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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 369 309
Rank change year-on-year -8 -60 -30
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 145 165 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.50% 0.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.51% 3.75% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 108 240
10th Percentile £270 £450 £474
25th Percentile £375 £501 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £753 £791
90th Percentile £803 £810 £838
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 19
10th Percentile £53.00 £55.11 £53.85
25th Percentile £53.75 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -4.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £70.95
90th Percentile £67.50 - £74.31
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% -4.79%

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 4,133 4,398 5,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.88% 13.35% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 2,820 3,960
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £602 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 170 230
10th Percentile £43.98 £37.47 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.81 £54.43 £52.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.88
90th Percentile £78.38 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bitbucket as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket 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 20 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bitbucket in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bitbucket in England

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 20 September 2025. 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 +11 75 £625 -10.71% 17
Midlands -5 20 £450 -18.18% 6
North West -17 15 £345 -34.29% 19
North of England -35 15 £345 -33.81% 25
South East -1 13 £475 -5.00% 8
West Midlands -1 11 £575 +4.55% 6
South West +12 10 £550 -13.73% 5
East Midlands +4 9 £270 -64.00%
East of England +2 1 £500 -28.57% 2
Bitbucket
UK

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 53 (36.55%) Confluence
2 10 (6.90%) JBoss
3 7 (4.83%) Tomcat
3 7 (4.83%) WebLogic
3 7 (4.83%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.76%) Apache
5 3 (2.07%) Mule
5 3 (2.07%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (2.07%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.69%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.69%) Camunda
7 1 (0.69%) IIS
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.07%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Magento
2 3 (2.07%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.69%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.34%) AWS
2 32 (22.07%) GitHub
3 23 (15.86%) Azure
4 13 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (8.97%) Serverless
5 10 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 10 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (4.83%) OpenShift
8 6 (4.14%) GCP
9 5 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.76%) Datadog
10 4 (2.76%) npm
11 3 (2.07%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (2.07%) Slack
11 3 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.76%) BGP
1 4 (2.76%) HTTP
1 4 (2.76%) OSPF
1 4 (2.76%) VLAN
2 3 (2.07%) Firewall
2 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.07%) VPN
3 2 (1.38%) DNS
3 2 (1.38%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (1.38%) IPsec
3 2 (1.38%) LAN
3 2 (1.38%) Multicast
3 2 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.38%) Skype
3 2 (1.38%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.38%) VoIP
3 2 (1.38%) VXLAN
3 2 (1.38%) WAN
4 1 (0.69%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.55%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.90%) DB2
3 9 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.83%) MySQL
5 6 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (4.14%) RDBMS
5 6 (4.14%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.45%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.45%) MariaDB
7 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.76%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.07%) Big Data
8 3 (2.07%) ClickHouse
8 3 (2.07%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.38%) Power BI
9 2 (1.38%) Tableau
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 77 (53.10%) Git
2 65 (44.83%) JIRA
3 49 (33.79%) Jenkins
4 26 (17.93%) GitLab
5 24 (16.55%) Selenium
6 20 (13.79%) SonarQube
7 19 (13.10%) TeamCity
8 18 (12.41%) Cucumber
9 17 (11.72%) JUnit
10 16 (11.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (9.66%) Maven
12 11 (7.59%) Artifactory
12 11 (7.59%) Postman
13 8 (5.52%) Mockito
14 6 (4.14%) Cypress.io
15 5 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
15 5 (3.45%) Gradle
16 4 (2.76%) Android Studio
16 4 (2.76%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (27.59%) Finance
2 34 (23.45%) Banking
3 33 (22.76%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.66%) Front Office
6 13 (8.97%) Investment Banking
7 9 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.14%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.07%) Automotive
9 3 (2.07%) Back Office
9 3 (2.07%) Marketing
9 3 (2.07%) Retail
10 2 (1.38%) Law
10 2 (1.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 59 (40.69%) Developer
2 23 (15.86%) Java Developer
3 10 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (6.90%) Scrum Master
3 10 (6.90%) Senior
4 9 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (6.21%) Senior Developer
5 7 (4.83%) Administrator
5 7 (4.83%) Architect
5 7 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (4.14%) Tester
7 5 (3.45%) AWS Developer
7 5 (3.45%) JIRA Administrator
7 5 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.45%) Test Engineer
8 4 (2.76%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (2.76%) Data Engineer
8 4 (2.76%) Selenium Automation Tester
8 4 (2.76%) Selenium Tester
8 4 (2.76%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.21%) REST
2 36 (24.83%) HTML
3 35 (24.14%) CSS
4 31 (21.38%) React
5 27 (18.62%) Node.js
5 27 (18.62%) Spring Boot
6 21 (14.48%) .NET
7 15 (10.34%) Kafka
7 15 (10.34%) SOAP
8 14 (9.66%) Spring
9 13 (8.97%) HTML5
10 12 (8.28%) ASP.NET
10 12 (8.28%) RESTful
11 11 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (7.59%) Jest
11 11 (7.59%) RAML
11 11 (7.59%) Web Services
12 10 (6.90%) AngularJS
12 10 (6.90%) Tailwind CSS
13 9 (6.21%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.72%) Private Cloud
2 9 (6.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (4.83%) Mobile App
3 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.76%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.07%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.38%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.38%) GNSS
7 2 (1.38%) Video on Demand
7 2 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.69%) Replication
8 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.55%) Windows
2 21 (14.48%) Linux
3 9 (6.21%) Unix
4 8 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.14%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.45%) Android
7 4 (2.76%) CentOS
8 2 (1.38%) Debian
8 2 (1.38%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.38%) VMS
9 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (55.17%) Agile
2 73 (50.34%) DevOps
3 67 (46.21%) CI/CD
4 44 (30.34%) Microservices
5 43 (29.66%) Scrum
6 41 (28.28%) Test Automation
7 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (13.79%) SDLC
9 20 (13.79%) Software Engineering
10 19 (13.10%) TDD
11 17 (11.72%) Configuration Management
11 17 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (8.97%) API Development
14 12 (8.28%) Code Quality
14 12 (8.28%) Containerisation
14 12 (8.28%) Kanban
14 12 (8.28%) OOP
14 12 (8.28%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 52 (35.86%) Java
1 52 (35.86%) JavaScript
2 41 (28.28%) SQL
3 35 (24.14%) Python
4 27 (18.62%) C#
5 18 (12.41%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.97%) C++
6 13 (8.97%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.52%) Bash
8 6 (4.14%) Kotlin
8 6 (4.14%) PHP
9 5 (3.45%) Perl
10 3 (2.07%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.38%) Go
11 2 (1.38%) Haskell
11 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.69%) Jython
12 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.59%) Degree
3 11 (7.59%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.07%) CCNP
6 3 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.38%) JNCIA
7 2 (1.38%) OCA
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.69%) OCP
8 1 (0.69%) RHCA
8 1 (0.69%) RHCE
8 1 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.52%) QA
2 3 (2.07%) ITGC
3 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (19.31%) Docker
2 8 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.83%) Firmware
4 2 (1.38%) vCloud
4 2 (1.38%) VirtualBox
4 2 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.38%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (1.38%) vSphere
5 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.79%) Ansible
3 14 (9.66%) Puppet
3 14 (9.66%) Terraform
4 11 (7.59%) Progress Chef
5 8 (5.52%) Grafana
6 7 (4.83%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.45%) Kibana
7 5 (3.45%) SCCM
8 3 (2.07%) Ambari
8 3 (2.07%) Podman
8 3 (2.07%) ZABBIX
9 2 (1.38%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.38%) Icinga
9 2 (1.38%) Nagios
9 2 (1.38%) Salt
9 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.69%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.69%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (16.55%) Atlassian
2 17 (11.72%) Splunk
3 16 (11.03%) Oracle
4 9 (6.21%) Dynatrace
4 9 (6.21%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.52%) Veracode
5 8 (5.52%) VMware
6 6 (4.14%) Salesforce
7 5 (3.45%) Cisco
8 3 (2.07%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.07%) Checkmarx
8 3 (2.07%) Nintex
8 3 (2.07%) Okta
8 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.07%) UiPath
9 2 (1.38%) F5
9 2 (1.38%) Google
9 2 (1.38%) IBM
9 2 (1.38%) Juniper
9 2 (1.38%) Palo Alto