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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 115 156
Rank change year-on-year +26 +41 -3
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 26 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.61% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.88% 1.91% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 0 2
10th Percentile £408 - £466
25th Percentile £425 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.84%
75th Percentile £575 - £497
90th Percentile - - £499
UK median daily rate £531 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -11.58% +5.26% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.43% - +11.70%

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 330 367 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.40% 17.52% 18.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 241 378
10th Percentile £311 £363 £385
25th Percentile £406 £416 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £487 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +2.53% -
75th Percentile £532 £575 £538
90th Percentile £575 £634 £620
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 4
10th Percentile £15.79 £34.10 £59.49
25th Percentile £16.84 - £60.17
Median hourly rate £17.45 £40.94 £62.46
Median % change year-on-year -57.39% -34.46% +14.61%
75th Percentile £19.92 - £67.11
90th Percentile £43.97 - £68.09
UK median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -11.35% +5.69% +17.14%

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 23 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 23 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 +14 23 £550 - 12
Edinburgh +12 3 £525 - 13
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 (46.15%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) Camunda
3 1 (3.85%) JBoss
3 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.85%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Serverless
3 6 (23.08%) Azure
4 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub
4 5 (19.23%) OpenShift
5 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.69%) DB2
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (57.69%) JIRA
2 10 (38.46%) Git
3 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
4 3 (11.54%) IntelliJ
4 3 (11.54%) PyCharm
4 3 (11.54%) Visual Studio
4 3 (11.54%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (7.69%) Artifactory
5 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Legal
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Applications Support
2 4 (15.38%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Python Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Python Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Applications Support Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Support Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) J2EE Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Loki
2 3 (11.54%) Middleware
2 3 (11.54%) Spring
2 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 2 (7.69%) LDAP
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) Ext JS
4 1 (3.85%) J2EE
4 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.85%) PySpark
4 1 (3.85%) RAML
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) SOAP
4 1 (3.85%) Web Services
4 1 (3.85%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Virtual Team
2 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Unix
3 5 (19.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Agile
1 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (46.15%) Containerisation
3 10 (38.46%) Continuous Delivery
3 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (38.46%) Operational Stability
4 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 9 (34.62%) DevOps
5 8 (30.77%) Computer Science
5 8 (30.77%) Mathematics
6 6 (23.08%) SDLC
7 5 (19.23%) Build Automation
7 5 (19.23%) ITIL
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (11.54%) Change Management
9 3 (11.54%) Observability
9 3 (11.54%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) C#
3 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) AWS Certification
2 8 (30.77%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (30.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 20 (76.92%) Terraform
2 10 (38.46%) Ansible
2 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 6 (23.08%) Grafana
3 6 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Splunk
2 5 (19.23%) Veritas
2 5 (19.23%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Confluent
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Informatica
4 1 (3.85%) PagerDuty
4 1 (3.85%) StreamSets