Bitbucket Contracts

Bitbucket
UK

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 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 368 324
Rank change year-on-year -36 -44 -42
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 190 361 715
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.65% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.63% 4.53% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 252 466
10th Percentile £390 £450 £407
25th Percentile £478 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% +5.36%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £836 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £495
% change year-on-year +9.09% +11.11% +1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 2
10th Percentile £40.00 £50.13 £46.30
25th Percentile £45.88 £51.25 £48.24
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £51.48
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +11.70% +2.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.25 £54.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.88 £56.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.25 £57.50 £51.48
% change year-on-year +15.22% +11.70% -1.95%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,240 7,964 15,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.28% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,499 5,618 11,089
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £662 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 223 202
10th Percentile £30.60 £45.24 £38.03
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.70 £82.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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 7 June 2024.

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 7 June 2024.

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 7 June 2024. 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 -12 170 £638 +10.87% 68
UK excluding London +14 109 £600 +9.09% 51
London +5 65 £650 - 17
Work from Home +2 55 £550 -1.79% 34
South West +24 36 £700 +16.67% 6
South East +14 34 £425 -18.27% 12
North of England +9 19 £525 -4.55% 21
North West +23 16 £528 +2.93% 15
Midlands -3 11 £550 +1.85% 6
West Midlands -11 9 £550 +1.85% 3
Scotland +42 7 - - 2
Yorkshire +9 3 £438 -23.25%
East of England -6 2 £650 -1.66% 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 3

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 96 (50.53%) Confluence
2 5 (2.63%) CMS
3 3 (1.58%) SAS
4 2 (1.05%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) IIS
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.16%) Simulink
2 5 (2.63%) Stateflow
2 5 (2.63%) TargetLink
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.58%) AWS
2 34 (17.89%) Azure
3 21 (11.05%) GitHub
3 21 (11.05%) OpenShift
4 15 (7.89%) GCP
5 14 (7.37%) PaaS
6 13 (6.84%) Serverless
7 11 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.63%) BrowserStack
10 5 (2.63%) Sauce Labs
11 4 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.11%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.11%) Contentful
11 4 (2.11%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.95%) SNMP
1 17 (8.95%) Software-Defined Radio
2 14 (7.37%) Firewall
3 8 (4.21%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.68%) VPN
5 6 (3.16%) Kerberos
6 5 (2.63%) SSL
7 4 (2.11%) HTTP
8 3 (1.58%) DNS
9 1 (0.53%) 2G
9 1 (0.53%) 5G
9 1 (0.53%) DHCP
9 1 (0.53%) WinSCP
9 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.68%) MySQL
5 6 (3.16%) Big Data
5 6 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.63%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.11%) DataStax
7 4 (2.11%) KDB
7 4 (2.11%) Power BI
8 3 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.05%) CouchDB
9 2 (1.05%) Metadata
9 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.53%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 116 (61.05%) JIRA
2 84 (44.21%) Git
3 74 (38.95%) Jenkins
4 30 (15.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 21 (11.05%) Artifactory
6 17 (8.95%) Eclipse
6 17 (8.95%) GoogleTest
6 17 (8.95%) Robot Framework
7 15 (7.89%) TeamCity
8 14 (7.37%) Selenium
9 12 (6.32%) GitLab
10 9 (4.74%) Maven
11 8 (4.21%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (4.21%) Cucumber
12 7 (3.68%) Gradle
13 6 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (3.16%) Subversion
14 5 (2.63%) Appium
14 5 (2.63%) JMeter
14 5 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.95%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (18.42%) Finance
4 27 (14.21%) Aerospace
5 17 (8.95%) Banking
6 8 (4.21%) Automotive
7 7 (3.68%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.11%) Front Office
8 4 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Advertising
10 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.53%) Law
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (31.05%) Developer
2 29 (15.26%) Senior
3 23 (12.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (11.05%) Software Engineer
5 17 (8.95%) C++ Software Engineer
6 15 (7.89%) Java Developer
7 12 (6.32%) Architect
8 11 (5.79%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (5.26%) Lead
9 10 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.74%) Embedded Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Java Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Lead DevOps
11 8 (4.21%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 7 (3.68%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.68%) Embedded C++ Engineer
12 7 (3.68%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
12 7 (3.68%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.16%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.42%) .NET
2 30 (15.79%) CSS
2 30 (15.79%) HTML
3 26 (13.68%) .NET Core
4 19 (10.00%) React
5 14 (7.37%) XML
6 13 (6.84%) Node.js
6 13 (6.84%) REST
7 12 (6.32%) RESTful
8 10 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (5.26%) JSON
9 9 (4.74%) Spring
10 8 (4.21%) Kafka
11 7 (3.68%) SOAP
11 7 (3.68%) Web Services
12 6 (3.16%) .NET Framework
12 6 (3.16%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.16%) LDAP
12 6 (3.16%) ModSecurity
12 6 (3.16%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.47%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.79%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.68%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.68%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (3.68%) PKI
4 6 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.16%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.11%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.11%) Derivative
6 4 (2.11%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.11%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.58%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.05%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 90 (47.37%) Linux
2 45 (23.68%) Windows
3 21 (11.05%) Unix
4 10 (5.26%) Android
5 7 (3.68%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.11%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.58%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.05%) VMS
9 1 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.53%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (44.21%) Agile
2 72 (37.89%) CI/CD
3 56 (29.47%) DevOps
4 55 (28.95%) Test Automation
5 50 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
6 40 (21.05%) Software Engineering
7 39 (20.53%) OO
8 34 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (17.89%) Scrum
9 30 (15.79%) Computer Science
10 28 (14.74%) Configuration Management
11 27 (14.21%) Deployment Automation
11 27 (14.21%) Infrastructure Automation
12 23 (12.11%) UML
13 22 (11.58%) OOP
13 22 (11.58%) Task Automation
14 17 (8.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (8.95%) SysML
14 17 (8.95%) Validation
15 15 (7.89%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 86 (45.26%) Python
2 42 (22.11%) Java
3 41 (21.58%) JavaScript
4 36 (18.95%) PowerShell
5 30 (15.79%) C++
6 23 (12.11%) C
7 21 (11.05%) SQL
8 20 (10.53%) Bash
9 12 (6.32%) C#
9 12 (6.32%) Go
10 11 (5.79%) Groovy
11 10 (5.26%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.16%) MATLAB
13 5 (2.63%) Shell Script
14 4 (2.11%) Ruby
15 3 (1.58%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.58%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.58%) Swift
16 1 (0.53%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 58 (30.53%) Security Cleared
2 46 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 37 (19.47%) Degree
4 13 (6.84%) Master's Degree
5 12 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.79%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.26%) QA
2 6 (3.16%) MISRA
2 6 (3.16%) MISRA C
3 5 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.63%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (2.63%) ISO 26262
4 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.05%) NIST
4 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.05%) WCAG
5 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.53%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 38 (20.00%) Docker
2 16 (8.42%) Firmware
3 10 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.26%) VMware NSX
4 9 (4.74%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.16%) VirtualBox
6 4 (2.11%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.53%) Cronacle
7 1 (0.53%) HDFS
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (32.11%) Ansible
2 40 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 37 (19.47%) Terraform
4 25 (13.16%) PowerCLI
5 7 (3.68%) Puppet
6 6 (3.16%) Grafana
6 6 (3.16%) OPNET
7 4 (2.11%) Istio
7 4 (2.11%) Kibana
7 4 (2.11%) logstash
7 4 (2.11%) Packer
7 4 (2.11%) Rancher
8 2 (1.05%) Opsgenie
8 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.53%) Control-M
9 1 (0.53%) Nagios
9 1 (0.53%) Nessus
9 1 (0.53%) Opsview
9 1 (0.53%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.53%) Salt
Vendors
1 73 (38.42%) Atlassian
2 26 (13.68%) Oracle
3 25 (13.16%) Google
4 20 (10.53%) Dell
4 20 (10.53%) HP
5 14 (7.37%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.37%) VMware
6 6 (3.16%) Cadence
6 6 (3.16%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.63%) Perfecto Mobile
7 5 (2.63%) SAP
8 4 (2.11%) Cisco
8 4 (2.11%) Confluent
9 3 (1.58%) Apple
9 3 (1.58%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.58%) Splunk
9 3 (1.58%) Tanium
10 2 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.05%) Palo Alto