Bitbucket Contracts

Bitbucket
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Bitbucket skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bitbucket over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 371 325
Rank change year-on-year -51 -46 -27
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 176 392 751
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.66% 0.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.44% 4.33% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 259 509
10th Percentile £390 £440 £406
25th Percentile £463 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% +3.64% +5.36%
75th Percentile £700 £661 £675
90th Percentile £702 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £495
% change year-on-year +9.09% +11.11% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 1
10th Percentile £39.68 £48.00 -
25th Percentile £45.88 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +37.50%
75th Percentile £66.25 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £75.25 £74.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +37.50%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Bitbucket is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bitbucket as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bitbucket.

Daily rate trend for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bitbucket.

Hourly rate trend for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bitbucket over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 13 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 -7 156 £564 -1.10% 69
UK excluding London -2 99 £600 +9.09% 51
London +17 62 £538 -10.42% 21
Work from Home +1 50 £531 -6.80% 47
South East +24 35 £450 -20.00% 11
South West +29 33 £700 +16.67% 8
North of England +8 11 £513 -10.87% 14
West Midlands +1 11 £550 +1.85% 11
Midlands -6 11 £550 +1.85% 12
North West +16 9 £525 +2.44% 8
Scotland +32 8 - - 3
Yorkshire +10 2 £433 -24.12% 3
East of England -4 1 £600 -1.80% 1

