Bitbucket Contracts in England

Bitbucket
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Bitbucket skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bitbucket over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 378 371
Rank change year-on-year +34 -7 -47
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 142 158 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.43% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.14% 3.68% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 102 203
10th Percentile £340 £388 £463
25th Percentile £435 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £700
90th Percentile £813 £750 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 11
10th Percentile £51.93 £45.88 £51.25
25th Percentile £53.75 £56.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.70% +11.70%
75th Percentile £63.13 £70.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.43% - +11.70%

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 3,427 4,293 6,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.14% 11.68% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 2,916 4,841
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 207 200
10th Percentile £27.59 £31.53 £46.03
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%
75th Percentile £74.38 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.75 £77.70 £82.55
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.14%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in England

Bitbucket
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Bitbucket in England

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Bitbucket in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bitbucket in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly 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 6 months to 31 May 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
London +56 71 £636 -2.12% 81
South West +33 23 £575 -17.86% 14
South East +33 21 £500 +14.29% 34
Midlands +18 15 £450 -18.18% 7
North of England +16 10 £384 -23.20% 32
West Midlands +11 8 £460 -16.36% 7
North West +9 8 £384 -26.86% 23
East Midlands - 7 £340 -
Yorkshire +13 2 - - 4
East of England +24 1 £500 -16.67% 1
Bitbucket
UK

