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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 356 356
Rank change year-on-year -146 0 -36
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 122 158 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.57% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.30% 3.91% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 121 119
10th Percentile £303 £304 £425
25th Percentile £407 £400 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -21.15% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £656 £700
90th Percentile £763 £800 £802
UK median daily rate £456 £510 £638
% change year-on-year -10.59% -20.00% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile £59.61 £51.49 £55.28
25th Percentile - £52.14 -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -21.43% +19.15%
75th Percentile - £61.52 -
90th Percentile - £66.61 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -19.64% +19.15%

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 5,306 4,045 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.61% 14.55% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,797 2,845
10th Percentile £355 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 95 183
10th Percentile £36.25 £40.90 £33.01
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.03 £54.18
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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 17 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 17 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 -100 53 £563 -10.71% 55
Midlands -38 28 £456 +1.22% 12
West Midlands -36 26 £456 -20.78% 7
North of England -68 16 £441 +27.68% 14
South East -65 15 £305 -49.17% 14
Yorkshire - 12 £441 - 3
South West -51 6 £500 -13.04% 6
North West -50 4 £464 +34.35% 8
East Midlands -24 2 - - 4
East of England -20 1 - - 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 55 (45.08%) Confluence
2 6 (4.92%) Apache
2 6 (4.92%) nginx
3 4 (3.28%) IIS
4 3 (2.46%) SAS
5 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.64%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.82%) Camunda
6 1 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 44 (36.07%) AWS
1 44 (36.07%) GitHub
2 27 (22.13%) Azure
3 25 (20.49%) Amazon S3
4 24 (19.67%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (18.85%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (18.85%) Serverless
6 21 (17.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (16.39%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (13.93%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (12.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (11.48%) GCP
11 13 (10.66%) AWS CodePipeline
12 12 (9.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (6.56%) OpenShift
14 6 (4.92%) Azure AKS
14 6 (4.92%) Power Platform
15 4 (3.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.56%) DNS
2 6 (4.92%) Firewall
3 5 (4.10%) DHCP
4 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.46%) VPN
5 2 (1.64%) Internet
5 2 (1.64%) Intranet
5 2 (1.64%) VLAN
6 1 (0.82%) BGP
6 1 (0.82%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.82%) IPsec
6 1 (0.82%) MPLS
6 1 (0.82%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.82%) OSPF
6 1 (0.82%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.74%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.10%) Redis
4 5 (4.10%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.28%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.28%) Power BI
6 3 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.46%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.46%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.46%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.46%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.46%) Impala
6 3 (2.46%) MySQL
6 3 (2.46%) Pentaho
7 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 70 (57.38%) JIRA
2 53 (43.44%) Jenkins
3 47 (38.52%) Git
4 37 (30.33%) GitLab
5 26 (21.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (9.02%) TeamCity
7 9 (7.38%) Selenium
8 8 (6.56%) Artifactory
9 6 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (4.10%) REST Assured
10 5 (4.10%) WebDriver
11 4 (3.28%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.28%) Gradle
11 4 (3.28%) Maven
11 4 (3.28%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.46%) Cypress.io
12 3 (2.46%) JUnit
12 3 (2.46%) Postman
12 3 (2.46%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.46%) webpack
General
1 59 (48.36%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.49%) Finance
3 20 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.93%) Banking
5 7 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.10%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Back Office
8 2 (1.64%) Front Office
9 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Local Government
9 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (22.95%) Developer
2 20 (16.39%) Senior
3 13 (10.66%) JIRA Engineer
4 12 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (9.84%) Java Developer
5 11 (9.02%) Scrum Master
6 9 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.56%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Lead
8 7 (5.74%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (5.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Junior
10 5 (4.10%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Release Manager
11 4 (3.28%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.11%) REST
2 13 (10.66%) Spring
3 12 (9.84%) HTML
4 10 (8.20%) .NET
4 10 (8.20%) AWS CDK
5 7 (5.74%) ASP.NET
6 6 (4.92%) React
7 5 (4.10%) JWT
7 5 (4.10%) Kafka
7 5 (4.10%) RESTful
8 4 (3.28%) .NET Framework
8 4 (3.28%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (3.28%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.28%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (3.28%) JDBC
8 4 (3.28%) JMS
8 4 (3.28%) Ktor
8 4 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.28%) SOAP
8 4 (3.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.85%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.10%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.28%) Spread Betting
6 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Replication
7 1 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.13%) Linux
2 16 (13.11%) Windows
3 9 (7.38%) Unix
4 5 (4.10%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.64%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (72.13%) CI/CD
2 80 (65.57%) Agile
3 73 (59.84%) DevOps
4 41 (33.61%) Scrum
5 40 (32.79%) Test Automation
6 29 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (22.13%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (18.85%) ITIL
10 22 (18.03%) Migration
11 21 (17.21%) Containerisation
11 21 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (17.21%) Service Management
12 19 (15.57%) Microservices
12 19 (15.57%) SDLC
13 18 (14.75%) Software Engineering
14 17 (13.93%) AI
14 17 (13.93%) DevSecOps
15 16 (13.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 15 (12.30%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.43%) Java
2 39 (31.97%) Python
3 36 (29.51%) SQL
4 18 (14.75%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.30%) C#
6 14 (11.48%) Kotlin
6 14 (11.48%) PowerShell
7 13 (10.66%) Bash
8 9 (7.38%) PL/SQL
9 7 (5.74%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.46%) Bicep
10 3 (2.46%) HiveQL
11 2 (1.64%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.64%) C++
11 2 (1.64%) Go
11 2 (1.64%) Groovy
11 2 (1.64%) Perl
11 2 (1.64%) SOQL
12 1 (0.82%) Scala
12 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (30.33%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.87%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.02%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (7.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.10%) Degree
7 3 (2.46%) CCNP
7 3 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.64%) OCA
8 2 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.64%) RHCA
8 2 (1.64%) RHCE
9 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.82%) PMP
9 1 (0.82%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.66%) QA
2 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.64%) WCAG
4 1 (0.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.82%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.82%) PMO
4 1 (0.82%) SEPA
4 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (30.33%) Docker
2 5 (4.10%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.10%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.46%) HDFS
4 2 (1.64%) Squid
5 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.82%) zsh
Systems Management
1 30 (24.59%) Kubernetes
1 30 (24.59%) Terraform
2 21 (17.21%) Ansible
3 13 (10.66%) Grafana
4 12 (9.84%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.92%) Puppet
6 5 (4.10%) Packer
6 5 (4.10%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.10%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.46%) Istio
7 3 (2.46%) Kibana
8 2 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.82%) Consul
9 1 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.82%) OPNET
9 1 (0.82%) Podman
9 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (14.75%) Atlassian
2 12 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.84%) Oracle
3 8 (6.56%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.56%) VMware
4 7 (5.74%) Splunk
5 6 (4.92%) Dynatrace
5 6 (4.92%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.10%) Tanium
7 4 (3.28%) Google
8 3 (2.46%) Denodo
8 3 (2.46%) Informatica
8 3 (2.46%) Talend
9 2 (1.64%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.64%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.82%) Cisco
10 1 (0.82%) New Relic
10 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.82%) Sybase
10 1 (0.82%) Veracode