Bitbucket Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Bitbucket skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bitbucket over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Bitbucket UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	373	557	617
Rank change year-on-year	+184	+60
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket	223	95	19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.48%	0.18%	0.034%
As % of the Development Applications category	2.75%	1.15%	0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted	155	62	14
Median daily rate	£475	£488	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-2.56%	+39.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£348	£350	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£425
UK excluding London median daily rate	£419	£425	£325
% change year-on-year	-1.47%	+30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	-

Bitbucket is in the development application skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract Development Application Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	8117	8240	7471
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	17.54%	15.53%	13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted	5548	5678	4924
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£313	£295
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£413	£400	£363
% change year-on-year	+3.12%	+10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted	148	125	126
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.25	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.59%	+14.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.50	£26.75	£22.18
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£61.69	£50.00	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.25	£42.00	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+2.97%	+13.51%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Bitbucket as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Development Applications category.

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Bitbucket.

Contractor daily rate trend for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Bitbucket over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the UK

Bitbucket
Top 30 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 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+159	208	£488	-2.50%	71
London	+60	110	£525	+5.00%	30
South East	+74	41	£413	+4.76%	5
South West	+16	20	£530	+6.00%	2
West Midlands	+29	14	£550	+41.93%	7
Wiltshire	-	13	£563	-	1
Buckinghamshire	-	12	£375	-	2
East of England	-3	11	£400	-23.80%	6
Birmingham	-	11	£550	-	2
Oxfordshire	-	10	£413	-	1
Milton Keynes	-	10	£345	-	2
Berkshire	+23	8	£431	-
Surrey	+10	8	£550	+41.93%
County Antrim	-35	8	£413	+65.00%
Belfast	-38	8	£413	+65.00%
Northern Ireland	-41	8	£413	+65.00%
North West	+29	7	£405	-10.00%	18
City of London	+2	7	£475	-7.31%	7
Croydon	-	6	-	-
Cheshire	+26	5	£370	-17.77%	9
Corsham	-	5	£625	-
Scotland	+43	4	£370	+23.33%
Bristol	-4	4	£500	+5.26%
Hertfordshire	-4	4	£470	-24.80%	4
Bedfordshire	-	4	£330	-
East Midlands	-	4	£325	-	2
Leatherhead	-	4	£550	-
Derbyshire	-	4	£325	-
East Sussex	-	4	£458	-
Bracknell	-	4	£450	-

Bitbucket
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Bitbucket also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Bitbucket.

1	254 (58.39%)	JIRA
2	231 (53.10%)	Git (software)
3	220 (50.57%)	Agile Software Development
4	179 (41.15%)	Java
5	171 (39.31%)	DevOps
6	169 (38.85%)	Jenkins
7	164 (37.70%)	Confluence
8	146 (33.56%)	JavaScript
9	144 (33.10%)	Linux
10	141 (32.41%)	Amazon AWS
11	132 (30.34%)	Continuous Integration
12	122 (28.05%)	Docker
13	115 (26.44%)	TDD
14	110 (25.29%)	REST
15	104 (23.91%)	Maven

16	103 (23.68%)	HTML
17	98 (22.53%)	Atlassian
17	98 (22.53%)	Ansible
18	94 (21.61%)	CSS
19	91 (20.92%)	Finance
20	90 (20.69%)	Puppet
21	89 (20.46%)	Test Automation
22	88 (20.23%)	SQL
23	86 (19.77%)	Python
24	77 (17.70%)	Scrum
25	76 (17.47%)	Atlassian Bamboo
25	76 (17.47%)	BDD
25	76 (17.47%)	GitHub
26	73 (16.78%)	AngularJS
26	73 (16.78%)	Web Services

Bitbucket
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	164 (37.70%)	Confluence
2	61 (14.02%)	Apache
3	43 (9.89%)	Tomcat
4	37 (8.51%)	Elasticsearch
5	24 (5.52%)	WebSphere
6	21 (4.83%)	CMS
6	21 (4.83%)	OpenStack
7	17 (3.91%)	Cloud Foundry
7	17 (3.91%)	nginx
8	14 (3.22%)	Sitecore CMS
9	13 (2.99%)	JBoss
10	12 (2.76%)	Oracle SOA Suite
10	12 (2.76%)	WebLogic
11	9 (2.07%)	Apache Solr
12	8 (1.84%)	Apache Spark
13	6 (1.38%)	Apache Qpid
13	6 (1.38%)	SharePoint
14	5 (1.15%)	Mule
14	5 (1.15%)	Oracle Workflow
15	4 (0.92%)	Drupal

Applications
1	11 (2.53%)	HipChat
2	7 (1.61%)	Microsoft Excel
3	3 (0.69%)	Microsoft Office
3	3 (0.69%)	MS Visio
3	3 (0.69%)	Photoshop
4	1 (0.23%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	1 (0.23%)	Fireworks

Business Applications
1	5 (1.15%)	Oracle Applications
2	4 (0.92%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	2 (0.46%)	Oracle BPM
4	1 (0.23%)	Dynamics CRM
4	1 (0.23%)	Remedy ITSM

Cloud Services
1	141 (32.41%)	Amazon AWS
2	76 (17.47%)	GitHub
3	52 (11.95%)	Microsoft Azure
4	25 (5.75%)	AWS Lambda
5	20 (4.60%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	17 (3.91%)	Amazon EC2
6	17 (3.91%)	Amazon S3
7	16 (3.68%)	SaaS
8	15 (3.45%)	OpenShift
9	14 (3.22%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	13 (2.99%)	PaaS
11	12 (2.76%)	IaaS
12	11 (2.53%)	Amazon CloudWatch
12	11 (2.53%)	Amazon ELB
13	10 (2.30%)	Heroku
14	8 (1.84%)	Datadog
15	5 (1.15%)	Cloud Computing
15	5 (1.15%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
15	5 (1.15%)	Sauce Labs
16	4 (0.92%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	46 (10.57%)	HTTP
2	21 (4.83%)	DNS
3	18 (4.14%)	SSL
4	14 (3.22%)	SSH
5	12 (2.76%)	LDAP
6	10 (2.30%)	OpenLDAP
6	10 (2.30%)	OpenVPN
7	8 (1.84%)	AMQP
7	8 (1.84%)	Firewall
7	8 (1.84%)	SNMP
7	8 (1.84%)	VPN
8	7 (1.61%)	Internet
9	6 (1.38%)	VoIP
9	6 (1.38%)	Wireshark
10	4 (0.92%)	Skype
11	3 (0.69%)	TCP/IP
12	2 (0.46%)	HTTPS
12	2 (0.46%)	Intranet
12	2 (0.46%)	LAN
12	2 (0.46%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	69 (15.86%)	MySQL
2	59 (13.56%)	PostgreSQL
3	55 (12.64%)	MongoDB
4	49 (11.26%)	SQL Server
5	36 (8.28%)	NoSQL
6	27 (6.21%)	Amazon DynamoDB
7	23 (5.29%)	Redis
8	21 (4.83%)	Oracle Database
9	20 (4.60%)	Apache Cassandra
9	20 (4.60%)	Big Data
10	19 (4.37%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	15 (3.45%)	Relational Database
12	14 (3.22%)	Amazon RDS
13	13 (2.99%)	Hadoop
14	12 (2.76%)	Data Warehouse
15	6 (1.38%)	MS Access
15	6 (1.38%)	SQL Server 2012
16	5 (1.15%)	DataStax
16	5 (1.15%)	Oracle ODI
16	5 (1.15%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	254 (58.39%)	JIRA
2	231 (53.10%)	Git (software)
3	169 (38.85%)	Jenkins
4	104 (23.91%)	Maven
5	76 (17.47%)	Atlassian Bamboo
6	65 (14.94%)	Selenium
7	49 (11.26%)	Gradle
8	47 (10.80%)	Ant
9	43 (9.89%)	Cucumber
10	38 (8.74%)	TeamCity
11	36 (8.28%)	JUnit
12	35 (8.05%)	gulp
12	35 (8.05%)	Subversion
13	34 (7.82%)	JMeter
13	34 (7.82%)	Sonatype Nexus
14	30 (6.90%)	SonarQube
14	30 (6.90%)	WebDriver
15	29 (6.67%)	Grunt
16	25 (5.75%)	Eclipse
17	20 (4.60%)	Jasmine

General
1	91 (20.92%)	Finance
2	48 (11.03%)	Banking
3	14 (3.22%)	Investment Banking
3	14 (3.22%)	Retail
4	10 (2.30%)	Telecoms
5	9 (2.07%)	Billing
5	9 (2.07%)	Front Office
6	7 (1.61%)	Games
7	6 (1.38%)	Corporate Banking
7	6 (1.38%)	Pharmaceutical
8	5 (1.15%)	Marketing
9	4 (0.92%)	Electronics
9	4 (0.92%)	Legal
9	4 (0.92%)	Manufacturing
9	4 (0.92%)	Retail Banking
10	2 (0.46%)	Back Office
10	2 (0.46%)	Hungarian Language
11	1 (0.23%)	Automotive
11	1 (0.23%)	Local Government
11	1 (0.23%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	191 (43.91%)	Developer
2	71 (16.32%)	DevOps Engineer
3	62 (14.25%)	Java Developer
4	45 (10.34%)	Architect
5	39 (8.97%)	AWS Engineer
6	28 (6.44%)	AWS DevOps
7	26 (5.98%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
8	25 (5.75%)	Full Stack Developer
9	23 (5.29%)	Senior Developer
10	22 (5.06%)	Angular Developer
11	20 (4.60%)	Linux Engineer
12	18 (4.14%)	Cloud Architect
13	17 (3.91%)	AWS Architect
14	15 (3.45%)	Cloud Engineer
14	15 (3.45%)	Python Developer
15	14 (3.22%)	JavaScript Developer
16	12 (2.76%)	Consultant
16	12 (2.76%)	Release Engineer
17	11 (2.53%)	.NET Developer
17	11 (2.53%)	Web Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	110 (25.29%)	REST
2	103 (23.68%)	HTML
3	94 (21.61%)	CSS
4	73 (16.78%)	AngularJS
4	73 (16.78%)	Web Services
5	70 (16.09%)	Spring
6	69 (15.86%)	JSON
6	69 (15.86%)	SOAP
7	62 (14.25%)	XML
8	58 (13.33%)	jQuery
9	55 (12.64%)	.NET
10	54 (12.41%)	HTML5
11	51 (11.72%)	Node.js
12	40 (9.20%)	RESTful
13	37 (8.51%)	Elastic Stack
14	29 (6.67%)	Spring Boot
15	25 (5.75%)	CSS3
15	25 (5.75%)	J2EE
16	23 (5.29%)	React
17	20 (4.60%)	RabbitMQ

Miscellaneous
1	39 (8.97%)	Computer Science
2	26 (5.98%)	User Experience
3	22 (5.06%)	Mobile App
4	19 (4.37%)	Analytical Skills
5	18 (4.14%)	Client/Server
6	17 (3.91%)	Greenfield Project
7	16 (3.68%)	Linux Command Line
7	16 (3.68%)	PKI
8	12 (2.76%)	Cloud Native
9	11 (2.53%)	Fintech
10	9 (2.07%)	Data Centre
11	8 (1.84%)	Management Information System
12	7 (1.61%)	PMI
12	7 (1.61%)	W3C
13	6 (1.38%)	Animation
13	6 (1.38%)	iPad
14	5 (1.15%)	Blackberry
14	5 (1.15%)	Online Games
15	4 (0.92%)	Enterprise Software
15	4 (0.92%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	144 (33.10%)	Linux
2	47 (10.80%)	Unix
3	44 (10.11%)	Windows
4	25 (5.75%)	Apple iOS
4	25 (5.75%)	CentOS
5	24 (5.52%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	17 (3.91%)	Android
7	16 (3.68%)	Ubuntu
8	9 (2.07%)	Mac OS X
9	8 (1.84%)	CoreOS
10	6 (1.38%)	Oracle Linux
10	6 (1.38%)	Solaris
10	6 (1.38%)	Windows Server
11	4 (0.92%)	Windows Server 2012
12	3 (0.69%)	RancherOS
13	2 (0.46%)	AIX
14	1 (0.23%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	220 (50.57%)	Agile Software Development
2	171 (39.31%)	DevOps
3	132 (30.34%)	Continuous Integration
4	115 (26.44%)	TDD
5	89 (20.46%)	Test Automation
6	77 (17.70%)	Scrum
7	76 (17.47%)	BDD
8	62 (14.25%)	Continuous Delivery
9	61 (14.02%)	Configuration Management
10	56 (12.87%)	Open Source
11	52 (11.95%)	OO
12	46 (10.57%)	Microservices
13	43 (9.89%)	Unit Testing
14	34 (7.82%)	Project Management
15	33 (7.59%)	MVC
16	32 (7.36%)	SOA
16	32 (7.36%)	Web Development
17	27 (6.21%)	Front End Development
18	23 (5.29%)	API Development
19	22 (5.06%)	OOP

Programming Languages
1	179 (41.15%)	Java
2	146 (33.56%)	JavaScript
3	88 (20.23%)	SQL
4	86 (19.77%)	Python
5	48 (11.03%)	Ruby
6	44 (10.11%)	C#
7	43 (9.89%)	Bash Shell
8	41 (9.43%)	Groovy
9	30 (6.90%)	C++
10	24 (5.52%)	Perl
11	20 (4.60%)	Apple Swift
12	19 (4.37%)	Shell Script
13	18 (4.14%)	PHP
13	18 (4.14%)	PL/SQL
13	18 (4.14%)	TypeScript
14	16 (3.68%)	Scala
15	13 (2.99%)	PowerShell
16	12 (2.76%)	T-SQL
17	11 (2.53%)	C
17	11 (2.53%)	Objective-C

Qualifications
1	65 (14.94%)	Security Cleared
2	52 (11.95%)	SC Cleared
3	43 (9.89%)	Degree
4	18 (4.14%)	Computer Science Degree
5	17 (3.91%)	DV Cleared
6	10 (2.30%)	Chartered Engineer
6	10 (2.30%)	CITP
6	10 (2.30%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
6	10 (2.30%)	MBCS
6	10 (2.30%)	PMI Certification
6	10 (2.30%)	PMP
7	4 (0.92%)	BPSS Clearance
7	4 (0.92%)	Master's Degree
8	2 (0.46%)	BC Cleared
8	2 (0.46%)	Microsoft Certification
8	2 (0.46%)	Sun Certification
9	1 (0.23%)	PRINCE2 Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	32 (7.36%)	QA
2	3 (0.69%)	COBIT
3	2 (0.46%)	GCP
4	1 (0.23%)	Basel III
4	1 (0.23%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	1 (0.23%)	PCI DSS
4	1 (0.23%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
4	1 (0.23%)	WCAG

System Software
1	122 (28.05%)	Docker
2	14 (3.22%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	12 (2.76%)	Virtual Machines
4	10 (2.30%)	Postfix
4	10 (2.30%)	Squid
4	10 (2.30%)	vCloud
5	8 (1.84%)	Varnish
6	5 (1.15%)	KVM
7	3 (0.69%)	etcd
7	3 (0.69%)	flannel
8	2 (0.46%)	Apache Flume
8	2 (0.46%)	LXC
9	1 (0.23%)	HDFS
9	1 (0.23%)	VirtualBox
9	1 (0.23%)	VMware ESXi
9	1 (0.23%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	98 (22.53%)	Ansible
2	90 (20.69%)	Puppet
3	51 (11.72%)	Terraform
4	49 (11.26%)	Kubernetes
5	34 (7.82%)	Opscode Chef
6	25 (5.75%)	ZABBIX
7	24 (5.52%)	Rsyslog
8	21 (4.83%)	Consul
9	19 (4.37%)	Kibana
10	18 (4.14%)	logstash
11	17 (3.91%)	Docker Swarm
12	16 (3.68%)	Rancher
12	16 (3.68%)	Sysdig
13	13 (2.99%)	yum
14	12 (2.76%)	Pingdom
15	11 (2.53%)	BladeLogic
16	10 (2.30%)	Graphite
16	10 (2.30%)	Packer
17	9 (2.07%)	Grafana
17	9 (2.07%)	HP Fortify

Vendors
1	98 (22.53%)	Atlassian
2	67 (15.40%)	Oracle
3	36 (8.28%)	VMware
4	27 (6.21%)	AppDynamics
5	26 (5.98%)	Sonatype
6	21 (4.83%)	Splunk
7	20 (4.60%)	HP
8	19 (4.37%)	Google
9	17 (3.91%)	Red Hat
9	17 (3.91%)	Sitecore
10	16 (3.68%)	Microsoft
11	14 (3.22%)	Salesforce.com
12	12 (2.76%)	PagerDuty
13	11 (2.53%)	CA
14	10 (2.30%)	Apigee
15	9 (2.07%)	Apple
15	9 (2.07%)	MuleSoft
16	8 (1.84%)	IBM
16	8 (1.84%)	Perforce
16	8 (1.84%)	SAP