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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 353 366
Rank change year-on-year -167 +13 -19
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 103 150 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.57% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.98% 3.98% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 118 120
10th Percentile £363 £312 £399
25th Percentile £406 £413 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £531 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% -18.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £584 £647 £700
90th Percentile £725 £813 £769
UK median daily rate £463 £506 £625
% change year-on-year -8.64% -19.00% +11.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 24
10th Percentile - £51.78 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.37 £53.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £58.74 £56.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -19.46% +21.74%
75th Percentile £63.10 £61.91 -
90th Percentile - £66.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £58.74 £57.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.71% -17.50% +21.74%

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 5,189 3,765 4,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.75% 14.18% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,336 2,566 3,060
10th Percentile £350 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £637
90th Percentile £688 £707 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 81 234
10th Percentile £28.53 £28.41 £33.02
25th Percentile £58.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -98 48 £550 -12.00% 16
Midlands -55 20 £450 +28.94% 3
West Midlands -45 18 £450 -2.17% 2
South East -55 13 £350 -42.20% 14
North of England -80 12 £402 +16.52% 13
Yorkshire -44 9 £400 - 5
South West -42 8 £513 -10.87% 7
North West -55 3 £464 +34.35% 6
East Midlands -25 2 - - 1
East of England -29 1 - - 1
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 (43.69%) Confluence
2 8 (7.77%) nginx
3 4 (3.88%) IIS
4 3 (2.91%) Apache
4 3 (2.91%) SAS
5 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.94%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.97%) Camunda
6 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.78%) AWS
2 36 (34.95%) GitHub
3 29 (28.16%) Amazon S3
4 27 (26.21%) AWS Lambda
4 27 (26.21%) Serverless
5 25 (24.27%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (23.30%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (21.36%) Azure
8 21 (20.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 20 (19.42%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (17.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (16.50%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (16.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (15.53%) AWS CodePipeline
13 13 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (6.80%) GCP
14 7 (6.80%) Route 53
15 6 (5.83%) Power Platform
16 5 (4.85%) Azure AKS
17 3 (2.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.74%) Firewall
2 8 (7.77%) DNS
3 7 (6.80%) OpenVPN
3 7 (6.80%) TCP/IP
3 7 (6.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.94%) Internet
4 2 (1.94%) Intranet
4 2 (1.94%) WAN
5 1 (0.97%) BGP
5 1 (0.97%) DHCP
5 1 (0.97%) DMVPN
5 1 (0.97%) IPsec
5 1 (0.97%) LAN
5 1 (0.97%) MPLS
5 1 (0.97%) NAS
5 1 (0.97%) OSPF
5 1 (0.97%) SAN
5 1 (0.97%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.85%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.88%) Power BI
4 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.91%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.91%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.91%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.91%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.91%) Impala
5 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.91%) MySQL
5 3 (2.91%) Pentaho
6 2 (1.94%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.94%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.94%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 56 (54.37%) JIRA
2 47 (45.63%) Jenkins
3 32 (31.07%) Git
3 32 (31.07%) GitLab
4 13 (12.62%) TeamCity
5 11 (10.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (10.68%) SonarQube
6 9 (8.74%) Selenium
7 6 (5.83%) Cucumber
7 6 (5.83%) Maven
8 5 (4.85%) Artifactory
8 5 (4.85%) REST Assured
8 5 (4.85%) WebDriver
9 4 (3.88%) Gradle
10 3 (2.91%) MSBuild
10 3 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.91%) SpecFlow
10 3 (2.91%) webpack
11 2 (1.94%) Postman
11 2 (1.94%) TestNG
General
1 51 (49.51%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.53%) Banking
3 14 (13.59%) Finance
4 13 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (6.80%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.85%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.94%) Front Office
9 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Back Office
10 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (24.27%) Developer
2 12 (11.65%) Senior
3 11 (10.68%) Scrum Master
4 10 (9.71%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.74%) Architect
5 9 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Release Manager
8 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.88%) Automation Tester
9 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) JIRA Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) React Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.62%) AWS CDK
2 10 (9.71%) HTML
2 10 (9.71%) React
3 9 (8.74%) LDAP
4 7 (6.80%) .NET
4 7 (6.80%) ASP.NET
4 7 (6.80%) OpenID
4 7 (6.80%) REST
4 7 (6.80%) RESTful
5 5 (4.85%) JWT
5 5 (4.85%) Node.js
5 5 (4.85%) Spring
6 4 (3.88%) CSS
6 4 (3.88%) Gherkin
6 4 (3.88%) XML
7 3 (2.91%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (2.91%) Dapper ORM
7 3 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.39%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.74%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.97%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.97%) Replication
5 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.39%) Linux
2 10 (9.71%) Unix
3 8 (7.77%) Windows
4 2 (1.94%) AIX
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.97%) Android
5 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (66.02%) Agile
1 68 (66.02%) CI/CD
2 67 (65.05%) DevOps
3 37 (35.92%) Test Automation
4 33 (32.04%) Scrum
5 26 (25.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (23.30%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (20.39%) Containerisation
7 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (18.45%) Software Engineering
10 16 (15.53%) DevSecOps
10 16 (15.53%) ITIL
11 14 (13.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 13 (12.62%) Problem Management
13 12 (11.65%) Backlog Refinement
13 12 (11.65%) BDD
13 12 (11.65%) Microservices
13 12 (11.65%) Roadmaps
13 12 (11.65%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.01%) Python
2 30 (29.13%) Java
3 28 (27.18%) SQL
4 15 (14.56%) JavaScript
5 14 (13.59%) C#
6 10 (9.71%) Bash
7 8 (7.77%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.80%) Kotlin
9 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.85%) PL/SQL
11 4 (3.88%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.91%) Bicep
12 3 (2.91%) C++
12 3 (2.91%) HiveQL
13 2 (1.94%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.94%) SOQL
14 1 (0.97%) Korn
14 1 (0.97%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (37.86%) Security Cleared
2 36 (34.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.68%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (8.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (7.77%) Degree
6 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.91%) CCNP
7 3 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.94%) OCA
8 2 (1.94%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.94%) RHCA
8 2 (1.94%) RHCE
9 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.97%) PMP
9 1 (0.97%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.91%) WCAG
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.97%) PMO
4 1 (0.97%) SEPA
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (26.21%) Docker
2 8 (7.77%) Squid
3 3 (2.91%) HDFS
4 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.97%) zsh
Systems Management
1 29 (28.16%) Terraform
2 22 (21.36%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.53%) Ansible
4 12 (11.65%) Grafana
5 8 (7.77%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.80%) Consul
6 7 (6.80%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.80%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.85%) Puppet
8 4 (3.88%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.94%) Istio
10 1 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.97%) Kibana
10 1 (0.97%) logstash
10 1 (0.97%) OPNET
10 1 (0.97%) Packer
10 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (16.50%) Atlassian
2 12 (11.65%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.77%) Dynatrace
4 7 (6.80%) Oracle
4 7 (6.80%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.83%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.85%) VMware
7 3 (2.91%) Denodo
7 3 (2.91%) Informatica
7 3 (2.91%) Talend
8 2 (1.94%) Cisco
8 2 (1.94%) Google
8 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.94%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.94%) Splunk
9 1 (0.97%) EMC
9 1 (0.97%) New Relic
9 1 (0.97%) Sybase
9 1 (0.97%) Thales
9 1 (0.97%) Veracode