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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 114 120
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 +23
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 6 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.25% 0.48% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.42% 3.38% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile - £362 £568
25th Percentile £675 £450 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £744 £738 £702
90th Percentile £755 £760 £732
Central London median daily rate £700 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +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 248 266 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.32% 14.22% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 162 199
10th Percentile £375 £364 £406
25th Percentile £458 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £724 £769
Central London median daily rate £550 £545 £551
% change year-on-year +0.92% -1.09% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £18.56 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £25.90 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -37.14%

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) Intranet
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Back Office
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Junior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) XSL
2 2 (33.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Sitecore
3 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) ION Trading
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk