Bitbucket Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Bitbucket
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 294 297
Rank change year-on-year +42 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 52 51 184
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.33% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.51% 2.75% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 128
10th Percentile £320 £425 £428
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £538 £570
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% -5.70% +5.56%
75th Percentile £577 £625 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £539 £553 £570
% change year-on-year -2.49% -3.07% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 10
10th Percentile £54.25 - £44.30
25th Percentile £56.88 £40.00 £50.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £63.13 £66.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £63.50 £68.50 £73.98
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +5.22% - +4.55%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Bitbucket falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Bitbucket
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Bitbucket as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bitbucket trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Bitbucket.

Bitbucket daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Bitbucket over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Bitbucket daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bitbucket
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Bitbucket.

Bitbucket hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (34.62%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (53.85%) AWS
2 14 (26.92%) Azure
3 12 (23.08%) GitHub
4 8 (15.38%) Serverless
5 7 (13.46%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.77%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (3.85%) BrowserStack
9 2 (3.85%) npm
9 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.85%) Prefect
9 2 (3.85%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.92%) Datadog
10 1 (1.92%) GCP
10 1 (1.92%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) HTTP
2 4 (7.69%) SNMP
3 3 (5.77%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (3.85%) Firewall
4 2 (3.85%) SSL
5 1 (1.92%) BGP
5 1 (1.92%) DHCP
5 1 (1.92%) DNS
5 1 (1.92%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.92%) IPsec
5 1 (1.92%) Network Security
5 1 (1.92%) OSPF
5 1 (1.92%) SMTP
5 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.92%) VLAN
5 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 4 (7.69%) MySQL
3 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.92%) Adabas
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.92%) ClickHouse
4 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.92%) Impala
4 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.92%) Pentaho
4 1 (1.92%) Power BI
4 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (46.15%) JIRA
2 21 (40.38%) Git
3 14 (26.92%) Jenkins
4 13 (25.00%) GitLab
5 5 (9.62%) Cypress.io
5 5 (9.62%) Postman
6 4 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (7.69%) GoogleTest
6 4 (7.69%) Robot Framework
7 3 (5.77%) Eclipse
7 3 (5.77%) JMeter
7 3 (5.77%) Maven
7 3 (5.77%) Mocha
7 3 (5.77%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
7 3 (5.77%) TeamCity
7 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.85%) JUnit
8 2 (3.85%) REST Assured
General
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Banking
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing
6 2 (3.85%) Retail
7 1 (1.92%) Front Office
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Developer
2 7 (13.46%) Senior
3 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Software Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Software Test Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Administrator
6 2 (3.85%) Automation Tester
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Developer
6 2 (3.85%) C# Developer
6 2 (3.85%) PHP Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) CSS
1 12 (23.08%) HTML
2 9 (17.31%) Node.js
3 7 (13.46%) REST
4 6 (11.54%) React
5 5 (9.62%) HTML5
6 4 (7.69%) .NET
6 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 4 (7.69%) AWS CDK
6 4 (7.69%) GraphQL
6 4 (7.69%) Jest
6 4 (7.69%) OpenAPI
6 4 (7.69%) Swagger
7 3 (5.77%) .NET Core
7 3 (5.77%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (5.77%) GatsbyJS
7 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.77%) SVG
7 3 (5.77%) Vue
7 3 (5.77%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.77%) Algorithms
2 3 (5.77%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.77%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) PKI
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.92%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 19 (36.54%) Linux
2 7 (13.46%) Unix
3 5 (9.62%) Windows
4 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (44.23%) Agile
3 22 (42.31%) DevOps
4 14 (26.92%) Test Automation
5 12 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 10 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (17.31%) Microservices
7 9 (17.31%) Scrum
8 7 (13.46%) Software Testing
9 6 (11.54%) API Development
9 6 (11.54%) Containerisation
9 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (11.54%) Service Management
9 6 (11.54%) Validation
10 5 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (9.62%) Code Quality
10 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (7.69%) Configuration Management
11 4 (7.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (44.23%) Python
2 16 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 12 (23.08%) SQL
4 10 (19.23%) C#
4 10 (19.23%) Java
5 7 (13.46%) PL/SQL
6 6 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 5 (9.62%) Shell Script
8 4 (7.69%) C++
8 4 (7.69%) Groovy
8 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.85%) Bash
9 2 (3.85%) Perl
9 2 (3.85%) PHP
9 2 (3.85%) Ruby
9 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.92%) Go
10 1 (1.92%) HiveQL
10 1 (1.92%) Natural
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.85%) OCA
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.92%) CCNP
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.92%) MCSA
5 1 (1.92%) MCSE
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.92%) RHCA
5 1 (1.92%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.85%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (19.23%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.92%) HDFS
3 1 (1.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Terraform
2 10 (19.23%) Ansible
3 9 (17.31%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.62%) Puppet
5 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.85%) Grafana
6 2 (3.85%) Opsgenie
6 2 (3.85%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.92%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) Atlassian
2 7 (13.46%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) Google
3 4 (7.69%) IBM
4 3 (5.77%) VMware
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.85%) PagerDuty
5 2 (3.85%) Splunk
6 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco
6 1 (1.92%) Denodo
6 1 (1.92%) Informatica
6 1 (1.92%) Intel
6 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.92%) RedGate
6 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.92%) Talend
6 1 (1.92%) Veeam
6 1 (1.92%) Veracode
6 1 (1.92%) Veritas