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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 318 313
Rank change year-on-year -79 -5 -22
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 142 193 284
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.63% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.05% 4.77% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 132 206
10th Percentile £290 £450 £450
25th Percentile £400 £487 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% +1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £753 £722
90th Percentile £743 £810 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 20
10th Percentile £56.50 - £51.25
25th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.29% +7.46%
75th Percentile £66.25 - £70.47
90th Percentile £68.50 £73.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.93% +16.67% +8.11%

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 4,653 4,050 4,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.31% 13.13% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,246 2,522 3,507
10th Percentile £325 £348 £375
25th Percentile £407 £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 £689 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 121 228
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £46.09
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.55 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.97%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -28 72 £600 -14.29% 54
North of England -41 17 £363 -31.51% 22
South East -17 15 £525 +5.00% 14
North West -28 15 £363 -31.51% 15
Midlands -31 14 £575 +17.35% 3
South West -7 13 £550 -19.27% 12
West Midlands -24 10 £575 +18.92% 1
East Midlands -18 4 £268 -64.27% 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
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 57 (40.14%) Confluence
2 9 (6.34%) nginx
3 4 (2.82%) Apache
3 4 (2.82%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.11%) JBoss
4 3 (2.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.41%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.41%) Mule
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.70%) Camunda
6 1 (0.70%) IIS
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.70%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Magento
2 3 (2.11%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.41%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 48 (33.80%) GitHub
2 47 (33.10%) AWS
3 32 (22.54%) Azure
4 14 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (9.86%) Serverless
5 13 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (7.75%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (7.75%) OpenShift
7 10 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.34%) GCP
9 8 (5.63%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.93%) Datadog
10 7 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.82%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (2.82%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.82%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.63%) Firewall
2 4 (2.82%) VPN
3 3 (2.11%) BGP
3 3 (2.11%) OSPF
3 3 (2.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.11%) VLAN
4 2 (1.41%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (1.41%) IPsec
4 2 (1.41%) LAN
4 2 (1.41%) Multicast
4 2 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.41%) SSL
4 2 (1.41%) VXLAN
4 2 (1.41%) WAN
5 1 (0.70%) HTTP
5 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.70%) Skype
5 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.70%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (11.97%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.34%) MySQL
2 9 (6.34%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.52%) DB2
4 5 (3.52%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.52%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.82%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.82%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.82%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.82%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.41%) Power BI
6 2 (1.41%) Tableau
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.70%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (57.75%) Git
2 77 (54.23%) JIRA
3 65 (45.77%) Jenkins
4 31 (21.83%) GitLab
5 27 (19.01%) Selenium
6 21 (14.79%) SonarQube
7 20 (14.08%) Cucumber
8 17 (11.97%) JUnit
8 17 (11.97%) Maven
8 17 (11.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (9.15%) Artifactory
10 12 (8.45%) Postman
11 9 (6.34%) Gradle
12 8 (5.63%) Mockito
12 8 (5.63%) Snyk
13 7 (4.93%) TeamCity
14 6 (4.23%) Android Studio
14 6 (4.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (4.23%) ScriptRunner
15 5 (3.52%) REST Assured
General
1 39 (27.46%) Finance
2 35 (24.65%) Social Skills
3 33 (23.24%) Banking
4 13 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.93%) Front Office
5 7 (4.93%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.82%) Back Office
