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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 351 368
Rank change year-on-year -155 +17 -21
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 103 146 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.57% 0.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.99% 4.04% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 113 114
10th Percentile £363 £315 £390
25th Percentile £406 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -17.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £564 £650 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £771
UK median daily rate £450 £519 £625
% change year-on-year -13.25% -17.00% +11.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 24
10th Percentile - £51.78 £45.88
25th Percentile - £53.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £56.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -19.46% +21.74%
75th Percentile - £61.91 -
90th Percentile - £66.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate - £57.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -17.50% +21.74%

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 5,172 3,618 4,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.86% 14.21% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,341 2,460 3,031
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 76 237
10th Percentile £27.64 £28.18 £33.04
25th Percentile £56.94 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -86 49 £534 -13.65% 8
Midlands -52 20 £450 +28.94% 2
West Midlands -47 18 £450 -2.17% 1
South East -66 12 £350 -42.20% 9
North of England -70 12 £402 +9.54% 10
Yorkshire -41 9 £400 - 3
South West -50 8 £513 -10.87% 5
North West -50 3 £464 +26.29% 5
East Midlands -19 2 - - 1
East of England -26 1 - - 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 46 (44.66%) Confluence
2 7 (6.80%) nginx
3 4 (3.88%) IIS
4 3 (2.91%) SAS
5 2 (1.94%) Apache
5 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.94%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.97%) Camunda
6 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 40 (38.83%) AWS
2 35 (33.98%) GitHub
3 28 (27.18%) Amazon S3
4 26 (25.24%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (25.24%) Serverless
5 24 (23.30%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (22.33%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (20.39%) Azure
7 21 (20.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 19 (18.45%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (16.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (16.50%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (16.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (15.53%) AWS CodePipeline
11 12 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (6.80%) GCP
12 7 (6.80%) Route 53
13 6 (5.83%) Power Platform
14 5 (4.85%) Azure AKS
15 3 (2.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) Firewall
2 7 (6.80%) DNS
2 7 (6.80%) OpenVPN
2 7 (6.80%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.80%) VPN
3 2 (1.94%) Internet
3 2 (1.94%) Intranet
3 2 (1.94%) WAN
4 1 (0.97%) BGP
4 1 (0.97%) DMVPN
4 1 (0.97%) IPsec
4 1 (0.97%) LAN
4 1 (0.97%) MPLS
4 1 (0.97%) NAS
4 1 (0.97%) OSPF
4 1 (0.97%) SAN
4 1 (0.97%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.85%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.88%) Power BI
4 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.91%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.91%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.91%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.91%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.91%) Impala
5 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.91%) MySQL
5 3 (2.91%) Pentaho
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.94%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.94%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.94%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.97%) Metadata
7 1 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (53.40%) JIRA
2 48 (46.60%) Jenkins
3 32 (31.07%) Git
4 30 (29.13%) GitLab
5 13 (12.62%) TeamCity
6 11 (10.68%) SonarQube
7 9 (8.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (8.74%) Selenium
8 6 (5.83%) Cucumber
8 6 (5.83%) Maven
9 5 (4.85%) Artifactory
9 5 (4.85%) REST Assured
9 5 (4.85%) WebDriver
10 4 (3.88%) Gradle
11 3 (2.91%) MSBuild
11 3 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.91%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.91%) webpack
12 2 (1.94%) MSTest
12 2 (1.94%) TestNG
General
1 50 (48.54%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.48%) Banking
3 15 (14.56%) Finance
4 13 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (6.80%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.85%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.94%) Front Office
9 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (26.21%) Developer
2 11 (10.68%) Scrum Master
2 11 (10.68%) Senior
3 10 (9.71%) Java Developer
4 9 (8.74%) Architect
4 9 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.74%) Software Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (4.85%) Release Manager
6 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.85%) Technical Architect
7 4 (3.88%) Automation Tester
7 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) JIRA Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) React Developer
7 4 (3.88%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.62%) AWS CDK
2 10 (9.71%) HTML
3 9 (8.74%) LDAP
3 9 (8.74%) React
4 7 (6.80%) .NET
4 7 (6.80%) ASP.NET
4 7 (6.80%) OpenID
4 7 (6.80%) REST
4 7 (6.80%) RESTful
5 5 (4.85%) JWT
5 5 (4.85%) Node.js
5 5 (4.85%) Spring
6 4 (3.88%) CSS
6 4 (3.88%) Gherkin
6 4 (3.88%) XML
7 3 (2.91%) Dapper ORM
7 3 (2.91%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.91%) SOAP
7 3 (2.91%) XSLT
7 3 (2.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.39%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.77%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.94%) Derivative
4 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.97%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.97%) Replication
5 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.42%) Linux
2 10 (9.71%) Unix
3 7 (6.80%) Windows
4 2 (1.94%) AIX
4 2 (1.94%) Android
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (66.99%) Agile
2 67 (65.05%) CI/CD
2 67 (65.05%) DevOps
3 36 (34.95%) Test Automation
4 34 (33.01%) Scrum
5 25 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (22.33%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (20.39%) Containerisation
9 20 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (19.42%) Software Engineering
10 15 (14.56%) DevSecOps
10 15 (14.56%) ITIL
10 15 (14.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 13 (12.62%) Problem Management
11 13 (12.62%) Service Management
12 12 (11.65%) BDD
12 12 (11.65%) Microservices
13 11 (10.68%) Backlog Refinement
13 11 (10.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.10%) Python
2 30 (29.13%) Java
3 27 (26.21%) SQL
4 15 (14.56%) JavaScript
5 14 (13.59%) C#
6 9 (8.74%) Bash
7 7 (6.80%) Kotlin
7 7 (6.80%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.85%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.88%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.91%) Bicep
10 3 (2.91%) C++
10 3 (2.91%) HiveQL
11 2 (1.94%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.94%) SOQL
12 1 (0.97%) Korn
12 1 (0.97%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 37 (35.92%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.68%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (8.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (7.77%) Degree
6 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.91%) CCNP
7 3 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.94%) OCA
8 2 (1.94%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.94%) RHCA
8 2 (1.94%) RHCE
9 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.97%) CCDP
9 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.97%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.91%) WCAG
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.97%) PMO
4 1 (0.97%) SEPA
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (26.21%) Docker
2 8 (7.77%) Squid
3 3 (2.91%) HDFS
4 2 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.97%) zsh
Systems Management
1 27 (26.21%) Terraform
2 22 (21.36%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.53%) Ansible
4 12 (11.65%) Grafana
5 8 (7.77%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.80%) Consul
6 7 (6.80%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.80%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.85%) Puppet
8 4 (3.88%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.94%) Istio
10 1 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.97%) Kibana
10 1 (0.97%) logstash
10 1 (0.97%) OPNET
10 1 (0.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 18 (17.48%) Atlassian
2 13 (12.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.77%) Dynatrace
4 7 (6.80%) Oracle
4 7 (6.80%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.83%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.88%) VMware
7 3 (2.91%) Denodo
7 3 (2.91%) Informatica
7 3 (2.91%) Talend
8 2 (1.94%) Cisco
8 2 (1.94%) Google
8 2 (1.94%) jBASE
8 2 (1.94%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.94%) Splunk
8 2 (1.94%) Temenos
8 2 (1.94%) Thales
9 1 (0.97%) Coverity
9 1 (0.97%) EMC
9 1 (0.97%) Sybase