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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 311 392
Rank change year-on-year -164 +81 -15
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 113 170 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.70% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.24% 5.15% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 124 103
10th Percentile £400 £393 £392
25th Percentile £420 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £644 £691 £700
90th Percentile £769 £810 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.44% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 17
10th Percentile - £51.49 £45.88
25th Percentile - £58.47 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +3.60%
75th Percentile - £64.06 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.63 £76.00
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 5,054 3,301 4,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 13.60% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,398 2,203 2,944
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 £588 £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 201 66 165
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.15 £34.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.48 £46.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £86.25
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 31 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 31 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 -82 62 £563 -13.46% 11
Midlands -62 17 £455 -4.32% 4
South West -38 13 £553 -3.91% 10
West Midlands -53 13 £450 -3.95% 3
South East -78 13 £425 -15.00% 8
North of England -70 5 £600 +51.90% 16
East Midlands -36 4 £525 +10.53% 1
North West -34 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 48 (42.48%) Confluence
2 14 (12.39%) nginx
3 6 (5.31%) Apache
4 4 (3.54%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.65%) SAS
6 2 (1.77%) IIS
6 2 (1.77%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.94%) AWS
2 36 (31.86%) GitHub
3 23 (20.35%) Azure
3 23 (20.35%) Serverless
4 22 (19.47%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (18.58%) Amazon S3
6 19 (16.81%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (15.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (15.04%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (13.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (10.62%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (8.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (8.85%) AWS CodePipeline
11 10 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (7.08%) GCP
13 7 (6.19%) Route 53
14 6 (5.31%) Azure AKS
14 6 (5.31%) OpenShift
15 4 (3.54%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.73%) Firewall
2 8 (7.08%) VPN
3 7 (6.19%) DNS
3 7 (6.19%) OpenVPN
3 7 (6.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) DSL
4 1 (0.88%) HTTP
4 1 (0.88%) LAN
4 1 (0.88%) NAS
4 1 (0.88%) SAN
4 1 (0.88%) SSL
4 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.19%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (5.31%) MySQL
4 4 (3.54%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.54%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.54%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.54%) Power BI
5 3 (2.65%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.65%) Impala
5 3 (2.65%) Pentaho
5 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.77%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.77%) DB2
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 59 (52.21%) JIRA
2 51 (45.13%) Git
2 51 (45.13%) Jenkins
3 30 (26.55%) GitLab
4 19 (16.81%) SonarQube
5 11 (9.73%) Maven
6 9 (7.96%) Selenium
7 8 (7.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (6.19%) Gradle
9 6 (5.31%) Android Studio
9 6 (5.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (5.31%) Cucumber
9 6 (5.31%) Postman
9 6 (5.31%) ScriptRunner
10 5 (4.42%) Artifactory
10 5 (4.42%) Snyk
10 5 (4.42%) TeamCity
11 4 (3.54%) JUnit
11 4 (3.54%) webpack
12 3 (2.65%) REST Assured
General
1 49 (43.36%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.35%) Banking
3 22 (19.47%) Finance
4 13 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.31%) Front Office
6 6 (5.31%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.42%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.65%) Back Office
9 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (30.97%) Developer
2 15 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (9.73%) Architect
4 10 (8.85%) Java Developer
4 10 (8.85%) Software Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Senior
6 7 (6.19%) Android Developer
7 6 (5.31%) JIRA Specialist
8 5 (4.42%) JIRA Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Lead
8 5 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) React Developer
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.42%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.54%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Test Engineer
10 3 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (2.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.50%) REST
2 12 (10.62%) React
3 9 (7.96%) LDAP
3 9 (7.96%) Node.js
3 9 (7.96%) RESTful
4 8 (7.08%) .NET
4 8 (7.08%) AngularJS
4 8 (7.08%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (6.19%) OpenID
6 6 (5.31%) AWS CDK
6 6 (5.31%) CSS
6 6 (5.31%) JSON
6 6 (5.31%) Spring
7 5 (4.42%) HTML
8 4 (3.54%) boto
9 3 (2.65%) Android Jetpack
9 3 (2.65%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (2.65%) Jetpack Compose
9 3 (2.65%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.96%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.19%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.19%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.42%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.65%) Derivative
5 2 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.77%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (26.55%) Linux
2 12 (10.62%) Unix
3 9 (7.96%) Windows
4 7 (6.19%) Android
5 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.77%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (64.60%) Agile
2 70 (61.95%) DevOps
3 64 (56.64%) CI/CD
4 39 (34.51%) Scrum
5 30 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (25.66%) Test Automation
7 23 (20.35%) Software Engineering
8 20 (17.70%) Microservices
9 17 (15.04%) Containerisation
10 14 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (12.39%) Service Management
11 13 (11.50%) Migration
11 13 (11.50%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (10.62%) DevSecOps
12 12 (10.62%) SDLC
12 12 (10.62%) Validation
13 11 (9.73%) Configuration Management
13 11 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (8.85%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 34 (30.09%) Java
1 34 (30.09%) Python
2 26 (23.01%) SQL
3 13 (11.50%) Bash
4 11 (9.73%) C#
5 9 (7.96%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.08%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.08%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.54%) C++
8 3 (2.65%) HiveQL
8 3 (2.65%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.65%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.65%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.77%) Groovy
9 2 (1.77%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.77%) Perl
9 2 (1.77%) Ruby
10 1 (0.88%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (46.02%) Security Cleared
2 41 (36.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.85%) Degree
4 7 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.54%) OCA
7 4 (3.54%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.65%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (1.77%) CCNP
9 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.77%) MCSA
9 2 (1.77%) MCSE
9 2 (1.77%) RHCA
9 2 (1.77%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.85%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) MiFID
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (31.86%) Docker
2 7 (6.19%) Squid
3 3 (2.65%) HDFS
3 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.77%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.88%) zsh
Systems Management
1 36 (31.86%) Kubernetes
2 27 (23.89%) Terraform
3 24 (21.24%) Ansible
4 14 (12.39%) Grafana
5 11 (9.73%) Prometheus
6 10 (8.85%) Puppet
7 7 (6.19%) Consul
7 7 (6.19%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.19%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (5.31%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.54%) Istio
10 3 (2.65%) PowerCLI
10 3 (2.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (1.77%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.77%) Podman
12 1 (0.88%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.88%) Kibana
12 1 (0.88%) logstash
12 1 (0.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (29.20%) Atlassian
2 11 (9.73%) Oracle
3 10 (8.85%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.08%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.19%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.42%) VMware
7 4 (3.54%) Informatica
7 4 (3.54%) Thales
8 3 (2.65%) Checkmarx
8 3 (2.65%) Coverity
8 3 (2.65%) Denodo
8 3 (2.65%) jBASE
8 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.65%) Splunk
8 3 (2.65%) Talend
8 3 (2.65%) Temenos
8 3 (2.65%) UiPath
8 3 (2.65%) Veracode
9 2 (1.77%) Google
9 2 (1.77%) SolarWinds