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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 103 105
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 -24
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 12 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.45% 4.84% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile £400 £429 £448
25th Percentile £494 £477 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £484 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -12.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £619
90th Percentile - £575 £653
England median daily rate £525 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +1.87%

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 348 186 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.19% 9.85% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 131 112
10th Percentile £368 £358 £325
25th Percentile £429 £430 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £564 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £713 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £37.88 - £57.16
25th Percentile £40.69 £65.00 £60.40
Median hourly rate £46.25 £70.00 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% +5.12% -
75th Percentile £52.69 £75.00 £73.58
90th Percentile £56.03 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 4 November 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

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 4 November 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 - 8 £575 -
Shropshire -38 2 £325 -31.87%
Staffordshire 0 1 £450 -18.18%
Coventry - 1 £400 -
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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
2 4 (33.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (8.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub
2 5 (41.67%) OpenShift
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 4 (33.33%) Datadog
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (33.33%) npm
3 4 (33.33%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (41.67%) SonarQube
2 5 (41.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (33.33%) Artifactory
3 4 (33.33%) CircleCI
3 4 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 4 (33.33%) GitLab
3 4 (33.33%) Gradle
3 4 (33.33%) JUnit
3 4 (33.33%) Maven
3 4 (33.33%) Postman
3 4 (33.33%) Selenium
3 4 (33.33%) Snyk
3 4 (33.33%) webpack
4 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Health Technology
1 1 (8.33%) Marketing
1 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (33.33%) JSON
2 4 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) YAML
3 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 4 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (33.33%) Coaching
3 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
3 4 (33.33%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
2 4 (33.33%) Firmware
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (41.67%) Progress Chef
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 4 (33.33%) Podman
2 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 4 (33.33%) Puppet
2 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 5 (41.67%) Splunk
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
5 1 (8.33%) IBM
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat