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.06% 10.28% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 3,096 5,574
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £39,180
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £97,500
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 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 12 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 20 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 -11 76 £75,000 +50.00% 59
London +65 38 £100,000 +28.21% 13
UK excluding London -42 38 £52,000 +4.94% 43
North of England +7 21 £51,500 +3.00% 10
Work from Home -3 17 £72,500 +52.63% 27
North East - 12 £51,500 - 2
South West +2 11 £56,250 -18.48% 14
North West +12 9 £65,000 +30.00% 6
South East -1 4 £55,000 -6.38% 14
West Midlands +21 1 - -
Midlands +17 1 - - 3
Wales +5 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 (37.65%) Confluence
2 7 (8.24%) IIS
3 6 (7.06%) Apache
4 5 (5.88%) Tomcat
5 3 (3.53%) Camunda
6 1 (1.18%) JBoss
6 1 (1.18%) nginx
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (10.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.06%) AWS
2 34 (40.00%) Azure
3 14 (16.47%) GCP
3 14 (16.47%) GitHub
4 12 (14.12%) Amazon S3
4 12 (14.12%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (14.12%) OpenShift
4 12 (14.12%) Serverless
5 11 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (9.41%) Entra ID
8 7 (8.24%) CloudFront
9 6 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (5.88%) Figma
11 4 (4.71%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.53%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (3.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) DNS
2 2 (2.35%) DHCP
2 2 (2.35%) Network Security
2 2 (2.35%) SAN
2 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.18%) Firewall
3 1 (1.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (37.65%) SQL Server
2 21 (24.71%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (16.47%) MongoDB
4 11 (12.94%) DB2
4 11 (12.94%) MySQL
5 8 (9.41%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (7.06%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.88%) Oracle Database
8 4 (4.71%) DynamoDB
8 4 (4.71%) RDBMS
8 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.18%) Metadata
11 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (58.82%) JIRA
2 35 (41.18%) Jenkins
3 31 (36.47%) Git
4 30 (35.29%) GitLab
5 16 (18.82%) Selenium
6 13 (15.29%) TeamCity
7 12 (14.12%) Cucumber
8 11 (12.94%) Subversion
9 10 (11.76%) SonarQube
10 7 (8.24%) Cypress.io
11 6 (7.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (7.06%) JMeter
11 6 (7.06%) JUnit
12 5 (5.88%) Vite
13 4 (4.71%) REST Assured
13 4 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (3.53%) Eclipse
14 3 (3.53%) Postman
14 3 (3.53%) Robot Framework
15 2 (2.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 48 (56.47%) Social Skills
2 39 (45.88%) Finance
3 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.12%) Banking
4 12 (14.12%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.59%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.59%) Telecoms
6 8 (9.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (8.24%) Advertising
8 2 (2.35%) Retail
9 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.18%) Electronics
9 1 (1.18%) Front Office
9 1 (1.18%) Games
9 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Senior
2 19 (22.35%) Developer
3 15 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (16.47%) Senior DevOps
5 10 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.76%) Lead
6 9 (10.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (9.41%) Consultant
7 8 (9.41%) DevOps Consultant
7 8 (9.41%) Senior Consultant
7 8 (9.41%) Senior DevOps Consultant
8 7 (8.24%) Agile Developer
8 7 (8.24%) Agile Java Developer
8 7 (8.24%) Analyst
8 7 (8.24%) Applications Support
8 7 (8.24%) Applications Support Analyst
8 7 (8.24%) Support Analyst
9 6 (7.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.88%) React
2 17 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (17.65%) RESTful
4 13 (15.29%) CSS
4 13 (15.29%) HTML
5 11 (12.94%) Gherkin
6 10 (11.76%) Node.js
7 7 (8.24%) Kafka
7 7 (8.24%) REST
8 6 (7.06%) Middleware
9 5 (5.88%) .NET
9 5 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (5.88%) Jest
9 5 (5.88%) Next.js
9 5 (5.88%) Playwright
9 5 (5.88%) Spring
9 5 (5.88%) Spring Boot
10 4 (4.71%) Hibernate
10 4 (4.71%) JSF
10 4 (4.71%) PrimeFaces
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.53%) Clustering
4 3 (3.53%) PKI
4 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.18%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 39 (45.88%) Linux
2 21 (24.71%) Windows
3 6 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.35%) Unix
5 2 (2.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (71.76%) CI/CD
2 48 (56.47%) DevOps
3 45 (52.94%) Agile
4 32 (37.65%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (25.88%) Microservices
6 21 (24.71%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (24.71%) Test Automation
7 20 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
7 20 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 20 (23.53%) Unit Testing
8 19 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (22.35%) Front End Development
8 19 (22.35%) Software Engineering
9 18 (21.18%) Design Patterns
10 17 (20.00%) User Experience
11 15 (17.65%) Change Management
11 15 (17.65%) Computer Science
11 15 (17.65%) Scrum
12 14 (16.47%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 38 (44.71%) Java
2 30 (35.29%) SQL
3 28 (32.94%) JavaScript
3 28 (32.94%) Python
4 17 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 15 (17.65%) Bash
5 15 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 11 (12.94%) C#
7 5 (5.88%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.53%) Go
8 3 (3.53%) RPG
9 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.18%) Bicep
9 1 (1.18%) C++
9 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 15 (17.65%) Degree
2 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.41%) AWS Certification
3 8 (9.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.06%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (7.06%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) QA
2 7 (8.24%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (42.35%) Docker
2 13 (15.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.35%) iptables
4 2 (2.35%) vSphere
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (44.71%) Kubernetes
2 23 (27.06%) Ansible
3 18 (21.18%) Terraform
4 15 (17.65%) Grafana
5 11 (12.94%) Prometheus
6 9 (10.59%) Control-M
6 9 (10.59%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (8.24%) Puppet
8 6 (7.06%) Progress Chef
9 5 (5.88%) Kibana
10 3 (3.53%) Rancher
11 2 (2.35%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (2.35%) NetBackup
12 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (1.18%) Ambari
12 1 (1.18%) Argo
12 1 (1.18%) Nagios
12 1 (1.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 18 (21.18%) Oracle
3 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.59%) VMware
5 7 (8.24%) Red Hat
6 5 (5.88%) Splunk
7 4 (4.71%) IBM
8 3 (3.53%) Informatica
8 3 (3.53%) RedGate
8 3 (3.53%) Talend
9 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (2.35%) Cisco
9 2 (2.35%) Dell
9 2 (2.35%) HP
9 2 (2.35%) Juniper
9 2 (2.35%) Veeam
10 1 (1.18%) Google
10 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.18%) SAP
10 1 (1.18%) Siemens