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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 325 344
Rank change year-on-year -90 +19 -46
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 126 164 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.60% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.70% 4.52% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 114 146
10th Percentile £359 £450 £456
25th Percentile £413 £477 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £644 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +11.96% -
75th Percentile £642 £798 £675
90th Percentile £746 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -14.29% +6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 19
10th Percentile - £53.66 £53.85
25th Percentile - £59.94 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% -4.65%
75th Percentile - £64.69 £70.95
90th Percentile - £71.63 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -8.00% -7.08% -1.21%

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 4,664 3,627 4,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.78% 13.25% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,231 2,268 3,052
10th Percentile £333 £334 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 65 192
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.73
25th Percentile £53.44 £54.00 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.30 £75.85 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -49 61 £600 -14.29% 9
South East -35 18 £425 -15.00% 40
South West -4 15 £588 -13.76% 26
Midlands -33 15 £575 +20.55% 26
West Midlands -37 11 £575 +20.55% 5
North of England -48 9 £620 +17.48% 31
North West -21 7 £620 +17.48% 11
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 19
Yorkshire - 2 - - 13
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 (40.48%) Confluence
2 7 (5.56%) nginx
3 5 (3.97%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.17%) Apache
5 3 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.59%) Mule
7 1 (0.79%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.79%) IIS
7 1 (0.79%) JBoss
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Oracle BPM
1 3 (2.38%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.59%) Magento
2 2 (1.59%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 46 (36.51%) AWS
2 43 (34.13%) GitHub
3 31 (24.60%) Azure
4 16 (12.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (11.90%) Serverless
6 14 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (9.52%) OpenShift
8 11 (8.73%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (7.94%) Amazon S3
9 10 (7.94%) GCP
10 8 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.35%) Datadog
10 8 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.56%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (3.97%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) Firewall
2 2 (1.59%) SSL
3 1 (0.79%) BGP
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) DSL
3 1 (0.79%) HTTP
3 1 (0.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.79%) OSPF
3 1 (0.79%) Skype
3 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.79%) SSH
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.79%) VLAN
3 1 (0.79%) VoIP
3 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.49%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 9 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.56%) MySQL
4 6 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.97%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.17%) DB2
6 4 (3.17%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.38%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.38%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.59%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.59%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.59%) Tableau
9 1 (0.79%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (53.17%) Git
2 66 (52.38%) JIRA
3 64 (50.79%) Jenkins
4 21 (16.67%) Selenium
5 20 (15.87%) GitLab
6 18 (14.29%) SonarQube
7 12 (9.52%) Cucumber
7 12 (9.52%) Maven
7 12 (9.52%) Postman
7 12 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (8.73%) Snyk
9 10 (7.94%) Gradle
10 9 (7.14%) Artifactory
10 9 (7.14%) JUnit
11 8 (6.35%) ScriptRunner
12 6 (4.76%) Android Studio
12 6 (4.76%) CircleCI
12 6 (4.76%) REST Assured
12 6 (4.76%) webpack
13 5 (3.97%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 37 (29.37%) Finance
3 30 (23.81%) Banking
4 15 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.97%) Front Office
6 5 (3.97%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.38%) Automotive
7 3 (2.38%) Back Office
8 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (34.92%) Developer
2 20 (15.87%) Java Developer
3 16 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (5.56%) Angular Developer
4 7 (5.56%) Senior
5 6 (4.76%) Android Developer
5 6 (4.76%) Architect
5 6 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 6 (4.76%) JIRA Specialist
5 6 (4.76%) Tester
6 5 (3.97%) Administrator
6 5 (3.97%) JIRA Administrator
6 5 (3.97%) Lead
6 5 (3.97%) Senior Developer
6 5 (3.97%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Test Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Selenium Automation Tester
7 4 (3.17%) Selenium Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (24.60%) REST
2 17 (13.49%) React
2 17 (13.49%) Spring Boot
3 15 (11.90%) AngularJS
3 15 (11.90%) RESTful
4 13 (10.32%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (10.32%) JSON
5 12 (9.52%) .NET
6 11 (8.73%) CSS
7 10 (7.94%) HTML
7 10 (7.94%) Node.js
8 9 (7.14%) Spring
9 5 (3.97%) Kafka
9 5 (3.97%) Swagger
9 5 (3.97%) YAML
10 4 (3.17%) SOAP
10 4 (3.17%) Vue
10 4 (3.17%) Web Services
10 4 (3.17%) XML
11 3 (2.38%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.97%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.38%) Derivative
5 2 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.59%) Replication
5 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.79%) Contactless
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.22%) Linux
2 15 (11.90%) Windows
3 10 (7.94%) Unix
4 8 (6.35%) Android
5 5 (3.97%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (55.56%) Agile
2 65 (51.59%) CI/CD
3 60 (47.62%) DevOps
4 40 (31.75%) Scrum
4 40 (31.75%) Test Automation
5 33 (26.19%) Microservices
6 27 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (13.49%) Software Engineering
8 16 (12.70%) Kanban
9 15 (11.90%) Containerisation
9 15 (11.90%) SDLC
9 15 (11.90%) TDD
10 14 (11.11%) BDD
11 13 (10.32%) DevSecOps
11 13 (10.32%) Task Automation
12 12 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (9.52%) Migration
12 12 (9.52%) Unit Testing
12 12 (9.52%) Validation
12 12 (9.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 46 (36.51%) Java
2 35 (27.78%) Python
2 35 (27.78%) SQL
3 15 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 14 (11.11%) C#
4 14 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.73%) Bash
5 11 (8.73%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.97%) Perl
7 4 (3.17%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.17%) PHP
7 4 (3.17%) Ruby
7 4 (3.17%) VB.NET
8 3 (2.38%) C++
9 2 (1.59%) Go
9 2 (1.59%) Groovy
9 2 (1.59%) Jython
9 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.79%) R
10 1 (0.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 47 (37.30%) Security Cleared
2 30 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.94%) Degree
4 8 (6.35%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.35%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.38%) MCSA
6 3 (2.38%) MCSE
6 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.38%) OCA
6 3 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.79%) CCNP
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) QA
2 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) ITGC
3 1 (0.79%) MiFID
System Software
1 42 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) Firmware
3 4 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.59%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (29.37%) Kubernetes
2 21 (16.67%) Ansible
2 21 (16.67%) Terraform
3 13 (10.32%) Puppet
4 8 (6.35%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.56%) Grafana
5 7 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.97%) Podman
6 5 (3.97%) SCCM
7 3 (2.38%) Ambari
7 3 (2.38%) PowerCLI
7 3 (2.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (2.38%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.59%) Istio
8 2 (1.59%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.79%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.79%) Kibana
9 1 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (26.19%) Atlassian
2 15 (11.90%) Oracle
3 12 (9.52%) Splunk
4 11 (8.73%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.35%) Checkmarx
6 7 (5.56%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.76%) Dynatrace
7 6 (4.76%) Veracode
8 4 (3.17%) UiPath
8 4 (3.17%) VMware
9 3 (2.38%) Coverity
9 3 (2.38%) IBM
9 3 (2.38%) jBASE
9 3 (2.38%) Okta
9 3 (2.38%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.38%) Temenos
9 3 (2.38%) Thales
9 3 (2.38%) Veeam
10 2 (1.59%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow