Bitbucket Contracts in Scotland

Bitbucket
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 121 154
Rank change year-on-year +30 +33 -8
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 25 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.54% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.91% 1.92% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 1
10th Percentile £398 - -
25th Percentile £423 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £539 £553 £570
% change year-on-year -2.49% -3.07% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -50.48% -
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +5.22% - +4.55%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 316 416 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.45% 18.76% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 261 439
10th Percentile £313 £375 £393
25th Percentile £400 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £588 £538
90th Percentile £575 £644 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £23.77 £35.00 £54.36
25th Percentile £29.81 £37.97 £59.03
Median hourly rate £39.92 £40.94 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -32.39% +15.33%
75th Percentile £49.98 - £66.56
90th Percentile £55.99 - £67.88
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in Scotland

Bitbucket
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Bitbucket in Scotland

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in Scotland

Bitbucket
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Bitbucket in Scotland

Bitbucket
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow +18 22 £550 - 3
Edinburgh +7 3 £525 - 3
Bitbucket
UK

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (48.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) Camunda
3 1 (4.00%) JBoss
3 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (4.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 19 (76.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) Serverless
3 6 (24.00%) Azure
4 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (20.00%) GitHub
4 5 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.00%) DB2
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) JIRA
2 8 (32.00%) Git
3 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) IntelliJ
5 1 (4.00%) PyCharm
5 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Applications Support
3 4 (16.00%) Python Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Automation Developer
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Support Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Agile Scrum Master
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Environment Manager
6 1 (4.00%) J2EE Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Loki
2 3 (12.00%) Middleware
2 3 (12.00%) Spring
2 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) LDAP
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) Ext JS
4 1 (4.00%) J2EE
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) RAML
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) Web Services
4 1 (4.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Unix
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Containerisation
1 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (40.00%) Operational Stability
4 8 (32.00%) Computer Science
4 8 (32.00%) DevOps
4 8 (32.00%) Mathematics
5 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.00%) Build Automation
6 5 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
6 5 (20.00%) ITIL
6 5 (20.00%) SDLC
6 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Software Distribution
8 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
8 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) Java
3 5 (20.00%) C#
3 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (32.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (32.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (80.00%) Terraform
2 10 (40.00%) Ansible
2 10 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (20.00%) Grafana
3 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Splunk
1 5 (20.00%) Veritas
1 5 (20.00%) VMware
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Confluent
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Informatica
3 1 (4.00%) StreamSets