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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 307 389
Rank change year-on-year -164 +82 -24
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 116 169 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.70% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 5.12% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 124 102
10th Percentile £400 £393 £391
25th Percentile £414 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £641 £691 £700
90th Percentile £755 £810 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 18
10th Percentile - £51.49 £45.88
25th Percentile - £58.47 £52.19
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% +5.86%
75th Percentile - £64.06 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.63 £76.82
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +7.48%

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 5,098 3,298 4,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.43% 13.60% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,431 2,198 2,920
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -6.19%
75th Percentile £587 £626 £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 200 67 168
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.17 £35.63
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.72 £47.69
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.28 £84.38
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -69 62 £550 -15.38% 11
Midlands -72 17 £455 -4.32% 4
South West -34 15 £589 +2.39% 10
South East -77 14 £425 -15.00% 8
West Midlands -55 13 £450 -3.95% 3
North of England -68 5 £600 +51.90% 16
East Midlands -32 4 £525 +10.53% 1
North West -39 3 £600 +51.90% 11
Yorkshire -54 2 - - 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 50 (43.10%) Confluence
2 14 (12.07%) nginx
3 6 (5.17%) Apache
4 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.59%) SAS
6 2 (1.72%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.86%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.86%) IIS
7 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.86%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 45 (38.79%) AWS
2 37 (31.90%) GitHub
3 23 (19.83%) Azure
3 23 (19.83%) Serverless
4 22 (18.97%) Amazon S3
4 22 (18.97%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (15.52%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (15.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (11.21%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (9.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (8.62%) AWS CodePipeline
12 8 (6.90%) GCP
13 7 (6.03%) Route 53
14 6 (5.17%) Azure AKS
14 6 (5.17%) OpenShift
15 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.48%) Firewall
2 8 (6.90%) DNS
2 8 (6.90%) VPN
3 7 (6.03%) OpenVPN
3 7 (6.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.86%) DSL
4 1 (0.86%) HTTP
4 1 (0.86%) Internet
4 1 (0.86%) LAN
4 1 (0.86%) NAS
4 1 (0.86%) SAN
4 1 (0.86%) SSL
4 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.03%) MySQL
2 7 (6.03%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.45%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.45%) Power BI
5 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.59%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.59%) Impala
5 3 (2.59%) Pentaho
6 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.72%) DB2
6 2 (1.72%) Redis
6 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.86%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 62 (53.45%) JIRA
2 54 (46.55%) Jenkins
3 52 (44.83%) Git
4 30 (25.86%) GitLab
5 20 (17.24%) SonarQube
6 11 (9.48%) Maven
7 9 (7.76%) Selenium
8 8 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (6.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (6.03%) Gradle
10 6 (5.17%) Android Studio
10 6 (5.17%) Artifactory
10 6 (5.17%) Cucumber
10 6 (5.17%) Postman
10 6 (5.17%) ScriptRunner
11 5 (4.31%) Snyk
12 4 (3.45%) JUnit
12 4 (3.45%) TeamCity
12 4 (3.45%) webpack
13 3 (2.59%) Subversion
General
1 50 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.83%) Finance
3 22 (18.97%) Banking
4 14 (12.07%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.31%) Front Office
7 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Back Office
9 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Advertising
10 1 (0.86%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (29.31%) Developer
2 15 (12.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (9.48%) Architect
3 11 (9.48%) Software Engineer
4 10 (8.62%) Java Developer
5 8 (6.90%) Senior
6 7 (6.03%) Android Developer
6 7 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) JIRA Specialist
8 5 (4.31%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) JIRA Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Lead
8 5 (4.31%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.45%) React Developer
9 4 (3.45%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.45%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Test Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) DevOps Architect
10 3 (2.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.79%) REST
2 11 (9.48%) React
3 10 (8.62%) RESTful
4 9 (7.76%) LDAP
5 8 (6.90%) .NET
5 8 (6.90%) AngularJS
5 8 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (6.90%) Node.js
5 8 (6.90%) OpenID
5 8 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 7 (6.03%) JSON
7 6 (5.17%) AWS CDK
7 6 (5.17%) Spring
8 5 (4.31%) CSS
9 4 (3.45%) boto
9 4 (3.45%) HTML
10 3 (2.59%) ADO
10 3 (2.59%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (2.59%) Jetpack Compose
10 3 (2.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.03%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.31%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.59%) Derivative
5 2 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.72%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.86%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.86%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.59%) Linux
2 12 (10.34%) Unix
3 10 (8.62%) Windows
4 8 (6.90%) Android
5 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.72%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.86%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (62.93%) Agile
2 71 (61.21%) DevOps
3 67 (57.76%) CI/CD
4 40 (34.48%) Scrum
5 32 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (25.86%) Test Automation
7 24 (20.69%) Software Engineering
8 21 (18.10%) Microservices
9 18 (15.52%) Containerisation
10 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (12.93%) Service Management
11 14 (12.07%) Migration
11 14 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (10.34%) Configuration Management
12 12 (10.34%) DevSecOps
12 12 (10.34%) SDLC
12 12 (10.34%) Validation
13 11 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (9.48%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (31.03%) Python
2 35 (30.17%) Java
3 26 (22.41%) SQL
4 14 (12.07%) Bash
5 11 (9.48%) C#
6 9 (7.76%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.31%) C++
9 3 (2.59%) HiveQL
9 3 (2.59%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.59%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.59%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.72%) Groovy
10 2 (1.72%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.72%) Perl
10 2 (1.72%) Ruby
11 1 (0.86%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (45.69%) Security Cleared
2 42 (36.21%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) Degree
4 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.17%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.31%) OCA
6 5 (4.31%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (4.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.59%) MCSA
8 3 (2.59%) MCSE
8 3 (2.59%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (1.72%) CCNP
9 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.72%) RHCA
9 2 (1.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.62%) QA
2 5 (4.31%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.86%) MiFID
4 1 (0.86%) PMO
4 1 (0.86%) SLA
4 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (31.90%) Docker
2 7 (6.03%) Squid
3 3 (2.59%) HDFS
3 3 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.86%) zsh
Systems Management
1 36 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 29 (25.00%) Terraform
3 26 (22.41%) Ansible
4 14 (12.07%) Grafana
5 11 (9.48%) Prometheus
6 10 (8.62%) Puppet
7 7 (6.03%) Consul
7 7 (6.03%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.03%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (5.17%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.45%) Istio
10 3 (2.59%) PowerCLI
10 3 (2.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (1.72%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.72%) Podman
12 1 (0.86%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.86%) Kibana
12 1 (0.86%) logstash
12 1 (0.86%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (30.17%) Atlassian
2 12 (10.34%) Oracle
3 11 (9.48%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.90%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.03%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.17%) VMware
7 4 (3.45%) Informatica
7 4 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.45%) Thales
8 3 (2.59%) Checkmarx
8 3 (2.59%) Coverity
8 3 (2.59%) Denodo
8 3 (2.59%) jBASE
8 3 (2.59%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.59%) Splunk
8 3 (2.59%) Talend
8 3 (2.59%) Temenos
8 3 (2.59%) UiPath
8 3 (2.59%) Veeam
8 3 (2.59%) Veracode