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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 326 328
Rank change year-on-year -87 +2 -45
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 130 181 251
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.62% 0.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.73% 4.68% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 124 181
10th Percentile £323 £450 £463
25th Percentile £400 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +1.87%
75th Percentile £639 £753 £688
90th Percentile £752 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -14.29% +4.26% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 19
10th Percentile - £55.11 £53.85
25th Percentile - £60.81 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% -1.21%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £70.95
90th Percentile - £71.13 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -8.00% -7.08% +6.27%

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 4,757 3,867 4,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 13.32% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 2,429 3,323
10th Percentile £333 £341 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 85 207
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.88 £54.36 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.40 £75.00 £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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 -41 62 £600 -11.11% 5
Midlands -29 16 £575 +18.92% 3
South West -12 15 £588 -11.32% 9
South East -42 14 £408 -18.50% 6
North of England -38 13 £447 -16.91% 12
West Midlands -27 11 £575 +18.92% 2
North West -30 11 £447 -16.91% 10
East Midlands - 5 £397 - 1
Yorkshire - 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 55 (42.31%) Confluence
2 7 (5.38%) nginx
3 6 (4.62%) Apache
4 5 (3.85%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.31%) JBoss
5 3 (2.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.54%) Mule
7 1 (0.77%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.77%) IIS
7 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.77%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.77%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.54%) Magento
2 2 (1.54%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 50 (38.46%) AWS
2 46 (35.38%) GitHub
3 33 (25.38%) Azure
4 16 (12.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (12.31%) Serverless
5 15 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (10.77%) OpenShift
7 12 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (7.69%) Amazon S3
9 10 (7.69%) GCP
10 8 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.15%) Datadog
10 8 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.38%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (3.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.85%) Firewall
2 2 (1.54%) SSL
3 1 (0.77%) BGP
3 1 (0.77%) DNS
3 1 (0.77%) DSL
3 1 (0.77%) HTTP
3 1 (0.77%) Internet
3 1 (0.77%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.77%) OSPF
3 1 (0.77%) Skype
3 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.77%) SSH
3 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.77%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.77%) VLAN
3 1 (0.77%) VoIP
3 1 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.23%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.92%) MySQL
3 9 (6.92%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.85%) DB2
5 5 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.08%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.08%) MariaDB
6 4 (3.08%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.08%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.31%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.54%) Tableau
9 1 (0.77%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.77%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (56.92%) Git
2 72 (55.38%) JIRA
3 65 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 25 (19.23%) Selenium
5 23 (17.69%) GitLab
6 22 (16.92%) SonarQube
7 16 (12.31%) Cucumber
7 16 (12.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 15 (11.54%) Maven
9 13 (10.00%) Postman
10 12 (9.23%) JUnit
11 11 (8.46%) Snyk
12 10 (7.69%) Gradle
13 9 (6.92%) Artifactory
14 6 (4.62%) CircleCI
14 6 (4.62%) REST Assured
14 6 (4.62%) ScriptRunner
14 6 (4.62%) TeamCity
14 6 (4.62%) webpack
15 5 (3.85%) Cypress.io
General
1 39 (30.00%) Finance
2 38 (29.23%) Social Skills
3 29 (22.31%) Banking
4 15 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.38%) Front Office
7 6 (4.62%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.08%) Back Office
9 3 (2.31%) Automotive
10 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 41 (31.54%) Developer
2 23 (17.69%) Java Developer
3 18 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (5.38%) Administrator
4 7 (5.38%) Angular Developer
4 7 (5.38%) Senior