7 3 (2.11%) Automotive
7 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.11%) Retail
8 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Advertising
9 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (37.32%) Developer
2 27 (19.01%) Java Developer
3 15 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (4.93%) Administrator
4 7 (4.93%) Angular Developer
4 7 (4.93%) Senior
4 7 (4.93%) Test Automation Engineer
4 7 (4.93%) Test Engineer
5 6 (4.23%) Android Developer
5 6 (4.23%) JIRA Specialist
5 6 (4.23%) Senior Developer
5 6 (4.23%) Tester
6 5 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (3.52%) JIRA Administrator
7 4 (2.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 4 (2.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (2.82%) Lead
7 4 (2.82%) Magento Developer
7 4 (2.82%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (26.06%) REST
2 26 (18.31%) Spring Boot
3 23 (16.20%) React
4 20 (14.08%) CSS
5 19 (13.38%) HTML
6 17 (11.97%) RESTful
7 15 (10.56%) .NET
7 15 (10.56%) AngularJS
7 15 (10.56%) Node.js
8 12 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (8.45%) Spring
9 11 (7.75%) JSON
10 10 (7.04%) Kafka
11 9 (6.34%) Hibernate
12 7 (4.93%) JPA
13 6 (4.23%) Android Jetpack
13 6 (4.23%) Jest
13 6 (4.23%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (4.23%) Redux
13 6 (4.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.93%) Private Cloud
2 6 (4.23%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.41%) Replication
4 2 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.70%) Animation
5 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.24%) Linux
2 18 (12.68%) Windows
3 12 (8.45%) Unix
4 8 (5.63%) Android
5 7 (4.93%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.41%) CentOS
7 2 (1.41%) Debian
7 2 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.70%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (59.86%) Agile
2 71 (50.00%) DevOps
3 70 (49.30%) CI/CD
4 48 (33.80%) Test Automation
5 44 (30.99%) Scrum
6 39 (27.46%) Microservices
7 30 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (16.20%) TDD
9 16 (11.27%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (11.27%) SDLC
10 15 (10.56%) BDD
10 15 (10.56%) Kanban
11 14 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (9.86%) Software Engineering
11 14 (9.86%) Unit Testing
12 13 (9.15%) Containerisation
12 13 (9.15%) Migration
12 13 (9.15%) Workflow
13 12 (8.45%) Configuration Management
14 11 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 57 (40.14%) Java
2 47 (33.10%) Python
3 38 (26.76%) SQL
4 28 (19.72%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.97%) C#
6 16 (11.27%) PowerShell
7 15 (10.56%) Bash
8 13 (9.15%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.63%) Perl
10 7 (4.93%) Kotlin
10 7 (4.93%) PHP
11 6 (4.23%) VB.NET
12 5 (3.52%) C++
13 4 (2.82%) Ruby
14 3 (2.11%) Go
15 2 (1.41%) Groovy
15 2 (1.41%) Jython
15 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.70%) C
16 1 (0.70%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 47 (33.10%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.45%) Degree
4 11 (7.75%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.93%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.82%) OCA
8 4 (2.82%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.11%) MCSA
9 3 (2.11%) MCSE
9 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.41%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.70%) CCNP
11 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.70%) CISSP
11 1 (0.70%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.15%) QA
2 4 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 42 (29.58%) Docker
2 7 (4.93%) Firmware
2 7 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.52%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.41%) VirtualBox
5 2 (1.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (27.46%) Kubernetes
2 26 (18.31%) Ansible
3 24 (16.90%) Terraform
4 12 (8.45%) Puppet
5 10 (7.04%) Progress Chef
6 9 (6.34%) Grafana
6 9 (6.34%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.52%) SCCM
8 4 (2.82%) Podman
9 3 (2.11%) Ambari
9 3 (2.11%) PowerCLI
9 3 (2.11%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.41%) CloudHub
10 2 (1.41%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.41%) Icinga
10 2 (1.41%) Kibana
10 2 (1.41%) Nagios
10 2 (1.41%) Salt
10 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.70%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 30 (21.13%) Atlassian
2 18 (12.68%) Splunk
3 17 (11.97%) Oracle
4 10 (7.04%) Dynatrace
4 10 (7.04%) Veracode
5 8 (5.63%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.63%) VMware
6 6 (4.23%) Checkmarx
6 6 (4.23%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.23%) UiPath
7 3 (2.11%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.11%) Cisco
7 3 (2.11%) IBM
7 3 (2.11%) Nintex
7 3 (2.11%) Okta
7 3 (2.11%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.11%) Veeam
8 2 (1.41%) F5
8 2 (1.41%) New Relic
8 2 (1.41%) Rackspace