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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 312 389
Rank change year-on-year -155 +77 -22
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 117 162 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.67% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.31% 4.94% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 117 104
10th Percentile £387 £396 £404
25th Percentile £415 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £700
90th Percentile £754 £810 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 17
10th Percentile - £51.49 £45.88
25th Percentile - £58.47 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +8.11%
75th Percentile - £64.06 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.63 £76.92
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +7.48%

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 5,066 3,282 4,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.51% 13.52% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,423 2,183 2,930
10th Percentile £340 £340 £360
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 65 172
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.12 £37.50
25th Percentile £58.75 £52.18 £48.23
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.13 £75.00 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -80 62 £556 -14.42% 11
Midlands -64 17 £455 -2.99% 4
South West -31 14 £589 +2.39% 10
South East -72 14 £500 - 8
West Midlands -50 13 £450 -3.95% 3
North of England -67 7 £525 +32.91% 16
North West -35 5 £525 +32.91% 11
East Midlands -31 4 £525 +23.38% 1
Yorkshire -59 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 51 (43.59%) Confluence
2 14 (11.97%) nginx
3 6 (5.13%) Apache
4 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.56%) SAS
6 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.85%) IIS
7 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.17%) AWS
2 36 (30.77%) GitHub
3 25 (21.37%) Serverless
4 24 (20.51%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (18.80%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (18.80%) Amazon S3
5 22 (18.80%) Azure
6 20 (17.09%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (17.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (12.82%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (9.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (8.55%) AWS CodePipeline
11 8 (6.84%) GCP
12 7 (5.98%) Route 53
13 6 (5.13%) Azure AKS
13 6 (5.13%) OpenShift
14 4 (3.42%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.11%) Firewall
2 8 (6.84%) DNS
2 8 (6.84%) VPN
3 7 (5.98%) OpenVPN
3 7 (5.98%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) DSL
4 1 (0.85%) HTTP
4 1 (0.85%) Internet
4 1 (0.85%) LAN
4 1 (0.85%) NAS
4 1 (0.85%) SAN
4 1 (0.85%) SSL
4 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.98%) MySQL
2 7 (5.98%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.42%) Apache Hive
5 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.42%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.42%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.42%) Power BI
6 3 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.56%) Impala
6 3 (2.56%) Pentaho
7 2 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.71%) DB2
7 2 (1.71%) Redis
7 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.85%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 64 (54.70%) JIRA
2 55 (47.01%) Jenkins
3 53 (45.30%) Git
4 31 (26.50%) GitLab
5 20 (17.09%) SonarQube
6 11 (9.40%) Maven
7 10 (8.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (6.84%) Selenium
9 7 (5.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (5.98%) Gradle
10 6 (5.13%) Android Studio
10 6 (5.13%) Artifactory
10 6 (5.13%) Cucumber
10 6 (5.13%) Postman
10 6 (5.13%) ScriptRunner
11 5 (4.27%) Snyk
12 4 (3.42%) JUnit
12 4 (3.42%) webpack
13 3 (2.56%) CircleCI
13 3 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.37%) Finance
3 24 (20.51%) Banking
4 14 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.27%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.27%) Front Office
7 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Back Office
9 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Advertising
10 1 (0.85%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (29.06%) Developer
2 15 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (10.26%) Architect
4 11 (9.40%) Java Developer
4 11 (9.40%) Software Engineer
5 8 (6.84%) Senior
6 7 (5.98%) Android Developer
6 7 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.13%) JIRA Specialist
8 5 (4.27%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) JIRA Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) Lead
8 5 (4.27%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.42%) Angular Developer
9 4 (3.42%) React Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 3 (2.56%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (2.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.56%) T24 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.53%) REST
2 12 (10.26%) React
3 10 (8.55%) Node.js
3 10 (8.55%) RESTful
4 9 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 9 (7.69%) LDAP
4 9 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 8 (6.84%) .NET
5 8 (6.84%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (6.84%) OpenID
6 7 (5.98%) JSON
7 6 (5.13%) AWS CDK
7 6 (5.13%) Spring
8 5 (4.27%) CSS
9 4 (3.42%) boto
9 4 (3.42%) HTML
10 3 (2.56%) ADO
10 3 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (2.56%) Jetpack Compose
10 3 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.98%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.56%) Derivative
5 2 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.71%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.06%) Linux
2 12 (10.26%) Unix
3 10 (8.55%) Windows
4 8 (6.84%) Android
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.71%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.85%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (64.10%) Agile
2 73 (62.39%) DevOps
3 65 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 42 (35.90%) Scrum
5 32 (27.35%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (24.79%) Test Automation
7 24 (20.51%) Microservices
7 24 (20.51%) Software Engineering
8 18 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 15 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (12.82%) Service Management
10 14 (11.97%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (11.11%) Migration
12 12 (10.26%) Configuration Management
12 12 (10.26%) DevSecOps
12 12 (10.26%) SDLC
12 12 (10.26%) TDD
13 11 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (9.40%) Kanban
13 11 (9.40%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.33%) Python
2 38 (32.48%) Java
3 25 (21.37%) SQL
4 14 (11.97%) Bash
5 10 (8.55%) C#
5 10 (8.55%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.84%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.27%) C++
9 4 (3.42%) Perl
9 4 (3.42%) Ruby
10 3 (2.56%) HiveQL
10 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.56%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.56%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.71%) Groovy
11 2 (1.71%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 41 (35.04%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.55%) Degree
4 8 (6.84%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.27%) OCA
6 5 (4.27%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (4.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.56%) MCSA
8 3 (2.56%) MCSE
8 3 (2.56%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (1.71%) CCNP
9 2 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.71%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) QA
2 5 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.71%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) MiFID
4 1 (0.85%) PMO
4 1 (0.85%) SLA
4 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (33.33%) Docker
2 7 (5.98%) Squid
3 4 (3.42%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.56%) HDFS
4 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.85%) zsh
Systems Management
1 38 (32.48%) Kubernetes
2 29 (24.79%) Terraform
3 26 (22.22%) Ansible
4 14 (11.97%) Grafana
5 11 (9.40%) Prometheus
6 10 (8.55%) Puppet
7 7 (5.98%) Consul
7 7 (5.98%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.98%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (5.13%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.42%) Istio
10 3 (2.56%) PowerCLI
10 3 (2.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (1.71%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.71%) Podman
12 1 (0.85%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.85%) Kibana
12 1 (0.85%) logstash
12 1 (0.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (29.91%) Atlassian
2 14 (11.97%) Oracle
3 10 (8.55%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.84%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.98%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.13%) VMware
7 4 (3.42%) Informatica
7 4 (3.42%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.42%) Thales
8 3 (2.56%) Checkmarx
8 3 (2.56%) Coverity
8 3 (2.56%) Denodo
8 3 (2.56%) jBASE
8 3 (2.56%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.56%) Splunk
8 3 (2.56%) Talend
8 3 (2.56%) Temenos
8 3 (2.56%) UiPath
8 3 (2.56%) Veeam
8 3 (2.56%) Veracode