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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 321 320
Rank change year-on-year -82 -1 -39
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 135 199 272
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.65% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.93% 4.93% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 136 198
10th Percentile £280 £450 £450
25th Percentile £389 £483 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% +4.17% +0.84%
75th Percentile £647 £741 £700
90th Percentile £750 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -14.29% +6.52% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 18
10th Percentile - £57.06 £53.53
25th Percentile - £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £68.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £71.42
90th Percentile - £73.13 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £68.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +9.65%

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 4,601 4,036 4,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.11% 13.19% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,223 2,510 3,479
10th Percentile £325 £349 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 109 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £44.90 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.04 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.80 £75.00 £89.63
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +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 1 December 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
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 1 December 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 -23 65 £625 -7.41% 14
Midlands -28 16 £575 +17.35%
South East -31 15 £425 -15.00% 10
North of England -46 15 £358 -32.45% 10
South West -7 13 £550 -18.52% 9
North West -26 13 £358 -32.45% 7
West Midlands -21 10 £575 +18.92%
East Midlands -8 6 £270 -64.00%
Yorkshire - 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 59 (43.70%) Confluence
2 7 (5.19%) nginx
3 6 (4.44%) Apache
4 4 (2.96%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.22%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.22%) JBoss
5 3 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.48%) Anypoint
6 2 (1.48%) Mule
7 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.74%) Camunda
7 1 (0.74%) IIS
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.74%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.48%) Magento
2 2 (1.48%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 46 (34.07%) AWS
2 44 (32.59%) GitHub
3 32 (23.70%) Azure
4 16 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (11.11%) Serverless
6 14 (10.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (8.15%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (8.15%) OpenShift
8 9 (6.67%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (5.19%) Datadog
9 7 (5.19%) GCP
9 7 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.44%) Azure AKS
10 6 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.96%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.96%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (1.48%) SSL
2 2 (1.48%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) BGP
3 1 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) HTTP
3 1 (0.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.74%) OSPF
3 1 (0.74%) Skype
3 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.74%) SSH
3 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.74%) VLAN
3 1 (0.74%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.67%) MySQL
3 9 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.70%) DB2
5 5 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.96%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.96%) MariaDB
6 4 (2.96%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.96%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.48%) Tableau
8 1 (0.74%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.74%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (56.30%) Git
2 75 (55.56%) JIRA
3 64 (47.41%) Jenkins
4 27 (20.00%) GitLab
4 27 (20.00%) Selenium
5 22 (16.30%) SonarQube
6 20 (14.81%) Cucumber
7 18 (13.33%) Maven
7 18 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (11.85%) JUnit
9 12 (8.89%) Postman
10 10 (7.41%) Artifactory
11 9 (6.67%) Gradle
12 8 (5.93%) Mockito
12 8 (5.93%) Snyk
13 7 (5.19%) Android Studio
14 6 (4.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (4.44%) ScriptRunner
14 6 (4.44%) TeamCity
15 5 (3.70%) CircleCI
General
1 38 (28.15%) Finance
2 37 (27.41%) Social Skills
3 34 (25.19%) Banking
4 14 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.19%) Front Office
6 7 (5.19%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.96%) Back Office
8 3 (2.22%) Automotive
9 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (36.30%) Developer
2 26 (19.26%) Java Developer
3 15 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (5.93%) Senior
5 7 (5.19%) Administrator
5 7 (5.19%) Android Developer
5 7 (5.19%) Angular Developer
5 7 (5.19%) Test Automation Engineer
5 7 (5.19%) Test Engineer
6 6 (4.44%) Architect
6 6 (4.44%) JIRA Specialist
6 6 (4.44%) Senior Developer
6 6 (4.44%) Tester
7 5 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (3.70%) JIRA Administrator
7 5 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (2.96%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (2.96%) Automation Tester
8 4 (2.96%) Selenium Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (25.19%) REST
2 26 (19.26%) Spring Boot
3 23 (17.04%) React
4 18 (13.33%) CSS
5 17 (12.59%) HTML
5 17 (12.59%) RESTful
6 16 (11.85%) AngularJS
6 16 (11.85%) Node.js
7 14 (10.37%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (9.63%) .NET
9 12 (8.89%) JSON
10 11 (8.15%) Spring
11 8 (5.93%) Hibernate
12 7 (5.19%) JPA
12 7 (5.19%) Kafka
13 6 (4.44%) Android Jetpack
13 6 (4.44%) Jest
13 6 (4.44%) Jetpack Compose
13 6 (4.44%) Redux
14 5 (3.70%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.19%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.48%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.48%) Replication
4 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.74%) Animation
4 1 (0.74%) Blog
4 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.74%) Video on Demand
4 1 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.44%) Linux
2 18 (13.33%) Windows
3 12 (8.89%) Unix
4 9 (6.67%) Android
5 5 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.48%) CentOS
7 2 (1.48%) Debian
7 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.74%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (60.74%) Agile
2 69 (51.11%) CI/CD
3 68 (50.37%) DevOps
4 49 (36.30%) Test Automation
5 46 (34.07%) Scrum
6 41 (30.37%) Microservices
7 28 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (17.04%) TDD
9 16 (11.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (11.85%) Kanban
9 16 (11.85%) SDLC
10 15 (11.11%) BDD
11 14 (10.37%) Containerisation
11 14 (10.37%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (10.37%) Software Engineering
12 13 (9.63%) Unit Testing
12 13 (9.63%) Workflow
13 12 (8.89%) Configuration Management
14 11 (8.15%) Validation
15 10 (7.41%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.96%) Java
2 42 (31.11%) Python
3 40 (29.63%) SQL
4 25 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.11%) Bash
5 15 (11.11%) C#
6 14 (10.37%) PowerShell
7 13 (9.63%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.93%) Perl
9 7 (5.19%) Kotlin
10 6 (4.44%) PHP
10 6 (4.44%) VB.NET
11 5 (3.70%) C++
12 4 (2.96%) Ruby
13 3 (2.22%) Go
14 2 (1.48%) Groovy
14 2 (1.48%) Jython
14 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.74%) C
15 1 (0.74%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 45 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 29 (21.48%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.89%) Degree
4 8 (5.93%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.19%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.96%) OCA
8 4 (2.96%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.22%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.22%) MCSA
9 3 (2.22%) MCSE
9 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.74%) CISSP
11 1 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.63%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.22%) ITGC
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (3.70%) Firmware
2 5 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.96%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.48%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (28.89%) Kubernetes
2 24 (17.78%) Ansible
3 22 (16.30%) Terraform
4 14 (10.37%) Puppet
5 10 (7.41%) Progress Chef
6 8 (5.93%) Grafana
6 8 (5.93%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.70%) SCCM
8 4 (2.96%) Podman
9 3 (2.22%) Ambari
9 3 (2.22%) PowerCLI
9 3 (2.22%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.48%) CloudHub
10 2 (1.48%) Icinga
10 2 (1.48%) Istio
10 2 (1.48%) Kibana
10 2 (1.48%) Nagios
10 2 (1.48%) Salt
11 1 (0.74%) Packer
11 1 (0.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 30 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 17 (12.59%) Oracle
3 14 (10.37%) Splunk
4 10 (7.41%) Veracode
5 8 (5.93%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.19%) Dynatrace
6 7 (5.19%) Microsoft
7 6 (4.44%) Checkmarx
7 6 (4.44%) UiPath
7 6 (4.44%) VMware
8 3 (2.22%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.22%) IBM
8 3 (2.22%) Okta
8 3 (2.22%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.22%) Veeam
9 2 (1.48%) Google
9 2 (1.48%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.48%) New Relic
9 2 (1.48%) Rackspace
9 2 (1.48%) Zend