Hybrid/Remote Bitbucket Contract Job Trends

Bitbucket
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 247 301
Rank change year-on-year -20 +54 -33
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 51 69 91
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.57% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.26% 4.49% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 61
10th Percentile £270 £446 £390
25th Percentile £359 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £583 £691 £650
90th Percentile £635 £753 £706
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +4.38%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - - £70.57
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.00% - +9.65%

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 1,565 1,536 2,378
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.37% 12.66% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,048 984 1,719
10th Percentile £331 £325 £360
25th Percentile £400 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £619
90th Percentile £669 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 71
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.40 £50.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £51.25 £60.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.00 £68.00 £90.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bitbucket and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Bitbucket job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bitbucket.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bitbucket over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Bitbucket daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Bitbucket
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bitbucket.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (47.06%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) Anypoint
2 2 (3.92%) Apache
2 2 (3.92%) JBoss
2 2 (3.92%) nginx
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.96%) Mule
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.96%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) AWS
2 15 (29.41%) GitHub
3 13 (25.49%) Azure
4 6 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (9.80%) Serverless
6 4 (7.84%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.88%) Slack
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.92%) BrowserStack
8 2 (3.92%) Datadog
8 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
3 1 (1.96%) BGP
3 1 (1.96%) DNS
3 1 (1.96%) DSL
3 1 (1.96%) HTTP
3 1 (1.96%) OSPF
3 1 (1.96%) Skype
3 1 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.96%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.96%) VLAN
3 1 (1.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) MySQL
2 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.84%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.88%) MariaDB
4 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.92%) DB2
5 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.96%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.96%) Redis
6 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (62.75%) JIRA
2 30 (58.82%) Git
3 27 (52.94%) Jenkins
4 11 (21.57%) GitLab
5 7 (13.73%) Selenium
5 7 (13.73%) SonarQube
6 6 (11.76%) JUnit
6 6 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (9.80%) Android Studio
7 5 (9.80%) Cucumber
8 4 (7.84%) Maven
8 4 (7.84%) Postman
8 4 (7.84%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (5.88%) Mockito
10 2 (3.92%) Artifactory
10 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (3.92%) Vagrant
10 2 (3.92%) WebDriver
10 2 (3.92%) Zephyr
11 1 (1.96%) Snyk
General
1 16 (31.37%) Finance
1 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Banking
3 10 (19.61%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Automotive
5 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) Developer
2 8 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Android Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Java Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Senior Developer
5 3 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (5.88%) Tester
6 2 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) DevOps Architect
6 2 (3.92%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (3.92%) JIRA Specialist
6 2 (3.92%) MuleSoft Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) CSS
1 7 (13.73%) Node.js
1 7 (13.73%) REST
2 6 (11.76%) HTML
2 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 5 (9.80%) Android Jetpack
3 5 (9.80%) Jetpack Compose
3 5 (9.80%) React
4 4 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (7.84%) JSON
4 4 (7.84%) RAML
4 4 (7.84%) RESTful
5 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.88%) Hibernate
5 3 (5.88%) Swagger
5 3 (5.88%) Vue
6 2 (3.92%) Laravel
6 2 (3.92%) MUnit
6 2 (3.92%) Redux
6 2 (3.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.96%) Replication
3 1 (1.96%) Video on Demand
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Windows
3 5 (9.80%) Android
4 3 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.88%) Unix
5 2 (3.92%) CentOS
5 2 (3.92%) Debian
5 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (62.75%) Agile
2 29 (56.86%) DevOps
3 26 (50.98%) CI/CD
4 15 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 14 (27.45%) Scrum
6 13 (25.49%) Microservices
7 9 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (15.69%) SDLC
9 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 6 (11.76%) TDD
9 6 (11.76%) Unit Testing
10 5 (9.80%) Android Development
10 5 (9.80%) Code Quality
10 5 (9.80%) Configuration Management
10 5 (9.80%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (9.80%) OOP
10 5 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (7.84%) API Integration
11 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (7.84%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) Java
2 18 (35.29%) Python
3 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 12 (23.53%) SQL
4 7 (13.73%) Bash
5 6 (11.76%) Kotlin
5 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 5 (9.80%) Perl
6 5 (9.80%) PHP
6 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.88%) Ruby
8 2 (3.92%) C#
9 1 (1.96%) R
9 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) Degree
4 5 (9.80%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.96%) CCNP
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.96%) CISSP
7 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.96%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (35.29%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (3.92%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Kubernetes
2 11 (21.57%) Ansible
3 9 (17.65%) Terraform
4 6 (11.76%) Puppet
5 5 (9.80%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.92%) CloudHub
6 2 (3.92%) Grafana
6 2 (3.92%) Icinga
6 2 (3.92%) Istio
6 2 (3.92%) Nagios
6 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.92%) Salt
7 1 (1.96%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.96%) Kibana
7 1 (1.96%) Packer
7 1 (1.96%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Atlassian
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle
3 4 (7.84%) Dynatrace
3 4 (7.84%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.84%) Splunk
4 3 (5.88%) Veracode
4 3 (5.88%) VMware
5 2 (3.92%) Checkmarx
5 2 (3.92%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.92%) New Relic
5 2 (3.92%) Okta
5 2 (3.92%) Rackspace
5 2 (3.92%) Zend
6 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.96%) Confluent
6 1 (1.96%) Google
6 1 (1.96%) Nintex
6 1 (1.96%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.96%) StreamSets