Bitbucket Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Bitbucket
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 106 105
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -26
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 11 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.60% 0.26% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.97% 2.56% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 14
10th Percentile £403 £528 £504
25th Percentile £563 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -
75th Percentile £588 £569 £600
90th Percentile - £573 £653
England median daily rate £500 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -4.79%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 277 195 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.08% 10.21% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 145 120
10th Percentile £370 £355 £318
25th Percentile £425 £425 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £663 £710 £689
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £37.88 £55.25 -
25th Percentile £40.69 £55.63 -
Median hourly rate £46.25 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% - -
75th Percentile £52.69 £66.88 -
90th Percentile £56.03 £71.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bitbucket.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bitbucket

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bitbucket.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bitbucket

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Worcestershire - 7 £575 - 4
Shropshire - 2 £325 -
Staffordshire +4 1 £450 -18.18% 2
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Bitbucket
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (45.45%) Confluence
2 3 (27.27%) OpenStack
3 1 (9.09%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Datadog
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (27.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (27.27%) npm
3 3 (27.27%) Pulumi
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (36.36%) Git
3 4 (36.36%) SonarQube
3 4 (36.36%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (27.27%) Artifactory
4 3 (27.27%) CircleCI
4 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
4 3 (27.27%) GitLab
4 3 (27.27%) Gradle
4 3 (27.27%) JUnit
4 3 (27.27%) Maven
4 3 (27.27%) Postman
4 3 (27.27%) Selenium
4 3 (27.27%) Snyk
4 3 (27.27%) webpack
5 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (9.09%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Health Technology
1 1 (9.09%) Marketing
1 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (27.27%) JSON
2 3 (27.27%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) YAML
3 1 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Task Automation
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Business Continuity
3 4 (36.36%) Change Management
3 4 (36.36%) Coaching
3 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Data Management
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Programme Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Workflow
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Apex Code
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
1 4 (36.36%) Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Progress Chef
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Grafana
2 3 (27.27%) Podman
2 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
2 3 (27.27%) Puppet
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Atlassian
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce