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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 149 155
Rank change year-on-year -73 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 15 20 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.56% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.67% 5.01% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 12
10th Percentile £208 £361 £365
25th Percentile £214 £385 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £585 £475
Median % change year-on-year -47.86% +23.16% -17.39%
75th Percentile £450 £626 £556
90th Percentile £588 £655 £808
England median daily rate £463 £525 £638
% change year-on-year -11.90% -17.65% +6.25%
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% +19.15%
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% +16.67%

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 561 399 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.36% 11.23% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 272 347
10th Percentile £280 £288 £324
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.26%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £619 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 26 35
10th Percentile £51.25 £48.75 £39.85
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £54.49
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £88.00 £69.56 £70.00
90th Percentile - £86.32 £72.25
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

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the South East over the 6 months to 23 August 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 23 August 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 -17 6 £450 -29.13% 1
Thames Valley -43 6 £214 -59.24% 1
Berkshire -28 3 £278 -47.14%
Buckinghamshire -37 3 £210 -47.57% 1
Hampshire -42 3 £575 -1.71% 1
Bitbucket
England

Bitbucket
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 (33.33%) Apache
1 5 (33.33%) Confluence
1 5 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) DHCP
1 5 (33.33%) DNS
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) JIRA
2 7 (46.67%) Git
3 6 (40.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (20.00%) Selenium
4 3 (20.00%) SpecFlow
4 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
4 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 2 (13.33%) GitLab
5 2 (13.33%) MSTest
6 1 (6.67%) Gradle
6 1 (6.67%) Maven
6 1 (6.67%) NUnit
6 1 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Migration Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (13.33%) React
2 2 (13.33%) Visualforce
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Vue
3 1 (6.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) BCP
3 5 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) BDD
4 4 (26.67%) SOLID
4 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) OOP
5 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) API Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
6 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
7 1 (6.67%) AI
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (26.67%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Apex Code
4 2 (13.33%) SOQL
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.67%) PMP
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Packer
1 5 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 5 (33.33%) Tanium
1 5 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian