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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 562 646
Rank change year-on-year +46 +84 +189
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket Server 33 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.026% 0.028%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.67% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 11
10th Percentile £329 £339 £440
25th Percentile £363 £356 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £359 £513
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% -29.90% +2.50%
75th Percentile £537 £395 £575
90th Percentile £613 £490 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £393 £359 £526
% change year-on-year +9.39% -31.73% +13.78%

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 4,896 5,018 7,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.86% 12.80% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 3,304 5,134
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £595 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.15% +0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 214 239
10th Percentile £25.24 £26.59 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.20 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £84.05 £73.93 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.44
% change year-on-year - +2.46% +5.73%

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 5 August 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 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +53 31 £402 +12.92% 6
UK excluding London +30 28 £393 +9.39% 4
Midlands +1 15 £488 +36.94% 1
North of England -7 10 £370 -5.19% 3
North West - 10 £370 - 3
Work from Home +30 9 £500 +40.45%
West Midlands - 8 £500 -
East Midlands -5 7 £375 +5.34% 1
London +5 5 £600 +26.32% 2
South East +31 3 £500 -
Scotland -4 1 £525 +28.05%

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 15 (45.45%) JBoss
2 3 (9.09%) Mule
3 2 (6.06%) Apache
3 2 (6.06%) IIS
3 2 (6.06%) iPlanet
3 2 (6.06%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.06%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (3.03%) Camunda
4 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (78.79%) AWS
2 14 (42.42%) OpenShift
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (24.24%) AWS KMS
3 8 (24.24%) Route 53
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (36.36%) RDBMS
2 12 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (24.24%) DynamoDB
3 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.09%) MariaDB
4 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.03%) KDB
Development Applications
1 33 (100.00%) Git
2 27 (81.82%) Jenkins
3 24 (72.73%) SonarQube
4 15 (45.45%) CA Release Automation
5 14 (42.42%) JIRA
5 14 (42.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (39.39%) TeamCity
7 12 (36.36%) JUnit
8 8 (24.24%) DbUnit
8 8 (24.24%) jMock
8 8 (24.24%) Maven
8 8 (24.24%) Mockito
9 6 (18.18%) Bitbucket
10 2 (6.06%) Subversion
11 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
General
1 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Developer
2 14 (42.42%) Java Developer
3 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (12.12%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
5 3 (9.09%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Angular Developer
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Ruby Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.03%) Automation Developer
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (75.76%) Spring Boot
2 13 (39.39%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (39.39%) Spring
3 12 (36.36%) REST
4 11 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 11 (33.33%) Spring Batch
4 11 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
5 9 (27.27%) RESTful
6 8 (24.24%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (24.24%) Bootstrap
6 8 (24.24%) Hibernate
6 8 (24.24%) JPA
6 8 (24.24%) PowerMock
6 8 (24.24%) SOAP
6 8 (24.24%) Spring Integration
6 8 (24.24%) Web Services
7 3 (9.09%) J2EE
7 3 (9.09%) Kafka
7 3 (9.09%) LDAP
7 3 (9.09%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.06%) Equities
3 2 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 27 (81.82%) Linux
2 14 (42.42%) Windows
3 13 (39.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (15.15%) Unix
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) Microservices
2 24 (72.73%) Continuous Integration
2 24 (72.73%) DevOps
3 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 16 (48.48%) Code Quality
4 13 (39.39%) Build Automation
4 13 (39.39%) Deployment Automation
4 13 (39.39%) Migration
5 11 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
7 9 (27.27%) Agile
8 8 (24.24%) BDD
8 8 (24.24%) Kanban
8 8 (24.24%) Open Source
8 8 (24.24%) Scrum
8 8 (24.24%) TDD
9 6 (18.18%) Analytics
9 6 (18.18%) Change Management
9 6 (18.18%) Runbook
9 6 (18.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (72.73%) Java
2 15 (45.45%) Python
3 13 (39.39%) Perl
4 10 (30.30%) SQL
5 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.06%) Groovy
6 2 (6.06%) Ruby
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 22 (66.67%) Docker
2 15 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (24.24%) Postfix
4 1 (3.03%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Progress Chef
2 13 (39.39%) Kibana
2 13 (39.39%) Kubernetes
3 8 (24.24%) Grafana
3 8 (24.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.06%) CA Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.06%) CA Wily
5 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.03%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) AppDynamics
1 15 (45.45%) Splunk
2 13 (39.39%) Red Hat
3 8 (24.24%) Atlassian
3 8 (24.24%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (18.18%) Cloudera
5 3 (9.09%) Checkmarx
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.06%) Broadcom
6 2 (6.06%) IBM
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle