Bitbucket Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Bitbucket
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 110 108
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 +42
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 2 13 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.087% 0.74% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.83% 4.98% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £563 £463
25th Percentile - £572 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £756 £675
90th Percentile - £813 £704
Central London median daily rate £410 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -36.92% +30.00% -4.76%

All Development Application Skills
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 241 261 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.48% 14.85% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 151 187
10th Percentile £363 £413 £403
25th Percentile £450 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.41%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £744 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £18.17 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.82%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £50.25
90th Percentile £37.20 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £40.75
% change year-on-year - - -25.91%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Bitbucket job vacancy trend in the City of London

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bitbucket.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Mockito
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) boto
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle