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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 330 376
Rank change year-on-year -132 +46 -11
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 101 158 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.62% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.09% 4.60% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 112 122
10th Percentile £368 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £559
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +6.04% -6.88%
75th Percentile £650 £708 £681
90th Percentile £750 £810 £710
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -5.72% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 25
10th Percentile - £55.38 £45.88
25th Percentile - £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
75th Percentile - £64.38 £75.00
90th Percentile - £71.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.26%

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 4,824 3,436 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.91% 13.39% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,309 2,183 3,093
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 58 202
10th Percentile £28.84 £39.75 £37.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.87 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £74.69
90th Percentile £82.85 £80.00 £88.31
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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -67 57 £583 -10.38% 20
South West -23 12 £630 +8.39% 19
South East -49 12 £500 - 11
North of England -48 9 £620 +55.00% 10
North West -27 7 £620 +55.00% 5
Midlands -58 7 £575 +22.73% 10
West Midlands -62 5 £575 +20.55% 8
East Midlands -25 2 £525 +68.81% 2
Yorkshire -56 2 - - 3
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 38 (37.62%) Confluence
2 13 (12.87%) nginx
3 6 (5.94%) Apache
4 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.96%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.99%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.99%) IIS
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.98%) Maximo
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 47 (46.53%) AWS
2 39 (38.61%) GitHub
3 26 (25.74%) Azure
4 19 (18.81%) Serverless
5 18 (17.82%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (17.82%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (17.82%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (15.84%) Amazon S3
8 14 (13.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (9.90%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (9.90%) GCP
9 10 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (9.90%) OpenShift
10 6 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (5.94%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.94%) Datadog
10 6 (5.94%) Route 53
11 5 (4.95%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.88%) Firewall
2 7 (6.93%) DNS
2 7 (6.93%) VPN
3 6 (5.94%) OpenVPN
3 6 (5.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.99%) DSL
4 1 (0.99%) HTTP
4 1 (0.99%) Internet
4 1 (0.99%) LAN
4 1 (0.99%) NAS
4 1 (0.99%) SAN
4 1 (0.99%) SSL
4 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.93%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (5.94%) MySQL
4 5 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.95%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.98%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.98%) DB2
6 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.98%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.98%) Redis
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.99%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (51.49%) Jenkins
2 50 (49.50%) JIRA
3 48 (47.52%) Git
4 23 (22.77%) GitLab
5 22 (21.78%) SonarQube
6 13 (12.87%) Maven
7 10 (9.90%) Postman
7 10 (9.90%) Selenium
7 10 (9.90%) Snyk
7 10 (9.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (8.91%) Gradle
9 8 (7.92%) Artifactory
10 7 (6.93%) ScriptRunner
11 6 (5.94%) Android Studio
11 6 (5.94%) Cucumber
11 6 (5.94%) JUnit
11 6 (5.94%) webpack
12 5 (4.95%) CircleCI
13 4 (3.96%) Cypress.io
14 3 (2.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 40 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.75%) Finance
3 22 (21.78%) Banking
4 12 (11.88%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.92%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.95%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.96%) Front Office
8 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.97%) Back Office
10 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.99%) Advertising
11 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.99%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (32.67%) Developer
2 13 (12.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (11.88%) Java Developer
4 10 (9.90%) Architect
5 7 (6.93%) Android Developer
6 6 (5.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) JIRA Specialist
6 6 (5.94%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Angular Developer
7 5 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Senior
7 5 (4.95%) Technical Architect
8 4 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (3.96%) Lead
8 4 (3.96%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Senior Developer
9 3 (2.97%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) React Developer
9 3 (2.97%) T24 Developer
9 3 (2.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.81%) REST
2 12 (11.88%) JSON
2 12 (11.88%) React
3 10 (9.90%) AngularJS
3 10 (9.90%) RESTful
3 10 (9.90%) Spring Boot
4 9 (8.91%) Node.js
5 8 (7.92%) .NET
5 8 (7.92%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (7.92%) LDAP
6 7 (6.93%) OpenID
7 6 (5.94%) CSS
7 6 (5.94%) Spring
8 5 (4.95%) HTML
9 4 (3.96%) Vue
9 4 (3.96%) XML
9 4 (3.96%) YAML
10 3 (2.97%) Android Jetpack
10 3 (2.97%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (2.97%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.93%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.96%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.97%) Derivative
5 2 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.98%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.99%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.99%) Blog
6 1 (0.99%) Contactless
6 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (30.69%) Linux
2 9 (8.91%) Android
3 8 (7.92%) Unix
4 6 (5.94%) Windows
5 3 (2.97%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.98%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.99%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (55.45%) DevOps
2 55 (54.46%) Agile
3 54 (53.47%) CI/CD
4 33 (32.67%) Scrum
5 32 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (25.74%) Test Automation
7 22 (21.78%) Microservices
8 19 (18.81%) Software Engineering
9 17 (16.83%) Containerisation
10 14 (13.86%) SDLC
11 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (11.88%) DevSecOps
12 12 (11.88%) Migration
13 11 (10.89%) Kanban
13 11 (10.89%) TDD
14 10 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (9.90%) Secure Coding
15 9 (8.91%) BDD
15 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Development
15 9 (8.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.66%) Java
2 30 (29.70%) Python
3 26 (25.74%) SQL
4 11 (10.89%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.90%) Bash
6 9 (8.91%) C#
6 9 (8.91%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.92%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.96%) C++
8 4 (3.96%) Perl
8 4 (3.96%) Ruby
9 3 (2.97%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.97%) PHP
9 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.97%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.98%) Groovy
10 2 (1.98%) Jython
10 2 (1.98%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.99%) Scala
11 1 (0.99%) Swift
Qualifications
1 39 (38.61%) Security Cleared
2 28 (27.72%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.91%) Degree
4 7 (6.93%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.94%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.97%) MCSA
6 3 (2.97%) MCSE
6 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.97%) OCA
6 3 (2.97%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.99%) CISSP
8 1 (0.99%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) QA
2 4 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) MiFID
4 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (41.58%) Docker
2 6 (5.94%) Squid
3 4 (3.96%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (38.61%) Kubernetes
2 27 (26.73%) Terraform
3 19 (18.81%) Ansible
4 12 (11.88%) Grafana
5 11 (10.89%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.92%) Puppet
7 6 (5.94%) Consul
7 6 (5.94%) FortiGate
7 6 (5.94%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.95%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.96%) Podman
10 3 (2.97%) PowerCLI
10 3 (2.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (1.98%) Istio
11 2 (1.98%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.99%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.99%) Kibana
12 1 (0.99%) logstash
12 1 (0.99%) Packer
12 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (27.72%) Atlassian
2 12 (11.88%) Oracle
3 9 (8.91%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.93%) Dynatrace
5 6 (5.94%) Checkmarx
5 6 (5.94%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.94%) Veracode
6 5 (4.95%) Splunk
7 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.96%) Thales
7 4 (3.96%) VMware
8 3 (2.97%) Coverity
8 3 (2.97%) IBM
8 3 (2.97%) jBASE
8 3 (2.97%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.97%) Temenos
8 3 (2.97%) UiPath
8 3 (2.97%) Veeam
9 2 (1.98%) Google
10 1 (0.99%) ION Trading