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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 326 387
Rank change year-on-year -145 +61 -14
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 110 157 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.64% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.19% 4.71% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 114 100
10th Percentile £400 £352 £390
25th Percentile £413 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £553
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -1.36% -3.91%
75th Percentile £669 £655 £700
90th Percentile £771 £793 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £532 £553
% change year-on-year -5.93% -3.80% -3.07%
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% +1.77%
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% +5.50%

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 5,021 3,332 4,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.72% 13.61% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,240 2,890
10th Percentile £340 £340 £355
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.24% -3.92%
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 206 62 165
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.54 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.05 £46.75
Median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +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 19 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 19 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 -61 60 £564 -9.80% 14
Midlands -65 17 £450 -3.74% 2
South East -66 14 £425 -15.00% 10
West Midlands -59 13 £450 -3.95% 1
South West -39 12 £553 -3.91% 11
East Midlands -31 4 £525 +33.59% 1
North of England -76 4 £600 +49.25% 17
North West -43 3 £600 +49.25% 6
Yorkshire -57 1 - - 8
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 48 (43.64%) Confluence
2 14 (12.73%) nginx
3 6 (5.45%) Apache
4 4 (3.64%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.73%) SAS
6 2 (1.82%) IIS
7 1 (0.91%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (40.91%) AWS
2 34 (30.91%) GitHub
3 24 (21.82%) Serverless
4 23 (20.91%) Amazon S3
4 23 (20.91%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (19.09%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (19.09%) Azure
6 18 (16.36%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (14.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (11.82%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 11 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (6.36%) GCP
11 7 (6.36%) Route 53
12 6 (5.45%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.55%) OpenShift
14 4 (3.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.00%) Firewall
2 8 (7.27%) VPN
3 7 (6.36%) DNS
3 7 (6.36%) OpenVPN
3 7 (6.36%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.91%) DSL
4 1 (0.91%) HTTP
4 1 (0.91%) LAN
4 1 (0.91%) NAS
4 1 (0.91%) SAN
4 1 (0.91%) SSL
4 1 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.36%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (5.45%) MySQL
4 4 (3.64%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.64%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.64%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.64%) Power BI
5 3 (2.73%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.73%) Impala
5 3 (2.73%) Pentaho
5 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.82%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.82%) DB2
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (51.82%) JIRA
2 49 (44.55%) Jenkins
3 48 (43.64%) Git
4 29 (26.36%) GitLab
5 18 (16.36%) SonarQube
6 10 (9.09%) Maven
7 7 (6.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (5.45%) Gradle
8 6 (5.45%) ScriptRunner
8 6 (5.45%) Selenium
8 6 (5.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (4.55%) Android Studio
9 5 (4.55%) TeamCity
10 4 (3.64%) Artifactory
10 4 (3.64%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.64%) Snyk
11 3 (2.73%) JUnit
11 3 (2.73%) Postman
11 3 (2.73%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.73%) webpack
General
1 48 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.09%) Banking
3 19 (17.27%) Finance
4 12 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.36%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.55%) Front Office
8 4 (3.64%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Back Office
10 1 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (30.91%) Developer
2 14 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) Architect
3 11 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (10.00%) Senior
4 10 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 6 (5.45%) Android Developer
5 6 (5.45%) JIRA Specialist
6 5 (4.55%) JIRA Engineer
6 5 (4.55%) Lead
6 5 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (4.55%) React Developer
6 5 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 5 (4.55%) Technical Architect
7 4 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (3.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 4 (3.64%) Scrum Master
7 4 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.73%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.82%) React
2 11 (10.00%) REST
3 10 (9.09%) RESTful
4 9 (8.18%) LDAP
4 9 (8.18%) Node.js
5 8 (7.27%) AngularJS
5 8 (7.27%) Spring Boot
6 7 (6.36%) AWS CDK
6 7 (6.36%) CSS
6 7 (6.36%) OpenID
6 7 (6.36%) Spring
7 6 (5.45%) .NET
7 6 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (5.45%) HTML
8 5 (4.55%) JSON
9 4 (3.64%) boto
10 3 (2.73%) ADO
10 3 (2.73%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (2.73%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.45%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.73%) Derivative
5 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.82%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (24.55%) Linux
2 12 (10.91%) Unix
3 10 (9.09%) Windows
4 6 (5.45%) Android
5 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (65.45%) Agile
2 68 (61.82%) DevOps
3 63 (57.27%) CI/CD
4 37 (33.64%) Scrum
5 28 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (22.73%) Test Automation
7 22 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 20 (18.18%) Microservices
9 19 (17.27%) Containerisation
10 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (12.73%) Migration
11 14 (12.73%) Service Management
12 12 (10.91%) DevSecOps
13 11 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 11 (10.00%) SDLC
13 11 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.73%) Python
2 32 (29.09%) Java
3 27 (24.55%) SQL
4 15 (13.64%) Bash
5 10 (9.09%) C#
6 9 (8.18%) JavaScript
6 9 (8.18%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.64%) C++
8 4 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.73%) HiveQL
9 3 (2.73%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.82%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.82%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.82%) Perl
10 2 (1.82%) Ruby
11 1 (0.91%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.91%) R
11 1 (0.91%) Scala
11 1 (0.91%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (46.36%) Security Cleared
2 41 (37.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.27%) Degree
4 6 (5.45%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.64%) OCA
6 4 (3.64%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (3.64%) SAFe Agilist
6 4 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.82%) CCNP
8 2 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.82%) MCSA
8 2 (1.82%) MCSE
8 2 (1.82%) RHCA
8 2 (1.82%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) MiFID
4 1 (0.91%) PMO
4 1 (0.91%) SLA
4 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (32.73%) Docker
2 8 (7.27%) Squid
3 3 (2.73%) HDFS
3 3 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.91%) zsh
Systems Management
1 35 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 28 (25.45%) Terraform
3 22 (20.00%) Ansible
4 13 (11.82%) Grafana
5 9 (8.18%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.27%) Puppet
7 7 (6.36%) Consul
7 7 (6.36%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.36%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.64%) Istio
8 4 (3.64%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (1.82%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.82%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.91%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.91%) Kibana
11 1 (0.91%) logstash
11 1 (0.91%) Podman
Vendors
1 32 (29.09%) Atlassian
2 11 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) Oracle
3 8 (7.27%) Dynatrace
4 7 (6.36%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.55%) VMware
6 4 (3.64%) Informatica
6 4 (3.64%) Thales
7 3 (2.73%) Checkmarx
7 3 (2.73%) Coverity
7 3 (2.73%) Denodo
7 3 (2.73%) jBASE
7 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.73%) Talend
7 3 (2.73%) Temenos
7 3 (2.73%) Veracode
8 2 (1.82%) Google
8 2 (1.82%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.82%) Veeam
9 1 (0.91%) Tradeweb