5 6 (4.62%) Architect
5 6 (4.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 6 (4.62%) JIRA Specialist
5 6 (4.62%) Test Automation Engineer
5 6 (4.62%) Test Engineer
5 6 (4.62%) Tester
6 5 (3.85%) JIRA Administrator
6 5 (3.85%) Lead
6 5 (3.85%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.08%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (3.08%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.08%) Scrum Master
7 4 (3.08%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.08%) Selenium Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (25.38%) REST
2 22 (16.92%) Spring Boot
3 19 (14.62%) React
4 16 (12.31%) AngularJS
5 15 (11.54%) CSS
5 15 (11.54%) RESTful
6 14 (10.77%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (10.77%) HTML
7 13 (10.00%) JSON
7 13 (10.00%) Node.js
8 12 (9.23%) .NET
9 10 (7.69%) Spring
10 5 (3.85%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.85%) Kafka
10 5 (3.85%) SOAP
10 5 (3.85%) Swagger
10 5 (3.85%) Web Services
10 5 (3.85%) YAML
11 4 (3.08%) RAML
11 4 (3.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.62%) Private Cloud
2 5 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.08%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.54%) Replication
4 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.77%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.77%) Animation
5 1 (0.77%) Blog
5 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.77%) Video on Demand
5 1 (0.77%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (0.77%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.38%) Linux
2 18 (13.85%) Windows
3 12 (9.23%) Unix
4 6 (4.62%) Android
5 5 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.54%) CentOS
7 2 (1.54%) Debian
7 2 (1.54%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.77%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (56.15%) Agile
2 67 (51.54%) CI/CD
3 66 (50.77%) DevOps
4 45 (34.62%) Test Automation
5 41 (31.54%) Scrum
6 38 (29.23%) Microservices
7 27 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.62%) TDD
9 16 (12.31%) SDLC
10 15 (11.54%) BDD
10 15 (11.54%) Containerisation
10 15 (11.54%) Kanban
11 14 (10.77%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (10.77%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (10.00%) DevSecOps
12 13 (10.00%) Task Automation
13 12 (9.23%) Configuration Management
13 12 (9.23%) Unit Testing
13 12 (9.23%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 51 (39.23%) Java
2 41 (31.54%) Python
3 38 (29.23%) SQL
4 21 (16.15%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.77%) C#
5 14 (10.77%) PowerShell
6 13 (10.00%) Bash
6 13 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.15%) Perl
8 6 (4.62%) PHP
9 5 (3.85%) C++
9 5 (3.85%) VB.NET
10 4 (3.08%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.08%) Ruby
11 3 (2.31%) Go
12 2 (1.54%) Groovy
12 2 (1.54%) Jython
12 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.77%) C
13 1 (0.77%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 45 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.46%) Degree
4 8 (6.15%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.15%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.08%) OCA
6 4 (3.08%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.31%) MCSA
7 3 (2.31%) MCSE
7 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.77%) CISSP
9 1 (0.77%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.23%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.31%) ITGC
3 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.77%) GDPR
3 1 (0.77%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (35.38%) Docker
2 5 (3.85%) Firmware
2 5 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.08%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.31%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.54%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 40 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 24 (18.46%) Ansible
3 21 (16.15%) Terraform
4 15 (11.54%) Puppet
5 11 (8.46%) Progress Chef
6 8 (6.15%) Grafana
6 8 (6.15%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.85%) Podman
7 5 (3.85%) SCCM
8 3 (2.31%) Ambari
8 3 (2.31%) PowerCLI
8 3 (2.31%) ZABBIX
9 2 (1.54%) Icinga
9 2 (1.54%) Istio
9 2 (1.54%) Kibana
9 2 (1.54%) Nagios
9 2 (1.54%) Opsgenie
9 2 (1.54%) Salt
10 1 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 31 (23.85%) Atlassian
2 17 (13.08%) Oracle
3 14 (10.77%) Splunk
4 9 (6.92%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.92%) Veracode
5 8 (6.15%) Checkmarx
6 7 (5.38%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.62%) Dynatrace
7 6 (4.62%) VMware
8 5 (3.85%) UiPath
9 3 (2.31%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.31%) IBM
9 3 (2.31%) Okta
9 3 (2.31%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.31%) Veeam
10 2 (1.54%) Google
10 2 (1.54%) New Relic
10 2 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.54%) Zend