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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 382 376
Rank change year-on-year -142 -6 -74
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 113 136 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.16% 3.26% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 100 108
10th Percentile £294 £270 £450
25th Percentile £411 £373 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £519 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% -20.19% +8.33%
75th Percentile £696 £638 £770
90th Percentile £755 £775 £810
UK median daily rate £474 £500 £638
% change year-on-year -5.20% -21.57% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £59.61 £53.00 £59.00
25th Percentile - £53.75 -
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% +14.29%

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 5,233 4,174 4,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.34% 15.05% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,895 2,769
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £631
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 96 164
10th Percentile £24.10 £38.13 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £76.25 £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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -90 59 £663 +6.00% 47
North of England -68 19 £441 +17.15% 26
West Midlands -38 17 £456 -20.70% 7
Midlands -44 17 £456 +12.87% 8
Yorkshire - 14 £474 - 12
South East -59 13 £298 -43.24% 12
North West -69 5 £402 +6.91% 10
South West -44 2 £644 +17.05% 14
East of England - 1 - - 3
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 (40.71%) Confluence
2 5 (4.42%) Apache
2 5 (4.42%) nginx
3 4 (3.54%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.65%) IIS
5 2 (1.77%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.88%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Trello
2 1 (0.88%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 50 (44.25%) AWS
2 45 (39.82%) GitHub
3 30 (26.55%) Azure
4 24 (21.24%) Amazon S3
4 24 (21.24%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (18.58%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (18.58%) GCP
5 21 (18.58%) Serverless
6 20 (17.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 20 (17.70%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (14.16%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (8.85%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (7.08%) AWS CodePipeline
10 8 (7.08%) OpenShift
10 8 (7.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (5.31%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (5.31%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (5.31%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) DNS
2 5 (4.42%) DHCP
2 5 (4.42%) Firewall
3 2 (1.77%) Internet
3 2 (1.77%) Intranet
3 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.77%) VLAN
3 2 (1.77%) VPN
4 1 (0.88%) BGP
4 1 (0.88%) DMVPN
4 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.88%) IPsec
4 1 (0.88%) MPLS
4 1 (0.88%) OSPF
4 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.88%) SSH
4 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.62%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (8.85%) MongoDB
3 9 (7.96%) Redis
4 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (5.31%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.42%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.42%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.65%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.77%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.88%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 62 (54.87%) JIRA
2 52 (46.02%) Jenkins
3 47 (41.59%) Git
4 32 (28.32%) GitLab
5 27 (23.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (7.96%) TeamCity
7 8 (7.08%) Selenium
8 6 (5.31%) Artifactory
8 6 (5.31%) REST Assured
8 6 (5.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.54%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.54%) Cypress.io
9 4 (3.54%) Gradle
9 4 (3.54%) Maven
9 4 (3.54%) WebDriver
9 4 (3.54%) Zephyr
10 3 (2.65%) JUnit
10 3 (2.65%) Postman
10 3 (2.65%) webpack
11 2 (1.77%) MSBuild
General
1 54 (47.79%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.09%) Finance
3 27 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (17.70%) Banking
5 6 (5.31%) Back Office
5 6 (5.31%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Front Office
8 2 (1.77%) Local Government
8 2 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (24.78%) Developer
2 19 (16.81%) Senior
3 13 (11.50%) Java Developer
4 11 (9.73%) JIRA Engineer
5 10 (8.85%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (8.85%) Lead
6 8 (7.08%) Data Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Scrum Master
7 7 (6.19%) AWS Data Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Junior
8 6 (5.31%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.42%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (27.43%) Terraform
2 22 (19.47%) REST
3 17 (15.04%) Spring
4 16 (14.16%) HTML
5 11 (9.73%) .NET
5 11 (9.73%) Kafka
6 10 (8.85%) React
7 9 (7.96%) RESTful
8 8 (7.08%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.19%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (6.19%) ASP.NET
9 7 (6.19%) AWS CDK
9 7 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (5.31%) JWT
11 5 (4.42%) .NET Framework
11 5 (4.42%) CSS
11 5 (4.42%) Jakarta EE
11 5 (4.42%) JDBC
11 5 (4.42%) JMS
12 4 (3.54%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.93%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.62%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.42%) Spread Betting
5 4 (3.54%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.77%) PropTech
8 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.88%) PKI
8 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Replication
8 1 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (24.78%) Linux
2 15 (13.27%) Windows
3 8 (7.08%) Unix
4 5 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.42%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.77%) AIX
5 2 (1.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (71.68%) CI/CD
2 68 (60.18%) Agile
3 60 (53.10%) DevOps
4 34 (30.09%) Scrum
4 34 (30.09%) Test Automation
5 30 (26.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (21.24%) Platform Engineering
8 23 (20.35%) Microservices
9 21 (18.58%) AI
10 20 (17.70%) Containerisation
10 20 (17.70%) SDLC
11 18 (15.93%) ITIL
12 17 (15.04%) Migration
13 16 (14.16%) DevSecOps
14 15 (13.27%) Event-Driven
15 14 (12.39%) API Development
15 14 (12.39%) Service Management
16 13 (11.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (39.82%) Java
2 41 (36.28%) Python
3 39 (34.51%) SQL
4 25 (22.12%) JavaScript
5 16 (14.16%) Kotlin
6 15 (13.27%) PowerShell
7 14 (12.39%) Bash
8 13 (11.50%) C#
9 7 (6.19%) PL/SQL
10 6 (5.31%) Go
10 6 (5.31%) TypeScript
11 4 (3.54%) Groovy
12 3 (2.65%) Bicep
12 3 (2.65%) Perl
12 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.88%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.88%) Korn
14 1 (0.88%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 25 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (7.08%) SAFe Agilist
4 6 (5.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (2.65%) Degree
6 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.88%) CCDP
7 1 (0.88%) CCIE
7 1 (0.88%) CCNP
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.88%) PMP
7 1 (0.88%) VCDX
7 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.16%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 41 (36.28%) Docker
2 5 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.42%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Squid
4 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (30.97%) Kubernetes
2 17 (15.04%) Ansible
3 13 (11.50%) Grafana
4 12 (10.62%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.42%) Packer
5 5 (4.42%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.65%) Kibana
7 2 (1.77%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.77%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.88%) Istio
8 1 (0.88%) OPNET
8 1 (0.88%) Podman
8 1 (0.88%) Puppet
8 1 (0.88%) WMI
Vendors
1 12 (10.62%) Atlassian
1 12 (10.62%) Splunk
2 10 (8.85%) Oracle
3 9 (7.96%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.08%) ServiceNow
5 7 (6.19%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.19%) VMware
6 6 (5.31%) Google
7 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.42%) Tanium
8 2 (1.77%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.77%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.88%) BMC
9 1 (0.88%) Cisco
9 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.88%) IBM
9 1 (0.88%) New Relic
9 1 (0.88%) Sybase
9 1 (0.88%) Veracode
9 1 (0.88%) Zscaler