Bitbucket Contract Job Trends in the North West

Bitbucket
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 130 112 130
Rank change year-on-year -18 +18 +24
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 11 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.45% 0.42% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.86% 3.49% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 7
10th Percentile £268 £396 £548
25th Percentile £337 £442 £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £538 £635
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% -15.28% +56.02%
75th Percentile £634 £582 £661
90th Percentile £638 £588 £689
England median daily rate £575 £631 £600
% change year-on-year -8.91% +5.21% +3.09%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 384 258 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.63% 11.90% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 155 272
10th Percentile £313 £316 £350
25th Percentile £363 £361 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -12.62% -1.90%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £613
90th Percentile £632 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 36
10th Percentile £39.00 £39.92 £45.88
25th Percentile £42.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £47.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +20.82% +3.05% +2.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.81 £67.19
90th Percentile £75.71 £80.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -2.69% +5.69%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Bitbucket job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bitbucket

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bitbucket

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the North West region 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
Cheshire -19 8 £363 -32.53% 4
Manchester -10 3 £625 +28.21% 9
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
1 2 (18.18%) JBoss
2 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
2 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) OpenShift
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
1 8 (72.73%) SonarQube
2 5 (45.45%) Snyk
2 5 (45.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (36.36%) Git
3 4 (36.36%) GitLab
3 4 (36.36%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
4 2 (18.18%) JUnit
4 2 (18.18%) Maven
4 2 (18.18%) Mockito
4 2 (18.18%) Selenium
5 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) Jest
3 2 (18.18%) JPA
3 2 (18.18%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Redux
4 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (9.09%) RAML
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
3 5 (45.45%) Microservices
3 5 (45.45%) SDLC
3 5 (45.45%) Secure Coding
3 5 (45.45%) Static Application Security Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (18.18%) Application Security
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 1 (9.09%) Budget Control
7 1 (9.09%) Change Control
7 1 (9.09%) Change Management
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (9.09%) Release Management
7 1 (9.09%) Scrum
7 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Perl
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) OSCP
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Veracode
2 5 (45.45%) Checkmarx
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
4 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk