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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 101 106
Rank change year-on-year -44 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 24 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.70% 0.58% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.70% 4.15% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 2
10th Percentile £406 £391 £528
25th Percentile £418 £448 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £469 £588 £569
90th Percentile £494 - £573
England median daily rate £463 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -9.76% -18.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -21.43% +16.67%

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 511 241 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.86% 13.97% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 165 145
10th Percentile £350 £368 £353
25th Percentile £408 £425 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £525 £540 £612
90th Percentile £588 £636 £703
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 5
10th Percentile £36.37 £37.88 £55.50
25th Percentile £59.25 £40.69 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.35% -17.78% +68.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £52.69 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £56.03 £68.50
England median hourly rate £68.22 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.95% - -

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bitbucket relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Bitbucket job vacancy trend 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

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the West Midlands

Bitbucket
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

Bitbucket
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 26 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
Solihull - 11 £475 -
Shropshire -38 10 £425 +8.28% 2
Worcestershire -5 1 £575 -
Birmingham - 1 - -
Bitbucket
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 23 (95.83%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
1 12 (50.00%) GitHub
1 12 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 11 (45.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 11 (45.83%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (45.83%) Amazon ECS
2 11 (45.83%) Amazon S3
2 11 (45.83%) AWS CodePipeline
2 11 (45.83%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (45.83%) Serverless
2 11 (45.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 10 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Datadog
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) npm
4 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 23 (95.83%) JIRA
2 12 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 12 (50.00%) GitLab
2 12 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) Gradle
3 1 (4.17%) JUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Maven
3 1 (4.17%) Postman
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) Snyk
3 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) JIRA Engineer
2 11 (45.83%) Scrum Master
3 6 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) Terraform
2 9 (37.50%) AWS CDK
3 2 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) Pulumi
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 24 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (91.67%) Agile
3 20 (83.33%) ITIL
3 20 (83.33%) Scrum
4 16 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 14 (58.33%) Test Automation
6 13 (54.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (50.00%) Containerisation
7 12 (50.00%) DevSecOps
7 12 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (50.00%) Migration
7 12 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (50.00%) Service Management
8 11 (45.83%) Backlog Refinement
8 11 (45.83%) Impact Analysis
8 11 (45.83%) Problem Management
9 10 (41.67%) Conflict Resolution
10 9 (37.50%) SAFe Practitioner
11 8 (33.33%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 19 (79.17%) Security Cleared
2 17 (70.83%) SC Cleared
3 11 (45.83%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (37.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
1 1 (4.17%) Grafana
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Podman
1 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.17%) Splunk