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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 328 367
Rank change year-on-year -134 +39 -13
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 113 162 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.63% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.27% 4.72% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 115 122
10th Percentile £368 £450 £425
25th Percentile £413 £476 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £639 £709 £700
90th Percentile £750 £810 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.68% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 25
10th Percentile - £55.38 £45.88
25th Percentile - £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
75th Percentile - £64.38 £75.00
90th Percentile - £71.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.26%

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 4,973 3,434 4,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.00% 13.37% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,408 2,189 3,089
10th Percentile £341 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £635 £638
90th Percentile £694 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 60 202
10th Percentile £37.73 £27.38 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.34 £47.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £80.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 February 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 February 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 -66 59 £550 -16.98% 12
South West -28 15 £589 +1.29% 16
Midlands -56 13 £450 -2.17% 6
South East -59 12 £500 - 11
West Midlands -51 11 £450 -3.95% 4
North of England -59 9 £620 +55.00% 6
North West -32 7 £620 +55.00% 3
East Midlands -20 2 £525 +68.81% 2
Yorkshire -62 2 - - 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 48 (42.48%) Confluence
2 14 (12.39%) nginx
3 6 (5.31%) Apache
4 4 (3.54%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.65%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.65%) SAS
6 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.88%) IIS
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.77%) Maximo
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 49 (43.36%) AWS
2 37 (32.74%) GitHub
3 25 (22.12%) Azure
4 22 (19.47%) Serverless
5 21 (18.58%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (16.81%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (16.81%) Amazon S3
7 18 (15.93%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (15.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (13.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (10.62%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.96%) GCP
10 9 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (7.96%) OpenShift
11 8 (7.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.19%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (6.19%) Route 53
13 5 (4.42%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.50%) Firewall
2 8 (7.08%) DNS
2 8 (7.08%) VPN
3 7 (6.19%) OpenVPN
3 7 (6.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) DSL
4 1 (0.88%) HTTP
4 1 (0.88%) Internet
4 1 (0.88%) LAN
4 1 (0.88%) NAS
4 1 (0.88%) SAN
4 1 (0.88%) SSL
4 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.96%) MySQL
3 7 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (6.19%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.42%) Hadoop
4 5 (4.42%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.54%) Apache Hive
5 4 (3.54%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.65%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.65%) Impala
6 3 (2.65%) Pentaho
6 3 (2.65%) Power BI
7 2 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.77%) DB2
7 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.77%) Redis
8 1 (0.88%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 60 (53.10%) JIRA
2 55 (48.67%) Jenkins
3 49 (43.36%) Git
4 25 (22.12%) GitLab
5 22 (19.47%) SonarQube
6 12 (10.62%) Maven
7 9 (7.96%) Postman
7 9 (7.96%) Selenium
7 9 (7.96%) Snyk
7 9 (7.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (7.08%) Gradle
9 7 (6.19%) Artifactory
9 7 (6.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (6.19%) ScriptRunner
10 6 (5.31%) Android Studio
10 6 (5.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (4.42%) JUnit
11 5 (4.42%) webpack
12 4 (3.54%) CircleCI
13 3 (2.65%) Cypress.io
General
1 45 (39.82%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.12%) Finance
3 22 (19.47%) Banking
4 13 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.96%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.42%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.54%) Front Office
7 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.65%) Back Office
9 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (28.32%) Developer
2 14 (12.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (9.73%) Architect
3 11 (9.73%) Java Developer
4 10 (8.85%) Software Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Android Developer
6 6 (5.31%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) JIRA Specialist
6 6 (5.31%) Senior
7 5 (4.42%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) JIRA Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Technical Architect
8 4 (3.54%) Angular Developer
8 4 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (3.54%) Lead
8 4 (3.54%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Senior Developer
9 3 (2.65%) Data Engineer
9 3 (2.65%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.93%) REST
2 11 (9.73%) JSON
2 11 (9.73%) React
3 10 (8.85%) RESTful
4 9 (7.96%) AngularJS
4 9 (7.96%) LDAP
4 9 (7.96%) Node.js
4 9 (7.96%) Spring Boot
5 8 (7.08%) .NET
5 8 (7.08%) OpenID
6 7 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (5.31%) CSS
7 6 (5.31%) Spring
8 5 (4.42%) HTML
9 4 (3.54%) boto
9 4 (3.54%) Vue
9 4 (3.54%) XML
10 3 (2.65%) Android Jetpack
10 3 (2.65%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (2.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.19%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.65%) Derivative
4 3 (2.65%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.88%) Animation
6 1 (0.88%) Blog
6 1 (0.88%) Contactless
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Replication
6 1 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (28.32%) Linux
2 11 (9.73%) Unix
3 9 (7.96%) Android
4 8 (7.08%) Windows
5 4 (3.54%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.77%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (57.52%) Agile
1 65 (57.52%) DevOps
2 63 (55.75%) CI/CD
3 39 (34.51%) Scrum
4 36 (31.86%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (22.12%) Test Automation
6 23 (20.35%) Microservices
6 23 (20.35%) Software Engineering
7 16 (14.16%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.16%) Migration
8 14 (12.39%) SDLC
9 12 (10.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (10.62%) Service Management
10 11 (9.73%) Configuration Management
10 11 (9.73%) DevSecOps
10 11 (9.73%) TDD
11 10 (8.85%) Kanban
11 10 (8.85%) Secure Coding
12 9 (7.96%) BDD
12 9 (7.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (33.63%) Python
2 37 (32.74%) Java
3 29 (25.66%) SQL
4 13 (11.50%) Bash
5 11 (9.73%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.85%) PowerShell
7 9 (7.96%) C#
8 7 (6.19%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.42%) C++
10 4 (3.54%) Perl
10 4 (3.54%) Ruby
11 3 (2.65%) HiveQL
11 3 (2.65%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.65%) PHP
11 3 (2.65%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.65%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.77%) Groovy
12 2 (1.77%) Jython
12 2 (1.77%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 48 (42.48%) Security Cleared
2 37 (32.74%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.73%) Degree
4 8 (7.08%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.42%) OCA
7 5 (4.42%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (4.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (3.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.65%) MCSA
9 3 (2.65%) MCSE
9 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.77%) CCNP
10 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.77%) RHCA
10 2 (1.77%) RHCE
11 1 (0.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) MiFID
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (36.28%) Docker
2 7 (6.19%) Squid
3 4 (3.54%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.65%) HDFS
4 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.77%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (34.51%) Kubernetes
2 27 (23.89%) Terraform
3 24 (21.24%) Ansible
4 15 (13.27%) Grafana
5 11 (9.73%) Prometheus
6 10 (8.85%) Puppet
7 7 (6.19%) Consul
7 7 (6.19%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.19%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.19%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.65%) Podman
8 3 (2.65%) PowerCLI
8 3 (2.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.77%) Istio
9 2 (1.77%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.88%) Ambari
10 1 (0.88%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.88%) Kibana
10 1 (0.88%) logstash
10 1 (0.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (30.09%) Atlassian
2 15 (13.27%) Oracle
3 9 (7.96%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.08%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.19%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.31%) Checkmarx
6 6 (5.31%) Veracode
6 6 (5.31%) VMware
7 4 (3.54%) Informatica
7 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.54%) Splunk
7 4 (3.54%) Thales
8 3 (2.65%) Coverity
8 3 (2.65%) IBM
8 3 (2.65%) jBASE
8 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.65%) Talend
8 3 (2.65%) Temenos
8 3 (2.65%) UiPath
8 3 (2.65%) Veeam