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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 262 309
Rank change year-on-year -73 +47 +18
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 56 91 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.68% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.45% 4.77% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 65 62
10th Percentile £374 £514 £450
25th Percentile £475 £600 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £676 £810 £808
90th Percentile £758 - £810
England median daily rate £558 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.14% -6.67%

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 2,284 1,909 2,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.98% 14.17% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 1,248 1,719
10th Percentile £356 £341 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -4.89% -6.25%
75th Percentile £633 £675 £675
90th Percentile £726 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £505 £533
% change year-on-year -0.99% -5.21% -7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 21
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.25 £25.75
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.63 £31.71
Median hourly rate £66.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.41% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £58.75
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £72.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -12 11 £539 -20.19% 7
South London -4 10 £534 -28.76% 4
East London -1 1 £450 -5.26% 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 21 (37.50%) Confluence
2 12 (21.43%) nginx
3 2 (3.57%) Apache
4 1 (1.79%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.79%) IIS
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.79%) Maximo
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.00%) AWS
2 20 (35.71%) GitHub
3 13 (23.21%) Serverless
4 12 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 12 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (19.64%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (19.64%) Azure
5 11 (19.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (10.71%) Route 53
8 5 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.36%) GCP
11 2 (3.57%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (3.57%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (3.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) Firewall
2 7 (12.50%) DNS
2 7 (12.50%) VPN
3 6 (10.71%) OpenVPN
3 6 (10.71%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.79%) DSL
4 1 (1.79%) HTTP
4 1 (1.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.36%) MySQL
5 2 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.57%) DB2
5 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.57%) Redis
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.79%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.79%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (51.79%) JIRA
2 27 (48.21%) Git
3 22 (39.29%) Jenkins
4 13 (23.21%) GitLab
5 8 (14.29%) SonarQube
6 6 (10.71%) Selenium
7 5 (8.93%) Cucumber
8 4 (7.14%) Maven
8 4 (7.14%) Postman
8 4 (7.14%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (5.36%) Android Studio
9 3 (5.36%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (3.57%) JUnit
10 2 (3.57%) Mockito
10 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
10 2 (3.57%) webpack
11 1 (1.79%) Babel
11 1 (1.79%) CircleCI
General
1 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.14%) Banking
2 18 (32.14%) Finance
3 6 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 4 (7.14%) Front Office
5 4 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Back Office
6 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Developer
2 8 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 7 (12.50%) Architect
4 5 (8.93%) Angular Developer
4 5 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) JIRA Specialist
4 5 (8.93%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Android Developer
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.36%) T24 Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.57%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Lead
7 2 (3.57%) React Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) React
2 10 (17.86%) REST
3 7 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 7 (12.50%) LDAP
3 7 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.71%) .NET
4 6 (10.71%) Node.js
4 6 (10.71%) OpenID
5 5 (8.93%) RESTful
6 4 (7.14%) JSON
7 3 (5.36%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (5.36%) CSS
7 3 (5.36%) HTML
7 3 (5.36%) Jetpack Compose
7 3 (5.36%) XML
8 2 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (3.57%) AWS CDK
8 2 (3.57%) Vue
8 2 (3.57%) XSD
8 2 (3.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.36%) Derivative
1 3 (5.36%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.57%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.79%) Animation
3 1 (1.79%) Blog
3 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.79%) Replication
3 1 (1.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.00%) Linux
2 6 (10.71%) Unix
3 3 (5.36%) Android
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (64.29%) Agile
2 31 (55.36%) DevOps
3 23 (41.07%) Scrum
4 22 (39.29%) CI/CD
5 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (30.36%) Test Automation
7 13 (23.21%) Microservices
8 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (14.29%) Kanban
8 8 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 6 (10.71%) BDD
9 6 (10.71%) Decision-Making
9 6 (10.71%) Roadmaps
9 6 (10.71%) TDD
10 5 (8.93%) Computer Science
10 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (8.93%) Migration
10 5 (8.93%) Validation
10 5 (8.93%) Workflow
11 4 (7.14%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) Java
2 21 (37.50%) Python
3 15 (26.79%) SQL
4 9 (16.07%) Bash
5 7 (12.50%) C#
5 7 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.36%) Kotlin
7 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.36%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.57%) Perl
8 2 (3.57%) Ruby
8 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.79%) C++
9 1 (1.79%) Go
9 1 (1.79%) Jython
9 1 (1.79%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.79%) PHP
9 1 (1.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) Degree
4 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) MiFID
3 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) Docker
2 6 (10.71%) Squid
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (30.36%) Kubernetes
2 13 (23.21%) Terraform
3 7 (12.50%) Grafana
4 6 (10.71%) Consul
4 6 (10.71%) FortiGate
4 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
4 6 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (5.36%) Ansible
6 2 (3.57%) Opsgenie
7 1 (1.79%) Ambari
7 1 (1.79%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.79%) Puppet
7 1 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 7 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 6 (10.71%) Oracle
3 6 (10.71%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.36%) jBASE
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.36%) Temenos
4 3 (5.36%) UiPath
5 2 (3.57%) Google
5 2 (3.57%) IBM
5 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.79%) Adobe
6 1 (1.79%) Apple
6 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.79%) Informatica
6 1 (1.79%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.79%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.79%) SAP
6 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.79%) Tradeweb