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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 335 355
Rank change year-on-year -91 +20 -28
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 113 155 204
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.58% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.42% 4.30% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 107 142
10th Percentile £363 £450 £450
25th Percentile £413 £477 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £786 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £550 £591 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 21
10th Percentile - £54.63 £51.25
25th Percentile - £57.44 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
75th Percentile - £64.38 £70.00
90th Percentile - £71.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -8.21%

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 4,670 3,603 4,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.68% 13.41% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,241 2,237 3,112
10th Percentile £334 £338 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.72% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 67 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.63 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.65 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -47 55 £613 -12.50% 13
South East -35 18 £425 -15.00% 22
South West 0 14 £625 -8.26% 20
Midlands -41 13 £575 +20.55% 9
West Midlands -37 9 £575 +20.55% 1
North of England -48 9 £620 +15.24% 14
North West -26 7 £620 +15.24% 6
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 8
Yorkshire - 2 - - 5
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 (40.71%) Confluence
2 7 (6.19%) nginx
3 5 (4.42%) Apache
3 5 (4.42%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.77%) Mule
6 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.88%) IIS
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.77%) Maximo
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.28%) AWS
2 38 (33.63%) GitHub
3 26 (23.01%) Azure
4 14 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (9.73%) OpenShift
6 11 (9.73%) Serverless
7 10 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (8.85%) GCP
8 9 (7.96%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (7.08%) Amazon S3
10 7 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (6.19%) Azure AKS
10 7 (6.19%) Datadog
10 7 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (4.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.42%) npm
11 5 (4.42%) Pulumi
11 5 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) Firewall
2 2 (1.77%) SSL
3 1 (0.88%) BGP
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) DSL
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.88%) OSPF
3 1 (0.88%) Skype
3 1 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.88%) SSH
3 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.88%) VLAN
3 1 (0.88%) VoIP
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.08%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.31%) MySQL
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.54%) DB2
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.77%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.77%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.88%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.88%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.88%) Redis
8 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 60 (53.10%) Jenkins
2 59 (52.21%) JIRA
3 55 (48.67%) Git
4 20 (17.70%) Selenium
5 19 (16.81%) GitLab
6 17 (15.04%) SonarQube
7 13 (11.50%) Maven
8 11 (9.73%) Cucumber
8 11 (9.73%) Postman
8 11 (9.73%) Snyk
8 11 (9.73%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (8.85%) Gradle
10 9 (7.96%) Artifactory
10 9 (7.96%) JUnit
11 8 (7.08%) ScriptRunner
12 6 (5.31%) Android Studio
12 6 (5.31%) CircleCI
12 6 (5.31%) REST Assured
12 6 (5.31%) webpack
13 5 (4.42%) Cypress.io
General
1 37 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 35 (30.97%) Finance
3 28 (24.78%) Banking
4 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.42%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.54%) Front Office
7 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.65%) Automotive
8 3 (2.65%) Back Office
9 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (35.40%) Developer
2 20 (17.70%) Java Developer
3 14 (12.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (6.19%) Angular Developer
5 6 (5.31%) Android Developer
5 6 (5.31%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 6 (5.31%) JIRA Specialist
5 6 (5.31%) Senior
5 6 (5.31%) Tester
6 5 (4.42%) Lead
7 4 (3.54%) Administrator
7 4 (3.54%) Architect
7 4 (3.54%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Automation Tester
7 4 (3.54%) JIRA Administrator
7 4 (3.54%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.54%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.66%) REST
2 14 (12.39%) JSON
2 14 (12.39%) React
2 14 (12.39%) RESTful
2 14 (12.39%) Spring Boot
3 12 (10.62%) AngularJS
4 11 (9.73%) .NET
4 11 (9.73%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (8.85%) Node.js
6 9 (7.96%) CSS
7 8 (7.08%) HTML
7 8 (7.08%) Spring
8 5 (4.42%) Kafka
8 5 (4.42%) XML
8 5 (4.42%) YAML
9 4 (3.54%) SOAP
9 4 (3.54%) Swagger
9 4 (3.54%) Vue
9 4 (3.54%) Web Services
10 3 (2.65%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.31%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.42%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.65%) Derivative
5 2 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.77%) Replication
5 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.88%) Contactless
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.66%) Linux
2 13 (11.50%) Windows
3 8 (7.08%) Android
3 8 (7.08%) Unix
4 5 (4.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (53.10%) Agile
1 60 (53.10%) CI/CD
2 52 (46.02%) DevOps
3 37 (32.74%) Scrum
4 36 (31.86%) Test Automation
5 29 (25.66%) Microservices
6 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (16.81%) Software Engineering
8 15 (13.27%) Kanban
8 15 (13.27%) SDLC
9 14 (12.39%) Containerisation
9 14 (12.39%) TDD
10 13 (11.50%) BDD
10 13 (11.50%) DevSecOps
11 12 (10.62%) Migration
11 12 (10.62%) Task Automation
12 11 (9.73%) Unit Testing
12 11 (9.73%) Validation
12 11 (9.73%) Workflow
13 10 (8.85%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 43 (38.05%) Java
2 32 (28.32%) SQL
3 31 (27.43%) Python
4 13 (11.50%) C#
4 13 (11.50%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.50%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.85%) Bash
6 8 (7.08%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.54%) C++
7 4 (3.54%) Perl
7 4 (3.54%) Ruby
8 3 (2.65%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.65%) PHP
8 3 (2.65%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.77%) Go
9 2 (1.77%) Groovy
9 2 (1.77%) Jython
10 1 (0.88%) C
10 1 (0.88%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (38.05%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.01%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.85%) Degree
4 9 (7.96%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.65%) MCSA
7 3 (2.65%) MCSE
7 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.65%) OCA
7 3 (2.65%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.88%) CCNP
9 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.88%) CISSP
9 1 (0.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) MiFID
System Software
1 39 (34.51%) Docker
2 4 (3.54%) Firmware
2 4 (3.54%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (30.09%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.70%) Ansible
2 20 (17.70%) Terraform
3 10 (8.85%) Puppet
4 6 (5.31%) Grafana
4 6 (5.31%) Progress Chef
4 6 (5.31%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.42%) Podman
6 4 (3.54%) SCCM
7 3 (2.65%) PowerCLI
7 3 (2.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.77%) Istio
8 2 (1.77%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.88%) Ambari
9 1 (0.88%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.88%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.88%) Packer
9 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (28.32%) Atlassian
2 13 (11.50%) Oracle
3 11 (9.73%) Splunk
4 10 (8.85%) Microsoft
5 8 (7.08%) Checkmarx
6 6 (5.31%) Dynatrace
6 6 (5.31%) Veracode
7 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.54%) VMware
8 3 (2.65%) Coverity
8 3 (2.65%) IBM
8 3 (2.65%) jBASE
8 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.65%) Temenos
8 3 (2.65%) Thales
8 3 (2.65%) UiPath
8 3 (2.65%) Veeam
9 2 (1.77%) Google
9 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.88%) ION Trading