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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 361 373
Rank change year-on-year -148 +12 -66
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 117 155 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.56% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.25% 3.78% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 120 105
10th Percentile £266 £304 £435
25th Percentile £411 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £519 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% -17.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £651 £738
90th Percentile £763 £801 £810
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £613
% change year-on-year -7.50% -18.37% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile £59.61 £51.49 £55.11
25th Percentile - £52.14 -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £61.52 -
90th Percentile - £66.61 -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -19.64% +16.67%

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 5,198 4,105 4,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.36% 14.79% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,305 2,845 2,845
10th Percentile £357 £325 £355
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 97 172
10th Percentile £36.25 £42.40 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.75 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.90 £71.84
UK median hourly rate £67.49 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.82% - -

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -89 58 £654 +3.77% 40
Midlands -47 22 £459 +2.06% 7
West Midlands -34 20 £459 -20.13% 6
North of England -66 18 £474 +37.39% 15
South East -70 13 £278 -44.50% 11
Yorkshire - 13 £474 - 5
North West -58 5 £464 +34.35% 8
South West -55 3 £644 +17.05% 14
East Midlands -21 2 - - 1
East of England -16 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 49 (41.88%) Confluence
2 5 (4.27%) Apache
2 5 (4.27%) nginx
3 4 (3.42%) IIS
4 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.56%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.85%) Camunda
6 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.17%) GitHub
2 44 (37.61%) AWS
3 29 (24.79%) Azure
4 24 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (19.66%) Amazon S3
6 21 (17.95%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (17.95%) Serverless
7 19 (16.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (16.24%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (13.68%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (13.68%) GCP
9 13 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (9.40%) AWS CodePipeline
10 11 (9.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (7.69%) OpenShift
12 6 (5.13%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.27%) npm
14 4 (3.42%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.98%) DNS
2 5 (4.27%) DHCP
2 5 (4.27%) Firewall
3 2 (1.71%) Internet
3 2 (1.71%) Intranet
3 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.71%) VLAN
3 2 (1.71%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) BGP
4 1 (0.85%) DMVPN
4 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.85%) IPsec
4 1 (0.85%) MPLS
4 1 (0.85%) OSPF
4 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.85%) SSH
4 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 9 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.84%) Redis
3 6 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.27%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.71%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.71%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.85%) Metadata
8 1 (0.85%) Power BI
8 1 (0.85%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 65 (55.56%) JIRA
2 55 (47.01%) Jenkins
3 49 (41.88%) Git
4 33 (28.21%) GitLab
5 25 (21.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (9.40%) TeamCity
7 9 (7.69%) Selenium
8 8 (6.84%) Artifactory
9 6 (5.13%) REST Assured
9 6 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (4.27%) WebDriver
11 4 (3.42%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.42%) Cypress.io
11 4 (3.42%) Gradle
11 4 (3.42%) Maven
12 3 (2.56%) JUnit
12 3 (2.56%) Postman
12 3 (2.56%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.56%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 60 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 30 (25.64%) Finance
3 24 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (16.24%) Banking
5 7 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.98%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Back Office
8 2 (1.71%) Front Office
8 2 (1.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (27.35%) Developer
2 20 (17.09%) Senior
3 13 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 11 (9.40%) JIRA Engineer
4 11 (9.40%) Scrum Master
5 10 (8.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (8.55%) Lead
6 8 (6.84%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Senior Developer
6 8 (6.84%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (5.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (5.13%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Junior
9 5 (4.27%) AWS Data Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Release Manager
9 5 (4.27%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (3.42%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (25.64%) Terraform
2 20 (17.09%) REST
3 15 (12.82%) HTML
3 15 (12.82%) Spring
4 12 (10.26%) .NET
5 10 (8.55%) AWS CDK
6 9 (7.69%) React
7 8 (6.84%) ASP.NET
7 8 (6.84%) Kafka
7 8 (6.84%) RESTful
8 7 (5.98%) AngularJS
9 6 (5.13%) JWT
10 5 (4.27%) .NET Framework
10 5 (4.27%) CSS
10 5 (4.27%) Jakarta EE
10 5 (4.27%) JDBC
10 5 (4.27%) JMS
11 4 (3.42%) SOAP
11 4 (3.42%) Web Services
11 4 (3.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.66%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.40%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.27%) Spread Betting
5 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
7 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.93%) Linux
2 14 (11.97%) Windows
3 9 (7.69%) Unix
4 5 (4.27%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.71%) AIX
6 2 (1.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (70.94%) CI/CD
2 76 (64.96%) Agile
3 69 (58.97%) DevOps
4 40 (34.19%) Test Automation
5 39 (33.33%) Scrum
6 29 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (18.80%) Containerisation
10 22 (18.80%) ITIL
10 22 (18.80%) Microservices
11 20 (17.09%) AI
11 20 (17.09%) Migration
11 20 (17.09%) SDLC
12 18 (15.38%) DevSecOps
13 17 (14.53%) Service Management
14 16 (13.68%) Backlog Refinement
15 14 (11.97%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 13 (11.11%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.90%) Java
2 37 (31.62%) SQL
3 36 (30.77%) Python
4 24 (20.51%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.82%) C#
5 15 (12.82%) Kotlin
6 14 (11.97%) PowerShell
7 12 (10.26%) Bash
8 8 (6.84%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.98%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.56%) Bicep
10 3 (2.56%) Go
11 2 (1.71%) Groovy
11 2 (1.71%) Perl
11 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.71%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.85%) Korn
12 1 (0.85%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 30 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.40%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.56%) Degree
6 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) CCDP
7 1 (0.85%) CCIE
7 1 (0.85%) CCNP
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.85%) PMP
7 1 (0.85%) VCDX
7 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.68%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.71%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.85%) PMO
4 1 (0.85%) SEPA
4 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (35.04%) Docker
2 5 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) Squid
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.85%) zsh
Systems Management
1 32 (27.35%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.53%) Ansible
3 11 (9.40%) Grafana
3 11 (9.40%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.27%) Packer
4 5 (4.27%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.56%) Istio
5 3 (2.56%) Kibana
5 3 (2.56%) Puppet
6 2 (1.71%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.85%) OPNET
7 1 (0.85%) Podman
7 1 (0.85%) WMI
Vendors
1 14 (11.97%) Atlassian
2 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.55%) Oracle
4 9 (7.69%) Splunk
5 8 (6.84%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.98%) VMware
7 5 (4.27%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.27%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.27%) Tanium
8 4 (3.42%) Google
9 2 (1.71%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.71%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.85%) BMC
10 1 (0.85%) Cisco
10 1 (0.85%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.85%) New Relic
10 1 (0.85%) Sybase
10 1 (0.85%) Veracode
10 1 (0.85%) Zscaler