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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 381 355
Rank change year-on-year -133 -26 -51
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 123 131 177
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.47% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.31% 3.08% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 95 118
10th Percentile £347 £270 £450
25th Percentile £432 £365 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £665 £638 £794
90th Percentile £738 £738 £810
UK median daily rate £468 £500 £650
% change year-on-year -6.35% -23.08% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 14
10th Percentile £59.61 £56.50 £62.50
25th Percentile - £58.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile - £66.25 -
90th Percentile - £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.84% -8.93% +12.00%

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 5,334 4,258 4,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.53% 15.26% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,375 2,962 2,720
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 97 160
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.90 £42.00
25th Percentile £51.19 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.00 £72.06
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -90 63 £645 +3.20% 54
North of England -59 23 £438 +20.66% 18
Midlands -36 19 £456 -11.12% 3
West Midlands -36 19 £456 -20.78% 2
Yorkshire -13 18 £456 - 7
South East -66 13 £305 -41.90% 22
North West -57 5 £402 +10.74% 9
South West -39 2 £644 +17.05% 9
East of England - 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 53 (43.09%) Confluence
2 5 (4.07%) Apache
2 5 (4.07%) nginx
3 4 (3.25%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.63%) IIS
5 2 (1.63%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.81%) Camunda
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Trello
2 1 (0.81%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.81%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.90%) AWS
2 48 (39.02%) GitHub
3 34 (27.64%) Azure
4 24 (19.51%) GCP
4 24 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (18.70%) Amazon S3
6 21 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (17.07%) Serverless
7 20 (16.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (15.45%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (8.13%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (8.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.50%) AWS CodePipeline
12 8 (6.50%) OpenShift
12 8 (6.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.88%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.50%) DNS
2 5 (4.07%) DHCP
2 5 (4.07%) Firewall
3 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.44%) VLAN
3 3 (2.44%) VPN
4 2 (1.63%) Internet
4 2 (1.63%) Intranet
5 1 (0.81%) BGP
5 1 (0.81%) DMVPN
5 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.81%) IPsec
5 1 (0.81%) MPLS
5 1 (0.81%) OSPF
5 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.81%) SSH
5 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (8.94%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.13%) Redis
4 9 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.32%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.69%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (4.88%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.07%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.44%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.63%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.63%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.81%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.81%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 71 (57.72%) JIRA
2 55 (44.72%) Jenkins
3 47 (38.21%) Git
4 32 (26.02%) GitLab
5 29 (23.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (8.13%) TeamCity
7 9 (7.32%) Selenium
8 7 (5.69%) Artifactory
9 6 (4.88%) REST Assured
9 6 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (4.07%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.25%) Cypress.io
11 4 (3.25%) WebDriver
11 4 (3.25%) webpack
11 4 (3.25%) Zephyr
12 3 (2.44%) Gradle
12 3 (2.44%) JUnit
12 3 (2.44%) Maven
12 3 (2.44%) MSBuild
12 3 (2.44%) Postman
General
1 58 (47.15%) Social Skills
2 37 (30.08%) Finance
3 30 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (19.51%) Banking
5 8 (6.50%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.88%) Back Office
6 6 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Front Office
8 2 (1.63%) Local Government
8 2 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (25.20%) Developer
2 19 (15.45%) Senior
3 13 (10.57%) Java Developer
3 13 (10.57%) JIRA Engineer
4 10 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (8.13%) Lead
5 9 (7.32%) Data Engineer
5 9 (7.32%) Technical Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) Scrum Master
7 7 (5.69%) AWS Data Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Junior
9 5 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.07%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.39%) Terraform
2 23 (18.70%) REST
3 19 (15.45%) HTML
4 16 (13.01%) Spring
5 13 (10.57%) .NET
6 12 (9.76%) Kafka
7 10 (8.13%) AngularJS
7 10 (8.13%) React
7 10 (8.13%) RESTful
8 7 (5.69%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (5.69%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.69%) AWS CDK
8 7 (5.69%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (4.88%) JWT
10 5 (4.07%) .NET Framework
10 5 (4.07%) Jakarta EE
10 5 (4.07%) JDBC
10 5 (4.07%) JMS
11 4 (3.25%) Hibernate
11 4 (3.25%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.45%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.69%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.07%) Spread Betting
5 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.63%) PropTech
8 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.81%) PKI
8 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Replication
8 1 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (24.39%) Linux
2 15 (12.20%) Windows
3 9 (7.32%) Unix
4 5 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.07%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.63%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (71.54%) CI/CD
2 72 (58.54%) Agile
3 63 (51.22%) DevOps
4 40 (32.52%) Test Automation
5 36 (29.27%) Scrum
6 30 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (23.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (22.76%) Microservices
9 23 (18.70%) Platform Engineering
10 22 (17.89%) AI
11 21 (17.07%) SDLC
12 20 (16.26%) ITIL
12 20 (16.26%) Migration
13 19 (15.45%) API Development
13 19 (15.45%) Containerisation
14 17 (13.82%) DevSecOps
15 16 (13.01%) Event-Driven
15 16 (13.01%) Service Management
16 14 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 49 (39.84%) Java
2 44 (35.77%) Python
3 41 (33.33%) SQL
4 29 (23.58%) JavaScript
5 20 (16.26%) Kotlin
6 16 (13.01%) Bash
7 15 (12.20%) PowerShell
8 13 (10.57%) C#
9 7 (5.69%) PL/SQL
10 6 (4.88%) Go
10 6 (4.88%) TypeScript
11 4 (3.25%) Groovy
12 3 (2.44%) Perl
12 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.63%) Bicep
13 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.81%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.81%) C++
14 1 (0.81%) Korn
14 1 (0.81%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 28 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.50%) SAFe Agilist
5 6 (4.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.25%) Degree
7 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.81%) CCDP
9 1 (0.81%) CCIE
9 1 (0.81%) CCNP
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.81%) PMP
9 1 (0.81%) VCDX
9 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.45%) QA
2 5 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.44%) WCAG
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.81%) SEPA
4 1 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.07%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) Squid
4 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (29.27%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.82%) Ansible
3 15 (12.20%) Grafana
4 12 (9.76%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.07%) Packer
5 5 (4.07%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.44%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (2.44%) Kibana
7 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.81%) Istio
8 1 (0.81%) OPNET
8 1 (0.81%) Podman
8 1 (0.81%) Puppet
8 1 (0.81%) WMI
Vendors
1 14 (11.38%) Atlassian
1 14 (11.38%) Oracle
1 14 (11.38%) Splunk
2 9 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.32%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.50%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.69%) VMware
5 6 (4.88%) Google
5 6 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.07%) Tanium
7 3 (2.44%) ION Trading
7 3 (2.44%) Sybase
8 2 (1.63%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.81%) BMC
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco
9 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.81%) IBM
9 1 (0.81%) New Relic
9 1 (0.81%) Veracode
9 1 (0.81%) Zscaler