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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 107 120
Rank change year-on-year -28 +13 +16
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 13 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.58% 0.57% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.83% 3.82% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 7
10th Percentile £631 £348 £568
25th Percentile £675 £413 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% -17.31% +23.81%
75th Percentile £738 £681 £725
90th Percentile £763 £715 £760
Central London median daily rate £700 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +30.23% -17.31% +23.81%

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 269 262 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.97% 14.95% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 181 201
10th Percentile £377 £350 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £713 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £17.41 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.27 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile - £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -74.00% - -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in the City of London

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
1 2 (15.38%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) Amazon S3
2 8 (61.54%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (61.54%) GitHub
2 8 (61.54%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (61.54%) Serverless
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon EventBridge
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon Kinesis
3 6 (46.15%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (23.08%) GCP
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (15.38%) dbt
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
1 2 (15.38%) Intranet
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
1 2 (15.38%) VLAN
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
4 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
4 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) GitLab
2 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
3 4 (30.77%) Artifactory
3 4 (30.77%) JIRA
4 3 (23.08%) Git
5 2 (15.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
6 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (92.31%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Back Office
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Front Office
5 2 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Data Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Data Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Senior
4 4 (30.77%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Applications Support
5 2 (15.38%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Developer
5 2 (15.38%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Junior
5 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (46.15%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (30.77%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 2 (15.38%) ADO.NET
4 2 (15.38%) Ajax
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (15.38%) REST
4 2 (15.38%) SOAP
4 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 2 (15.38%) XML
4 2 (15.38%) XSL
4 2 (15.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) PropTech
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
1 8 (61.54%) Data Engineering
1 8 (61.54%) Data Modelling
1 8 (61.54%) Data Pipeline
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
3 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (38.46%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (15.38%) Fintech
7 2 (15.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 10 (76.92%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
1 2 (15.38%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
2 2 (15.38%) ION Trading
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) Sitecore
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) IBM