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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 337 332
Rank change year-on-year -91 -5 -30
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 125 179 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.62% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.65% 4.70% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 124 157
10th Percentile £340 £450 £463
25th Percentile £410 £475 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £631 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +9.78% -
75th Percentile £647 £764 £700
90th Percentile £750 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -12.13% +3.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 19
10th Percentile - £54.63 £53.85
25th Percentile - £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% -1.21%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £70.95
90th Percentile - £71.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -8.00% -7.08% +6.27%

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 4,724 3,810 4,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.90% 13.26% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,281 2,389 3,188
10th Percentile £334 £337 £375
25th Percentile £410 £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 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 75 199
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.62
25th Percentile £54.00 £54.66 £48.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £75.15 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 25 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 25 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 -51 59 £600 -11.11% 18
South West -12 15 £588 -14.55% 14
Midlands -33 15 £575 +20.55% 3
South East -50 15 £425 -15.00% 15
North of England -48 13 £447 -16.91% 20
North West -28 11 £447 -16.91% 13
West Midlands -29 11 £575 +20.55% 1
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
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 51 (40.80%) Confluence
2 7 (5.60%) nginx
3 5 (4.00%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.20%) Apache
5 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.40%) JBoss
5 3 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.60%) Mule
7 1 (0.80%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.80%) IIS
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.60%) Magento
2 2 (1.60%) Maximo
3 1 (0.80%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 48 (38.40%) AWS
2 43 (34.40%) GitHub
3 31 (24.80%) Azure
4 16 (12.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (12.00%) Serverless
6 14 (11.20%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.40%) OpenShift
8 12 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (8.80%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
10 10 (8.00%) GCP
11 8 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.40%) Datadog
11 8 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (5.60%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (4.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.00%) Firewall
2 2 (1.60%) SSL
3 1 (0.80%) BGP
3 1 (0.80%) DNS
3 1 (0.80%) DSL
3 1 (0.80%) HTTP
3 1 (0.80%) Internet
3 1 (0.80%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.80%) OSPF
3 1 (0.80%) Skype
3 1 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.80%) SSH
3 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.80%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.80%) VLAN
3 1 (0.80%) VoIP
3 1 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.60%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.80%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.20%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.60%) MySQL
5 6 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.00%) DB2
6 5 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.20%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.40%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.40%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.60%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.60%) Tableau
10 1 (0.80%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (55.20%) Git
2 68 (54.40%) JIRA
3 63 (50.40%) Jenkins
4 23 (18.40%) Selenium
5 22 (17.60%) GitLab
6 21 (16.80%) SonarQube
7 15 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (11.20%) Cucumber
8 14 (11.20%) Maven
9 12 (9.60%) Postman
10 11 (8.80%) JUnit
10 11 (8.80%) Snyk
11 10 (8.00%) Gradle
12 9 (7.20%) Artifactory
13 7 (5.60%) ScriptRunner
14 6 (4.80%) CircleCI
14 6 (4.80%) REST Assured
14 6 (4.80%) TeamCity
14 6 (4.80%) webpack
15 5 (4.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 38 (30.40%) Finance
2 37 (29.60%) Social Skills
3 28 (22.40%) Banking
4 15 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Front Office
6 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.40%) Automotive
7 3 (2.40%) Back Office
7 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 41 (32.80%) Developer
2 22 (17.60%) Java Developer
3 17 (13.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (5.60%) Angular Developer
4 7 (5.60%) Senior
5 6 (4.80%) Architect
5 6 (4.80%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 6 (4.80%) JIRA Specialist
5 6 (4.80%) Tester
6 5 (4.00%) Administrator
6 5 (4.00%) JIRA Administrator
6 5 (4.00%) Lead
6 5 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 5 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (4.00%) Test Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Automation Tester
7 4 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Selenium Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (25.60%) REST
2 20 (16.00%) Spring Boot
3 18 (14.40%) React
4 15 (12.00%) AngularJS
4 15 (12.00%) RESTful
5 14 (11.20%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (10.40%) CSS
6 13 (10.40%) JSON
7 12 (9.60%) .NET
7 12 (9.60%) HTML
7 12 (9.60%) Node.js
8 9 (7.20%) Spring
9 5 (4.00%) Kafka
9 5 (4.00%) SOAP
9 5 (4.00%) Swagger
9 5 (4.00%) Web Services
9 5 (4.00%) YAML
10 4 (3.20%) RAML
10 4 (3.20%) Vue
10 4 (3.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.80%) Private Cloud
2 5 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.20%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.60%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.60%) Replication
5 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.80%) Contactless
6 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.80%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.20%) Linux
2 16 (12.80%) Windows
3 10 (8.00%) Unix
4 6 (4.80%) Android
5 5 (4.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.80%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (56.00%) Agile
2 65 (52.00%) CI/CD
3 62 (49.60%) DevOps
4 42 (33.60%) Test Automation
5 40 (32.00%) Scrum
6 36 (28.80%) Microservices
7 26 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (13.60%) TDD
9 16 (12.80%) SDLC
10 15 (12.00%) Containerisation
10 15 (12.00%) Kanban
11 14 (11.20%) BDD
11 14 (11.20%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.40%) DevSecOps
12 13 (10.40%) Task Automation
13 12 (9.60%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (9.60%) Unit Testing
13 12 (9.60%) Workflow
14 11 (8.80%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 48 (38.40%) Java
2 37 (29.60%) SQL
3 36 (28.80%) Python
4 17 (13.60%) JavaScript
5 14 (11.20%) C#
5 14 (11.20%) PowerShell
6 11 (8.80%) Bash
6 11 (8.80%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.80%) Perl
8 4 (3.20%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.20%) PHP
8 4 (3.20%) Ruby
8 4 (3.20%) VB.NET
9 3 (2.40%) C++
10 2 (1.60%) Go
10 2 (1.60%) Groovy
10 2 (1.60%) Jython
10 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.80%) R
11 1 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) Degree
4 8 (6.40%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.40%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.40%) MCSA
6 3 (2.40%) MCSE
6 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.40%) OCA
6 3 (2.40%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.80%) CCNP
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.80%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.60%) ITGC
4 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) MiFID
System Software
1 43 (34.40%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) Firmware
3 4 (3.20%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (30.40%) Kubernetes
2 21 (16.80%) Ansible
2 21 (16.80%) Terraform
3 13 (10.40%) Puppet
4 9 (7.20%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.60%) Grafana
5 7 (5.60%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.00%) Podman
6 5 (4.00%) SCCM
7 3 (2.40%) Ambari
7 3 (2.40%) PowerCLI
7 3 (2.40%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.60%) Istio
8 2 (1.60%) Kibana
8 2 (1.60%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.80%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.80%) Packer
9 1 (0.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 31 (24.80%) Atlassian
2 16 (12.80%) Oracle
3 13 (10.40%) Splunk
4 9 (7.20%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.40%) Checkmarx
5 8 (6.40%) Veracode
6 7 (5.60%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.80%) Dynatrace
8 4 (3.20%) UiPath
8 4 (3.20%) VMware
9 3 (2.40%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.40%) IBM
9 3 (2.40%) Okta
9 3 (2.40%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.40%) Veeam
10 2 (1.60%) Google
10 2 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.80%) Apple
11 1 (0.80%) Temenos