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 50 (35.21%) Confluence
2 7 (4.93%) JBoss
3 6 (4.23%) Tomcat
3 6 (4.23%) WebLogic
3 6 (4.23%) WebSphere
4 5 (3.52%) Apache
4 5 (3.52%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.11%) Skype for Business
6 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.70%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.70%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Magento
1 2 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (37.32%) AWS
2 22 (15.49%) GitHub
3 18 (12.68%) Azure
4 10 (7.04%) Amazon S3
4 10 (7.04%) GCP
5 7 (4.93%) OpenShift
5 7 (4.93%) Serverless
6 6 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.11%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.41%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (1.41%) BigCommerce
10 2 (1.41%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.41%) Prefect
10 2 (1.41%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.93%) DNS
2 6 (4.23%) SNMP
3 5 (3.52%) HTTP
3 5 (3.52%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (2.82%) BGP
4 4 (2.82%) DHCP
4 4 (2.82%) Firewall
4 4 (2.82%) OSPF
4 4 (2.82%) Skype
4 4 (2.82%) Unified Communications
4 4 (2.82%) VLAN
4 4 (2.82%) VPN
5 3 (2.11%) IPsec
5 3 (2.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.41%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (1.41%) LAN
6 2 (1.41%) Multicast
6 2 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.41%) VXLAN
6 2 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.23%) Big Data
3 6 (4.23%) DB2
4 5 (3.52%) MySQL
4 5 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.52%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.82%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.11%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.11%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.41%) Power BI
7 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.70%) Aerospike
8 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.70%) IDMS
8 1 (0.70%) Looker
8 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 74 (52.11%) Git
2 64 (45.07%) JIRA
3 57 (40.14%) Jenkins
4 32 (22.54%) GitLab
5 19 (13.38%) TeamCity
6 15 (10.56%) GoogleTest
7 12 (8.45%) Eclipse
8 11 (7.75%) Robot Framework
9 9 (6.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (6.34%) Maven
10 8 (5.63%) JUnit
10 8 (5.63%) SonarQube
11 7 (4.93%) Artifactory
12 6 (4.23%) Selenium
12 6 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (3.52%) Rational DOORS
14 4 (2.82%) IntelliJ
14 4 (2.82%) TestRail
15 3 (2.11%) REST Assured
15 3 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.01%) Finance
3 22 (15.49%) Banking
4 15 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.45%) Investment Banking
5 12 (8.45%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (7.75%) Front Office
7 7 (4.93%) Retail
8 6 (4.23%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.11%) Law
9 3 (2.11%) Legal
9 3 (2.11%) Marketing
10 2 (1.41%) Back Office
10 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (27.46%) Developer
2 19 (13.38%) Software Engineer
3 15 (10.56%) Senior
4 11 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (7.04%) Embedded Engineer
5 10 (7.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 10 (7.04%) Java Developer
6 8 (5.63%) Architect
6 8 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.23%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Scrum Master
8 6 (4.23%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) AWS Developer
9 5 (3.52%) C++ Software Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.82%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (24.65%) REST
2 26 (18.31%) HTML
3 25 (17.61%) CSS
4 21 (14.79%) SOAP
5 20 (14.08%) .NET
6 19 (13.38%) Node.js
7 17 (11.97%) React
8 15 (10.56%) Spring
9 14 (9.86%) Spring Boot
10 13 (9.15%) ASP.NET
10 13 (9.15%) HTML5
11 11 (7.75%) Kafka
12 9 (6.34%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (5.63%) LESS
13 8 (5.63%) RAML
13 8 (5.63%) Sass
13 8 (5.63%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (5.63%) Web Services
14 7 (4.93%) GraphQL
14 7 (4.93%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.86%) Private Cloud
2 13 (9.15%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.23%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.23%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.52%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.82%) PKI
7 4 (2.82%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.11%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.11%) Vector Graphics
9 2 (1.41%) GNSS
9 2 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (1.41%) Online Banking
9 2 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.70%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 50 (35.21%) Linux
2 25 (17.61%) Windows
3 18 (12.68%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.34%) Unix
5 5 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.82%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (2.11%) CentOS
7 3 (2.11%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.41%) VMS
9 1 (0.70%) Android
9 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.70%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (52.82%) Agile
2 61 (42.96%) DevOps
3 47 (33.10%) CI/CD
4 39 (27.46%) Scrum
5 38 (26.76%) Software Engineering
6 28 (19.72%) Microservices
7 25 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (15.49%) Configuration Management
9 21 (14.79%) Test Automation
10 18 (12.68%) Service Management
11 17 (11.97%) API Development
11 17 (11.97%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (11.27%) OO
12 16 (11.27%) System Testing
12 16 (11.27%) Validation
13 15 (10.56%) Computer Science
13 15 (10.56%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (10.56%) SDLC
14 14 (9.86%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (30.99%) JavaScript
2 41 (28.87%) Java
3 39 (27.46%) Python
4 31 (21.83%) SQL
5 26 (18.31%) C#
6 24 (16.90%) C++
7 22 (15.49%) PowerShell
8 12 (8.45%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.75%) Bash
10 6 (4.23%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.52%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.11%) Perl
12 3 (2.11%) PHP
13 2 (1.41%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.41%) Haskell
13 2 (1.41%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.41%) RPG
14 1 (0.70%) Groovy
14 1 (0.70%) Swift
14 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.08%) Degree
4 11 (7.75%) CCNP
4 11 (7.75%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (7.75%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.75%) OCA
4 11 (7.75%) Oracle Certification
4 11 (7.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (7.04%) RHCA
5 10 (7.04%) RHCE
6 6 (4.23%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.41%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.34%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (15.49%) Docker
2 16 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.04%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.82%) Firmware
5 3 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.11%) Lustre
5 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (2.11%) vCloud
5 3 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.11%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (2.11%) vSphere
6 2 (1.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (16.20%) Ansible
2 20 (14.08%) Kubernetes
2 20 (14.08%) Terraform
3 17 (11.97%) Puppet
4 12 (8.45%) Progress Chef
5 11 (7.75%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.82%) Grafana
6 4 (2.82%) Kibana
7 3 (2.11%) Karpenter
7 3 (2.11%) Podman
7 3 (2.11%) WSUS
8 2 (1.41%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.41%) Opsgenie
8 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.70%) Argo
9 1 (0.70%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.70%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (26.06%) Atlassian
2 23 (16.20%) Google
2 23 (16.20%) Oracle
3 16 (11.27%) VMware
4 13 (9.15%) Cisco
5 11 (7.75%) Microsoft
6 9 (6.34%) Splunk
7 6 (4.23%) IBM
7 6 (4.23%) Intel
8 5 (3.52%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.82%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.82%) Veeam
10 3 (2.11%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.11%) PagerDuty
10 3 (2.11%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.11%) Veracode
11 2 (1.41%) F5
11 2 (1.41%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.41%) Nintex
11 2 (1.41%) Sitecore