Bitbucket Contracts in the Midlands

Bitbucket
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 128 117
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 15 10 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 0.36% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.90% 3.52% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 28
10th Percentile £278 £528 £516
25th Percentile £313 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +0.37%
75th Percentile £465 £569 £554
90th Percentile £485 £573 £600
England median daily rate £550 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -10.20% +6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.70% +11.70%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 306 284 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.88% 10.20% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 212 293
10th Percentile £275 £263 £300
25th Percentile £375 £358 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £515 £538 £558
90th Percentile £575 £582 £698
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 2
10th Percentile - £10.50 £32.20
25th Percentile - £43.88 £32.96
Median hourly rate £18.20 £56.88 £35.94
Median % change year-on-year -68.00% +58.24% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £38.96
90th Percentile - - £39.73
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Bitbucket as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bitbucket in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Bitbucket in the Midlands

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
West Midlands +11 8 £460 -16.36% 6
East Midlands - 7 £340 -
Bitbucket
England

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (53.33%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) JBoss
3 1 (6.67%) Mule
3 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
3 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospike
2 1 (6.67%) DB2
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) IDMS
2 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) JIRA
2 7 (46.67%) GitLab
3 6 (40.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (26.67%) Maven
4 4 (26.67%) SonarQube
5 3 (20.00%) Git
5 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
6 2 (13.33%) JUnit
6 2 (13.33%) Mockito
6 2 (13.33%) Selenium
7 1 (6.67%) CA Gen
7 1 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
7 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
7 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
2 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (6.67%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
3 1 (6.67%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Junior Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft Architect
3 1 (6.67%) QA Leader
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) Jest
2 2 (13.33%) JPA
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) RAML
2 2 (13.33%) React
2 2 (13.33%) Redux
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) SAML
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Batch
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Unix
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps
1 5 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Data Transformation
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (13.33%) API Development
4 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) Secure Coding
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) TDD
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) PL/SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) Apex Code
5 1 (6.67%) COBOL
5 1 (6.67%) Perl
5 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) ISEB
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kibana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 5 (33.33%) IBM
3 3 (20.00%) Veracode
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
5 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
5 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk