Bitbucket Contract Job Trends

Bitbucket
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 351 336
Rank change year-on-year -74 -15 -41
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 157 217 292
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.63% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.85% 4.74% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 135 204
10th Percentile £317 £425 £441
25th Percentile £375 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £594
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £638 £744 £691
90th Percentile £738 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 20
10th Percentile - £55.60 £54.18
25th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £64.88
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.67% +2.51%
75th Percentile £61.25 £70.00 £70.47
90th Percentile - £71.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £64.88
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.67% +2.51%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,509 4,577 5,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 13.24% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 2,877 4,018
10th Percentile £338 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £695 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.03% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 98 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.43 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £89.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bitbucket relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Bitbucket job vacancy trend in the UK

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bitbucket.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bitbucket.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England -86 130 £575 -8.91% 31
UK excluding London -61 83 £525 +5.00% 29
London -40 62 £600 -11.11% 4
Work from Home -4 45 £513 -17.17% 11
Scotland +9 24 £450 +4.83% 1
Midlands -31 16 £575 +17.35% 3
South West -13 15 £588 -11.32% 9
South East -23 14 £408 -18.50% 5
North of England -33 13 £447 -16.91% 10
North West -18 11 £447 -16.91% 7
West Midlands -33 11 £575 +18.92% 1
East Midlands -15 5 £397 -47.13% 2
Wales -1 2 £375 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -

Bitbucket
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 56 (35.67%) Confluence
2 7 (4.46%) nginx
3 6 (3.82%) Apache
4 5 (3.18%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.91%) JBoss
5 3 (1.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.27%) Mule
7 1 (0.64%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.64%) IIS
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.64%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.27%) Magento
2 2 (1.27%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 74 (47.13%) AWS
2 59 (37.58%) GitHub
3 45 (28.66%) Azure
4 26 (16.56%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (15.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (14.65%) Serverless
7 19 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (12.10%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (11.46%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (10.19%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (8.92%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (8.92%) OpenShift
11 10 (6.37%) Amazon MSK
11 10 (6.37%) Amazon S3
11 10 (6.37%) GCP
11 10 (6.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (5.10%) Datadog
13 7 (4.46%) Azure AKS
14 5 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (3.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.64%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) DSL
2 2 (1.27%) SSL
3 1 (0.64%) BGP
3 1 (0.64%) DNS
3 1 (0.64%) HTTP
3 1 (0.64%) Internet
3 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.64%) OSPF
3 1 (0.64%) Skype
3 1 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.64%) SSH
3 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.64%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.64%) VLAN
3 1 (0.64%) VoIP
3 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.28%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.73%) MySQL
4 9 (5.73%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.18%) DB2
5 5 (3.18%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.55%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.55%) MariaDB
6 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.91%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.91%) MSDE
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (58.60%) JIRA
2 89 (56.69%) Git
3 88 (56.05%) Jenkins
4 32 (20.38%) GitLab
5 27 (17.20%) Selenium
6 23 (14.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 22 (14.01%) SonarQube
8 18 (11.46%) Cucumber
9 15 (9.55%) Maven
9 15 (9.55%) Postman
10 12 (7.64%) JUnit
11 11 (7.01%) Snyk
12 10 (6.37%) Gradle
12 10 (6.37%) IntelliJ
12 10 (6.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 9 (5.73%) Artifactory
13 9 (5.73%) PyCharm
13 9 (5.73%) Visual Studio
14 6 (3.82%) CircleCI
14 6 (3.82%) ScriptRunner
General
1 59 (37.58%) Finance
2 39 (24.84%) Social Skills
3 37 (23.57%) Banking
4 16 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.73%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.46%) Front Office
7 4 (2.55%) Back Office
8 3 (1.91%) Automotive
8 3 (1.91%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 47 (29.94%) Developer
2 29 (18.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (14.65%) Java Developer
4 12 (7.64%) Senior
5 8 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (5.10%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (5.10%) Test Engineer
6 7 (4.46%) Administrator
6 7 (4.46%) Angular Developer
7 6 (3.82%) Architect
7 6 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (3.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.82%) Data Engineer
7 6 (3.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 6 (3.82%) JIRA Specialist
7 6 (3.82%) Python Developer
7 6 (3.82%) Senior Developer
7 6 (3.82%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (3.82%) Tester
8 5 (3.18%) JIRA Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.02%) REST
2 22 (14.01%) Spring Boot
3 21 (13.38%) Node.js
4 19 (12.10%) React
5 16 (10.19%) AngularJS
6 15 (9.55%) CSS
6 15 (9.55%) RESTful
7 14 (8.92%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (8.92%) HTML
8 13 (8.28%) JSON
9 12 (7.64%) .NET
10 10 (6.37%) Spring
11 5 (3.18%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.18%) Kafka
11 5 (3.18%) SOAP
11 5 (3.18%) Swagger
11 5 (3.18%) Web Services
11 5 (3.18%) YAML
12 4 (2.55%) RAML
12 4 (2.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.46%) Public Cloud
2 6 (3.82%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.55%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.55%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.27%) Replication
6 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.64%) Contactless
7 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 54 (34.39%) Linux
2 29 (18.47%) Windows
3 15 (9.55%) Unix
4 6 (3.82%) Android
5 5 (3.18%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.27%) CentOS
7 2 (1.27%) Debian
7 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.64%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (58.60%) Agile
2 85 (54.14%) DevOps
3 82 (52.23%) CI/CD
4 52 (33.12%) Test Automation
5 45 (28.66%) Microservices
6 42 (26.75%) Scrum
7 28 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (17.83%) SDLC
8 22 (14.01%) Containerisation
9 19 (12.10%) TDD
10 17 (10.83%) BDD
11 16 (10.19%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (10.19%) Software Engineering
12 15 (9.55%) Deployment Automation
12 15 (9.55%) Kanban
13 14 (8.92%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (8.92%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (8.28%) Code Quality
14 13 (8.28%) DevSecOps
14 13 (8.28%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 70 (44.59%) Java
2 61 (38.85%) Python
3 40 (25.48%) SQL
4 25 (15.92%) TypeScript
5 24 (15.29%) C#
6 23 (14.65%) JavaScript
7 22 (14.01%) PowerShell
8 14 (8.92%) Bash
8 14 (8.92%) Perl
9 11 (7.01%) Ruby
10 6 (3.82%) C++
10 6 (3.82%) PHP
11 5 (3.18%) VB.NET
12 4 (2.55%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.91%) Go
13 3 (1.91%) PromQL
14 2 (1.27%) C
14 2 (1.27%) Groovy
14 2 (1.27%) Jython
14 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (29.30%) Security Cleared
2 29 (18.47%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.55%) AWS Certification
4 13 (8.28%) Degree
5 8 (5.10%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.55%) OCA
8 4 (2.55%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.91%) MCSA
9 3 (1.91%) MCSE
9 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.64%) OCP
11 1 (0.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.92%) QA
2 3 (1.91%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.91%) ITGC
3 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.64%) GDPR
3 1 (0.64%) MiFID
3 1 (0.64%) MISRA
3 1 (0.64%) MISRA C
System Software
1 53 (33.76%) Docker
2 8 (5.10%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (3.18%) Firmware
3 5 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.91%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.27%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 58 (36.94%) Kubernetes
2 36 (22.93%) Ansible
3 33 (21.02%) Terraform
4 15 (9.55%) Puppet
5 12 (7.64%) Grafana
5 12 (7.64%) Progress Chef
5 12 (7.64%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.18%) Podman
6 5 (3.18%) SCCM
7 3 (1.91%) Ambari
7 3 (1.91%) PowerCLI
7 3 (1.91%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.27%) Icinga
8 2 (1.27%) Istio
8 2 (1.27%) Kibana
8 2 (1.27%) Nagios
8 2 (1.27%) Opsgenie
8 2 (1.27%) Salt
9 1 (0.64%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 31 (19.75%) Atlassian
2 22 (14.01%) Oracle
3 17 (10.83%) Splunk
4 11 (7.01%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.73%) Veracode
6 8 (5.10%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.46%) Dynatrace
7 7 (4.46%) Salesforce
8 6 (3.82%) VMware
9 5 (3.18%) UiPath
10 4 (2.55%) IBM
11 3 (1.91%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.91%) Okta
11 3 (1.91%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.91%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.91%) Veeam
12 2 (1.27%) Google
12 2 (1.27%) New Relic
12 2 (1.27%) Rackspace
12 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow