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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 283 283
Rank change year-on-year -23 0 0
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 69 99 143
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.12% 4.53% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 77 115
10th Percentile £374 £473 £450
25th Percentile £453 £613 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £713 £810 £810
90th Percentile £776 - £880
England median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +1.87%

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 2,215 2,187 2,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.13% 14.10% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,524 1,446 2,071
10th Percentile £352 £362 £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 £668 £688
90th Percentile £736 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 29
10th Percentile £39.95 £25.63 £29.15
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.71 £41.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £35.29 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.12% -35.85% +24.69%
75th Percentile £88.75 £55.76 £73.65
90th Percentile £110.00 £66.34 £79.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 9 November 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 9 November 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 +15 17 £625 -10.71% 31
West London - 3 £400 - 1
South London -9 2 £635 -10.88% 2
East London 0 1 £450 - 3
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 24 (34.78%) Confluence
2 7 (10.14%) nginx
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.45%) Camunda
4 1 (1.45%) IIS
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Magento
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) GitHub
2 22 (31.88%) AWS
3 17 (24.64%) Azure
4 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.25%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.35%) GCP
7 3 (4.35%) Serverless
7 3 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.90%) SaaS
9 1 (1.45%) Bitrise
9 1 (1.45%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.90%) BGP
3 2 (2.90%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (2.90%) IPsec
3 2 (2.90%) LAN
3 2 (2.90%) Multicast
3 2 (2.90%) OSPF
3 2 (2.90%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.90%) SSL
3 2 (2.90%) VLAN
3 2 (2.90%) VPN
3 2 (2.90%) VXLAN
3 2 (2.90%) WAN
4 1 (1.45%) DNS
4 1 (1.45%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.59%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.80%) DB2
4 4 (5.80%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.80%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.90%) MySQL
6 2 (2.90%) Power BI
6 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.45%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.45%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.45%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.45%) Redis
7 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (62.32%) Git
2 35 (50.72%) JIRA
3 28 (40.58%) Jenkins
4 13 (18.84%) GitLab
5 12 (17.39%) Selenium
6 10 (14.49%) Cucumber
7 6 (8.70%) Postman
8 5 (7.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (7.25%) TeamCity
9 4 (5.80%) Android Studio
9 4 (5.80%) Artifactory
9 4 (5.80%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (2.90%) git-flow
10 2 (2.90%) IntelliJ
10 2 (2.90%) JUnit
10 2 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.45%) Gerrit
11 1 (1.45%) TestRail
11 1 (1.45%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (40.58%) Finance
2 25 (36.23%) Banking
3 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.14%) Front Office
5 6 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.80%) Back Office
7 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (42.03%) Developer
2 14 (20.29%) Java Developer
3 7 (10.14%) Angular Developer
4 6 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Test Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) JIRA Specialist
6 4 (5.80%) Android Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Magento Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Agile Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Agile Java Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Scrum Master
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) DevOps Specialist
8 2 (2.90%) Juniper Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 2 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) React
1 12 (17.39%) REST
2 9 (13.04%) .NET
3 8 (11.59%) AngularJS
3 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.25%) CSS
4 5 (7.25%) HTML
4 5 (7.25%) Kafka
4 5 (7.25%) Node.js
4 5 (7.25%) RESTful
5 4 (5.80%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (5.80%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (5.80%) Web Services
6 3 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (4.35%) Gherkin
6 3 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.90%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.90%) jQuery
7 2 (2.90%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Replication
3 2 (2.90%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.45%) Animation
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.74%) Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Unix
3 4 (5.80%) Android
4 2 (2.90%) Windows
4 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.45%) CentOS
5 1 (1.45%) Debian
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (68.12%) Agile
2 34 (49.28%) DevOps
3 30 (43.48%) Scrum
4 26 (37.68%) CI/CD
5 23 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 20 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (21.74%) Microservices
8 11 (15.94%) Kanban
9 10 (14.49%) BDD
10 8 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (11.59%) Test Scripting
10 8 (11.59%) Unit Testing
11 7 (10.14%) TDD
11 7 (10.14%) Validation
12 6 (8.70%) Computer Science
12 6 (8.70%) Observability
12 6 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
12 6 (8.70%) Software Engineering
13 5 (7.25%) Mentoring
13 5 (7.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 32 (46.38%) Java
2 22 (31.88%) Python
3 16 (23.19%) SQL
4 12 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 10 (14.49%) Bash
6 9 (13.04%) C#
6 9 (13.04%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.70%) VB.NET
8 5 (7.25%) Kotlin
8 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
9 4 (5.80%) PHP
10 3 (4.35%) C++
10 3 (4.35%) Perl
11 2 (2.90%) Ruby
12 1 (1.45%) Go
12 1 (1.45%) Jython
12 1 (1.45%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.45%) PromQL
12 1 (1.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) Degree
4 5 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.25%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.90%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.45%) OCA
8 1 (1.45%) OCP
8 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) QA
2 4 (5.80%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.35%) ITGC
System Software
1 18 (26.09%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.90%) Firmware
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.90%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.45%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 17 (24.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.59%) Ansible
2 8 (11.59%) Terraform
3 4 (5.80%) Grafana
3 4 (5.80%) Puppet
4 3 (4.35%) Ambari
4 3 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.35%) ZABBIX
5 2 (2.90%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.45%) Icinga
6 1 (1.45%) Nagios
6 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) Atlassian
2 9 (13.04%) Splunk
3 7 (10.14%) Dynatrace
3 7 (10.14%) Oracle
4 6 (8.70%) UiPath
5 3 (4.35%) Nintex
5 3 (4.35%) VMware
6 2 (2.90%) Cisco
6 2 (2.90%) F5
6 2 (2.90%) IBM
6 2 (2.90%) Juniper
6 2 (2.90%) Okta
6 2 (2.90%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.45%) Confluent
7 1 (1.45%) New Relic
7 1 (1.45%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.45%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.45%) Solace
7 1 (1.45%) StreamSets