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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 332 389
Rank change year-on-year -154 +57 -25
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 101 147 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.60% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.02% 4.41% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 105 103
10th Percentile £363 £340 £390
25th Percentile £410 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £584 £660 £700
90th Percentile £750 £813 £709
UK median daily rate £475 £540 £564
% change year-on-year -12.04% -4.21% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 18
10th Percentile - £49.85 £45.88
25th Percentile - £52.50 £55.31
Median hourly rate - £60.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +2.98% -2.08%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - £66.25 £75.75
UK median hourly rate - £60.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +5.22% -

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 5,008 3,335 4,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.30% 13.68% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,234 2,923
10th Percentile £342 £344 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £691 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 66 191
10th Percentile £37.15 £27.72 £33.00
25th Percentile £59.19 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.48 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +5.69%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -87 45 £550 -17.76% 12
Midlands -66 20 £459 -0.22% 1
South East -56 17 £425 -15.00% 14
West Midlands -51 16 £450 -2.17% 1
South West -46 10 £553 -3.91% 13
North of England -55 8 £407 +5.99% 15
Yorkshire -48 5 £400 - 9
East Midlands -32 4 £525 +68.81%
North West -39 3 £575 +49.74% 5
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 46 (45.54%) Confluence
2 8 (7.92%) nginx
3 5 (4.95%) Apache
4 3 (2.97%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.97%) SAS
5 2 (1.98%) IIS
5 2 (1.98%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.99%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 43 (42.57%) AWS
2 32 (31.68%) GitHub
3 26 (25.74%) Amazon S3
4 25 (24.75%) Serverless
5 24 (23.76%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (22.77%) Azure
7 22 (21.78%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (20.79%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (17.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (14.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (14.85%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (14.85%) AWS CodePipeline
12 13 (12.87%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (8.91%) GCP
15 7 (6.93%) Azure AKS
15 7 (6.93%) Route 53
16 4 (3.96%) OpenShift
16 4 (3.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) Firewall
2 8 (7.92%) VPN
3 7 (6.93%) DNS
3 7 (6.93%) OpenVPN
3 7 (6.93%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.99%) DSL
4 1 (0.99%) HTTP
4 1 (0.99%) LAN
4 1 (0.99%) NAS
4 1 (0.99%) SAN
4 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.93%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.95%) MySQL
5 4 (3.96%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.96%) Power BI
6 3 (2.97%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.97%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.97%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.97%) Impala
6 3 (2.97%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.97%) Pentaho
6 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.98%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.98%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.99%) Metadata
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 51 (50.50%) JIRA
2 46 (45.54%) Jenkins
3 38 (37.62%) Git
4 25 (24.75%) GitLab
5 17 (16.83%) SonarQube
6 9 (8.91%) Maven
7 7 (6.93%) TeamCity
8 6 (5.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (5.94%) Selenium
9 5 (4.95%) Gradle
10 4 (3.96%) Artifactory
10 4 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.97%) Android Studio
11 3 (2.97%) JUnit
11 3 (2.97%) Snyk
11 3 (2.97%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.97%) Subversion
11 3 (2.97%) WebDriver
11 3 (2.97%) webpack
12 2 (1.98%) MSTest
General
1 49 (48.51%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.84%) Banking
3 13 (12.87%) Finance
4 10 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.93%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.97%) Front Office
8 3 (2.97%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (30.69%) Developer
2 12 (11.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (11.88%) Senior
3 11 (10.89%) Architect
3 11 (10.89%) Java Developer
4 10 (9.90%) Software Engineer
5 8 (7.92%) Scrum Master
6 5 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (4.95%) Lead
6 5 (4.95%) React Developer
6 5 (4.95%) Senior Developer
6 5 (4.95%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (4.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Technical Architect
7 4 (3.96%) Android Developer
7 4 (3.96%) JIRA Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.97%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.90%) React
2 9 (8.91%) AWS CDK
2 9 (8.91%) HTML
2 9 (8.91%) LDAP
2 9 (8.91%) RESTful
3 8 (7.92%) Spring
4 7 (6.93%) Node.js
4 7 (6.93%) OpenID
4 7 (6.93%) REST
5 6 (5.94%) CSS
5 6 (5.94%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.95%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.96%) .NET
7 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.96%) boto
7 4 (3.96%) JSON
8 3 (2.97%) ADO
8 3 (2.97%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.97%) Spring MVC
8 3 (2.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.89%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.96%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.97%) Derivative
5 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.99%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.80%) Linux
2 10 (9.90%) Windows
3 7 (6.93%) Unix
4 4 (3.96%) Android
5 3 (2.97%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.98%) AIX
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (68.32%) Agile
1 69 (68.32%) CI/CD
2 65 (64.36%) DevOps
3 29 (28.71%) Scrum
3 29 (28.71%) Test Automation
4 25 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (22.77%) Containerisation
5 23 (22.77%) Software Engineering
6 21 (20.79%) Microservices
7 20 (19.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (18.81%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (14.85%) DevSecOps
11 14 (13.86%) Migration
11 14 (13.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 14 (13.86%) Service Management
12 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (11.88%) ITIL
13 11 (10.89%) OOP
13 11 (10.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 28 (27.72%) Java
2 27 (26.73%) Python
3 24 (23.76%) SQL
4 11 (10.89%) C#
4 11 (10.89%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.92%) Bash
6 6 (5.94%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.94%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.96%) C++
7 4 (3.96%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.96%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.97%) HiveQL
8 3 (2.97%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.98%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.98%) Bicep
9 2 (1.98%) SOQL
10 1 (0.99%) Go
10 1 (0.99%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (44.55%) Security Cleared
2 38 (37.62%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) SAFe Agilist
4 7 (6.93%) Degree
5 6 (5.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.96%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.96%) OCA
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (3.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.97%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.98%) CCNP
8 2 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.98%) MCSA
8 2 (1.98%) MCSE
8 2 (1.98%) RHCA
8 2 (1.98%) RHCE
9 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) GDPR
3 1 (0.99%) MiFID
3 1 (0.99%) PMO
3 1 (0.99%) SLA
3 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (31.68%) Docker
2 8 (7.92%) Squid
3 3 (2.97%) HDFS
3 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.99%) zsh
Systems Management
1 27 (26.73%) Kubernetes
2 25 (24.75%) Terraform
3 22 (21.78%) Ansible
4 13 (12.87%) Grafana
5 9 (8.91%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.92%) Puppet
7 7 (6.93%) Consul
7 7 (6.93%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.93%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.96%) Istio
8 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (1.98%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.98%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.99%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.99%) Kibana
11 1 (0.99%) logstash
11 1 (0.99%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (24.75%) Atlassian
2 11 (10.89%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.92%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.92%) Oracle
4 7 (6.93%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.95%) VMware
6 4 (3.96%) Thales
7 3 (2.97%) Coverity
7 3 (2.97%) Denodo
7 3 (2.97%) Google
7 3 (2.97%) Informatica
7 3 (2.97%) jBASE
7 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.97%) Talend
7 3 (2.97%) Temenos
8 2 (1.98%) Checkmarx
8 2 (1.98%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.98%) Veeam
8 2 (1.98%) Veracode
9 1 (0.99%) Zscaler