Bitbucket Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Bitbucket skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bitbucket over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Bitbucket UK / England
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	382	532	617
Rank change year-on-year	+150	+85
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket	213	91	19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.49%	0.19%	0.037%
As % of the Development Applications category	2.79%	1.19%	0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted	150	58	14
Median daily rate	£488	£500	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-2.50%	+42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£347	£389	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£608	£600	£425
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£425	£325
% change year-on-year	-	+30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	-

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

Contract Development Application Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	7643	7627	6850
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	17.71%	15.65%	13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted	5228	5322	4576
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£313	£293
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£413	£400	£363
% change year-on-year	+3.12%	+10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted	137	121	105
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.45	£37.45
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.11%	+13.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.50	£27.50	£22.18
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£61.69	£50.00	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.25	£42.00	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+2.97%	+13.51%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Bitbucket as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Development Applications category.

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Bitbucket in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Bitbucket in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Bitbucket in England over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in England

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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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+50	113	£519	+3.75%	30
South East	+66	42	£413	+4.76%	5
South West	+19	20	£530	+6.00%	2
West Midlands	+29	15	£550	+41.93%	6
East of England	-1	11	£400	-23.80%	5
North West	+25	7	£405	-10.00%	18
East Midlands	-	4	£325	-	2
Yorkshire	+25	1	£450	-	1
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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Bitbucket also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Bitbucket.

1	239 (58.87%)	JIRA
2	216 (53.20%)	Git (software)
3	215 (52.96%)	Agile Software Development
4	170 (41.87%)	Java
5	163 (40.15%)	DevOps
6	153 (37.68%)	Jenkins
6	153 (37.68%)	Confluence
7	141 (34.73%)	JavaScript
8	140 (34.48%)	Linux
9	137 (33.74%)	Amazon AWS
10	131 (32.27%)	Continuous Integration
11	123 (30.30%)	Docker
12	110 (27.09%)	TDD
13	101 (24.88%)	REST
14	99 (24.38%)	HTML

15	96 (23.65%)	Ansible
16	93 (22.91%)	CSS
17	91 (22.41%)	Maven
18	89 (21.92%)	Atlassian
18	89 (21.92%)	Puppet
19	87 (21.43%)	Test Automation
20	84 (20.69%)	Python
21	82 (20.20%)	Finance
22	79 (19.46%)	SQL
23	78 (19.21%)	Scrum
24	75 (18.47%)	Atlassian Bamboo
24	75 (18.47%)	GitHub
25	74 (18.23%)	BDD
26	73 (17.98%)	AngularJS
27	71 (17.49%)	MySQL

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Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	153 (37.68%)	Confluence
2	58 (14.29%)	Apache
3	41 (10.10%)	Tomcat
4	35 (8.62%)	Elasticsearch
5	21 (5.17%)	CMS
5	21 (5.17%)	OpenStack
6	19 (4.68%)	WebSphere
7	17 (4.19%)	Cloud Foundry
7	17 (4.19%)	nginx
8	14 (3.45%)	Sitecore CMS
9	13 (3.20%)	JBoss
10	12 (2.96%)	Oracle SOA Suite
11	7 (1.72%)	Apache Spark
11	7 (1.72%)	WebLogic
12	6 (1.48%)	Apache Qpid
12	6 (1.48%)	Apache Solr
12	6 (1.48%)	SharePoint
13	5 (1.23%)	Mule
13	5 (1.23%)	Oracle Workflow
14	4 (0.99%)	Drupal

Applications
1	11 (2.71%)	HipChat
2	5 (1.23%)	Microsoft Excel
3	3 (0.74%)	Microsoft Office
3	3 (0.74%)	MS Visio
3	3 (0.74%)	Photoshop
4	1 (0.25%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	1 (0.25%)	Fireworks

Business Applications
1	5 (1.23%)	Oracle Applications
2	4 (0.99%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	2 (0.49%)	Oracle BPM
4	1 (0.25%)	Dynamics CRM
4	1 (0.25%)	Remedy ITSM

Cloud Services
1	137 (33.74%)	Amazon AWS
2	75 (18.47%)	GitHub
3	53 (13.05%)	Microsoft Azure
4	25 (6.16%)	AWS Lambda
5	23 (5.67%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	18 (4.43%)	Amazon EC2
6	18 (4.43%)	Amazon S3
7	17 (4.19%)	SaaS
8	16 (3.94%)	OpenShift
9	14 (3.45%)	PaaS
9	14 (3.45%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	13 (3.20%)	IaaS
11	11 (2.71%)	Amazon CloudWatch
11	11 (2.71%)	Amazon ELB
11	11 (2.71%)	Heroku
12	8 (1.97%)	Datadog
13	5 (1.23%)	Cloud Computing
13	5 (1.23%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
13	5 (1.23%)	Sauce Labs
14	4 (0.99%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	44 (10.84%)	HTTP
2	21 (5.17%)	DNS
3	14 (3.45%)	SSL
4	12 (2.96%)	LDAP
5	11 (2.71%)	SSH
6	10 (2.46%)	OpenLDAP
6	10 (2.46%)	OpenVPN
7	8 (1.97%)	AMQP
7	8 (1.97%)	Firewall
7	8 (1.97%)	SNMP
7	8 (1.97%)	VPN
8	6 (1.48%)	Internet
8	6 (1.48%)	VoIP
8	6 (1.48%)	Wireshark
9	4 (0.99%)	Skype
10	3 (0.74%)	TCP/IP
11	2 (0.49%)	Intranet
11	2 (0.49%)	LAN
11	2 (0.49%)	WAN
12	1 (0.25%)	SMS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	71 (17.49%)	MySQL
2	58 (14.29%)	PostgreSQL
3	51 (12.56%)	MongoDB
4	42 (10.34%)	SQL Server
5	32 (7.88%)	NoSQL
6	27 (6.65%)	Amazon DynamoDB
7	23 (5.67%)	Redis
8	21 (5.17%)	Oracle Database
9	19 (4.68%)	Oracle Database 11g
10	17 (4.19%)	Big Data
11	16 (3.94%)	Apache Cassandra
12	15 (3.69%)	Amazon RDS
13	12 (2.96%)	Relational Database
14	11 (2.71%)	Data Warehouse
15	10 (2.46%)	Hadoop
16	6 (1.48%)	MS Access
17	5 (1.23%)	dBASE
17	5 (1.23%)	Oracle BI EE
17	5 (1.23%)	Oracle ODI
17	5 (1.23%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	239 (58.87%)	JIRA
2	216 (53.20%)	Git (software)
3	153 (37.68%)	Jenkins
4	91 (22.41%)	Maven
5	75 (18.47%)	Atlassian Bamboo
6	63 (15.52%)	Selenium
7	49 (12.07%)	Gradle
8	41 (10.10%)	Cucumber
9	39 (9.61%)	TeamCity
10	36 (8.87%)	Ant
11	35 (8.62%)	gulp
12	34 (8.37%)	JMeter
13	33 (8.13%)	JUnit
14	32 (7.88%)	Subversion
15	30 (7.39%)	SonarQube
16	29 (7.14%)	Grunt
17	28 (6.90%)	WebDriver
18	27 (6.65%)	Sonatype Nexus
19	25 (6.16%)	Eclipse
20	20 (4.93%)	Jasmine

General
1	82 (20.20%)	Finance
2	42 (10.34%)	Banking
3	14 (3.45%)	Investment Banking
3	14 (3.45%)	Retail
4	10 (2.46%)	Billing
4	10 (2.46%)	Telecoms
5	9 (2.22%)	Front Office
6	7 (1.72%)	Games
7	6 (1.48%)	Corporate Banking
7	6 (1.48%)	Pharmaceutical
8	5 (1.23%)	Marketing
9	4 (0.99%)	Electronics
9	4 (0.99%)	Legal
9	4 (0.99%)	Manufacturing
9	4 (0.99%)	Retail Banking
10	2 (0.49%)	Back Office
10	2 (0.49%)	Hungarian Language
11	1 (0.25%)	Automotive
11	1 (0.25%)	Local Government
11	1 (0.25%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	175 (43.10%)	Developer
2	68 (16.75%)	DevOps Engineer
3	61 (15.02%)	Java Developer
4	46 (11.33%)	Architect
5	37 (9.11%)	AWS Engineer
6	26 (6.40%)	AWS DevOps
7	25 (6.16%)	Full Stack Developer
8	24 (5.91%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
9	22 (5.42%)	Angular Developer
10	19 (4.68%)	Linux Engineer
11	18 (4.43%)	Cloud Architect
12	17 (4.19%)	AWS Architect
12	17 (4.19%)	Senior Developer
13	15 (3.69%)	Cloud Engineer
13	15 (3.69%)	Python Developer
14	14 (3.45%)	JavaScript Developer
15	12 (2.96%)	Consultant
16	11 (2.71%)	.NET Developer
16	11 (2.71%)	Automation Engineer
16	11 (2.71%)	Performance Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	101 (24.88%)	REST
2	99 (24.38%)	HTML
3	93 (22.91%)	CSS
4	73 (17.98%)	AngularJS
5	70 (17.24%)	Spring
6	64 (15.76%)	SOAP
7	57 (14.04%)	JSON
8	56 (13.79%)	Web Services
9	54 (13.30%)	jQuery
10	51 (12.56%)	HTML5
10	51 (12.56%)	XML
11	49 (12.07%)	Node.js
12	45 (11.08%)	.NET
13	37 (9.11%)	Elastic Stack
13	37 (9.11%)	RESTful
14	30 (7.39%)	Spring Boot
15	25 (6.16%)	CSS3
16	23 (5.67%)	React
17	21 (5.17%)	J2EE
18	20 (4.93%)	RabbitMQ

Miscellaneous
1	35 (8.62%)	Computer Science
2	23 (5.67%)	User Experience
3	19 (4.68%)	Mobile App
4	18 (4.43%)	Analytical Skills
4	18 (4.43%)	Client/Server
5	17 (4.19%)	Greenfield Project
6	16 (3.94%)	PKI
7	13 (3.20%)	Linux Command Line
8	12 (2.96%)	Cloud Native
9	11 (2.71%)	Fintech
10	9 (2.22%)	Data Centre
11	8 (1.97%)	Management Information System
12	7 (1.72%)	PMI
12	7 (1.72%)	W3C
13	6 (1.48%)	iPad
14	5 (1.23%)	Animation
14	5 (1.23%)	Blackberry
14	5 (1.23%)	Online Games
15	4 (0.99%)	Mobile Banking
15	4 (0.99%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	140 (34.48%)	Linux
2	40 (9.85%)	Windows
3	39 (9.61%)	Unix
4	25 (6.16%)	CentOS
5	22 (5.42%)	Apple iOS
6	20 (4.93%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	16 (3.94%)	Ubuntu
8	15 (3.69%)	Android
9	9 (2.22%)	Mac OS X
10	8 (1.97%)	CoreOS
11	6 (1.48%)	Oracle Linux
11	6 (1.48%)	Windows Server
12	4 (0.99%)	Solaris
12	4 (0.99%)	Windows Server 2012
13	3 (0.74%)	RancherOS
14	1 (0.25%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	215 (52.96%)	Agile Software Development
2	163 (40.15%)	DevOps
3	131 (32.27%)	Continuous Integration
4	110 (27.09%)	TDD
5	87 (21.43%)	Test Automation
6	78 (19.21%)	Scrum
7	74 (18.23%)	BDD
8	62 (15.27%)	Continuous Delivery
9	57 (14.04%)	Configuration Management
10	48 (11.82%)	OO
11	47 (11.58%)	Open Source
12	45 (11.08%)	Microservices
13	37 (9.11%)	Unit Testing
14	34 (8.37%)	Project Management
15	32 (7.88%)	MVC
15	32 (7.88%)	Web Development
16	27 (6.65%)	Front End Development
17	26 (6.40%)	SOA
18	24 (5.91%)	API Development
19	22 (5.42%)	OOP

Programming Languages
1	170 (41.87%)	Java
2	141 (34.73%)	JavaScript
3	84 (20.69%)	Python
4	79 (19.46%)	SQL
5	47 (11.58%)	Ruby
6	41 (10.10%)	Groovy
7	38 (9.36%)	Bash Shell
8	35 (8.62%)	C#
9	24 (5.91%)	C++
10	18 (4.43%)	Apple Swift
10	18 (4.43%)	PL/SQL
10	18 (4.43%)	TypeScript
11	17 (4.19%)	Perl
11	17 (4.19%)	PHP
11	17 (4.19%)	Shell Script
12	16 (3.94%)	Scala
13	9 (2.22%)	Go
13	9 (2.22%)	Objective-C
13	9 (2.22%)	PowerShell
14	7 (1.72%)	ES6

Qualifications
1	60 (14.78%)	Security Cleared
2	47 (11.58%)	SC Cleared
3	39 (9.61%)	Degree
4	17 (4.19%)	DV Cleared
5	14 (3.45%)	Computer Science Degree
6	10 (2.46%)	Chartered Engineer
6	10 (2.46%)	CITP
6	10 (2.46%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
6	10 (2.46%)	MBCS
6	10 (2.46%)	PMI Certification
6	10 (2.46%)	PMP
7	4 (0.99%)	Master's Degree
8	3 (0.74%)	BPSS Clearance
9	2 (0.49%)	BC Cleared
9	2 (0.49%)	Microsoft Certification
9	2 (0.49%)	Sun Certification
10	1 (0.25%)	PRINCE2 Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	32 (7.88%)	QA
2	3 (0.74%)	COBIT
3	2 (0.49%)	GCP
4	1 (0.25%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	1 (0.25%)	PCI DSS
4	1 (0.25%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
4	1 (0.25%)	WCAG

System Software
1	123 (30.30%)	Docker
2	14 (3.45%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	12 (2.96%)	Virtual Machines
4	10 (2.46%)	Postfix
4	10 (2.46%)	Squid
4	10 (2.46%)	vCloud
5	8 (1.97%)	Varnish
6	5 (1.23%)	KVM
7	3 (0.74%)	etcd
7	3 (0.74%)	flannel
8	2 (0.49%)	LXC
9	1 (0.25%)	VirtualBox
9	1 (0.25%)	VMware ESXi
9	1 (0.25%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	96 (23.65%)	Ansible
2	89 (21.92%)	Puppet
3	52 (12.81%)	Terraform
4	50 (12.32%)	Kubernetes
5	31 (7.64%)	Opscode Chef
6	25 (6.16%)	ZABBIX
7	24 (5.91%)	Rsyslog
8	21 (5.17%)	Consul
9	19 (4.68%)	Kibana
10	18 (4.43%)	logstash
11	17 (4.19%)	Docker Swarm
12	16 (3.94%)	Rancher
12	16 (3.94%)	Sysdig
13	14 (3.45%)	Pingdom
14	13 (3.20%)	yum
15	12 (2.96%)	BladeLogic
16	10 (2.46%)	Graphite
16	10 (2.46%)	Packer
17	9 (2.22%)	Grafana
17	9 (2.22%)	HP Fortify

Vendors
1	89 (21.92%)	Atlassian
2	67 (16.50%)	Oracle
3	36 (8.87%)	VMware
4	29 (7.14%)	AppDynamics
5	20 (4.93%)	HP
5	20 (4.93%)	Sonatype
5	20 (4.93%)	Splunk
6	17 (4.19%)	Red Hat
6	17 (4.19%)	Sitecore
7	15 (3.69%)	Salesforce.com
8	14 (3.45%)	Microsoft
9	12 (2.96%)	PagerDuty
10	11 (2.71%)	Apigee
10	11 (2.71%)	Google
11	10 (2.46%)	MuleSoft
12	8 (1.97%)	CA
12	8 (1.97%)	hybris
12	8 (1.97%)	SAP
13	7 (1.72%)	Apple
13	7 (1.72%)	BMC