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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 343 362
Rank change year-on-year -154 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 110 162 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.59% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.10% 4.16% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 128 126
10th Percentile £326 £309 £416
25th Percentile £405 £410 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% -19.23% +11.59%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £700
90th Percentile £744 £804 £775
UK median daily rate £459 £500 £638
% change year-on-year -8.20% -21.57% +15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 21
10th Percentile £56.99 £51.64 £45.88
25th Percentile £60.92 £52.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -21.43% +21.74%
75th Percentile - £62.50 -
90th Percentile - £67.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -16.07% +21.74%

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 5,245 3,891 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.19% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,355 2,664 2,962
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 90 218
10th Percentile £26.30 £35.70 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.08 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.54% -2.31% +4.00%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -95 52 £534 -14.52% 11
Midlands -40 20 £450 +25.70% 8
West Midlands -51 18 £450 -2.17% 5
South East -71 14 £328 -46.57% 8
North of England -79 14 £407 +17.97% 9
Yorkshire -43 11 £407 - 5
South West -52 8 £513 -10.87% 4
North West -61 3 £464 +34.35% 3
East Midlands -20 2 - - 3
East of England -15 1 - - 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 48 (43.64%) Confluence
2 10 (9.09%) nginx
3 4 (3.64%) Apache
3 4 (3.64%) IIS
4 3 (2.73%) SAS
5 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.82%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.91%) Camunda
6 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Trello
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (40.00%) AWS
2 41 (37.27%) GitHub
3 30 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 28 (25.45%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (25.45%) Serverless
5 26 (23.64%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (21.82%) Azure
8 23 (20.91%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (19.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (19.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (15.45%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (15.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (14.55%) AWS CodePipeline
12 13 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (8.18%) GCP
14 7 (6.36%) Route 53
15 6 (5.45%) Power Platform
16 5 (4.55%) Azure AKS
17 4 (3.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.00%) DNS
1 11 (10.00%) Firewall
2 8 (7.27%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.27%) VPN
3 7 (6.36%) OpenVPN
4 3 (2.73%) DHCP
5 2 (1.82%) Internet
5 2 (1.82%) Intranet
5 2 (1.82%) WAN
6 1 (0.91%) BGP
6 1 (0.91%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.91%) IPsec
6 1 (0.91%) LAN
6 1 (0.91%) MPLS
6 1 (0.91%) NAS
6 1 (0.91%) OSPF
6 1 (0.91%) SAN
6 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.91%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.64%) Power BI
6 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.73%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.73%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (2.73%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.73%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.73%) Impala
7 3 (2.73%) MySQL
7 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.73%) Pentaho
7 3 (2.73%) Redis
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.82%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (54.55%) JIRA
2 49 (44.55%) Jenkins
3 37 (33.64%) Git
4 34 (30.91%) GitLab
5 13 (11.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (11.82%) TeamCity
6 11 (10.00%) SonarQube
7 9 (8.18%) Selenium
8 6 (5.45%) Artifactory
8 6 (5.45%) Cucumber
8 6 (5.45%) REST Assured
9 5 (4.55%) Maven
9 5 (4.55%) WebDriver
10 4 (3.64%) Gradle
11 3 (2.73%) MSBuild
11 3 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.73%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.73%) webpack
12 2 (1.82%) MSTest
12 2 (1.82%) Postman
General
1 55 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.18%) Finance
3 18 (16.36%) Banking
4 15 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.18%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (6.36%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.82%) Back Office
9 2 (1.82%) Front Office
9 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (24.55%) Developer
2 15 (13.64%) Senior
3 12 (10.91%) Java Developer
4 11 (10.00%) Scrum Master
5 9 (8.18%) Architect
5 9 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (8.18%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Release Manager
8 5 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) JIRA Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Junior
9 4 (3.64%) React Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.82%) AWS CDK
2 12 (10.91%) HTML
3 10 (9.09%) React
3 10 (9.09%) REST
4 9 (8.18%) LDAP
4 9 (8.18%) Spring
5 8 (7.27%) .NET
6 7 (6.36%) ASP.NET
6 7 (6.36%) OpenID
6 7 (6.36%) RESTful
7 5 (4.55%) JWT
8 4 (3.64%) CSS
8 4 (3.64%) Gherkin
8 4 (3.64%) Node.js
9 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.73%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (2.73%) Dapper ORM
9 3 (2.73%) Entity Framework
9 3 (2.73%) Kafka
9 3 (2.73%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.82%) Spread Betting
6 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.91%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.91%) Replication
6 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.00%) Linux
2 11 (10.00%) Windows
3 10 (9.09%) Unix
4 3 (2.73%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.82%) AIX
5 2 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.91%) Android
6 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (66.36%) CI/CD
2 72 (65.45%) Agile
3 67 (60.91%) DevOps
4 39 (35.45%) Test Automation
5 33 (30.00%) Scrum
6 27 (24.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
8 22 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (19.09%) Containerisation
10 20 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (17.27%) Software Engineering
12 16 (14.55%) DevSecOps
12 16 (14.55%) ITIL
12 16 (14.55%) Microservices
13 14 (12.73%) Backlog Refinement
13 14 (12.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 13 (11.82%) Problem Management
15 12 (10.91%) Roadmaps
15 12 (10.91%) Service Management
16 11 (10.00%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.55%) Python
2 36 (32.73%) Java
3 33 (30.00%) SQL
4 17 (15.45%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.73%) C#
6 11 (10.00%) Bash
6 11 (10.00%) Kotlin
7 9 (8.18%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.27%) TypeScript
9 7 (6.36%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.64%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.73%) Bicep
11 3 (2.73%) HiveQL
12 2 (1.82%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.82%) C++
12 2 (1.82%) SOQL
13 1 (0.91%) Korn
13 1 (0.91%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.91%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (33.64%) Security Cleared
2 35 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.00%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (8.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (6.36%) Degree
6 3 (2.73%) CCNP
6 3 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.82%) OCA
7 2 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.82%) RHCA
7 2 (1.82%) RHCE
8 1 (0.91%) CCDP
8 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.91%) PMP
8 1 (0.91%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.73%) WCAG
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.91%) PMO
4 1 (0.91%) SEPA
4 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (28.18%) Docker
2 8 (7.27%) Squid
3 4 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.73%) HDFS
5 2 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.91%) zsh
Systems Management
1 32 (29.09%) Terraform
2 26 (23.64%) Kubernetes
3 18 (16.36%) Ansible
4 13 (11.82%) Grafana
5 10 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.36%) Consul
6 7 (6.36%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.36%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.55%) Puppet
8 4 (3.64%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.73%) Packer
9 3 (2.73%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.82%) Istio
11 1 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.91%) Kibana
11 1 (0.91%) logstash
11 1 (0.91%) OPNET
Vendors
1 16 (14.55%) Atlassian
2 13 (11.82%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.09%) Oracle
4 9 (8.18%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.36%) Red Hat
5 7 (6.36%) VMware
6 6 (5.45%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.55%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.73%) Denodo
8 3 (2.73%) Informatica
8 3 (2.73%) Splunk
8 3 (2.73%) Talend
8 3 (2.73%) Tanium
9 2 (1.82%) Cisco
9 2 (1.82%) Google
9 2 (1.82%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.91%) EMC
10 1 (0.91%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.91%) Sybase
10 1 (0.91%) Zscaler