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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 89 101
Rank change year-on-year -53 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 15 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.48% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.97% 3.85% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 1
10th Percentile £405 - -
25th Percentile £420 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -16.36% +1.85%
75th Percentile £469 £465 -
90th Percentile £494 £490 -
England median daily rate £513 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -6.82% -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £60.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +2.98% +2.17%

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 505 182 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.06% 13.53% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 110 149
10th Percentile £350 £399 £260
25th Percentile £408 £449 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +11.11% -16.36%
75th Percentile £525 £548 £536
90th Percentile £575 £648 £556
England median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.41% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 12
10th Percentile £25.00 - £10.50
25th Percentile £34.54 £56.25 £43.88
Median hourly rate £65.75 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% +2.22% +68.49%
75th Percentile £73.25 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 - -
England median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.40% -3.85% +7.28%

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 2 May 2026.

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 2 May 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
Shropshire -42 7 £425 -7.61%
Solihull - 7 £463 -
Worcestershire - 1 £575 - 1
Bitbucket
England

Bitbucket
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 14 (93.33%) Confluence
2 3 (20.00%) SAS
3 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Amazon EKS
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
1 8 (53.33%) GitHub
1 8 (53.33%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon S3
2 7 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (46.67%) AWS CodePipeline
2 7 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (46.67%) Serverless
2 7 (46.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Datadog
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) npm
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (20.00%) Impala
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
1 3 (20.00%) Pentaho
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) JIRA
2 11 (73.33%) GitLab
2 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (26.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
4 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.67%) Git
4 1 (6.67%) Gradle
4 1 (6.67%) JUnit
4 1 (6.67%) Maven
4 1 (6.67%) Postman
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) Snyk
4 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Scrum Master
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (93.33%) Agile
3 13 (86.67%) Scrum
4 10 (66.67%) ITIL
4 10 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
6 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
6 8 (53.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (53.33%) DevSecOps
6 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (46.67%) Backlog Refinement
7 7 (46.67%) Conflict Resolution
7 7 (46.67%) Impact Analysis
7 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (46.67%) Problem Management
8 6 (40.00%) SAFe Practitioner
9 4 (26.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
9 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) HiveQL
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (46.67%) SAFe Agilist
4 6 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 4 (26.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Podman
3 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Atlassian
2 3 (20.00%) Denodo
2 3 (20.00%) Informatica
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Talend
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk