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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 318 388
Rank change year-on-year -166 +70 -21
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 99 151 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.62% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.98% 4.50% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 109 105
10th Percentile £363 £339 £389
25th Percentile £410 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £572 £656 £700
90th Percentile £716 £813 £708
UK median daily rate £463 £536 £553
% change year-on-year -13.71% -2.99% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 19
10th Percentile - £49.85 £45.88
25th Percentile - £52.50 £55.63
Median hourly rate - £60.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +0.83% -9.43%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - £66.25 £75.50
UK median hourly rate - £60.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +5.22% -2.13%

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 4,996 3,357 4,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.28% 13.71% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,300 2,254 2,886
10th Percentile £342 £341 £351
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.84% -3.45%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 65 191
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.68 £33.00
25th Percentile £59.25 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.79% -7.31% +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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -76 44 £540 -22.86% 13
Midlands -60 21 £459 +0.88% 1
West Midlands -52 17 £450 -2.17% 1
South East -69 17 £425 -15.00% 17
South West -50 8 £525 -8.70% 11
North of England -68 8 £407 +5.99% 16
Yorkshire -49 5 £400 - 9
East Midlands -36 4 £525 +54.41%
North West -45 3 £575 +49.74% 6
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 45 (45.45%) Confluence
2 8 (8.08%) nginx
3 5 (5.05%) Apache
4 3 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.03%) SAS
5 2 (2.02%) IIS
5 2 (2.02%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 44 (44.44%) AWS
2 33 (33.33%) GitHub
3 27 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 26 (26.26%) Serverless
5 25 (25.25%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (23.23%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (23.23%) Azure
7 22 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (19.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 18 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (16.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (16.16%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (16.16%) AWS CodePipeline
11 14 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (9.09%) GCP
14 7 (7.07%) Azure AKS
14 7 (7.07%) Route 53
15 4 (4.04%) AWS CodeBuild
15 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.08%) Firewall
2 7 (7.07%) DNS
2 7 (7.07%) OpenVPN
2 7 (7.07%) TCP/IP
2 7 (7.07%) VPN
3 1 (1.01%) DSL
3 1 (1.01%) LAN
3 1 (1.01%) NAS
3 1 (1.01%) SAN
3 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.05%) MySQL
5 4 (4.04%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.04%) Power BI
6 3 (3.03%) Apache Hive
6 3 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (3.03%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.03%) Impala
6 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.03%) Pentaho
6 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.02%) ClickHouse
7 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.01%) Metadata
8 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 50 (50.51%) JIRA
2 44 (44.44%) Jenkins
3 35 (35.35%) Git
4 26 (26.26%) GitLab
5 17 (17.17%) SonarQube
6 8 (8.08%) Maven
7 7 (7.07%) TeamCity
8 6 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (6.06%) Selenium
9 5 (5.05%) Gradle
10 4 (4.04%) Artifactory
10 4 (4.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (3.03%) Android Studio
11 3 (3.03%) JUnit
11 3 (3.03%) Snyk
11 3 (3.03%) SpecFlow
11 3 (3.03%) Subversion
11 3 (3.03%) WebDriver
11 3 (3.03%) webpack
12 2 (2.02%) Mockito
General
1 48 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.16%) Banking
3 13 (13.13%) Finance
4 10 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.07%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.03%) Front Office
7 3 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (30.30%) Developer
2 12 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (11.11%) Architect
3 11 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 11 (11.11%) Senior
4 10 (10.10%) Software Engineer
5 9 (9.09%) Scrum Master
6 6 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (5.05%) React Developer
7 5 (5.05%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (5.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Android Developer
8 4 (4.04%) JIRA Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.03%) DevOps Architect
9 3 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) AWS CDK
1 10 (10.10%) React
2 9 (9.09%) HTML
2 9 (9.09%) LDAP
2 9 (9.09%) RESTful
3 8 (8.08%) Spring
4 7 (7.07%) Node.js
4 7 (7.07%) OpenID
5 6 (6.06%) CSS
5 6 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (6.06%) REST
6 5 (5.05%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.04%) .NET
7 4 (4.04%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.04%) boto
8 3 (3.03%) ADO
8 3 (3.03%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.03%) Hibernate
8 3 (3.03%) JSON
8 3 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.14%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.04%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.03%) Derivative
5 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.18%) Linux
2 8 (8.08%) Windows
3 7 (7.07%) Unix
4 4 (4.04%) Android
5 2 (2.02%) AIX
6 1 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (69.70%) CI/CD
2 67 (67.68%) Agile
3 65 (65.66%) DevOps
4 30 (30.30%) Scrum
5 29 (29.29%) Test Automation
6 25 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (24.24%) Containerisation
8 23 (23.23%) Software Engineering
9 21 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (20.20%) Microservices
10 20 (20.20%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (16.16%) DevSecOps
13 15 (15.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 14 (14.14%) Migration
15 13 (13.13%) ITIL
16 12 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
16 12 (12.12%) Service Management
17 11 (11.11%) SDLC
17 11 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.28%) Java
2 25 (25.25%) Python
3 24 (24.24%) SQL
4 11 (11.11%) C#
4 11 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.08%) Bash
6 6 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.04%) C++
7 4 (4.04%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.04%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.03%) HiveQL
8 3 (3.03%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.02%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.02%) Bicep
9 2 (2.02%) SOQL
10 1 (1.01%) Go
10 1 (1.01%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (43.43%) Security Cleared
2 36 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.09%) SAFe Agilist
4 7 (7.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (6.06%) Degree
6 4 (4.04%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.02%) CCNP
8 2 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.02%) OCA
8 2 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.02%) RHCA
8 2 (2.02%) RHCE
8 2 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.02%) GDPR
3 1 (1.01%) MiFID
3 1 (1.01%) PMO
3 1 (1.01%) SLA
3 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (33.33%) Docker
2 8 (8.08%) Squid
3 3 (3.03%) HDFS
4 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.01%) zsh
Systems Management
1 27 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (24.24%) Terraform
3 20 (20.20%) Ansible
4 13 (13.13%) Grafana
5 9 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 8 (8.08%) Puppet
7 7 (7.07%) Consul
7 7 (7.07%) FortiGate
7 7 (7.07%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (4.04%) Istio
8 4 (4.04%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (2.02%) Opsgenie
11 1 (1.01%) Kibana
11 1 (1.01%) logstash
11 1 (1.01%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (23.23%) Atlassian
2 11 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.08%) Dynatrace
4 7 (7.07%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.06%) Oracle
6 4 (4.04%) Thales
7 3 (3.03%) Coverity
7 3 (3.03%) Denodo
7 3 (3.03%) Google
7 3 (3.03%) Informatica
7 3 (3.03%) jBASE
7 3 (3.03%) Talend
7 3 (3.03%) Temenos
7 3 (3.03%) VMware
8 2 (2.02%) Checkmarx
8 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.02%) Veracode
9 1 (1.01%) EMC
9 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.01%) Zscaler