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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 278 271
Rank change year-on-year -41 -7 +13
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 59 103 152
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.65% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.76% 4.59% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 80 121
10th Percentile £400 £479 £450
25th Percentile £455 £613 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £738 £810 £810
90th Percentile £794 - £888
England median daily rate £519 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -20.19% +8.33% +3.23%

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 2,137 2,243 2,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.94% 14.25% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,465 1,498 2,122
10th Percentile £356 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 30
10th Percentile £36.63 £27.88 £29.58
25th Percentile £41.69 £32.62 £41.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -15.91% +24.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.89 £74.66
90th Percentile £107.88 £71.44 £86.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.38%

Bitbucket
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Bitbucket job vacancy trend 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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +9 15 £538 -23.21% 16
West London - 3 £400 - 1
South London -9 2 £635 -10.88% 1
East London +1 1 £450 - 2
Bitbucket
England

Bitbucket
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 19 (32.20%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.39%) nginx
4 1 (1.69%) Apache
4 1 (1.69%) Camunda
4 1 (1.69%) IIS
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Magento
2 3 (5.08%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.69%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.59%) GitHub
2 16 (27.12%) Azure
3 15 (25.42%) AWS
4 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.08%) GCP
5 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.39%) SaaS
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.69%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Serverless
7 1 (1.69%) Slack
7 1 (1.69%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.39%) BGP
2 2 (3.39%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 2 (3.39%) IPsec
2 2 (3.39%) LAN
2 2 (3.39%) Multicast
2 2 (3.39%) OSPF
2 2 (3.39%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.39%) SSL
2 2 (3.39%) VLAN
2 2 (3.39%) VPN
2 2 (3.39%) VXLAN
2 2 (3.39%) WAN
3 1 (1.69%) DNS
3 1 (1.69%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.78%) DB2
3 4 (6.78%) Hadoop
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.39%) MySQL
4 2 (3.39%) Power BI
4 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.69%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.69%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.69%) Redis
5 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (59.32%) Git
2 27 (45.76%) JIRA
3 20 (33.90%) Jenkins
4 10 (16.95%) Selenium
5 8 (13.56%) Cucumber
6 6 (10.17%) GitLab
6 6 (10.17%) TeamCity
7 5 (8.47%) Postman
8 4 (6.78%) Artifactory
8 4 (6.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (3.39%) Android Studio
9 2 (3.39%) git-flow
9 2 (3.39%) IntelliJ
9 2 (3.39%) JUnit
9 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.69%) Gerrit
10 1 (1.69%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (1.69%) TestRail
10 1 (1.69%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (40.68%) Finance
2 23 (38.98%) Banking
3 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.56%) Front Office
5 7 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (10.17%) Investment Banking
7 5 (8.47%) Back Office
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (45.76%) Developer
2 12 (20.34%) Java Developer
3 5 (8.47%) Angular Developer
3 5 (8.47%) Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (8.47%) Test Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Magento Developer
5 3 (5.08%) Agile Developer
5 3 (5.08%) Agile Java Developer
5 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Lead
5 3 (5.08%) Scrum Master
6 2 (3.39%) Android Developer
6 2 (3.39%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (3.39%) Systems Developer
6 2 (3.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) React
2 9 (15.25%) REST
3 8 (13.56%) .NET
4 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
4 6 (10.17%) CSS
4 6 (10.17%) HTML
4 6 (10.17%) Kafka
4 6 (10.17%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.47%) RESTful
6 4 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (6.78%) Node.js
6 4 (6.78%) Web Services
7 3 (5.08%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (5.08%) Gherkin
7 3 (5.08%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (3.39%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (3.39%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (3.39%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (3.39%) jQuery
8 2 (3.39%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.39%) Private Cloud
2 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.39%) Replication
2 2 (3.39%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (1.69%) Animation
3 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Unix
2 7 (11.86%) Linux
3 3 (5.08%) Windows
4 2 (3.39%) Android
4 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.69%) CentOS
5 1 (1.69%) Debian
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (62.71%) Agile
2 30 (50.85%) DevOps
3 24 (40.68%) CI/CD
4 21 (35.59%) Scrum
5 19 (32.20%) Test Automation
6 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (20.34%) Microservices
8 9 (15.25%) Kanban
9 8 (13.56%) BDD
10 7 (11.86%) Computer Science
10 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (11.86%) Test Scripting
11 6 (10.17%) Observability
11 6 (10.17%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
11 6 (10.17%) Unit Testing
12 5 (8.47%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (8.47%) Migration
12 5 (8.47%) TDD
12 5 (8.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 25 (42.37%) Java
2 13 (22.03%) JavaScript
2 13 (22.03%) Python
3 11 (18.64%) SQL
4 8 (13.56%) C#
4 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.47%) VB.NET
6 4 (6.78%) Bash
6 4 (6.78%) C++
6 4 (6.78%) PHP
7 3 (5.08%) Kotlin
7 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.39%) Haskell
9 1 (1.69%) Go
9 1 (1.69%) Jython
9 1 (1.69%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.69%) Perl
9 1 (1.69%) PromQL
9 1 (1.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.17%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.39%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.69%) OCA
6 1 (1.69%) OCP
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) ITGC
3 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.39%) Firmware
3 2 (3.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.69%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 10 (16.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.56%) Ansible
3 5 (8.47%) Terraform
4 4 (6.78%) Grafana
4 4 (6.78%) Puppet
5 3 (5.08%) Ambari
5 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.08%) ZABBIX
6 2 (3.39%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.69%) Icinga
7 1 (1.69%) Nagios
7 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Atlassian
2 9 (15.25%) Splunk
3 7 (11.86%) Dynatrace
4 5 (8.47%) Oracle
4 5 (8.47%) UiPath
5 3 (5.08%) Nintex
5 3 (5.08%) VMware
6 2 (3.39%) Cisco
6 2 (3.39%) F5
6 2 (3.39%) IBM
6 2 (3.39%) Juniper
6 2 (3.39%) Okta
6 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.69%) Adobe
7 1 (1.69%) Apple
7 1 (1.69%) Informatica
7 1 (1.69%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.69%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.69%) Zend