Bitbucket Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Bitbucket
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 81 94
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +35
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 3 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.30% 0.51% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.86% 5.17% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £268 - £506
25th Percentile £269 £500 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -47.51% -10.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £270 £550 £639
90th Percentile £270 £573 £670
North West median daily rate £345 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -34.29% -4.55% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 161 116 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.89% 9.76% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 77 148
10th Percentile £336 £324 £361
25th Percentile £400 £375 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £514
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -15.82% -3.29%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £620
90th Percentile £650 £575 £684
North West median daily rate £430 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -4.56% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £70.75 - £50.43
25th Percentile £71.88 £46.25 £62.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -30.91% -5.17%
75th Percentile £77.81 £48.75 £76.56
90th Percentile £78.38 - £80.00
North West median hourly rate £72.58 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +57.17% - -36.30%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in Manchester

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bitbucket.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bitbucket.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Android Studio
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (33.33%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Android Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (66.67%) Android SDK
1 2 (66.67%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) JavaFX
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Android Development
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian