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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 350 371
Rank change year-on-year -150 +21 -21
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 102 146 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.01% 4.20% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 114 110
10th Percentile £363 £328 £390
25th Percentile £407 £433 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £545 £638
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -14.51% +10.87%
75th Percentile £557 £655 £700
90th Percentile £720 £809 £751
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 22
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 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -7.60% +8.70%

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 5,070 3,480 4,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.84% 14.09% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,299 2,360 2,985
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £409 £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 £681 £715 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 70 225
10th Percentile £32.24 £27.35 £33.03
25th Percentile £59.13 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.26%

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 15 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 15 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 -94 47 £534 -15.86% 6
Midlands -51 20 £450 +11.39% 2
West Midlands -51 18 £450 -2.17% 1
South East -64 14 £425 -27.35% 11
North of England -77 12 £402 +9.54% 8
Yorkshire -45 9 £400 - 1
South West -42 8 £513 -10.87% 1
North West -49 3 £464 +26.29% 7
East Midlands -28 2 - - 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 (45.10%) Confluence
2 7 (6.86%) nginx
3 3 (2.94%) IIS
3 3 (2.94%) SAS
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.98%) Camunda
5 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (38.24%) AWS
2 35 (34.31%) GitHub
3 27 (26.47%) Amazon S3
4 25 (24.51%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (24.51%) Serverless
5 24 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (22.55%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (20.59%) Azure
7 21 (20.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (15.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (15.69%) AWS CodePipeline
11 12 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (6.86%) Route 53
13 6 (5.88%) GCP
13 6 (5.88%) Power Platform
14 5 (4.90%) Azure AKS
15 3 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) Firewall
2 7 (6.86%) DNS
2 7 (6.86%) OpenVPN
2 7 (6.86%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.86%) VPN
3 2 (1.96%) WAN
4 1 (0.98%) BGP
4 1 (0.98%) DMVPN
4 1 (0.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.98%) Intranet
4 1 (0.98%) IPsec
4 1 (0.98%) LAN
4 1 (0.98%) MPLS
4 1 (0.98%) NAS
4 1 (0.98%) OSPF
4 1 (0.98%) SAN
4 1 (0.98%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.92%) Power BI
3 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.94%) Apache Hive
4 3 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (2.94%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.94%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.94%) Impala
4 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.94%) MySQL
4 3 (2.94%) Pentaho
4 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.96%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.98%) Db2
6 1 (0.98%) Metadata
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 54 (52.94%) JIRA
2 44 (43.14%) Jenkins
3 30 (29.41%) Git
3 30 (29.41%) GitLab
4 11 (10.78%) SonarQube
4 11 (10.78%) TeamCity
5 8 (7.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (7.84%) Selenium
6 6 (5.88%) Maven
7 5 (4.90%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.90%) WebDriver
8 4 (3.92%) Artifactory
8 4 (3.92%) Gradle
8 4 (3.92%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.94%) MSBuild
9 3 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.94%) SpecFlow
9 3 (2.94%) webpack
10 2 (1.96%) MSTest
10 2 (1.96%) Subversion
General
1 47 (46.08%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Banking
3 13 (12.75%) Finance
4 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.86%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.86%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.90%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.94%) Front Office
9 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (29.41%) Developer
2 11 (10.78%) Scrum Master
2 11 (10.78%) Senior
3 10 (9.80%) Java Developer
4 9 (8.82%) Architect
4 9 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.82%) Software Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (4.90%) React Developer
6 5 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (4.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Technical Architect
7 4 (3.92%) Automation Tester
7 4 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) JIRA Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.92%) Tester
8 3 (2.94%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.94%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.75%) AWS CDK
2 10 (9.80%) HTML
2 10 (9.80%) React
3 9 (8.82%) LDAP
4 7 (6.86%) .NET
4 7 (6.86%) OpenID
4 7 (6.86%) RESTful
5 6 (5.88%) ASP.NET
6 5 (4.90%) JWT
6 5 (4.90%) Node.js
6 5 (4.90%) REST
6 5 (4.90%) Spring
7 4 (3.92%) CSS
7 4 (3.92%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.94%) Dapper ORM
8 3 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.94%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.94%) Swagger
8 3 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.94%) Derivative
4 3 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.98%) Replication
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.65%) Linux
2 9 (8.82%) Unix
3 7 (6.86%) Windows
4 3 (2.94%) Android
5 2 (1.96%) AIX
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (66.67%) Agile
2 66 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 63 (61.76%) DevOps
4 34 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 33 (32.35%) Scrum
6 24 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (20.59%) Containerisation
8 21 (20.59%) Software Engineering
9 20 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (15.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 15 (14.71%) DevSecOps
11 15 (14.71%) ITIL
12 12 (11.76%) Microservices
12 12 (11.76%) Migration
12 12 (11.76%) Problem Management
12 12 (11.76%) Service Management
13 11 (10.78%) Backlog Refinement
13 11 (10.78%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (28.43%) Python
2 28 (27.45%) Java
3 25 (24.51%) SQL
4 14 (13.73%) C#
4 14 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.82%) Bash
6 7 (6.86%) Kotlin
6 7 (6.86%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.90%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.92%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.94%) Bicep
9 3 (2.94%) C++
9 3 (2.94%) HiveQL
10 2 (1.96%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.96%) SOQL
11 1 (0.98%) Korn
11 1 (0.98%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (40.20%) Security Cleared
2 38 (37.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (8.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (6.86%) Degree
6 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.94%) CCNP
7 3 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.96%) OCA
8 2 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.96%) RHCA
8 2 (1.96%) RHCE
9 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.98%) CCDP
9 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.98%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.86%) QA
2 4 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.94%) WCAG
4 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.98%) GDPR
5 1 (0.98%) PMO
5 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (25.49%) Docker
2 8 (7.84%) Squid
3 3 (2.94%) HDFS
4 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.98%) zsh
Systems Management
1 26 (25.49%) Terraform
2 21 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.69%) Ansible
4 12 (11.76%) Grafana
5 8 (7.84%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.86%) Consul
6 7 (6.86%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.86%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.90%) Puppet
8 3 (2.94%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.96%) Istio
9 2 (1.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.98%) Kibana
10 1 (0.98%) logstash
10 1 (0.98%) OPNET
Vendors
1 20 (19.61%) Atlassian
2 12 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.86%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.86%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.88%) Oracle
5 4 (3.92%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.92%) VMware
6 3 (2.94%) Denodo
6 3 (2.94%) Informatica
6 3 (2.94%) jBASE
6 3 (2.94%) Talend
6 3 (2.94%) Temenos
6 3 (2.94%) Thales
7 2 (1.96%) Cisco
7 2 (1.96%) Coverity
7 2 (1.96%) Google
8 1 (0.98%) EMC
8 1 (0.98%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.98%) Splunk
8 1 (0.98%) Sybase