Bitbucket Contracts in the North West

Bitbucket
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 132 150
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 6 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.31% 0.34% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.05% 3.08% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 9
10th Percentile £338 £500 £473
25th Percentile £350 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -26.86% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £399 £622 £540
90th Percentile £402 £663 £580
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -7.60% +6.38% +1.38%

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 293 292 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.90% 10.95% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 224 290
10th Percentile £338 £368 £325
25th Percentile £387 £431 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £519 £602 £600
90th Percentile £600 £694 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 11
10th Percentile £54.02 £36.59 £37.80
25th Percentile £63.25 £45.88 £38.70
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +1.55% -25.53%
75th Percentile £78.13 £77.50 £54.26
90th Percentile £81.35 £81.15 £56.38
England median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -6.92% +5.69% +17.14%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Bitbucket as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Bitbucket in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Bitbucket in the North West

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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 17 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
Cheshire - 5 £384 - 4
Bitbucket
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (66.67%) JBoss
1 4 (66.67%) Tomcat
1 4 (66.67%) WebLogic
1 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) MariaDB
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum Master
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) J2EE
1 5 (83.33%) RAML
1 5 (83.33%) REST
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) EJB
2 4 (66.67%) JSP
2 4 (66.67%) Servlets
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) WSDL
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Private Cloud
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) API Development
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) SDLC
3 4 (66.67%) Backlog Management
3 4 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 4 (66.67%) Budget Control
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 3 (50.00%) Servant Leadership
4 3 (50.00%) Situational Awareness
5 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 2 (33.33%) Microservices
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
6 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Checkmarx