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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 324 374
Rank change year-on-year -128 +50 -17
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 111 162 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.63% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.24% 4.71% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 114 122
10th Percentile £368 £450 £425
25th Percentile £431 £476 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £645 £706 £700
90th Percentile £750 £810 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £563 £560
% change year-on-year -11.11% +0.45% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 25
10th Percentile - £55.38 £45.88
25th Percentile - £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
75th Percentile - £64.38 £75.00
90th Percentile - £71.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.26%

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 4,966 3,438 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.01% 13.37% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,401 2,192 3,076
10th Percentile £342 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £636 £638
90th Percentile £695 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 59 202
10th Percentile £36.46 £27.25 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.62 £47.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £83.00 £80.00 £88.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -73 60 £550 -15.38% 13
South West -25 15 £589 +1.29% 14
South East -57 12 £500 - 10
Midlands -54 10 £492 +5.02% 7
North of England -60 9 £620 +55.00% 8
West Midlands -50 8 £455 -4.72% 5
North West -24 7 £620 +55.00% 5
East Midlands -24 2 £525 +68.81% 2
Yorkshire -65 2 - - 2
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 45 (40.54%) Confluence
2 14 (12.61%) nginx
3 6 (5.41%) Apache
4 4 (3.60%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.70%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.70%) SAS
6 1 (0.90%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.90%) IIS
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.80%) Maximo
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 49 (44.14%) AWS
2 38 (34.23%) GitHub
3 25 (22.52%) Azure
4 22 (19.82%) Serverless
5 21 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (17.12%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (17.12%) Amazon S3
7 18 (16.22%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (8.11%) GCP
10 9 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (8.11%) OpenShift
11 8 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.31%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (6.31%) Route 53
13 5 (4.50%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.71%) Firewall
2 8 (7.21%) DNS
2 8 (7.21%) VPN
3 7 (6.31%) OpenVPN
3 7 (6.31%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.90%) DSL
4 1 (0.90%) HTTP
4 1 (0.90%) Internet
4 1 (0.90%) LAN
4 1 (0.90%) NAS
4 1 (0.90%) SAN
4 1 (0.90%) SSL
4 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.11%) MySQL
3 7 (6.31%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (6.31%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.50%) Hadoop
4 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.60%) Apache Hive
5 4 (3.60%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.60%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.70%) Impala
6 3 (2.70%) Pentaho
6 3 (2.70%) Power BI
7 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.80%) DB2
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.80%) Redis
8 1 (0.90%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 57 (51.35%) JIRA
2 55 (49.55%) Jenkins
3 50 (45.05%) Git
4 25 (22.52%) GitLab
5 22 (19.82%) SonarQube
6 12 (10.81%) Maven
7 9 (8.11%) Postman
7 9 (8.11%) Selenium
7 9 (8.11%) Snyk
7 9 (8.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (7.21%) Gradle
9 7 (6.31%) Artifactory
9 7 (6.31%) ScriptRunner
10 6 (5.41%) Android Studio
10 6 (5.41%) Cucumber
11 5 (4.50%) JUnit
11 5 (4.50%) webpack
12 4 (3.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (3.60%) CircleCI
13 3 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 44 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.52%) Finance
3 22 (19.82%) Banking
4 12 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.50%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.60%) Front Office
7 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.70%) Back Office
9 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Advertising
10 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (29.73%) Developer
2 14 (12.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (10.81%) Java Developer
4 11 (9.91%) Architect
5 10 (9.01%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) Android Developer
7 6 (5.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) JIRA Specialist
7 6 (5.41%) Senior
8 5 (4.50%) Angular Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Lead
9 4 (3.60%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.70%) AWS Architect
10 3 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.70%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.12%) REST
2 12 (10.81%) React
3 11 (9.91%) JSON
4 10 (9.01%) AngularJS
4 10 (9.01%) RESTful
4 10 (9.01%) Spring Boot
5 9 (8.11%) LDAP
5 9 (8.11%) Node.js
6 8 (7.21%) .NET
6 8 (7.21%) OpenID
7 7 (6.31%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.41%) CSS
8 6 (5.41%) Spring
9 5 (4.50%) HTML
10 4 (3.60%) boto
10 4 (3.60%) Vue
10 4 (3.60%) XML
11 3 (2.70%) Android Jetpack
11 3 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.31%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.70%) Derivative
4 3 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.80%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.90%) Animation
6 1 (0.90%) Blog
6 1 (0.90%) Contactless
6 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.90%) Replication
6 1 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (28.83%) Linux
2 11 (9.91%) Unix
3 9 (8.11%) Android
4 8 (7.21%) Windows
5 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (56.76%) Agile
2 62 (55.86%) DevOps
3 60 (54.05%) CI/CD
4 38 (34.23%) Scrum
5 35 (31.53%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (22.52%) Test Automation
7 24 (21.62%) Microservices
8 23 (20.72%) Software Engineering
9 16 (14.41%) Containerisation
10 14 (12.61%) SDLC
11 13 (11.71%) Migration
12 12 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (10.81%) TDD
13 11 (9.91%) Configuration Management
13 11 (9.91%) DevSecOps
13 11 (9.91%) Kanban
14 10 (9.01%) BDD
14 10 (9.01%) Secure Coding
15 9 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (8.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.23%) Java
1 38 (34.23%) Python
2 29 (26.13%) SQL
3 13 (11.71%) Bash
4 11 (9.91%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.01%) PowerShell
6 9 (8.11%) C#
7 8 (7.21%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.50%) C++
9 4 (3.60%) Perl
9 4 (3.60%) Ruby
10 3 (2.70%) HiveQL
10 3 (2.70%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.70%) PHP
10 3 (2.70%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.70%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.80%) Groovy
11 2 (1.80%) Jython
11 2 (1.80%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 45 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 35 (31.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.91%) Degree
4 8 (7.21%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.50%) OCA
7 5 (4.50%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (4.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (3.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.70%) MCSA
9 3 (2.70%) MCSE
9 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.80%) CCNP
10 2 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.80%) RHCA
10 2 (1.80%) RHCE
11 1 (0.90%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.90%) MiFID
4 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (36.94%) Docker
2 7 (6.31%) Squid
3 4 (3.60%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.70%) HDFS
4 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 27 (24.32%) Terraform
3 24 (21.62%) Ansible
4 15 (13.51%) Grafana
5 11 (9.91%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.01%) Puppet
7 7 (6.31%) Consul
7 7 (6.31%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.31%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.31%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.70%) Podman
8 3 (2.70%) PowerCLI
8 3 (2.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.80%) Istio
9 2 (1.80%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.90%) Ambari
10 1 (0.90%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.90%) Kibana
10 1 (0.90%) logstash
10 1 (0.90%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (27.93%) Atlassian
2 15 (13.51%) Oracle
3 9 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.21%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.31%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.41%) Checkmarx
6 6 (5.41%) Veracode
6 6 (5.41%) VMware
7 4 (3.60%) Informatica
7 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.60%) Splunk
7 4 (3.60%) Thales
8 3 (2.70%) Coverity
8 3 (2.70%) IBM
8 3 (2.70%) jBASE
8 3 (2.70%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.70%) Talend
8 3 (2.70%) Temenos
8 3 (2.70%) UiPath
8 3 (2.70%) Veeam