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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 337 326
Rank change year-on-year -84 -11 -37
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 124 181 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.63% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.64% 4.73% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 125 173
10th Percentile £337 £450 £463
25th Percentile £400 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £763 £688
90th Percentile £750 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £599 £588
% change year-on-year -12.32% +1.91% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 19
10th Percentile - £55.11 £53.85
25th Percentile - £60.81 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% -1.21%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £70.95
90th Percentile - £71.13 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -8.00% -7.08% +6.27%

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 4,689 3,829 4,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.95% 13.30% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,248 2,410 3,284
10th Percentile £336 £338 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 77 204
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.98
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £75.10 £89.63
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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 -51 59 £600 -11.11% 5
South West -13 15 £588 -13.76% 6
Midlands -28 15 £575 +20.55% 3
South East -39 14 £408 -18.50% 8
North of England -34 13 £447 -16.91% 8
West Midlands -26 11 £575 +20.55% 1
North West -27 11 £447 -16.91% 6
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 50 (40.32%) Confluence
2 7 (5.65%) nginx
3 5 (4.03%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.23%) Apache
5 3 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.42%) JBoss
5 3 (2.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.61%) Mule
7 1 (0.81%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.81%) IIS
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.61%) Magento
2 2 (1.61%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 48 (38.71%) AWS
2 43 (34.68%) GitHub
3 32 (25.81%) Azure
4 16 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.10%) Serverless
6 13 (10.48%) OpenShift
7 12 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (8.06%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.06%) GCP
10 8 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.45%) Datadog
10 8 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.65%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (4.03%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.03%) Firewall
2 2 (1.61%) SSL
3 1 (0.81%) BGP
3 1 (0.81%) DNS
3 1 (0.81%) DSL
3 1 (0.81%) HTTP
3 1 (0.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.81%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.81%) OSPF
3 1 (0.81%) Skype
3 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.81%) SSH
3 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.81%) VLAN
3 1 (0.81%) VoIP
3 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.87%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.26%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.65%) MySQL
5 6 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.03%) DB2
6 5 (4.03%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.23%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.23%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.42%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.42%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.61%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.61%) Tableau
10 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.81%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (57.26%) Git
2 67 (54.03%) JIRA
3 63 (50.81%) Jenkins
4 24 (19.35%) Selenium
5 22 (17.74%) GitLab
6 21 (16.94%) SonarQube
7 15 (12.10%) Cucumber
7 15 (12.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (11.29%) Maven
9 13 (10.48%) Postman
10 11 (8.87%) JUnit
10 11 (8.87%) Snyk
11 10 (8.06%) Gradle
12 9 (7.26%) Artifactory
13 6 (4.84%) CircleCI
13 6 (4.84%) REST Assured
13 6 (4.84%) ScriptRunner
13 6 (4.84%) TeamCity
13 6 (4.84%) webpack
14 5 (4.03%) Cypress.io
General
1 38 (30.65%) Finance
2 35 (28.23%) Social Skills
3 27 (21.77%) Banking
4 15 (12.10%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.84%) Front Office
6 6 (4.84%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.23%) Back Office
8 3 (2.42%) Automotive
9 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (32.26%) Developer
2 22 (17.74%) Java Developer
3 17 (13.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (5.65%) Angular Developer
4 7 (5.65%) Senior
5 6 (4.84%) Architect
5 6 (4.84%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 6 (4.84%) JIRA Specialist
5 6 (4.84%) Test Automation Engineer
5 6 (4.84%) Test Engineer
5 6 (4.84%) Tester
6 5 (4.03%) Administrator
6 5 (4.03%) JIRA Administrator
6 5 (4.03%) Lead
6 5 (4.03%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (3.23%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.23%) Selenium Automation Tester
7 4 (3.23%) Selenium Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (25.81%) REST
2 20 (16.13%) Spring Boot
3 18 (14.52%) React
4 15 (12.10%) AngularJS
4 15 (12.10%) RESTful
5 14 (11.29%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (10.48%) CSS
6 13 (10.48%) JSON
7 12 (9.68%) .NET
7 12 (9.68%) HTML
7 12 (9.68%) Node.js
8 9 (7.26%) Spring
9 5 (4.03%) Kafka
9 5 (4.03%) SOAP
9 5 (4.03%) Swagger
9 5 (4.03%) Web Services
9 5 (4.03%) YAML
10 4 (3.23%) RAML
10 4 (3.23%) Vue
10 4 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.84%) Private Cloud
2 5 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.61%) Replication
4 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.81%) Animation
5 1 (0.81%) Blog
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.81%) Video on Demand
5 1 (0.81%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (0.81%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (24.19%) Linux
2 16 (12.90%) Windows
3 11 (8.87%) Unix
4 6 (4.84%) Android
5 5 (4.03%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (54.84%) Agile
2 65 (52.42%) CI/CD
3 62 (50.00%) DevOps
4 43 (34.68%) Test Automation
5 39 (31.45%) Scrum
6 36 (29.03%) Microservices
7 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (13.71%) TDD
9 16 (12.90%) SDLC
10 15 (12.10%) Containerisation
11 14 (11.29%) BDD
11 14 (11.29%) Kanban
11 14 (11.29%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.48%) DevSecOps
12 13 (10.48%) Task Automation
13 12 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (9.68%) Unit Testing
13 12 (9.68%) Workflow
14 11 (8.87%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (8.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (39.52%) Java
2 37 (29.84%) Python
2 37 (29.84%) SQL
3 18 (14.52%) JavaScript
4 14 (11.29%) C#
4 14 (11.29%) PowerShell
5 12 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.87%) Bash
7 6 (4.84%) Perl
8 5 (4.03%) VB.NET
9 4 (3.23%) C++
9 4 (3.23%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.23%) PHP
9 4 (3.23%) Ruby
10 2 (1.61%) Go
10 2 (1.61%) Groovy
10 2 (1.61%) Jython
10 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.81%) C
11 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 45 (36.29%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.87%) Degree
4 8 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.42%) MCSA
6 3 (2.42%) MCSE
6 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.42%) OCA
6 3 (2.42%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.81%) CCNP
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) QA
2 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.61%) ITGC
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (35.48%) Docker
2 5 (4.03%) Firmware
3 4 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (31.45%) Kubernetes
2 21 (16.94%) Ansible
2 21 (16.94%) Terraform
3 13 (10.48%) Puppet
4 9 (7.26%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.65%) Grafana
5 7 (5.65%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.03%) Podman
6 5 (4.03%) SCCM
7 3 (2.42%) Ambari
7 3 (2.42%) PowerCLI
7 3 (2.42%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.61%) Istio
8 2 (1.61%) Kibana
8 2 (1.61%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.81%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.81%) Packer
9 1 (0.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 30 (24.19%) Atlassian
2 16 (12.90%) Oracle
3 13 (10.48%) Splunk
4 9 (7.26%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.45%) Checkmarx
5 8 (6.45%) Veracode
6 7 (5.65%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.84%) Dynatrace
8 5 (4.03%) UiPath
9 4 (3.23%) VMware
10 3 (2.42%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.42%) IBM
10 3 (2.42%) Okta
10 3 (2.42%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.42%) Veeam
11 2 (1.61%) Google
11 2 (1.61%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.81%) Apple
12 1 (0.81%) Cisco