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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 95 100
Rank change year-on-year -35 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 9 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.39% 0.64% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.39% 5.46% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 2
10th Percentile £530 £426 £433
25th Percentile £563 £466 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £477 £463
Median % change year-on-year +20.55% +3.14% -14.35%
75th Percentile £588 £499 £481
90th Percentile - £534 £493
England median daily rate £575 £631 £575
% change year-on-year -8.91% +9.78% -4.17%

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 377 183 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.21% 11.69% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 120 116
10th Percentile £363 £375 £309
25th Percentile £448 £426 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% - -7.06%
75th Percentile £562 £612 £538
90th Percentile £700 £695 £638
England median daily rate £500 £513 £543
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.53% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £43.50 - £57.16
25th Percentile £54.75 £56.25 £60.40
Median hourly rate £68.00 £57.50 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -13.65% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £73.58
90th Percentile £73.70 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 19 January 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 19 January 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
Worcestershire - 8 £575 - 1
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 (55.56%) OpenStack
2 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 6 (66.67%) GitHub
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (55.56%) Azure AKS
2 5 (55.56%) Datadog
2 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 5 (55.56%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (55.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 5 (55.56%) npm
2 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
2 5 (55.56%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) Artifactory
2 5 (55.56%) CircleCI
2 5 (55.56%) Cypress.io
2 5 (55.56%) GitLab
2 5 (55.56%) Gradle
2 5 (55.56%) JUnit
2 5 (55.56%) Maven
2 5 (55.56%) Postman
2 5 (55.56%) Selenium
2 5 (55.56%) Snyk
2 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
2 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (55.56%) webpack
3 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (55.56%) JSON
1 5 (55.56%) REST
1 5 (55.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Task Automation
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
3 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (55.56%) DevSecOps
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) SDLC
3 5 (55.56%) Software Delivery
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Data Management
4 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
1 5 (55.56%) Grafana
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 5 (55.56%) Podman
1 5 (55.56%) Progress Chef
1 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
1 5 (55.56%) Puppet
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 3 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce