Bitbucket Server Contracts

Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Bitbucket Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bitbucket Server over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 586 686
Rank change year-on-year +99 +100 +145
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket Server 32 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.032% 0.045%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.78% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 21
10th Percentile £392 - £440
25th Percentile £400 £356 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £410 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.98% -25.45% +8.91%
75th Percentile £594 £556 £650
90th Percentile £716 - £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £376 £513
% change year-on-year +16.54% -26.59% +10.81%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Bitbucket Server 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Bitbucket Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket Server in the UK

Bitbucket Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Bitbucket Server in the UK

Bitbucket Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket Server over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket Server in the UK

Bitbucket Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Bitbucket Server in the UK

Bitbucket Server
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket Server within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +79 29 £537 +15.80% 6
UK excluding London +64 19 £439 +16.54% 2
London +42 12 £575 +6.98% 4
Work from Home +50 8 £537 +43.97% 3
South East +48 7 £500 -6.98%
North of England +32 5 £393 +0.77% 2
Midlands +24 5 £500 +40.45%
North West - 5 £393 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £500 -
Scotland +10 2 £525 +28.05%
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13%

Bitbucket Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (31.25%) JBoss
2 6 (18.75%) Confluence
3 4 (12.50%) Apache
3 4 (12.50%) CMS
3 4 (12.50%) Drupal
3 4 (12.50%) WordPress
4 2 (6.25%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) AWS
2 10 (31.25%) OpenShift
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (12.50%) AWS KMS
3 4 (12.50%) Route 53
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) Relational Database
2 10 (31.25%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (31.25%) RDBMS
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 4 (12.50%) MySQL
3 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) KDB
Development Applications
1 27 (84.38%) Git
2 21 (65.63%) Jenkins
3 19 (59.38%) SonarQube
4 16 (50.00%) JIRA
5 13 (40.63%) JUnit
5 13 (40.63%) TeamCity
6 10 (31.25%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (31.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (28.13%) Maven
8 5 (15.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (15.63%) Gradle
8 5 (15.63%) IntelliJ
9 4 (12.50%) DbUnit
9 4 (12.50%) jMock
9 4 (12.50%) Mockito
10 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
11 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
General
1 14 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Developer
2 14 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 4 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) PHP Software Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Angular Developer
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Python Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Ruby Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (53.13%) Spring Boot
2 12 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 12 (37.50%) Spring
3 10 (31.25%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (28.13%) JPA
5 8 (25.00%) SOAP
5 8 (25.00%) Web Services
6 7 (21.88%) CSS
6 7 (21.88%) HTML
7 6 (18.75%) RESTful
8 5 (15.63%) JMS
9 4 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (12.50%) Ajax
9 4 (12.50%) Bootstrap
9 4 (12.50%) CodeIgniter
9 4 (12.50%) Hibernate
9 4 (12.50%) jQuery
9 4 (12.50%) LAMP
9 4 (12.50%) REST
9 4 (12.50%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Legacy Code
2 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.38%) N-Tier
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Derivative
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (6.25%) Equities
3 2 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (68.75%) Linux
2 10 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (28.13%) Unix
3 9 (28.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) Microservices
2 20 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 20 (62.50%) DevOps
3 16 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (40.63%) Agile
5 11 (34.38%) TDD
6 10 (31.25%) Build Automation
6 10 (31.25%) Code Quality
6 10 (31.25%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (31.25%) Migration
7 9 (28.13%) Unit Testing
8 8 (25.00%) Kanban
8 8 (25.00%) Scrum
8 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
10 6 (18.75%) Design Patterns
10 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 25 (78.13%) Java
2 10 (31.25%) Perl
2 10 (31.25%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.63%) SQL
5 4 (12.50%) PHP
5 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 3 (9.38%) Scala
7 2 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Docker
2 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (31.25%) Kibana
2 10 (31.25%) Progress Chef
3 5 (15.63%) Grafana
4 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Splunk
2 10 (31.25%) AppDynamics
2 10 (31.25%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 4 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) Zend
4 3 (9.38%) Cloudera