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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 124 139
Rank change year-on-year -40 +15 +49
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 18 33 71
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.39% 1.04% 1.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.86% 7.86% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 41
10th Percentile £376 £346 £450
25th Percentile £406 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £547 £525 £568
90th Percentile £631 £591 £588
England median daily rate £570 £625 £560
% change year-on-year -8.80% +11.61% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 21
10th Percentile - £54.70 £54.50
25th Percentile - £58.47 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% +28.12%
75th Percentile - £64.06 £71.90
90th Percentile - £70.63 £76.53
England median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -8.21%

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 466 420 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.08% 13.28% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 236 393
10th Percentile £275 £350 £375
25th Percentile £363 £409 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +1.42%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £615
90th Percentile £650 £648 £675
England median daily rate £500 £509 £538
% change year-on-year -1.72% -5.35% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 35
10th Percentile £43.13 £51.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.38 £54.75
Median hourly rate £59.25 £60.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% -2.42% +3.33%
75th Percentile £76.75 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £67.02 £75.92
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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
Thames Valley -10 10 £500 -21.57% 5
Berkshire -7 8 £475 - 5
Hampshire -31 8 £383 +9.29% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £500 -
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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 11 (61.11%) Confluence
2 3 (16.67%) Apache
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (22.22%) Serverless
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 6 (33.33%) Git
4 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
4 4 (22.22%) Gradle
4 4 (22.22%) Maven
4 4 (22.22%) REST Assured
4 4 (22.22%) Selenium
5 3 (16.67%) Android Studio
5 3 (16.67%) Subversion
6 2 (11.11%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Automotive
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Android Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Automation Tester
2 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Selenium Automation Tester
2 4 (22.22%) Selenium Tester
2 4 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) iOS Android Developer
3 1 (5.56%) iOS Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (5.56%) React Developer
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) RESTful
2 6 (33.33%) REST
3 4 (22.22%) .NET
3 4 (22.22%) SOAP
3 4 (22.22%) Spring
4 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 2 (11.11%) JSON
5 2 (11.11%) React
5 2 (11.11%) Swagger
6 1 (5.56%) CSS
6 1 (5.56%) HTML
6 1 (5.56%) Node.js
6 1 (5.56%) PySpark
6 1 (5.56%) React Native
6 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Android
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 11 (61.11%) Agile
3 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (38.89%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) TDD
6 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 4 (22.22%) Mobile Application Development
6 4 (22.22%) Regression Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Scrum
6 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Microservices
7 3 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (16.67%) Secure Coding
7 3 (16.67%) Situational Awareness
7 3 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) Java
3 6 (33.33%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) C#
4 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) Jython
5 1 (5.56%) Objective-C
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (16.67%) Coverity
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Thales
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce