Bitbucket Contracts

Bitbucket
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 339 424 367
Rank change year-on-year +85 -57 -40
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 186 178 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.41% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.54% 3.44% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 109 262
10th Percentile £337 £390 £440
25th Percentile £425 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £553 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -3.07% +3.64%
75th Percentile £616 £700 £663
90th Percentile £793 £705 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 17
10th Percentile £49.85 £39.68 £48.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.25 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +5.22% - +4.55%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bitbucket over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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 +50 145 £550 -6.38% 137
UK excluding London +56 101 £500 -16.67% 98
London +39 68 £638 +14.61% 58
Work from Home +51 52 £460 -14.42% 94
South East +38 30 £500 +11.11% 24
Scotland +26 25 £550 - 6
South West +36 24 £575 -17.86% 15
Midlands +25 12 £460 -16.36% 9
North of England +24 7 £384 -25.07% 24
West Midlands +12 7 £460 -16.36% 5
North West +7 5 £384 -26.86% 15
East Midlands - 5 £311 - 4
East of England +34 2 £500 -16.67% 3
Yorkshire +15 2 - - 4
Wales - 1 - - 11

Bitbucket
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 71 (38.17%) Confluence
2 7 (3.76%) JBoss
3 6 (3.23%) Apache
3 6 (3.23%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.23%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.23%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.61%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.08%) Camunda
5 2 (1.08%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.54%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (41.40%) AWS
2 31 (16.67%) Azure
3 29 (15.59%) GitHub
4 21 (11.29%) Serverless
5 13 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.99%) GCP
6 12 (6.45%) OpenShift
7 11 (5.91%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.61%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.61%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (1.61%) Google App Engine
11 3 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.08%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.38%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (4.30%) SNMP
3 7 (3.76%) DNS
4 6 (3.23%) HTTP
5 4 (2.15%) DHCP
6 3 (1.61%) Firewall
6 3 (1.61%) LTE
6 3 (1.61%) NAS
6 3 (1.61%) Skype
6 3 (1.61%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.08%) SSL
7 2 (1.08%) VPN
8 1 (0.54%) BGP
8 1 (0.54%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.54%) IPsec
8 1 (0.54%) Network Security
8 1 (0.54%) OSPF
8 1 (0.54%) SMTP
8 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.38%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.76%) DB2
4 7 (3.76%) MySQL
4 7 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.23%) Big Data
5 6 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.69%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.15%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.61%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.61%) Cloud Spanner
8 3 (1.61%) Impala
8 3 (1.61%) Redis
9 2 (1.08%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.08%) IDMS
9 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 96 (51.61%) JIRA
2 84 (45.16%) Git
3 79 (42.47%) Jenkins
4 33 (17.74%) GitLab
5 20 (10.75%) GoogleTest
5 20 (10.75%) TeamCity
6 15 (8.06%) Eclipse
7 13 (6.99%) Robot Framework
8 11 (5.91%) SonarQube
9 10 (5.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (5.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (4.84%) Maven
11 8 (4.30%) Artifactory
11 8 (4.30%) Rational DOORS
12 7 (3.76%) JMeter
12 7 (3.76%) JUnit
12 7 (3.76%) TestRail
13 6 (3.23%) Postman
13 6 (3.23%) REST Assured
13 6 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.35%) Finance
3 35 (18.82%) Banking
4 22 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.22%) Investment Banking
6 12 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (5.38%) Front Office
8 6 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.69%) Legal
10 4 (2.15%) Retail
11 3 (1.61%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.61%) Law
12 2 (1.08%) Aviation
12 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.08%) Marketing
13 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (22.58%) Developer
2 27 (14.52%) Software Engineer
3 26 (13.98%) Senior
4 17 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (6.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (6.99%) Embedded Engineer
5 13 (6.99%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 12 (6.45%) Architect
7 9 (4.84%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (4.84%) Senior Developer
7 9 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (4.30%) C++ Software Engineer
8 8 (4.30%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.30%) Python Developer
9 7 (3.76%) Embedded C++ Engineer
9 7 (3.76%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
9 7 (3.76%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (3.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 7 (3.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 7 (3.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.28%) HTML
2 33 (17.74%) REST
3 30 (16.13%) CSS
4 23 (12.37%) .NET
5 21 (11.29%) React
5 21 (11.29%) SOAP
6 20 (10.75%) Node.js
7 18 (9.68%) Spring Boot
8 17 (9.14%) ASP.NET
9 16 (8.60%) HTML5
10 15 (8.06%) Spring
11 13 (6.99%) Kafka
12 9 (4.84%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (4.30%) LESS
13 8 (4.30%) Sass
13 8 (4.30%) Tailwind CSS
14 7 (3.76%) AngularJS
14 7 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (3.76%) GraphQL
14 7 (3.76%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.99%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.45%) Private Cloud
3 9 (4.84%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.69%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.15%) PKI
8 3 (1.61%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.61%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.61%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.61%) Vector Graphics
8 3 (1.61%) Verilog
8 3 (1.61%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 67 (36.02%) Linux
2 31 (16.67%) Windows
3 16 (8.60%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.53%) Unix
5 7 (3.76%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.61%) CentOS
7 3 (1.61%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.08%) VMS
9 1 (0.54%) Android
9 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.54%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (52.69%) Agile
2 75 (40.32%) DevOps
3 64 (34.41%) CI/CD
4 53 (28.49%) Scrum
5 47 (25.27%) Software Engineering
6 41 (22.04%) Test Automation
7 35 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (18.28%) Microservices
9 33 (17.74%) Containerisation
10 29 (15.59%) Deployment Automation
11 27 (14.52%) Configuration Management
12 26 (13.98%) Computer Science
13 25 (13.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
15 23 (12.37%) OO
16 20 (10.75%) Clean Code
16 20 (10.75%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (10.75%) Service Management
16 20 (10.75%) Validation
17 19 (10.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 73 (39.25%) Python
2 52 (27.96%) JavaScript
3 51 (27.42%) Java
4 38 (20.43%) SQL
5 36 (19.35%) C#
6 29 (15.59%) C++
7 22 (11.83%) PowerShell
7 22 (11.83%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.45%) Bash
9 9 (4.84%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.76%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.23%) PHP
12 5 (2.69%) Groovy
13 4 (2.15%) Go
13 4 (2.15%) Perl
13 4 (2.15%) R
13 4 (2.15%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.61%) SystemVerilog
14 3 (1.61%) Tcl
15 2 (1.08%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 51 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 44 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.90%) Degree
4 16 (8.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (7.53%) AWS Certification
6 12 (6.45%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (5.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.91%) OCA
7 11 (5.91%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (5.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (5.38%) CCNP
8 10 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (5.38%) RHCA
8 10 (5.38%) RHCE
9 8 (4.30%) Master's Degree
10 6 (3.23%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.08%) ISEB
11 2 (1.08%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.06%) QA
2 3 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (17.20%) Docker
2 18 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.30%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.23%) Firmware
5 5 (2.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (2.15%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.61%) Lustre
7 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.61%) vCloud
7 3 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.61%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (1.61%) vSphere
8 2 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (23.66%) Terraform
2 39 (20.97%) Ansible
3 34 (18.28%) Kubernetes
4 20 (10.75%) Puppet
5 16 (8.60%) Progress Chef
6 11 (5.91%) vCenter Server
7 9 (4.84%) Grafana
8 5 (2.69%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.15%) Kibana
10 3 (1.61%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.61%) Packer
10 3 (1.61%) Podman
10 3 (1.61%) WSUS
11 2 (1.08%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.08%) PowerCLI
11 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.54%) Argo
12 1 (0.54%) Control-M
12 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 42 (22.58%) Atlassian
2 31 (16.67%) Google
3 27 (14.52%) Oracle
4 20 (10.75%) VMware
5 12 (6.45%) Microsoft
6 10 (5.38%) Cisco
6 10 (5.38%) Splunk
7 6 (3.23%) IBM
7 6 (3.23%) Intel
8 5 (2.69%) Veritas
9 4 (2.15%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.15%) Veeam
10 3 (1.61%) Veracode
10 3 (1.61%) Xilinx
11 2 (1.08%) Adobe
11 2 (1.08%) Informatica
11 2 (1.08%) PagerDuty
11 2 (1.08%) SAP
11 2 (1.08%) Sitecore