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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 330 314
Rank change year-on-year -49 -16 -25
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 141 193 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.62% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.10% 4.69% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 133 215
10th Percentile £294 £450 £456
25th Percentile £370 £490 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +8.33% +1.87%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £775
90th Percentile £738 £810 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -21.57% +6.25% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 19
10th Percentile £56.50 £62.50 £51.25
25th Percentile £58.75 £66.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +10.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 - £70.95
90th Percentile £68.50 £73.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £70.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -8.93% +14.29% +8.46%

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 4,554 4,117 5,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.46% 13.24% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,183 2,587 3,554
10th Percentile £325 £350 £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 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £544
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.41% -1.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 126 223
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.94 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.50 £70.00 £77.02
90th Percentile £79.25 £74.72 £89.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.84%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -35 70 £600 -14.29% 60
Midlands -25 18 £513 +4.59% 3
North of England -36 18 £358 -31.65% 30
North West -19 16 £358 -32.45% 18
South East -17 14 £525 +5.00% 49
West Midlands -21 12 £575 +18.92%
South West -2 11 £550 -18.52% 13
East Midlands -14 6 £270 -64.00% 3
Yorkshire -27 2 - - 4
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 56 (39.72%) Confluence
2 8 (5.67%) nginx
3 4 (2.84%) JBoss
3 4 (2.84%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.13%) Apache
4 3 (2.13%) Mule
4 3 (2.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.42%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.42%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.42%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.71%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.71%) Camunda
6 1 (0.71%) IIS
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.13%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Magento
2 3 (2.13%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.42%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.91%) GitHub
2 44 (31.21%) AWS
3 29 (20.57%) Azure
4 14 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (8.51%) Serverless
6 11 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (7.80%) OpenShift
7 9 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.96%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.96%) GCP
8 7 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.26%) Datadog
9 6 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.84%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (2.84%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.84%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.96%) Firewall
2 3 (2.13%) BGP
2 3 (2.13%) OSPF
2 3 (2.13%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.13%) VLAN
2 3 (2.13%) VPN
3 2 (1.42%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (1.42%) IPsec
3 2 (1.42%) LAN
3 2 (1.42%) Multicast
3 2 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.42%) SSL
3 2 (1.42%) VXLAN
3 2 (1.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.71%) Internet
4 1 (0.71%) Skype
4 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.06%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.96%) MySQL
3 7 (4.96%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.26%) DB2
5 5 (3.55%) MariaDB
5 5 (3.55%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.84%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.84%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.42%) Power BI
7 2 (1.42%) Tableau
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.71%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.71%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (56.74%) Git
2 76 (53.90%) JIRA
3 61 (43.26%) Jenkins
4 30 (21.28%) GitLab
5 27 (19.15%) Selenium
6 21 (14.89%) SonarQube
7 20 (14.18%) Cucumber
8 17 (12.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (10.64%) JUnit
9 15 (10.64%) Maven
10 13 (9.22%) Artifactory
11 12 (8.51%) Postman
12 8 (5.67%) Gradle
12 8 (5.67%) Snyk
12 8 (5.67%) TeamCity
13 7 (4.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (4.26%) Android Studio
14 6 (4.26%) Mockito
14 6 (4.26%) ScriptRunner
15 5 (3.55%) REST Assured
General
1 42 (29.79%) Finance
2 32 (22.70%) Social Skills
3 31 (21.99%) Banking
4 12 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.67%) Front Office
7 6 (4.26%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.55%) Back Office
9 3 (2.13%) Automotive
9 3 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.13%) Retail
10 2 (1.42%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.42%) Marketing
11 1 (0.71%) Advertising
11 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (38.30%) Developer
2 25 (17.73%) Java Developer
3 15 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (4.96%) Administrator
4 7 (4.96%) Angular Developer
4 7 (4.96%) Test Automation Engineer
4 7 (4.96%) Test Engineer
5 6 (4.26%) Android Developer
5 6 (4.26%) JIRA Specialist
5 6 (4.26%) Senior
5 6 (4.26%) Tester
6 5 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (3.55%) JIRA Administrator
6 5 (3.55%) Scrum Master
6 5 (3.55%) Senior Developer
7 4 (2.84%) Magento Developer
7 4 (2.84%) Security Engineer
7 4 (2.84%) Selenium Automation Tester
7 4 (2.84%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (24.82%) REST
2 24 (17.02%) Spring Boot
3 21 (14.89%) React
4 18 (12.77%) CSS
5 17 (12.06%) HTML
6 15 (10.64%) .NET
7 14 (9.93%) Node.js
7 14 (9.93%) RESTful
8 12 (8.51%) AngularJS
8 12 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (7.09%) JSON
9 10 (7.09%) Kafka
9 10 (7.09%) Spring
10 7 (4.96%) Hibernate
10 7 (4.96%) JPA
10 7 (4.96%) Web Services
11 6 (4.26%) RAML
11 6 (4.26%) Redux
11 6 (4.26%) SOAP
11 6 (4.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.67%) Private Cloud
2 6 (4.26%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.42%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.42%) Replication
5 2 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.71%) Animation
6 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.71%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.99%) Linux
2 15 (10.64%) Windows
3 14 (9.93%) Unix
4 8 (5.67%) Android
5 5 (3.55%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.42%) CentOS
7 2 (1.42%) Debian
7 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.71%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (56.74%) Agile
2 67 (47.52%) DevOps
3 66 (46.81%) CI/CD
4 46 (32.62%) Test Automation
5 44 (31.21%) Scrum
6 36 (25.53%) Microservices
7 28 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (15.60%) TDD
9 15 (10.64%) BDD
9 15 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (10.64%) Kanban
9 15 (10.64%) Unit Testing
10 14 (9.93%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (9.93%) SDLC
11 13 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (9.22%) Migration
11 13 (9.22%) Software Engineering
12 12 (8.51%) Configuration Management
12 12 (8.51%) Containerisation
12 12 (8.51%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 55 (39.01%) Java
2 44 (31.21%) Python
3 37 (26.24%) SQL
4 28 (19.86%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.35%) C#
6 14 (9.93%) Bash
6 14 (9.93%) PowerShell
7 13 (9.22%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.67%) Perl
9 7 (4.96%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.96%) PHP
10 6 (4.26%) VB.NET
11 5 (3.55%) C++
12 4 (2.84%) Ruby
13 2 (1.42%) Go
13 2 (1.42%) Groovy
13 2 (1.42%) Jython
13 2 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.80%) Degree
3 11 (7.80%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.67%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.42%) JNCIA
6 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.42%) OCA
6 2 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CCNP
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CISSP
7 1 (0.71%) MCSA
7 1 (0.71%) MCSE
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.71%) OCP
7 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.80%) QA
2 4 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 38 (26.95%) Docker
2 7 (4.96%) Firmware
3 5 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.84%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.42%) VirtualBox
5 2 (1.42%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 23 (16.31%) Ansible
3 21 (14.89%) Terraform
4 12 (8.51%) Puppet
5 10 (7.09%) Progress Chef
6 9 (6.38%) Grafana
6 9 (6.38%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.55%) SCCM
8 4 (2.84%) Podman
9 3 (2.13%) Ambari
9 3 (2.13%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.42%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.42%) Icinga
10 2 (1.42%) Kibana
10 2 (1.42%) Nagios
10 2 (1.42%) Salt
10 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.71%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.71%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.71%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 30 (21.28%) Atlassian
2 18 (12.77%) Splunk
3 14 (9.93%) Oracle
4 10 (7.09%) Veracode
5 9 (6.38%) Dynatrace
6 8 (5.67%) Salesforce
7 7 (4.96%) Checkmarx
8 6 (4.26%) Microsoft
8 6 (4.26%) UiPath
8 6 (4.26%) VMware
9 4 (2.84%) IBM
10 3 (2.13%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.13%) Cisco
10 3 (2.13%) Nintex
10 3 (2.13%) Okta
11 2 (1.42%) F5
11 2 (1.42%) Juniper
11 2 (1.42%) New Relic
11 2 (1.42%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.42%) Rackspace