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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 100 134
Rank change year-on-year +7 +34 +8
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 23 44 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.21% 1.55% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.17% 11.46% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 16
10th Percentile £436 £575 £399
25th Percentile £484 £625 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% +23.15%
75th Percentile £606 - £704
90th Percentile £645 - £725
England median daily rate £519 £650 £588
% change year-on-year -20.19% +10.64% +6.82%

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 206 384 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.81% 13.55% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 206 287
10th Percentile £307 £425 £370
25th Percentile £425 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £663 £700 £707
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 72 41
10th Percentile £63.50 £56.58 £50.00
25th Percentile £69.69 £65.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +13.82% +11.82%
75th Percentile £78.87 £71.31 £78.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the South West over the 6 months to 2 August 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 2 August 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 +12 15 £575 -17.86% 5
Bristol - 6 £445 - 2
Gloucestershire +7 1 £525 -16.00% 4
Dorset - 1 £525 - 1
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England

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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 12 (52.17%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Skype
1 3 (13.04%) Unified Communications
2 2 (8.70%) DHCP
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) BGP
3 1 (4.35%) OSPF
3 1 (4.35%) VLAN
3 1 (4.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (60.87%) Git
2 13 (56.52%) Jenkins
3 12 (52.17%) JIRA
4 5 (21.74%) GitLab
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Telephony Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) REST
2 11 (47.83%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) ADO
3 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) JPA
3 1 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Linux
2 12 (52.17%) Windows
2 12 (52.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) Service Management
3 13 (56.52%) System Testing
4 12 (52.17%) Configuration Management
4 12 (52.17%) Deployment Automation
4 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure Automation
4 12 (52.17%) NsoIT
5 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (47.83%) Reverse Engineering
5 11 (47.83%) Validation
6 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 6 (26.09%) DevOps
7 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
8 4 (17.39%) Critical Thinking
9 3 (13.04%) ITIL
9 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
9 3 (13.04%) Waterfall
10 2 (8.70%) Information Security
10 2 (8.70%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Python
2 13 (56.52%) PowerShell
3 11 (47.83%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 15 (65.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (47.83%) CCNP
3 11 (47.83%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (47.83%) OCA
3 11 (47.83%) Oracle Certification
3 11 (47.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (43.48%) RHCA
4 10 (43.48%) RHCE
5 4 (17.39%) Degree
5 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.35%) MCSA
6 1 (4.35%) MCSE
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (26.09%) Docker
3 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Puppet
2 14 (60.87%) Ansible
3 11 (47.83%) Progress Chef
3 11 (47.83%) vCenter Server
4 3 (13.04%) Terraform
5 2 (8.70%) WSUS
6 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.35%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Oracle
2 11 (47.83%) Atlassian
2 11 (47.83%) Cisco
2 11 (47.83%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.04%) Veeam
5 1 (4.35%) Okta
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds