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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 353 356
Rank change year-on-year -146 +3 -21
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 123 159 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.57% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.31% 3.95% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 123 120
10th Percentile £297 £304 £424
25th Percentile £406 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £583 £651 £700
90th Percentile £763 £810 £775
UK median daily rate £456 £508 £650
% change year-on-year -10.25% -21.92% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 16
10th Percentile £59.61 £51.49 £55.44
25th Percentile - £52.14 £66.56
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -21.43% +21.74%
75th Percentile - £61.52 -
90th Percentile - £66.61 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -19.64% +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 5,335 4,022 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.45% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,779 2,837
10th Percentile £353 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 97 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.30 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.44% - +0.97%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -110 54 £556 -11.00% 40
Midlands -41 28 £456 +12.75% 10
West Midlands -34 26 £456 -20.78% 6
North of England -60 16 £441 +27.68% 11
South East -71 15 £305 -51.28% 13
Yorkshire - 12 £441 - 2
South West -55 6 £500 -13.04% 6
North West -53 4 £464 +34.35% 6
East Midlands -17 2 - - 4
East of England -17 1 - - 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 56 (45.53%) Confluence
2 7 (5.69%) nginx
3 6 (4.88%) Apache
4 4 (3.25%) IIS
5 3 (2.44%) SAS
6 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.63%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.81%) Camunda
7 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.21%) GitHub
2 46 (37.40%) AWS
3 27 (21.95%) Amazon S3
3 27 (21.95%) Azure
3 27 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
4 25 (20.33%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (20.33%) Serverless
5 24 (19.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (19.51%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (17.07%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (14.63%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (13.01%) AWS CodePipeline
8 16 (13.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (11.38%) GCP
11 8 (6.50%) OpenShift
12 6 (4.88%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.88%) Power Platform
13 4 (3.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.50%) DNS
2 7 (5.69%) Firewall
3 5 (4.07%) DHCP
4 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.44%) VPN
5 2 (1.63%) Internet
5 2 (1.63%) Intranet
5 2 (1.63%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.81%) BGP
6 1 (0.81%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.81%) IPsec
6 1 (0.81%) MPLS
6 1 (0.81%) OSPF
6 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.81%) VLAN
6 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.50%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (4.88%) Redis
4 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.25%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.25%) Power BI
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.44%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (2.44%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.44%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.44%) Impala
7 3 (2.44%) MySQL
7 3 (2.44%) Pentaho
8 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 70 (56.91%) JIRA
2 54 (43.90%) Jenkins
3 46 (37.40%) Git
4 40 (32.52%) GitLab
5 26 (21.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (8.94%) TeamCity
7 9 (7.32%) Selenium
8 7 (5.69%) Artifactory
9 6 (4.88%) REST Assured
9 6 (4.88%) SonarQube
9 6 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (4.07%) WebDriver
11 4 (3.25%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.25%) Gradle
11 4 (3.25%) Maven
12 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
12 3 (2.44%) JUnit
12 3 (2.44%) Postman
12 3 (2.44%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 61 (49.59%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.33%) Finance
3 20 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (14.63%) Banking
5 9 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.69%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.44%) Back Office
10 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Front Office
11 1 (0.81%) Local Government
11 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (21.95%) Developer
2 19 (15.45%) Senior
3 13 (10.57%) JIRA Engineer
4 12 (9.76%) Java Developer
5 11 (8.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (8.94%) Scrum Master
6 9 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.50%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Lead
8 7 (5.69%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.88%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Junior
9 6 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Release Manager
11 4 (3.25%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.20%) REST
2 13 (10.57%) AWS CDK
2 13 (10.57%) Spring
3 12 (9.76%) HTML
4 8 (6.50%) .NET
5 7 (5.69%) React
6 6 (4.88%) ASP.NET
7 5 (4.07%) JWT
7 5 (4.07%) Kafka
7 5 (4.07%) RESTful
8 4 (3.25%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (3.25%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (3.25%) JDBC
8 4 (3.25%) JMS
8 4 (3.25%) Ktor
8 4 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.25%) YAML
9 3 (2.44%) CSS
9 3 (2.44%) SOAP
9 3 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.70%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.94%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.07%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.25%) Spread Betting
6 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Replication
7 1 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.14%) Linux
2 15 (12.20%) Windows
3 10 (8.13%) Unix
4 5 (4.07%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.63%) AIX
6 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (73.17%) CI/CD
2 84 (68.29%) Agile
3 75 (60.98%) DevOps
4 41 (33.33%) Scrum
4 41 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 31 (25.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (24.39%) Platform Engineering
7 24 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (18.70%) Containerisation
8 23 (18.70%) ITIL
9 22 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (17.07%) Service Management
11 20 (16.26%) Migration
12 19 (15.45%) Microservices
12 19 (15.45%) SDLC
12 19 (15.45%) Software Engineering
13 17 (13.82%) AI
13 17 (13.82%) DevSecOps
14 16 (13.01%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 15 (12.20%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.33%) Java
1 41 (33.33%) Python
2 36 (29.27%) SQL
3 17 (13.82%) JavaScript
4 14 (11.38%) C#
4 14 (11.38%) Kotlin
5 13 (10.57%) PowerShell
6 12 (9.76%) Bash
7 9 (7.32%) PL/SQL
8 7 (5.69%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.25%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.44%) Bicep
10 3 (2.44%) HiveQL
11 2 (1.63%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.63%) C++
11 2 (1.63%) Go
11 2 (1.63%) Groovy
11 2 (1.63%) Perl
11 2 (1.63%) SOQL
12 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 36 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.94%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (7.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.07%) Degree
7 3 (2.44%) CCNP
7 3 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.63%) OCA
8 2 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.63%) RHCA
8 2 (1.63%) RHCE
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.81%) PMP
9 1 (0.81%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.57%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.63%) WCAG
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.81%) PMO
4 1 (0.81%) SEPA
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (30.89%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.07%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.44%) HDFS
3 3 (2.44%) Squid
4 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.81%) zsh
Systems Management
1 32 (26.02%) Terraform
2 29 (23.58%) Kubernetes
3 22 (17.89%) Ansible
4 11 (8.94%) Grafana
4 11 (8.94%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.88%) Puppet
6 5 (4.07%) Packer
6 5 (4.07%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.07%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.44%) Istio
8 2 (1.63%) Consul
8 2 (1.63%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.81%) Kibana
9 1 (0.81%) OPNET
9 1 (0.81%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (15.45%) Atlassian
2 12 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.94%) Oracle
4 8 (6.50%) VMware
5 7 (5.69%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.88%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.88%) Splunk
7 5 (4.07%) Tanium
8 4 (3.25%) Google
9 3 (2.44%) Denodo
9 3 (2.44%) Informatica
9 3 (2.44%) Talend
10 2 (1.63%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.63%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.81%) Cisco
11 1 (0.81%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.81%) New Relic
11 1 (0.81%) Sybase
11 1 (0.81%) Veracode