Bitbucket Contracts in the South West

Bitbucket
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 86 124 140
Rank change year-on-year +38 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 25 33 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.49% 1.03% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.04% 9.62% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 22
10th Percentile £439 £563 £442
25th Percentile £513 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £613
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £606 - £678
90th Percentile £652 - £713
England median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +4.55%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 178 343 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.61% 10.72% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 209 320
10th Percentile £354 £425 £374
25th Percentile £450 £475 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +5.37% +1.59%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £619
90th Percentile £695 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 51 55
10th Percentile £62.50 £40.00 £50.48
25th Percentile £65.63 £59.32 £56.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £67.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% +9.35% +10.14%
75th Percentile £80.23 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £80.00 £81.50
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Bitbucket in the South West

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +21 17 £588 -16.07% 1
Bristol - 5 £440 - 1
Dorset - 2 £538 - 1
Gloucestershire +13 1 £525 -12.50% 8
Bitbucket
England

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 15 (60.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Serverless
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Skype
1 4 (16.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (12.00%) DHCP
2 3 (12.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) BGP
3 1 (4.00%) OSPF
3 1 (4.00%) VLAN
3 1 (4.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.00%) MySQL
1 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) JIRA
2 13 (52.00%) Git
2 13 (52.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Development Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Telephony Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (52.00%) REST
2 11 (44.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) JPA
3 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Linux
2 13 (52.00%) Windows
2 13 (52.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Agile
2 14 (56.00%) Service Management
2 14 (56.00%) System Testing
3 13 (52.00%) Configuration Management
3 13 (52.00%) Deployment Automation
3 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 12 (48.00%) NsoIT
4 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (44.00%) Reverse Engineering
5 11 (44.00%) Validation
6 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
7 5 (20.00%) DevOps
8 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
9 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
9 3 (12.00%) Information Security
9 3 (12.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) Python
2 15 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 12 (48.00%) Bash
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (72.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (68.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (44.00%) CCNP
3 11 (44.00%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (44.00%) OCA
3 11 (44.00%) Oracle Certification
3 11 (44.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (40.00%) RHCA
4 10 (40.00%) RHCE
5 6 (24.00%) Degree
6 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
8 1 (4.00%) MCSA
8 1 (4.00%) MCSE
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (24.00%) Docker
3 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (12.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Puppet
2 14 (56.00%) Ansible
3 11 (44.00%) Progress Chef
3 11 (44.00%) vCenter Server
4 4 (16.00%) Terraform
5 3 (12.00%) WSUS
6 2 (8.00%) PowerCLI
7 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Atlassian
2 12 (48.00%) Oracle
2 12 (48.00%) VMware
3 11 (44.00%) Cisco
4 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (16.00%) Veeam
6 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds