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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 315 313
Rank change year-on-year -73 -2 -31
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 146 200 278
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.64% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.10% 4.89% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 137 202
10th Percentile £300 £450 £450
25th Percentile £400 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% +6.25% +0.84%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £705
90th Percentile £750 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 18
10th Percentile - £60.70 £53.53
25th Percentile - £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile - - £71.42
90th Percentile - £73.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +12.00% +9.65%

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 4,706 4,089 4,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.34% 13.18% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,284 2,528 3,499
10th Percentile £327 £348 £375
25th Percentile £406 £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 £646
90th Percentile £698 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £541
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.92% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 118 219
10th Percentile £39.00 £43.89 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.94 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.00 £89.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 26 November 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 26 November 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 -27 74 £613 -9.26% 20
North of England -49 17 £363 -31.51% 11
Midlands -26 16 £575 +15.29% 2
North West -25 15 £363 -31.51% 8
South East -26 15 £525 +5.00% 17
South West -14 13 £550 -19.27% 6
West Midlands -19 10 £575 +17.35%
East Midlands -9 6 £270 -64.00% 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 59 (40.41%) Confluence
2 9 (6.16%) nginx
3 6 (4.11%) Apache
4 4 (2.74%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.05%) JBoss
5 3 (2.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.37%) Anypoint
6 2 (1.37%) Mule
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.68%) Camunda
7 1 (0.68%) IIS
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Magento
2 3 (2.05%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.37%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 49 (33.56%) AWS
2 48 (32.88%) GitHub
3 34 (23.29%) Azure
4 16 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (10.27%) Serverless
6 14 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (7.53%) OpenShift
8 9 (6.16%) Amazon S3
8 9 (6.16%) GCP
9 7 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.79%) Datadog
9 7 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.11%) Azure AKS
10 6 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.74%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.74%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.48%) Firewall
2 4 (2.74%) VPN
3 3 (2.05%) BGP
3 3 (2.05%) OSPF
3 3 (2.05%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.05%) VLAN
4 2 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (1.37%) IPsec
4 2 (1.37%) LAN
4 2 (1.37%) Multicast
4 2 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.37%) SSL
4 2 (1.37%) VXLAN
4 2 (1.37%) WAN
5 1 (0.68%) HTTP
5 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.68%) Skype
5 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (11.64%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.16%) MySQL
2 9 (6.16%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.42%) DB2
4 5 (3.42%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.42%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.74%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.74%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.74%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.74%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.37%) Power BI
6 2 (1.37%) Tableau
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.68%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 84 (57.53%) Git
2 79 (54.11%) JIRA
3 68 (46.58%) Jenkins
4 31 (21.23%) GitLab
5 27 (18.49%) Selenium
6 23 (15.75%) SonarQube
7 20 (13.70%) Cucumber
8 19 (13.01%) Maven
9 18 (12.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (11.64%) JUnit
11 14 (9.59%) Artifactory
12 12 (8.22%) Postman
13 10 (6.85%) Gradle
14 8 (5.48%) Mockito
14 8 (5.48%) Snyk
15 7 (4.79%) TeamCity
16 6 (4.11%) Android Studio
16 6 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (4.11%) ScriptRunner
17 5 (3.42%) REST Assured
General
1 39 (26.71%) Finance
1 39 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.29%) Banking
3 14 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.79%) Front Office
5 7 (4.79%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.74%) Back Office
7 3 (2.05%) Automotive
