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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 384 364
Rank change year-on-year -138 -20 -59
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 118 133 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.24% 3.15% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 94 108
10th Percentile £297 £270 £450
25th Percentile £416 £359 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £519 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% -20.19% +8.33%
75th Percentile £692 £638 £781
90th Percentile £738 £746 £810
UK median daily rate £456 £500 £650
% change year-on-year -8.80% -23.08% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 15
10th Percentile £59.61 £53.00 £58.75
25th Percentile - £53.75 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile - £63.75 -
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -17.86% +12.00%

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 5,257 4,217 4,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 15.10% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 2,924 2,737
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £695 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 97 166
10th Percentile £24.08 £37.90 £40.02
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.00 £54.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £76.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -88 60 £650 +4.00% 68
North of England -67 21 £438 +20.66% 27
West Midlands -40 18 £456 -20.70% 8
Midlands -42 18 £456 +12.87% 11
Yorkshire -19 16 £456 - 11
South East -57 14 £298 -43.24% 21
North West -56 5 £402 +10.74% 10
South West -45 2 £644 +17.05% 11
East of England - 1 - - 4
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 49 (41.53%) Confluence
2 5 (4.24%) Apache
2 5 (4.24%) nginx
3 4 (3.39%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.69%) IIS
5 2 (1.69%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.85%) Camunda
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Trello
2 1 (0.85%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 53 (44.92%) AWS
2 47 (39.83%) GitHub
3 35 (29.66%) Azure
4 24 (20.34%) Amazon S3
4 24 (20.34%) GCP
4 24 (20.34%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (17.80%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (17.80%) Serverless
6 20 (16.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 20 (16.95%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.78%) AWS CodePipeline
10 8 (6.78%) OpenShift
10 8 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (5.08%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (5.08%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (5.08%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) DNS
2 5 (4.24%) DHCP
2 5 (4.24%) Firewall
3 2 (1.69%) Internet
3 2 (1.69%) Intranet
3 2 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.69%) VLAN
3 2 (1.69%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) BGP
4 1 (0.85%) DMVPN
4 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.85%) IPsec
4 1 (0.85%) MPLS
4 1 (0.85%) OSPF
4 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.85%) SSH
4 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (9.32%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.47%) Redis
4 8 (6.78%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.93%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (5.08%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.24%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.54%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.69%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.85%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 66 (55.93%) JIRA
2 53 (44.92%) Jenkins
3 48 (40.68%) Git
4 32 (27.12%) GitLab
5 28 (23.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (7.63%) TeamCity
7 8 (6.78%) Selenium
8 6 (5.08%) Artifactory
8 6 (5.08%) REST Assured
8 6 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.39%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.39%) Cypress.io
9 4 (3.39%) Gradle
9 4 (3.39%) Maven
9 4 (3.39%) WebDriver
9 4 (3.39%) webpack
9 4 (3.39%) Zephyr
10 3 (2.54%) JUnit
10 3 (2.54%) MSBuild
10 3 (2.54%) Postman
General
1 57 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 35 (29.66%) Finance
3 29 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (17.80%) Banking
5 7 (5.93%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.08%) Back Office
6 6 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Front Office
8 2 (1.69%) Local Government
8 2 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (25.42%) Developer
2 18 (15.25%) Senior
3 13 (11.02%) Java Developer
4 12 (10.17%) JIRA Engineer
5 10 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (8.47%) Lead
6 8 (6.78%) Data Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Scrum Master
6 8 (6.78%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Junior
9 5 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.24%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.27%) Terraform
2 23 (19.49%) REST
3 18 (15.25%) HTML
4 17 (14.41%) Spring
5 12 (10.17%) .NET
5 12 (10.17%) Kafka
6 11 (9.32%) React
6 11 (9.32%) RESTful
7 10 (8.47%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.93%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (5.93%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.93%) AWS CDK
8 7 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (5.08%) JWT
10 5 (4.24%) .NET Framework
10 5 (4.24%) CSS
10 5 (4.24%) Jakarta EE
10 5 (4.24%) JDBC
10 5 (4.24%) JMS
11 4 (3.39%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.25%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.02%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.24%) Spread Betting
5 4 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.69%) PropTech
8 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.85%) PKI
8 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Replication
8 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.58%) Linux
2 14 (11.86%) Windows
3 9 (7.63%) Unix
4 5 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.24%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.69%) AIX
5 2 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (72.88%) CI/CD
2 71 (60.17%) Agile
3 62 (52.54%) DevOps
4 37 (31.36%) Test Automation
5 35 (29.66%) Scrum
6 30 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (22.03%) Microservices
9 24 (20.34%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (17.80%) AI
10 21 (17.80%) SDLC
11 20 (16.95%) Containerisation
12 19 (16.10%) ITIL
12 19 (16.10%) Migration
13 17 (14.41%) API Development
13 17 (14.41%) DevSecOps
14 16 (13.56%) Event-Driven
15 15 (12.71%) Service Management
16 14 (11.86%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 47 (39.83%) Java
2 42 (35.59%) Python
3 40 (33.90%) SQL
4 27 (22.88%) JavaScript
5 18 (15.25%) Kotlin
6 15 (12.71%) Bash
7 14 (11.86%) C#
7 14 (11.86%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.93%) PL/SQL
9 6 (5.08%) Go
9 6 (5.08%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.39%) Groovy
10 4 (3.39%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.54%) Bicep
11 3 (2.54%) Perl
12 2 (1.69%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.85%) C++
13 1 (0.85%) Korn
13 1 (0.85%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 27 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.78%) SAFe Agilist
5 6 (5.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.39%) Degree
7 3 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.85%) CCDP
9 1 (0.85%) CCIE
9 1 (0.85%) CCNP
9 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.85%) PMP
9 1 (0.85%) VCDX
9 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.25%) QA
2 5 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.54%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.85%) SEPA
4 1 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (35.59%) Docker
2 5 (4.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.24%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) Squid
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (30.51%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.41%) Ansible
3 14 (11.86%) Grafana
4 12 (10.17%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.24%) Packer
5 5 (4.24%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.54%) Kibana
7 2 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.85%) Istio
8 1 (0.85%) OPNET
8 1 (0.85%) Podman
8 1 (0.85%) Puppet
8 1 (0.85%) WMI
Vendors
1 13 (11.02%) Atlassian
1 13 (11.02%) Splunk
2 11 (9.32%) Oracle
3 9 (7.63%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.78%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.93%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.93%) VMware
6 6 (5.08%) Google
7 5 (4.24%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.24%) Tanium
8 2 (1.69%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.69%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.85%) BMC
9 1 (0.85%) Cisco
9 1 (0.85%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) New Relic
9 1 (0.85%) Sybase
9 1 (0.85%) Veracode
9 1 (0.85%) Zscaler