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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 336 380
Rank change year-on-year -160 +44 -1
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 99 145 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.59% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.98% 4.30% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 108 105
10th Percentile £363 £340 £389
25th Percentile £409 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £568 £657 £700
90th Percentile £717 £813 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £531 £600
% change year-on-year -10.46% -11.58% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 19
10th Percentile - £48.64 £45.88
25th Percentile - £51.78 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £57.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.60% +6.38%
75th Percentile - £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile - £64.25 £75.50
UK median hourly rate - £57.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +0.43% -

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 4,990 3,375 4,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.14% 13.80% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,290 2,277 2,907
10th Percentile £343 £340 £352
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £736 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 63 192
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.59 £31.84
25th Percentile £59.25 £49.00 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.38% -9.42% +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 17 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 17 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 43 £534 -20.11% 15
Midlands -60 22 £461 +1.26% 2
West Midlands -51 18 £455 -1.20% 1
South East -69 16 £425 -15.00% 23
North of England -66 9 £407 +5.99% 11
South West -48 8 £525 -8.70% 13
Yorkshire -54 6 £400 - 8
East Midlands -27 4 £525 +54.41% 1
North West -40 3 £575 +49.74% 2
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 (45.45%) Confluence
2 7 (7.07%) nginx
3 4 (4.04%) Apache
4 3 (3.03%) SAS
5 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.02%) IIS
5 2 (2.02%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 41 (41.41%) AWS
2 32 (32.32%) GitHub
3 27 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 26 (26.26%) Serverless
5 25 (25.25%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (23.23%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (23.23%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (22.22%) Azure
8 20 (20.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 18 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (17.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (17.17%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (17.17%) AWS CodePipeline
11 15 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (7.07%) Azure AKS
13 7 (7.07%) GCP
13 7 (7.07%) Route 53
14 4 (4.04%) AWS CodeBuild
14 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.08%) Firewall
2 7 (7.07%) DNS
2 7 (7.07%) OpenVPN
2 7 (7.07%) TCP/IP
2 7 (7.07%) VPN
3 1 (1.01%) DSL
3 1 (1.01%) LAN
3 1 (1.01%) NAS
3 1 (1.01%) SAN
3 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.04%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.04%) Power BI
5 3 (3.03%) Apache Hive
5 3 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (3.03%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.03%) Impala
5 3 (3.03%) MySQL
5 3 (3.03%) Pentaho
5 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.02%) ClickHouse
6 2 (2.02%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.01%) Metadata
7 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 52 (52.53%) JIRA
2 45 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 31 (31.31%) Git
4 26 (26.26%) GitLab
5 17 (17.17%) SonarQube
6 8 (8.08%) TeamCity
7 7 (7.07%) Maven
8 6 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (6.06%) Selenium
9 5 (5.05%) Artifactory
10 4 (4.04%) Gradle
10 4 (4.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (3.03%) Android Studio
11 3 (3.03%) Snyk
11 3 (3.03%) SpecFlow
11 3 (3.03%) Subversion
11 3 (3.03%) WebDriver
11 3 (3.03%) webpack
12 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.02%) MSTest
General
1 47 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.16%) Banking
3 13 (13.13%) Finance
4 11 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.07%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.05%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.03%) Front Office
9 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (29.29%) Developer
2 12 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (11.11%) Architect
3 11 (11.11%) Senior
4 10 (10.10%) Scrum Master
4 10 (10.10%) Software Engineer
5 9 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (5.05%) React Developer
7 5 (5.05%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (5.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Android Developer
8 4 (4.04%) JIRA Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.03%) DevOps Architect
9 3 (3.03%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) T24 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 9 (9.09%) LDAP
2 9 (9.09%) React
3 8 (8.08%) HTML
4 7 (7.07%) Node.js
4 7 (7.07%) OpenID
4 7 (7.07%) RESTful
5 6 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (5.05%) .NET
6 5 (5.05%) Spring
7 4 (4.04%) ASP.NET
7 4 (4.04%) boto
7 4 (4.04%) CSS
7 4 (4.04%) JWT
7 4 (4.04%) REST
8 3 (3.03%) ADO
8 3 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (3.03%) JSON
8 3 (3.03%) YAML
9 2 (2.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.04%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.03%) Derivative
5 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.18%) Linux
2 8 (8.08%) Unix
2 8 (8.08%) Windows
3 4 (4.04%) Android
4 2 (2.02%) AIX
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (68.69%) CI/CD
2 66 (66.67%) Agile
3 62 (62.63%) DevOps
4 31 (31.31%) Test Automation
5 30 (30.30%) Scrum
6 25 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (24.24%) Containerisation
8 23 (23.23%) Software Engineering
9 22 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (17.17%) DevSecOps
12 17 (17.17%) Microservices
13 16 (16.16%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 14 (14.14%) ITIL
14 14 (14.14%) Migration
15 12 (12.12%) Service Management
16 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
16 11 (11.11%) Problem Management
16 11 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.27%) Java
2 24 (24.24%) Python
2 24 (24.24%) SQL
3 12 (12.12%) C#
4 10 (10.10%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.07%) Bash
5 7 (7.07%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.05%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.04%) C++
7 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.04%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.03%) HiveQL
8 3 (3.03%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.02%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.02%) Bicep
9 2 (2.02%) SOQL
10 1 (1.01%) Go
10 1 (1.01%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (43.43%) Security Cleared
2 36 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.10%) SAFe Agilist
4 8 (8.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (6.06%) Degree
6 4 (4.04%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.02%) CCNP
8 2 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.02%) OCA
8 2 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.02%) RHCA
8 2 (2.02%) RHCE
8 2 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) QA
2 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.02%) GDPR
3 2 (2.02%) WCAG
4 1 (1.01%) MiFID
4 1 (1.01%) PMO
4 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (30.30%) Docker
2 8 (8.08%) Squid
3 3 (3.03%) HDFS
4 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.01%) zsh
Systems Management
1 24 (24.24%) Kubernetes
1 24 (24.24%) Terraform
2 19 (19.19%) Ansible
3 13 (13.13%) Grafana
4 9 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.08%) Puppet
6 7 (7.07%) Consul
6 7 (7.07%) FortiGate
6 7 (7.07%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.04%) Istio
7 4 (4.04%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (2.02%) Opsgenie
10 1 (1.01%) Kibana
10 1 (1.01%) logstash
10 1 (1.01%) Podman
Vendors
1 22 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 11 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.08%) Dynatrace
4 7 (7.07%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.04%) Oracle
5 4 (4.04%) Thales
6 3 (3.03%) Coverity
6 3 (3.03%) Denodo
6 3 (3.03%) Informatica
6 3 (3.03%) jBASE
6 3 (3.03%) Talend
6 3 (3.03%) Temenos
6 3 (3.03%) VMware
7 2 (2.02%) Checkmarx
7 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.02%) Veracode
8 1 (1.01%) Cisco
8 1 (1.01%) EMC
8 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.01%) Zscaler