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 81 (46.02%) Confluence
2 5 (2.84%) CMS
2 5 (2.84%) nginx
3 4 (2.27%) Apache
4 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.70%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.14%) SAS
5 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) IIS
6 1 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.57%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Simulink
2 5 (2.84%) Stateflow
2 5 (2.84%) TargetLink
3 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (25.57%) AWS
2 33 (18.75%) Azure
3 25 (14.20%) GitHub
4 12 (6.82%) OpenShift
5 11 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (6.25%) GCP
6 10 (5.68%) Serverless
7 9 (5.11%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.98%) PaaS
9 6 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.84%) BrowserStack
10 5 (2.84%) Sauce Labs
11 4 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (2.27%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.39%) SNMP
1 13 (7.39%) Software-Defined Radio
2 10 (5.68%) Firewall
3 8 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.41%) DNS
4 6 (3.41%) Kerberos
5 5 (2.84%) SSL
6 4 (2.27%) HTTP
6 4 (2.27%) VPN
7 2 (1.14%) DHCP
7 2 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.57%) 2G
8 1 (0.57%) 5G
8 1 (0.57%) NFC
8 1 (0.57%) PPP
8 1 (0.57%) Skype
8 1 (0.57%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.57%) VSAN
8 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.11%) MySQL
4 7 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.84%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.27%) Big Data
7 4 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.70%) KDB
8 3 (1.70%) Power BI
9 2 (1.14%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.14%) CouchDB
9 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.14%) Metadata
10 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.57%) HBase
10 1 (0.57%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 98 (55.68%) JIRA
2 76 (43.18%) Jenkins
3 71 (40.34%) Git
4 31 (17.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 19 (10.80%) Selenium
6 16 (9.09%) Artifactory
7 14 (7.95%) Eclipse
7 14 (7.95%) GoogleTest
7 14 (7.95%) Maven
8 13 (7.39%) Cucumber
8 13 (7.39%) Robot Framework
9 12 (6.82%) GitLab
10 11 (6.25%) TeamCity
11 8 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (3.41%) SonarQube
12 6 (3.41%) Subversion
13 5 (2.84%) Appium
13 5 (2.84%) JMeter
13 5 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (2.84%) TestNG
General
1 50 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.07%) Aerospace
4 18 (10.23%) Finance
5 13 (7.39%) Banking
6 8 (4.55%) Automotive
7 7 (3.98%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Front Office
10 2 (1.14%) Advertising
10 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (34.66%) Developer
2 24 (13.64%) Senior
3 22 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 15 (8.52%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
7 10 (5.68%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.11%) Java Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Architect
10 7 (3.98%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) C++ Developer
11 6 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Test Engineer
12 5 (2.84%) Control Systems Engineer
12 5 (2.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (2.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.84%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.89%) .NET
2 28 (15.91%) .NET Core
3 25 (14.20%) CSS
4 24 (13.64%) HTML
5 13 (7.39%) REST
5 13 (7.39%) XML
6 12 (6.82%) React
6 12 (6.82%) RESTful
7 10 (5.68%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (5.68%) JSON
7 10 (5.68%) Spring
8 9 (5.11%) Kafka
8 9 (5.11%) Node.js
8 9 (5.11%) Web Services
9 6 (3.41%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.41%) JDBC
9 6 (3.41%) LDAP
9 6 (3.41%) Next.js
9 6 (3.41%) OpenID
9 6 (3.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.98%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (3.98%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.41%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.84%) PKI
5 4 (2.27%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.27%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.70%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.70%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.14%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.14%) Derivative
7 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.14%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 79 (44.89%) Linux
2 41 (23.30%) Windows
3 9 (5.11%) Unix
4 6 (3.41%) Android
5 5 (2.84%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (2.27%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.70%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.14%) Debian
8 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.57%) CentOS
9 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.57%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.57%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (40.91%) Agile
2 64 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 52 (29.55%) DevOps
4 51 (28.98%) Continuous Integration
5 47 (26.70%) Test Automation
6 38 (21.59%) OO
6 38 (21.59%) Software Engineering
7 36 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (20.45%) Scrum
8 30 (17.05%) Configuration Management
8 30 (17.05%) Deployment Automation
9 26 (14.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 24 (13.64%) Task Automation
11 23 (13.07%) OOP
12 21 (11.93%) Computer Science
13 20 (11.36%) UML
13 20 (11.36%) Validation
14 18 (10.23%) Software Testing
14 18 (10.23%) Verification and Validation
15 16 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (42.61%) Python
2 43 (24.43%) Java
3 37 (21.02%) PowerShell
4 31 (17.61%) JavaScript
5 27 (15.34%) C++
6 23 (13.07%) C
7 18 (10.23%) SQL
8 14 (7.95%) Bash
9 13 (7.39%) C#
10 9 (5.11%) Go
11 7 (3.98%) Groovy
11 7 (3.98%) Shell Script
12 6 (3.41%) MATLAB
12 6 (3.41%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.70%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.70%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.70%) Swift
14 1 (0.57%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.57%) PHP
14 1 (0.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 63 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 54 (30.68%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.48%) Degree
4 14 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.25%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.82%) QA
2 6 (3.41%) MISRA
2 6 (3.41%) MISRA C
3 5 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.84%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (2.84%) ISO 26262
4 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.14%) NIST
4 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.14%) WCAG
5 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (14.77%) Docker
2 13 (7.39%) Firmware
3 10 (5.68%) Active Directory
4 9 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.11%) VMware NSX
5 6 (3.41%) VirtualBox
6 5 (2.84%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (2.27%) vSphere
8 2 (1.14%) HDFS
8 2 (1.14%) Varnish
9 1 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.57%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 54 (30.68%) Ansible
2 36 (20.45%) Terraform
3 33 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 24 (13.64%) PowerCLI
5 8 (4.55%) Grafana
6 6 (3.41%) Packer
6 6 (3.41%) Puppet
7 4 (2.27%) Consul
7 4 (2.27%) Istio
8 3 (1.70%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.70%) OPNET
8 3 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.70%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.14%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.14%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (35.23%) Atlassian
2 25 (14.20%) Oracle
3 22 (12.50%) Dell
3 22 (12.50%) HP
4 18 (10.23%) Google
5 14 (7.95%) Microsoft
6 13 (7.39%) VMware
7 11 (6.25%) Red Hat
8 8 (4.55%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.41%) Cadence
9 6 (3.41%) Splunk
10 5 (2.84%) Perfecto Mobile
11 4 (2.27%) SAP
12 3 (1.70%) Apple
12 3 (1.70%) Cisco
12 3 (1.70%) MKS
12 3 (1.70%) Sage
13 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
13 2 (1.14%) Informatica
13 2 (1.14%) Mercator