Bitbucket Contract Job Trends in England

Bitbucket
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 333 392
Rank change year-on-year -127 +59 -17
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 112 144 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.23% 4.33% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 103 103
10th Percentile £368 £340 £390
25th Percentile £410 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% -4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £656 £654 £700
90th Percentile £762 £813 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £539 £553
% change year-on-year -7.19% -2.49% -1.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 17
10th Percentile - £49.85 £45.88
25th Percentile - £52.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £60.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.22% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - £66.25 £76.00
UK median hourly rate - £60.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +5.22% -

All Development Application Skills
England

Bitbucket falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,016 3,327 4,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.55% 13.60% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,236 2,894
10th Percentile £338 £342 £355
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 61 175
10th Percentile £37.71 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £59.00 £52.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.80% - +1.63%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bitbucket relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Bitbucket job vacancy trend in England

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bitbucket.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in England

Bitbucket
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bitbucket.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -80 58 £565 -9.60% 10
Midlands -52 17 £450 -2.17% 3
South East -79 16 £425 -15.00% 11
West Midlands -51 13 £450 -2.17% 2
South West -45 10 £553 -3.91% 9
North of England -65 8 £466 +15.92% 12
Yorkshire -57 5 £400 - 5
East Midlands -38 4 £525 +68.81% 1
North West -35 3 £600 +49.25% 5
Bitbucket
UK

Bitbucket
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 51 (45.54%) Confluence
2 14 (12.50%) nginx
3 6 (5.36%) Apache
4 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.68%) SAS
6 2 (1.79%) IIS
7 1 (0.89%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (43.75%) AWS
2 37 (33.04%) GitHub
3 26 (23.21%) Azure
4 24 (21.43%) Serverless
5 23 (20.54%) Amazon S3
5 23 (20.54%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (16.96%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (16.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (11.61%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (9.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (9.82%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (8.04%) GCP
13 9 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (6.25%) Azure AKS
14 7 (6.25%) Route 53
15 5 (4.46%) OpenShift
16 4 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.82%) Firewall
2 8 (7.14%) VPN
3 7 (6.25%) DNS
3 7 (6.25%) OpenVPN
3 7 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.89%) DSL
4 1 (0.89%) HTTP
4 1 (0.89%) LAN
4 1 (0.89%) NAS
4 1 (0.89%) SAN
4 1 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.46%) MySQL
5 4 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.57%) Power BI
6 3 (2.68%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.68%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.68%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.68%) Impala
6 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.68%) Pentaho
6 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.79%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (52.68%) JIRA
2 51 (45.54%) Jenkins
3 48 (42.86%) Git
4 28 (25.00%) GitLab
5 18 (16.07%) SonarQube
6 10 (8.93%) Maven
7 8 (7.14%) Selenium
8 7 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (6.25%) TeamCity
9 6 (5.36%) Gradle
9 6 (5.36%) ScriptRunner
9 6 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (4.46%) Android Studio
11 4 (3.57%) Artifactory
11 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.57%) Snyk
12 3 (2.68%) JUnit
12 3 (2.68%) REST Assured
12 3 (2.68%) Subversion
12 3 (2.68%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.75%) Banking
3 20 (17.86%) Finance
4 10 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.46%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.46%) Front Office
8 4 (3.57%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Back Office
10 1 (0.89%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (30.36%) Developer
2 15 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 12 (10.71%) Senior
5 11 (9.82%) Architect
6 10 (8.93%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Android Developer
7 6 (5.36%) JIRA Specialist
8 5 (4.46%) JIRA Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) React Developer
8 5 (4.46%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.71%) React
2 10 (8.93%) REST
2 10 (8.93%) RESTful
3 9 (8.04%) HTML
3 9 (8.04%) LDAP
3 9 (8.04%) Node.js
4 8 (7.14%) Spring
4 8 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 7 (6.25%) AWS CDK
5 7 (6.25%) OpenID
6 6 (5.36%) .NET
6 6 (5.36%) CSS
6 6 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.57%) boto
7 4 (3.57%) JSON
8 3 (2.68%) ADO
8 3 (2.68%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.68%) XML
8 3 (2.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.93%) Cloud Native
1 10 (8.93%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.36%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.68%) Derivative
5 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.79%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.89%) Linux
2 12 (10.71%) Unix
3 10 (8.93%) Windows
4 6 (5.36%) Android
5 3 (2.68%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.79%) AIX
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (66.96%) Agile
2 72 (64.29%) DevOps
3 69 (61.61%) CI/CD
4 36 (32.14%) Scrum
5 28 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 23 (20.54%) Microservices
6 23 (20.54%) Software Engineering
7 20 (17.86%) Containerisation
8 16 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (12.50%) Migration
9 14 (12.50%) Service Management
10 13 (11.61%) Validation
11 12 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (10.71%) DevSecOps
11 12 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
11 12 (10.71%) OOP
11 12 (10.71%) SDLC
12 11 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.14%) Java
1 36 (32.14%) Python
2 30 (26.79%) SQL
3 15 (13.39%) Bash
4 13 (11.61%) C#
5 11 (9.82%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.36%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.57%) C++
8 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.68%) HiveQL
9 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.79%) Bicep
10 2 (1.79%) Perl
10 2 (1.79%) Ruby
11 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.89%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.89%) Scala
11 1 (0.89%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 49 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 41 (36.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) Degree
4 6 (5.36%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.57%) OCA
6 4 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (3.57%) SAFe Agilist
6 4 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.79%) CCNP
8 2 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.79%) MCSA
8 2 (1.79%) MCSE
8 2 (1.79%) RHCA
8 2 (1.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) QA
2 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) MiFID
4 1 (0.89%) PMO
4 1 (0.89%) SLA
4 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (33.04%) Docker
2 8 (7.14%) Squid
3 3 (2.68%) HDFS
3 3 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.89%) zsh
Systems Management
1 36 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 29 (25.89%) Terraform
3 22 (19.64%) Ansible
4 13 (11.61%) Grafana
5 9 (8.04%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.14%) Puppet
7 7 (6.25%) Consul
7 7 (6.25%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.57%) Istio
8 4 (3.57%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (1.79%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.79%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.89%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.89%) Kibana
11 1 (0.89%) logstash
11 1 (0.89%) Podman
Vendors
1 32 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 11 (9.82%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.93%) Oracle
4 8 (7.14%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.25%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.46%) VMware
7 4 (3.57%) Thales
8 3 (2.68%) Checkmarx
8 3 (2.68%) Coverity
8 3 (2.68%) Denodo
8 3 (2.68%) Google
8 3 (2.68%) Informatica
8 3 (2.68%) jBASE
8 3 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.68%) Talend
8 3 (2.68%) Temenos
8 3 (2.68%) Veracode
9 2 (1.79%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.79%) Veeam
10 1 (0.89%) Splunk