Bitbucket Contracts in the South East

Bitbucket
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 170 185
Rank change year-on-year +41 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 30 35 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.00% 0.63% 0.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.40% 6.46% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 22
10th Percentile £342 £257 £431
25th Percentile £463 £338 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £600
90th Percentile £640 £553 £774
England median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 10
10th Percentile £49.85 £51.35 £49.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 £51.44
Median hourly rate £60.50 £70.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +28.44% -0.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £78.00 £61.38
England median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +5.22% - +4.55%

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 357 542 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.86% 9.75% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 334 481
10th Percentile £361 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £619 £628
90th Percentile £638 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £47.25 £38.65 £35.74
25th Percentile £49.50 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Bitbucket in the South East

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bitbucket in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Bitbucket in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bitbucket in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bitbucket in the South East

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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 1 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
Hampshire +29 22 £513 +2.50% 5
Surrey +19 7 £500 +11.11% 3
Thames Valley +39 1 - - 6
Berkshire +27 1 - - 2
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England

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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 18 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) GitHub
2 1 (3.33%) npm
2 1 (3.33%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) Software-Defined Radio
2 7 (23.33%) SNMP
3 3 (10.00%) LTE
3 3 (10.00%) NAS
4 1 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (93.33%) JIRA
2 20 (66.67%) Git
2 20 (66.67%) GoogleTest
3 18 (60.00%) Jenkins
4 13 (43.33%) Robot Framework
5 12 (40.00%) Eclipse
6 7 (23.33%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (23.33%) TestRail
7 6 (20.00%) GitLab
8 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (6.67%) Retail
2 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.33%) Aviation
2 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Software Engineer
2 13 (43.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 13 (43.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Senior
4 8 (26.67%) C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
6 5 (16.67%) Test Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Firmware Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) CSS
1 7 (23.33%) HTML
2 3 (10.00%) XML
2 3 (10.00%) XML Schema
3 1 (3.33%) Node.js
3 1 (3.33%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Verilog
1 3 (10.00%) VHDL
2 1 (3.33%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 23 (76.67%) Linux
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) Agile
2 23 (76.67%) Scrum
3 19 (63.33%) Software Engineering
4 10 (33.33%) SysML
4 10 (33.33%) UML
5 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 7 (23.33%) Clean Code
6 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
6 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (23.33%) Design Patterns
6 7 (23.33%) Multithreaded Programming
6 7 (23.33%) OO
6 7 (23.33%) OOD
6 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (23.33%) Prototyping
6 7 (23.33%) Software Testing
6 7 (23.33%) SOLID
6 7 (23.33%) Storyboarding
6 7 (23.33%) Validation
6 7 (23.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) C++
2 9 (30.00%) Python
3 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) C#
5 3 (10.00%) SystemVerilog
5 3 (10.00%) Tcl
6 2 (6.67%) Java
6 2 (6.67%) PHP
7 1 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (23.33%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Google
2 17 (56.67%) Atlassian
3 6 (20.00%) Intel
4 3 (10.00%) Xilinx
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle
6 1 (3.33%) PagerDuty
6 1 (3.33%) Twitter