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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 397 351
Rank change year-on-year +52 -46 -38
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 193 201 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.47% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.30% 3.79% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 120 264
10th Percentile £314 £390 £440
25th Percentile £413 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £625 £560
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +11.61% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £676
90th Percentile £775 £764 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 27 13
10th Percentile £51.93 £40.00 £50.25
25th Percentile £53.75 £51.07 £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £66.25 - £62.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.75 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.50% +21.74% +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 4,492 5,306 7,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.29% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,999 3,522 5,519
10th Percentile £331 £353 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £650
90th Percentile £695 £725 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 251 232
10th Percentile £20.86 £31.25 £46.19
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

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 1 July 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 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 14 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 1 July 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 +27 147 £538 -17.31% 464
UK excluding London +13 99 £500 -16.67% 304
London +59 73 £625 -3.85% 228
Work from Home +40 54 £450 -18.18% 215
Scotland +24 30 £500 - 49
South West +19 23 £575 -17.86% 36
South East +30 17 £606 +34.56% 91
Midlands +17 15 £349 -36.55% 21
North of England +1 14 £384 -24.26% 75
North West +1 12 £384 -26.86% 52
East Midlands +10 9 £311 -58.53% 5
West Midlands +4 6 £460 -16.36% 16
Yorkshire 0 2 - - 17
East of England +22 1 £500 -23.08% 21

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 74 (38.34%) Confluence
2 11 (5.70%) JBoss
3 10 (5.18%) Tomcat
3 10 (5.18%) WebLogic
3 10 (5.18%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.59%) Apache
4 5 (2.59%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.55%) Camunda
5 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.55%) Skype for Business
6 2 (1.04%) Anypoint
6 2 (1.04%) nginx
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.52%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Magento
2 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (41.97%) AWS
2 41 (21.24%) GitHub
3 34 (17.62%) Azure
4 21 (10.88%) Serverless
5 20 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (6.74%) Amazon S3
6 13 (6.74%) OpenShift
7 12 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.18%) GCP
9 9 (4.66%) SaaS
10 6 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.55%) Amazon Cognito
13 3 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (1.04%) AWS CodeBuild
14 2 (1.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) DNS
2 5 (2.59%) Firewall
2 5 (2.59%) HTTP
2 5 (2.59%) SNMP
2 5 (2.59%) VPN
3 4 (2.07%) BGP
3 4 (2.07%) DHCP
3 4 (2.07%) OSPF
3 4 (2.07%) Skype
3 4 (2.07%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (2.07%) Unified Communications
3 4 (2.07%) VLAN
4 3 (1.55%) IPsec
4 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (1.04%) LAN
5 2 (1.04%) Multicast
5 2 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.04%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.29%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.70%) DB2
3 9 (4.66%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.11%) Big Data
5 6 (3.11%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.59%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.07%) MySQL
7 4 (2.07%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.55%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.55%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.04%) Power BI
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.52%) KDB
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 100 (51.81%) Git
2 97 (50.26%) JIRA
3 68 (35.23%) Jenkins
4 41 (21.24%) GitLab
5 18 (9.33%) TeamCity
6 14 (7.25%) Maven
7 13 (6.74%) GoogleTest
7 13 (6.74%) IntelliJ
7 13 (6.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 12 (6.22%) JUnit
8 12 (6.22%) Selenium
8 12 (6.22%) SonarQube
9 11 (5.70%) Artifactory
9 11 (5.70%) Eclipse
10 10 (5.18%) Robot Framework
10 10 (5.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (5.18%) Visual Studio
11 9 (4.66%) Postman
12 8 (4.15%) Cucumber
12 8 (4.15%) PyCharm
General
1 51 (26.42%) Finance
2 39 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.62%) Banking
4 25 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.29%) Investment Banking
6 14 (7.25%) Front Office
7 10 (5.18%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.15%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.59%) Legal
10 3 (1.55%) Back Office
10 3 (1.55%) Law
10 3 (1.55%) Marketing
10 3 (1.55%) Retail
11 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.04%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 52 (26.94%) Developer
2 19 (9.84%) Software Engineer
3 18 (9.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.29%) Senior
5 14 (7.25%) Java Developer
6 13 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.22%) Scrum Master
8 10 (5.18%) Architect
9 9 (4.66%) Embedded Engineer
9 9 (4.66%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.63%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.11%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.11%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.11%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.59%) C++ Software Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.24%) REST
2 30 (15.54%) HTML
3 29 (15.03%) CSS
4 25 (12.95%) SOAP
4 25 (12.95%) Spring Boot
5 23 (11.92%) React
6 22 (11.40%) Node.js
6 22 (11.40%) Spring
7 20 (10.36%) .NET
8 15 (7.77%) Kafka
9 13 (6.74%) HTML5
9 13 (6.74%) RAML
10 12 (6.22%) ASP.NET
11 11 (5.70%) Jest
11 11 (5.70%) Web Services
12 10 (5.18%) WSDL
13 9 (4.66%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (4.15%) JPA
14 8 (4.15%) LESS
14 8 (4.15%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.33%) Private Cloud
2 17 (8.81%) Public Cloud
3 13 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.22%) Virtual Team
5 9 (4.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (4.15%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.11%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.11%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.07%) PKI
9 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Vector Graphics
10 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.04%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (1.04%) Online Banking
10 2 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 64 (33.16%) Linux
2 37 (19.17%) Windows
3 18 (9.33%) Windows Server
4 15 (7.77%) Unix
5 7 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.59%) CentOS
7 4 (2.07%) Android
8 3 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.04%) Debian
9 2 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.04%) VMS
10 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (58.55%) Agile
2 91 (47.15%) DevOps
3 80 (41.45%) CI/CD
4 52 (26.94%) Scrum
5 42 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (20.73%) Microservices
7 38 (19.69%) Test Automation
8 36 (18.65%) Software Engineering
9 32 (16.58%) SDLC
10 29 (15.03%) Deployment Automation
11 26 (13.47%) Configuration Management
11 26 (13.47%) Containerisation
12 21 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 20 (10.36%) API Development
13 20 (10.36%) Computer Science
14 18 (9.33%) Full-Stack Development
14 18 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (9.33%) Service Management
15 17 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (8.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 71 (36.79%) Python
2 61 (31.61%) Java
3 54 (27.98%) JavaScript
4 39 (20.21%) SQL
5 34 (17.62%) C#
6 28 (14.51%) TypeScript
7 25 (12.95%) C++
8 24 (12.44%) PowerShell
9 15 (7.77%) Bash
10 6 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.59%) Groovy
11 5 (2.59%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.59%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.07%) Perl
13 3 (1.55%) PHP
14 2 (1.04%) Apex Code
14 2 (1.04%) Haskell
14 2 (1.04%) RPG
14 2 (1.04%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 48 (24.87%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.36%) Degree
4 12 (6.22%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.22%) OCA
4 12 (6.22%) Oracle Certification
5 11 (5.70%) CCNP
5 11 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.18%) RHCA
6 10 (5.18%) RHCE
7 8 (4.15%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.11%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.04%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.52%) OCP
11 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.25%) QA
2 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.04%) ITGC
4 1 (0.52%) MISRA
4 1 (0.52%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (16.06%) Docker
2 21 (10.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.66%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (2.07%) Firmware
6 3 (1.55%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.55%) Lustre
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.55%) vCloud
6 3 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.55%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (1.55%) vSphere
7 2 (1.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (1.04%) VirtualBox
7 2 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (23.32%) Terraform
2 42 (21.76%) Ansible
3 39 (20.21%) Kubernetes
4 19 (9.84%) Puppet
5 14 (7.25%) Progress Chef
6 12 (6.22%) Grafana
7 11 (5.70%) vCenter Server
8 9 (4.66%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.07%) Kibana
9 4 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.55%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.55%) Podman
10 3 (1.55%) WSUS
11 2 (1.04%) CloudHub
11 2 (1.04%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.04%) Icinga
11 2 (1.04%) Nagios
11 2 (1.04%) Salt
12 1 (0.52%) Control-M
12 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 40 (20.73%) Atlassian
2 29 (15.03%) Oracle
3 23 (11.92%) VMware
4 20 (10.36%) Google
5 17 (8.81%) Splunk
6 13 (6.74%) Cisco
7 11 (5.70%) Microsoft
8 7 (3.63%) IBM
8 7 (3.63%) Veracode
9 6 (3.11%) Intel
10 5 (2.59%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.59%) Veritas
11 4 (2.07%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.07%) Veeam
12 3 (1.55%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
13 2 (1.04%) New Relic
13 2 (1.04%) Nintex
13 2 (1.04%) PagerDuty