Bitbucket Contract Job Trends in the South East

Bitbucket
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 143 149
Rank change year-on-year -73 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 14 15 31
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.21% 0.43% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.66% 3.83% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 13
10th Percentile £208 £326 £368
25th Percentile £214 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £291 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -38.74% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £450 £585 £525
90th Percentile £588 £627 £790
England median daily rate £480 £500 £625
% change year-on-year -4.10% -20.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £59.61 £51.35 £57.70
25th Percentile - £51.78 -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -21.43% +21.74%
75th Percentile - £58.09 -
90th Percentile - £58.45 -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -21.43% +19.15%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 526 392 548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.98% 11.24% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 270 347
10th Percentile £275 £285 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -4.00% -4.65%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £606
90th Percentile £654 £615 £651
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 24 33
10th Percentile £47.50 - £45.74
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £54.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £70.25 £73.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £87.64 £73.00
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bitbucket relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Bitbucket job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Bitbucket.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Bitbucket

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the South East over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Bitbucket.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Bitbucket

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. 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
Surrey -15 6 £450 -29.13% 1
Thames Valley -45 5 £214 -59.24% 1
Buckinghamshire -30 3 £210 -47.57% 1
Berkshire -22 2 £278 -47.14%
Hampshire -35 2 £575 +47.44%
West Sussex - 1 £291 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (35.71%) Apache
1 5 (35.71%) Confluence
1 5 (35.71%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DHCP
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) JIRA
2 7 (50.00%) Git
3 6 (42.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (21.43%) Selenium
4 3 (21.43%) SpecFlow
4 3 (21.43%) TeamCity
4 3 (21.43%) WebDriver
5 2 (14.29%) GitLab
5 2 (14.29%) MSTest
6 1 (7.14%) Gradle
6 1 (7.14%) Maven
6 1 (7.14%) NUnit
6 1 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Migration Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) React
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) Visualforce
3 1 (7.14%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
1 5 (35.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) BCP
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Security Hardening
2 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Validation
4 3 (21.43%) BDD
4 3 (21.43%) OOP
4 3 (21.43%) SOLID
5 2 (14.29%) API Testing
5 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Test Harness
5 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 1 (7.14%) AI
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) Apex Code
5 1 (7.14%) Bash
5 1 (7.14%) Go
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.14%) SOQL
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.14%) PMP
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (35.71%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Packer
1 5 (35.71%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
1 5 (35.71%) Tanium
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce