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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 153 142
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +62
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 13 29 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 0.63% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.32% 5.24% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 39
10th Percentile £326 £368 £505
25th Percentile £375 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £585 £525 £675
90th Percentile £627 £790 £798
England median daily rate £500 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 17
10th Percentile £52.75 £57.70 £53.20
25th Percentile £53.13 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £56.88 - £70.00
90th Percentile £57.25 - £74.86
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -4.79%

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 391 553 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.21% 11.96% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 351 457
10th Percentile £274 £325 £363
25th Percentile £375 £399 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £615
90th Percentile £615 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 33 40
10th Percentile - £45.74 £47.66
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.63 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -7.91%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.97 £73.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket 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

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the South East over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Hampshire +4 8 £390 -
Thames Valley +17 4 £525 -34.38% 3
Berkshire +15 2 £525 +40.00% 1
Buckinghamshire +7 2 £401 -49.94%
Surrey 0 1 £635 +27.00%
Bitbucket
England

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (61.54%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Anypoint
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (7.69%) dbt
2 1 (7.69%) npm
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
1 1 (7.69%) SNMP
1 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Jenkins
1 9 (69.23%) JIRA
2 7 (53.85%) Git
3 5 (38.46%) Selenium
4 4 (30.77%) Cucumber
4 4 (30.77%) REST Assured
5 2 (15.38%) Maven
6 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (7.69%) GitLab
6 1 (7.69%) GoogleTest
6 1 (7.69%) Gradle
6 1 (7.69%) MSTest
6 1 (7.69%) NUnit
6 1 (7.69%) Robot Framework
6 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
6 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
6 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Automation Tester
1 4 (30.77%) Selenium Automation Tester
1 4 (30.77%) Selenium Tester
1 4 (30.77%) Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Control Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Environment And Release Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Release Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) RESTful
3 4 (30.77%) .NET
3 4 (30.77%) SOAP
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) Spring
4 2 (15.38%) Swagger
5 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.69%) JSF
5 1 (7.69%) JSON
5 1 (7.69%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) PySpark
5 1 (7.69%) Qt
5 1 (7.69%) RAML
5 1 (7.69%) React
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (7.69%) Web Services
5 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) GNSS
1 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) VMS
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Regression Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
4 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) API Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 2 (15.38%) Contract Management
5 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) SOLID
5 2 (15.38%) SysML
5 2 (15.38%) UML
5 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) C++
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) CloudHub
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk