Bitbucket Contracts in the UK excluding London

Bitbucket
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 264 297
Rank change year-on-year -3 +33 -49
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Bitbucket 100 106 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.58% 0.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.54% 4.86% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 57 107
10th Percentile £270 £423 £500
25th Percentile £362 £488 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £585 £700 £664
90th Percentile £626 £700 £709
UK median daily rate £519 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -17.00% +8.70% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 15
10th Percentile £51.78 £55.11 £55.00
25th Percentile £52.81 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £56.25 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67.81 - £66.25
90th Percentile £71.25 - £72.25
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -19.64% +16.67% +9.09%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,201 2,179 2,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.32% 11.98% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 1,359 1,867
10th Percentile £313 £344 £350
25th Percentile £400 £404 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £657 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 169 178
10th Percentile £27.99 £40.94 £46.18
25th Percentile £51.77 £54.36 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.44
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +5.73%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +7.11%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Bitbucket as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in the UK excluding London

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bitbucket.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the UK excluding London

Bitbucket
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bitbucket.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bitbucket in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bitbucket in the UK excluding London

Bitbucket
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +20 28 £538 - 11
Midlands +9 20 £450 -18.18% 8
South East -4 20 £585 +23.16% 38
South West +10 17 £550 -21.43% 11
North West -15 15 £345 -34.91% 25
North of England -27 15 £345 -34.29% 34
East Midlands +7 10 £270 -64.00% 2
West Midlands 0 10 £575 +4.55% 6
East of England +5 1 £500 -23.08% 2
Bitbucket
UK

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 46 (46.00%) Confluence
2 12 (12.00%) JBoss
3 9 (9.00%) Tomcat
3 9 (9.00%) WebLogic
3 9 (9.00%) WebSphere
4 3 (3.00%) Mule
5 1 (1.00%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (47.00%) AWS
2 20 (20.00%) Azure
3 17 (17.00%) GitHub
4 16 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.00%) Serverless
7 7 (7.00%) SaaS
8 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.00%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (2.00%) GCP
10 2 (2.00%) npm
10 2 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) Skype
1 3 (3.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.00%) BGP
2 2 (2.00%) OSPF
2 2 (2.00%) SNMP
2 2 (2.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (2.00%) VLAN
2 2 (2.00%) VoIP
3 1 (1.00%) DHCP
3 1 (1.00%) DNS
3 1 (1.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.00%) HTTP
3 1 (1.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) DB2
2 7 (7.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.00%) MariaDB
4 3 (3.00%) MSDE
4 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.00%) MySQL
6 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (63.00%) JIRA
2 46 (46.00%) Jenkins
3 42 (42.00%) Git
4 25 (25.00%) GitLab
5 15 (15.00%) SonarQube
6 14 (14.00%) IntelliJ
6 14 (14.00%) Visual Studio Code
7 13 (13.00%) PyCharm
7 13 (13.00%) Selenium
7 13 (13.00%) Visual Studio
8 12 (12.00%) Maven
9 11 (11.00%) Cucumber
9 11 (11.00%) JUnit
9 11 (11.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (8.00%) GoogleTest
10 8 (8.00%) Robot Framework
11 7 (7.00%) Eclipse
11 7 (7.00%) Mockito
12 5 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (4.00%) REST Assured
General
1 35 (35.00%) Finance
2 9 (9.00%) Banking
2 9 (9.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.00%) Automotive
5 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.00%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.00%) Marketing
7 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (27.00%) Developer
2 11 (11.00%) Software Engineer
3 10 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 9 (9.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Python Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Scrum Master
5 8 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.00%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Senior
7 5 (5.00%) Administrator
7 5 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) JIRA Administrator
8 4 (4.00%) Automation Tester
8 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
8 4 (4.00%) Selenium Tester
8 4 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (26.00%) REST
2 19 (19.00%) SOAP
2 19 (19.00%) Spring Boot
3 13 (13.00%) RAML
4 11 (11.00%) CSS
4 11 (11.00%) HTML
4 11 (11.00%) Spring
5 10 (10.00%) Web Services
6 9 (9.00%) Node.js
6 9 (9.00%) React
6 9 (9.00%) WSDL
7 8 (8.00%) Hibernate
7 8 (8.00%) J2EE
7 8 (8.00%) RESTful
8 7 (7.00%) Jest
8 7 (7.00%) JPA
8 7 (7.00%) Kafka
8 7 (7.00%) Redux
9 5 (5.00%) Swagger
10 4 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 9 (9.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.00%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.00%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) GNSS
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.00%) PKI
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 37 (37.00%) Linux
2 28 (28.00%) Windows
3 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.00%) Unix
5 2 (2.00%) Android
6 1 (1.00%) VMS
6 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (66.00%) Agile
2 43 (43.00%) CI/CD
3 36 (36.00%) DevOps
4 28 (28.00%) SDLC
5 26 (26.00%) Test Automation
6 22 (22.00%) Scrum
7 20 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
8 17 (17.00%) Software Engineering
9 16 (16.00%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.00%) Microservices
10 15 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (14.00%) Code Quality
11 14 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (13.00%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (12.00%) API Development
13 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure Automation
14 11 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (11.00%) TDD
15 10 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (45.00%) Python
2 37 (37.00%) Java
3 27 (27.00%) SQL
4 19 (19.00%) C#
5 16 (16.00%) JavaScript
6 14 (14.00%) TypeScript
7 11 (11.00%) C++
8 10 (10.00%) PowerShell
9 6 (6.00%) Bash
10 3 (3.00%) Perl
11 2 (2.00%) Apex Code
11 2 (2.00%) C
11 2 (2.00%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.00%) PromQL
11 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.00%) Go
12 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.00%) Degree
5 6 (6.00%) CCNP
5 6 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.00%) OCA
7 4 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (4.00%) RHCA
7 4 (4.00%) RHCE
7 4 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) MISRA
1 2 (2.00%) MISRA C
2 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.00%) Firmware
3 5 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (26.00%) Terraform
2 25 (25.00%) Ansible
3 21 (21.00%) Kubernetes
4 11 (11.00%) Puppet
5 9 (9.00%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.00%) SCCM
7 4 (4.00%) vCenter Server
8 3 (3.00%) Grafana
8 3 (3.00%) Kibana
8 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.00%) CloudHub
9 1 (1.00%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (1.00%) Podman
9 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (24.00%) Atlassian
2 18 (18.00%) Oracle
3 9 (9.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.00%) Google
4 8 (8.00%) Splunk
5 7 (7.00%) Veracode
6 6 (6.00%) Cisco
6 6 (6.00%) Intel
7 5 (5.00%) IBM
7 5 (5.00%) Salesforce
7 5 (5.00%) VMware
8 3 (3.00%) AppDynamics
8 3 (3.00%) Checkmarx
8 3 (3.00%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 2 (2.00%) MuleSoft
9 2 (2.00%) PagerDuty
10 1 (1.00%) Confluent
10 1 (1.00%) Okta
10 1 (1.00%) StreamSets