Bitbucket Contract Job Trends in London

Bitbucket
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Bitbucket skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 311 288
Rank change year-on-year +11 -23 -10
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 75 80 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.49% 0.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.52% 3.37% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 63 137
10th Percentile £400 £452 £458
25th Percentile £452 £603 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £775 £810 £810
90th Percentile £838 - £876
England median daily rate £500 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +4.35%

All Development Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,129 2,377 3,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.82% 14.58% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 1,604 2,386
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £419 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £773 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.28 £32.38
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £52.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £105.75 £71.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Bitbucket as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Bitbucket in London

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bitbucket

Bitbucket
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bitbucket in London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bitbucket in London

Bitbucket
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bitbucket within the London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
Central London +5 11 £538 -17.31% 2
South London -8 3 £635 -9.29% 1
West London - 3 £400 - 1
Bitbucket
England

Bitbucket
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (25.33%) Confluence
2 3 (4.00%) Apache
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.67%) nginx
4 1 (1.33%) Camunda
4 1 (1.33%) IIS
4 1 (1.33%) JBoss
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Magento
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.33%) AWS
2 20 (26.67%) GitHub
3 17 (22.67%) Azure
4 8 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.33%) Serverless
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.00%) GCP
7 2 (2.67%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.67%) SaaS
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) HTTP
1 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.67%) BGP
2 2 (2.67%) DNS
2 2 (2.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (2.67%) Firewall
2 2 (2.67%) IPsec
2 2 (2.67%) LAN
2 2 (2.67%) Multicast
2 2 (2.67%) OSPF
2 2 (2.67%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (2.67%) VLAN
2 2 (2.67%) VPN
2 2 (2.67%) VXLAN
2 2 (2.67%) WAN
3 1 (1.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.33%) SSH
3 1 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.33%) DB2
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.00%) Big Data
4 3 (4.00%) ClickHouse
4 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.67%) Power BI
5 2 (2.67%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.33%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.33%) MySQL
6 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (53.33%) Git
2 28 (37.33%) JIRA
3 24 (32.00%) Jenkins
4 15 (20.00%) TeamCity
5 10 (13.33%) GitLab
6 8 (10.67%) Selenium
7 6 (8.00%) Cucumber
7 6 (8.00%) Postman
8 4 (5.33%) Artifactory
8 4 (5.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (4.00%) Cypress.io
9 3 (4.00%) JUnit
9 3 (4.00%) Mocha
9 3 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.67%) Android Studio
10 2 (2.67%) git-flow
10 2 (2.67%) IntelliJ
10 2 (2.67%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (37.33%) Banking
2 26 (34.67%) Finance
3 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
4 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (18.67%) Front Office
5 13 (17.33%) Investment Banking
6 8 (10.67%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.00%) Back Office
8 2 (2.67%) Law
8 2 (2.67%) Legal
8 2 (2.67%) Marketing
9 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (45.33%) Developer
2 12 (16.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (8.00%) Architect
4 5 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) C# Developer
5 4 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Magento Developer
5 4 (5.33%) Scrum Master
5 4 (5.33%) Senior
6 3 (4.00%) Agile Java Developer
6 3 (4.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 3 (4.00%) Lead
6 3 (4.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 3 (4.00%) React Developer
6 3 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.67%) HTML
2 19 (25.33%) CSS
2 19 (25.33%) React
3 16 (21.33%) .NET
4 15 (20.00%) Node.js
5 14 (18.67%) REST
6 12 (16.00%) HTML5
7 11 (14.67%) ASP.NET
8 10 (13.33%) Kafka
9 9 (12.00%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (10.67%) LESS
10 8 (10.67%) Sass
10 8 (10.67%) Tailwind CSS
11 7 (9.33%) Protocol Buffers
12 6 (8.00%) AngularJS
12 6 (8.00%) gRPC
13 5 (6.67%) Spring Boot
14 4 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (5.33%) GraphQL
14 4 (5.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (10.67%) Private Cloud
3 5 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.33%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.00%) Vector Graphics
6 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.67%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.33%) Replication
7 1 (1.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.33%) Windows
2 10 (13.33%) Linux
3 8 (10.67%) Unix
4 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.00%) CentOS
5 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.67%) Android
7 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.33%) Debian
7 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (61.33%) DevOps
2 38 (50.67%) Agile
3 30 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 27 (36.00%) Scrum
5 23 (30.67%) Microservices
6 18 (24.00%) Test Automation
7 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (21.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (17.33%) Software Engineering
10 12 (16.00%) SOA
11 11 (14.67%) OO
12 9 (12.00%) Kanban
12 9 (12.00%) OOP
13 8 (10.67%) Clean Code
13 8 (10.67%) Refactoring
13 8 (10.67%) Risk Management
13 8 (10.67%) User Experience
14 7 (9.33%) Computer Science
14 7 (9.33%) Observability
14 7 (9.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.33%) JavaScript
2 27 (36.00%) Java
3 21 (28.00%) C#
4 16 (21.33%) SQL
5 13 (17.33%) TypeScript
6 12 (16.00%) Python
7 9 (12.00%) C++
8 7 (9.33%) PowerShell
9 4 (5.33%) Kotlin
10 3 (4.00%) Bash
10 3 (4.00%) PHP
10 3 (4.00%) VB.NET
11 2 (2.67%) Haskell
12 1 (1.33%) Go
12 1 (1.33%) Jython
12 1 (1.33%) Perl
12 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.33%) PromQL
12 1 (1.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.33%) Degree
4 6 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.67%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.33%) OCA
7 1 (1.33%) OCP
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) ITGC
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.67%) Firmware
3 2 (2.67%) vCloud
3 2 (2.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.67%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (2.67%) vSphere
4 1 (1.33%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 14 (18.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.67%) Ansible
3 5 (6.67%) Puppet
3 5 (6.67%) Terraform
4 4 (5.33%) Grafana
5 3 (4.00%) Ambari
5 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.00%) ZABBIX
6 2 (2.67%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.67%) Kibana
6 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.33%) Icinga
7 1 (1.33%) Nagios
7 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Atlassian
2 9 (12.00%) Splunk
3 7 (9.33%) Dynatrace
4 6 (8.00%) Oracle
5 5 (6.67%) VMware
6 3 (4.00%) Nintex
6 3 (4.00%) UiPath
7 2 (2.67%) Cisco
7 2 (2.67%) F5
7 2 (2.67%) Juniper
7 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.67%) Okta
7 2 (2.67%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.33%) Google
8 1 (1.33%) IBM
8 1 (1.33%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.33%) Solace
8 1 (1.33%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.33%) Zend