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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 336 386
Rank change year-on-year -148 +50 -14
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 102 139 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.57% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.02% 4.03% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 106 109
10th Percentile £364 £341 £390
25th Percentile £407 £439 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -12.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £578 £655 £700
90th Percentile £719 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £463 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -11.90% -12.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 19
10th Percentile - £51.78 £45.88
25th Percentile - £53.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £56.38 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £61.91 £70.00
90th Percentile - £66.25 £75.50
UK median hourly rate - £56.38 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -

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 5,043 3,445 4,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.93% 14.16% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 2,326 2,953
10th Percentile £349 £348 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £638
90th Percentile £680 £718 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 66 211
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.72 £31.71
25th Percentile £57.94 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.48 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -101 43 £550 -13.39% 10
Midlands -43 21 £455 +1.00% 2
West Midlands -46 19 £455 -1.20% 1
South East -61 14 £425 -15.00% 17
North of England -71 13 £405 +5.34% 9
South West -39 10 £525 -8.70% 5
Yorkshire -48 9 £400 - 1
North West -48 4 £525 +36.72% 8
East Midlands -31 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 46 (45.10%) Confluence
2 7 (6.86%) nginx
3 3 (2.94%) IIS
3 3 (2.94%) SAS
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.98%) Camunda
5 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 42 (41.18%) AWS
2 36 (35.29%) GitHub
3 27 (26.47%) Amazon S3
4 25 (24.51%) Amazon EKS
4 25 (24.51%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (24.51%) Serverless
5 23 (22.55%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (21.57%) Azure
7 21 (20.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 17 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (15.69%) AWS CodePipeline
10 11 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (8.82%) GCP
12 7 (6.86%) Route 53
13 6 (5.88%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.90%) OpenShift
15 4 (3.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) Firewall
2 7 (6.86%) DNS
2 7 (6.86%) OpenVPN
2 7 (6.86%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.86%) VPN
3 2 (1.96%) WAN
4 1 (0.98%) BGP
4 1 (0.98%) DMVPN
4 1 (0.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.98%) Intranet
4 1 (0.98%) IPsec
4 1 (0.98%) LAN
4 1 (0.98%) MPLS
4 1 (0.98%) NAS
4 1 (0.98%) OSPF
4 1 (0.98%) SAN
4 1 (0.98%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.92%) Power BI
3 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.94%) Apache Hive
4 3 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (2.94%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.94%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.94%) Impala
4 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.94%) MySQL
4 3 (2.94%) Pentaho
4 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.96%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.98%) Metadata
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.98%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 54 (52.94%) JIRA
2 43 (42.16%) Jenkins
3 29 (28.43%) Git
3 29 (28.43%) GitLab
4 14 (13.73%) SonarQube
5 10 (9.80%) TeamCity
6 8 (7.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (5.88%) Selenium
8 5 (4.90%) Artifactory
8 5 (4.90%) Maven
9 4 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.92%) webpack
10 3 (2.94%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.94%) Gradle
10 3 (2.94%) MSBuild
10 3 (2.94%) Snyk
10 3 (2.94%) SpecFlow
10 3 (2.94%) WebDriver
11 2 (1.96%) Android Studio
11 2 (1.96%) ScriptRunner
General
1 47 (46.08%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.65%) Banking
3 14 (13.73%) Finance
4 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.86%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.90%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.94%) Front Office
10 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.98%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (29.41%) Developer
2 11 (10.78%) Scrum Master
2 11 (10.78%) Senior
3 10 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (9.80%) Java Developer
4 9 (8.82%) Architect
4 9 (8.82%) Software Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (4.90%) React Developer
6 5 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (4.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Technical Architect
7 4 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) JIRA Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Senior Developer
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Architect
8 3 (2.94%) Data Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) T24 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.75%) AWS CDK
2 10 (9.80%) HTML
2 10 (9.80%) React
3 9 (8.82%) LDAP
4 7 (6.86%) .NET
4 7 (6.86%) OpenID
4 7 (6.86%) RESTful
5 6 (5.88%) ASP.NET
5 6 (5.88%) REST
6 5 (4.90%) JWT
6 5 (4.90%) Node.js
6 5 (4.90%) Spring
7 4 (3.92%) CSS
7 4 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.92%) YAML
8 3 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.94%) Dapper ORM
8 3 (2.94%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.94%) Swagger
9 2 (1.96%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.69%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.80%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.94%) Derivative
4 3 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Replication
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.63%) Linux
2 9 (8.82%) Unix
3 7 (6.86%) Windows
4 3 (2.94%) Android
5 2 (1.96%) AIX
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (64.71%) Agile
1 66 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 61 (59.80%) DevOps
3 32 (31.37%) Test Automation
4 31 (30.39%) Scrum
5 25 (24.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (21.57%) Containerisation
7 22 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (21.57%) Software Engineering
8 20 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (17.65%) DevSecOps
10 16 (15.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 15 (14.71%) ITIL
12 14 (13.73%) Migration
13 12 (11.76%) Microservices
13 12 (11.76%) Problem Management
13 12 (11.76%) Service Management
14 11 (10.78%) Backlog Refinement
14 11 (10.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (26.47%) Python
2 25 (24.51%) Java
2 25 (24.51%) SQL
3 14 (13.73%) C#
4 13 (12.75%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.82%) Bash
6 7 (6.86%) Kotlin
6 7 (6.86%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.90%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.92%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.94%) Bicep
9 3 (2.94%) C++
9 3 (2.94%) HiveQL
10 2 (1.96%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.96%) SOQL
11 1 (0.98%) Korn
11 1 (0.98%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 38 (37.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (8.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (6.86%) Degree
6 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.94%) CCNP
7 3 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.96%) OCA
8 2 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.96%) RHCA
8 2 (1.96%) RHCE
9 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.98%) CCDP
9 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.98%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) QA
2 4 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.94%) WCAG
4 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.98%) GDPR
5 1 (0.98%) PMO
5 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (28.43%) Docker
2 8 (7.84%) Squid
3 3 (2.94%) HDFS
4 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.98%) zsh
Systems Management
1 27 (26.47%) Terraform
2 24 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.67%) Ansible
4 13 (12.75%) Grafana
5 9 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.86%) Consul
6 7 (6.86%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.86%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (5.88%) Puppet
8 4 (3.92%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.96%) Istio
9 2 (1.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.98%) Kibana
10 1 (0.98%) logstash
10 1 (0.98%) OPNET
10 1 (0.98%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (20.59%) Atlassian
2 10 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.86%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.86%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.88%) Oracle
5 4 (3.92%) VMware
6 3 (2.94%) Denodo
6 3 (2.94%) Informatica
6 3 (2.94%) jBASE
6 3 (2.94%) Talend
6 3 (2.94%) Temenos
6 3 (2.94%) Thales
6 3 (2.94%) Veracode
7 2 (1.96%) Checkmarx
7 2 (1.96%) Cisco
7 2 (1.96%) Coverity
7 2 (1.96%) Google
7 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.96%) Splunk
8 1 (0.98%) Sitecore