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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 376 366
Rank change year-on-year -136 -10 -66
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 117 150 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.24% 3.65% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 115 108
10th Percentile £262 £304 £450
25th Percentile £407 £393 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £651 £741
90th Percentile £763 £808 £810
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £625
% change year-on-year -7.50% -20.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile £59.61 £51.49 £55.11
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 -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -19.64% +16.67%

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 5,223 4,106 4,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.35% 14.90% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,325 2,844 2,835
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £638
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 231 94 174
10th Percentile £37.25 £43.63 £36.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.06 £52.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.99 £71.76
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +0.48%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -93 57 £663 +4.33% 80
Midlands -54 22 £459 +2.06% 8
West Midlands -37 20 £459 -20.13% 6
North of England -65 18 £474 +37.39% 21
South East -73 14 £291 -38.74% 15
Yorkshire - 13 £474 - 6
North West -63 5 £464 +34.35% 12
South West -55 3 £644 +22.62% 11
East Midlands -24 2 - - 2
East of England -18 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 49 (41.88%) Confluence
2 5 (4.27%) Apache
2 5 (4.27%) nginx
3 4 (3.42%) IIS
4 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.56%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.85%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.17%) GitHub
2 44 (37.61%) AWS
3 28 (23.93%) Azure
4 24 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (19.66%) Amazon S3
6 21 (17.95%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (17.95%) Serverless
7 19 (16.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (16.24%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (13.68%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (13.68%) GCP
9 15 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (9.40%) AWS CodePipeline
11 11 (9.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (7.69%) OpenShift
13 6 (5.13%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.27%) npm
15 4 (3.42%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.98%) DNS
2 5 (4.27%) DHCP
2 5 (4.27%) Firewall
3 2 (1.71%) Internet
3 2 (1.71%) Intranet
3 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.71%) VLAN
3 2 (1.71%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) BGP
4 1 (0.85%) DMVPN
4 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.85%) IPsec
4 1 (0.85%) MPLS
4 1 (0.85%) OSPF
4 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.85%) SSH
4 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 9 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.84%) Redis
3 7 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.27%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.71%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.71%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.85%) Metadata
8 1 (0.85%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (55.56%) JIRA
2 55 (47.01%) Jenkins
3 50 (42.74%) Git
4 34 (29.06%) GitLab
5 25 (21.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (9.40%) TeamCity
7 9 (7.69%) Selenium
8 8 (6.84%) Artifactory
9 6 (5.13%) REST Assured
9 6 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (4.27%) WebDriver
11 4 (3.42%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.42%) Cypress.io
11 4 (3.42%) Gradle
11 4 (3.42%) Maven
12 3 (2.56%) JUnit
12 3 (2.56%) Postman
12 3 (2.56%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.56%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 60 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 30 (25.64%) Finance
3 24 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (16.24%) Banking
5 7 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Back Office
9 2 (1.71%) Front Office
9 2 (1.71%) Local Government
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (26.50%) Developer
2 19 (16.24%) Senior
3 13 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 11 (9.40%) JIRA Engineer
4 11 (9.40%) Scrum Master
5 10 (8.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.69%) Lead
7 8 (6.84%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (5.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (5.13%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Junior
10 5 (4.27%) AWS Data Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Release Manager
10 5 (4.27%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (3.42%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (25.64%) Terraform
2 20 (17.09%) REST
3 16 (13.68%) Spring
4 15 (12.82%) HTML
5 12 (10.26%) .NET
6 10 (8.55%) AWS CDK
7 9 (7.69%) Kafka
7 9 (7.69%) React
8 8 (6.84%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.84%) RESTful
9 7 (5.98%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.13%) JWT
11 5 (4.27%) .NET Framework
11 5 (4.27%) CSS
11 5 (4.27%) Jakarta EE
11 5 (4.27%) JDBC
11 5 (4.27%) JMS
12 4 (3.42%) HTML5
12 4 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (3.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.66%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.40%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.27%) Spread Betting
5 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
7 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.93%) Linux
2 14 (11.97%) Windows
3 9 (7.69%) Unix
4 5 (4.27%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.71%) AIX
6 2 (1.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (70.94%) CI/CD
2 75 (64.10%) Agile
3 68 (58.12%) DevOps
4 40 (34.19%) Test Automation
5 39 (33.33%) Scrum
6 29 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (19.66%) Microservices
11 22 (18.80%) Containerisation
12 21 (17.95%) ITIL
13 20 (17.09%) AI
13 20 (17.09%) SDLC
14 19 (16.24%) Migration
15 18 (15.38%) DevSecOps
16 17 (14.53%) Service Management
17 16 (13.68%) Backlog Refinement
18 14 (11.97%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 13 (11.11%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.75%) Java
2 37 (31.62%) SQL
3 36 (30.77%) Python
4 24 (20.51%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.82%) C#
5 15 (12.82%) Kotlin
6 14 (11.97%) PowerShell
7 12 (10.26%) Bash
8 8 (6.84%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.98%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.42%) Go
11 3 (2.56%) Bicep
12 2 (1.71%) Groovy
12 2 (1.71%) Perl
12 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.71%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.85%) Korn
13 1 (0.85%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 29 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 26 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.40%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.56%) Degree
6 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) CCDP
7 1 (0.85%) CCIE
7 1 (0.85%) CCNP
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.85%) PMP
7 1 (0.85%) VCDX
7 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.68%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.71%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.85%) PMO
4 1 (0.85%) SEPA
4 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (35.90%) Docker
2 5 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) Squid
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.85%) zsh
Systems Management
1 32 (27.35%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.53%) Ansible
3 11 (9.40%) Grafana
3 11 (9.40%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.27%) Packer
4 5 (4.27%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.56%) Istio
5 3 (2.56%) Kibana
5 3 (2.56%) Puppet
6 2 (1.71%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.85%) OPNET
7 1 (0.85%) Podman
7 1 (0.85%) WMI
Vendors
1 14 (11.97%) Atlassian
2 11 (9.40%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.55%) Oracle
4 9 (7.69%) Splunk
5 8 (6.84%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.98%) VMware
7 5 (4.27%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.27%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.27%) Tanium
8 4 (3.42%) Google
9 2 (1.71%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.71%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.85%) BMC
10 1 (0.85%) Cisco
10 1 (0.85%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.85%) New Relic
10 1 (0.85%) Sybase
10 1 (0.85%) Veracode
10 1 (0.85%) Zscaler