7 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Retail
8 2 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (36.30%) Developer
2 27 (18.49%) Java Developer
3 16 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (5.48%) Senior
5 7 (4.79%) Administrator
5 7 (4.79%) Angular Developer
5 7 (4.79%) Test Automation Engineer
5 7 (4.79%) Test Engineer
6 6 (4.11%) Android Developer
6 6 (4.11%) Architect
6 6 (4.11%) JIRA Specialist
6 6 (4.11%) Senior Developer
6 6 (4.11%) Tester
7 5 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (3.42%) JIRA Administrator
7 5 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (2.74%) Magento Developer
8 4 (2.74%) Selenium Tester
8 4 (2.74%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.66%) REST
2 26 (17.81%) Spring Boot
3 23 (15.75%) React
4 20 (13.70%) CSS
5 19 (13.01%) HTML
6 17 (11.64%) RESTful
7 16 (10.96%) AngularJS
7 16 (10.96%) Node.js
8 15 (10.27%) .NET
9 14 (9.59%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (8.22%) JSON
10 12 (8.22%) Spring
11 10 (6.85%) Kafka
12 8 (5.48%) Hibernate
13 7 (4.79%) JPA
14 6 (4.11%) Android Jetpack
14 6 (4.11%) Jest
14 6 (4.11%) Jetpack Compose
14 6 (4.11%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (4.11%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.79%) Private Cloud
2 6 (4.11%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.37%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.37%) Replication
4 2 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.68%) Animation
5 1 (0.68%) Blog
5 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.68%) Contactless
5 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 35 (23.97%) Linux
2 18 (12.33%) Windows
3 13 (8.90%) Unix
4 8 (5.48%) Android
5 7 (4.79%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.37%) CentOS
7 2 (1.37%) Debian
7 2 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (60.96%) Agile
2 75 (51.37%) DevOps
3 73 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 49 (33.56%) Test Automation
5 46 (31.51%) Scrum
6 41 (28.08%) Microservices
7 32 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (15.75%) TDD
9 16 (10.96%) Containerisation
9 16 (10.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (10.96%) Kanban
9 16 (10.96%) SDLC
10 15 (10.27%) BDD
10 15 (10.27%) Software Engineering
11 14 (9.59%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (9.59%) Unit Testing
12 13 (8.90%) Migration
12 13 (8.90%) Workflow
13 12 (8.22%) Configuration Management
14 11 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (41.10%) Java
2 47 (32.19%) Python
3 40 (27.40%) SQL
4 28 (19.18%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.64%) C#
6 16 (10.96%) PowerShell
7 15 (10.27%) Bash
8 13 (8.90%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.48%) Perl
10 7 (4.79%) Kotlin
10 7 (4.79%) PHP
11 6 (4.11%) VB.NET
12 5 (3.42%) C++
13 4 (2.74%) Ruby
14 3 (2.05%) Go
15 2 (1.37%) Groovy
15 2 (1.37%) Jython
15 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.68%) C
16 1 (0.68%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 49 (33.56%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.22%) Degree
3 12 (8.22%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.74%) OCA
7 4 (2.74%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.05%) MCSA
8 3 (2.05%) MCSE
8 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.37%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.68%) CCNP
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.68%) CISSP
10 1 (0.68%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.90%) QA
2 4 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.05%) ITGC
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (30.82%) Docker
2 7 (4.79%) Firmware
2 7 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.42%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.37%) VirtualBox
5 2 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (28.77%) Kubernetes
2 29 (19.86%) Ansible
3 25 (17.12%) Terraform
4 14 (9.59%) Puppet
5 10 (6.85%) Progress Chef
6 9 (6.16%) Grafana
6 9 (6.16%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.42%) SCCM
8 4 (2.74%) Podman
9 3 (2.05%) Ambari
9 3 (2.05%) PowerCLI
9 3 (2.05%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.37%) CloudHub
10 2 (1.37%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.37%) Icinga
10 2 (1.37%) Istio
10 2 (1.37%) Kibana
10 2 (1.37%) Nagios
10 2 (1.37%) Salt
10 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (20.55%) Atlassian
2 18 (12.33%) Splunk
3 17 (11.64%) Oracle
4 10 (6.85%) Dynatrace
4 10 (6.85%) Veracode
5 8 (5.48%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.48%) VMware
6 6 (4.11%) Checkmarx
6 6 (4.11%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.11%) UiPath
7 3 (2.05%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.05%) Cisco
7 3 (2.05%) IBM
7 3 (2.05%) Nintex
7 3 (2.05%) Okta
7 3 (2.05%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.05%) Veeam
8 2 (1.37%) F5
8 2 (1.37%) New Relic
8 2 (1.37%) Rackspace