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 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 389 298 296
Rank change year-on-year -91 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 58 75 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.56% 0.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.26% 3.52% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 50 64
10th Percentile £401 £400 £453
25th Percentile £462 £452 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £810
90th Percentile £778 £838 -
England median daily rate £488 £500 £650
% change year-on-year -2.50% -23.08% +8.33%

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 2,565 2,128 2,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.70% 15.80% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,663 1,434 1,612
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £749 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 18
10th Percentile £18.75 £37.00 £24.28
25th Percentile £30.75 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -2.70% -32.28%
75th Percentile £73.75 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £105.75 £71.44
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 18 September 2026.

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 18 September 2026. 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 -20 13 £700 +30.23% 6
South London 0 11 £725 +14.17% 1
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 9 (15.52%) Confluence
2 4 (6.90%) IIS
3 3 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 27 (46.55%) AWS
2 23 (39.66%) GitHub
3 18 (31.03%) Azure
4 16 (27.59%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (25.86%) Amazon S3
6 13 (22.41%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (22.41%) GCP
6 13 (22.41%) Serverless
7 12 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (18.97%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (10.34%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (10.34%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (10.34%) OpenShift
12 4 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (6.90%) npm
12 4 (6.90%) Yarn
13 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) DNS
1 2 (3.45%) Internet
1 2 (3.45%) Intranet
1 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.45%) VLAN
1 2 (3.45%) VPN
2 1 (1.72%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
3 8 (13.79%) Redis
4 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
5 6 (10.34%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (8.62%) Oracle Database
7 4 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
7 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (5.17%) BigQuery
8 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.45%) ClickHouse
9 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 32 (55.17%) Git
2 31 (53.45%) Jenkins
3 19 (32.76%) JIRA
4 18 (31.03%) GitLab
5 9 (15.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (13.79%) TeamCity
7 6 (10.34%) REST Assured
8 5 (8.62%) Artifactory
9 4 (6.90%) Selenium
10 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (5.17%) Cypress.io
10 3 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (5.17%) Zephyr
11 2 (3.45%) Gradle
11 2 (3.45%) Mocha
11 2 (3.45%) MSBuild
11 2 (3.45%) TestNG
11 2 (3.45%) Vite
11 2 (3.45%) WebDriver
11 2 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 28 (48.28%) Finance
2 25 (43.10%) Social Skills
3 17 (29.31%) Banking
4 16 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.34%) Back Office
5 6 (10.34%) Investment Banking
6 5 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.90%) Front Office
7 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.45%) Local Government
8 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Senior
2 18 (31.03%) Developer
3 10 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Data Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) AWS Data Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Senior Developer
6 6 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Junior
7 5 (8.62%) Java Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (8.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) GCP Data Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Junior Java Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Junior Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Release Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.59%) Terraform
2 12 (20.69%) .NET
2 12 (20.69%) REST
3 9 (15.52%) Spring
4 8 (13.79%) ASP.NET
4 8 (13.79%) RESTful
5 7 (12.07%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
6 6 (10.34%) JWT
6 6 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (10.34%) React
7 5 (8.62%) .NET Framework
7 5 (8.62%) Jakarta EE
7 5 (8.62%) JDBC
7 5 (8.62%) JMS
8 4 (6.90%) CSS
8 4 (6.90%) HTML
8 4 (6.90%) Node.js
8 4 (6.90%) SOAP
8 4 (6.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Product Ownership
2 9 (15.52%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (8.62%) Spread Betting
5 4 (6.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (5.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.45%) PropTech
8 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.72%) Replication
8 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (27.59%) Linux
2 10 (17.24%) Windows
3 7 (12.07%) Unix
4 4 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (70.69%) CI/CD
2 32 (55.17%) Agile
3 31 (53.45%) DevOps
4 18 (31.03%) AI
4 18 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (27.59%) Scrum
6 15 (25.86%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (24.14%) SDLC
7 14 (24.14%) Test Automation
8 13 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (18.97%) Data Modelling
10 10 (17.24%) Containerisation
10 10 (17.24%) Event-Driven
10 10 (17.24%) Microservices
10 10 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (15.52%) Observability
11 9 (15.52%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.00%) Python
2 24 (41.38%) SQL
3 21 (36.21%) Java
4 12 (20.69%) C#
5 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
6 9 (15.52%) Bash
6 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
7 7 (12.07%) PL/SQL
7 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.90%) Go
8 4 (6.90%) Kotlin
9 3 (5.17%) Bicep
9 3 (5.17%) Groovy
10 2 (3.45%) Perl
10 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.72%) Korn
11 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.72%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.86%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) WCAG
4 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (39.66%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Squid
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (39.66%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.69%) Ansible
3 10 (17.24%) Grafana
3 10 (17.24%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.17%) Kibana
5 2 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.72%) Istio
6 1 (1.72%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) Oracle
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) Splunk
3 5 (8.62%) Dynatrace
4 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.17%) Google
5 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.45%) ION Trading
6 2 (3.45%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.72%) BMC
7 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.72%) IBM
7 1 (1.72%) New Relic
7 1 (1.72%) Sybase
7 1 (1.72%) VMware
7 1 (1.72%) Zscaler