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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 309 307
Rank change year-on-year -89 -2 -17
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 60 66 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.32% 3.07% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 41 65
10th Percentile £400 £400 £477
25th Percentile £447 £450 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £731 £738 £810
90th Percentile £763 £813 -
England median daily rate £488 £504 £650
% change year-on-year -3.23% -22.50% +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 2,589 2,153 2,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.72% 15.98% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 1,457 1,587
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £41.69 £27.30
Median hourly rate £56.25 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -2.70% -31.48%
75th Percentile £77.27 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.63 £107.88 £71.69
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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -29 13 £700 +55.56% 6
South London 0 11 £725 +14.17% 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 11 (18.33%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.33%) IIS
4 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Trello
2 1 (1.67%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (51.67%) AWS
2 23 (38.33%) GitHub
3 22 (36.67%) Azure
4 16 (26.67%) Amazon S3
4 16 (26.67%) GCP
4 16 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (21.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (21.67%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (21.67%) Serverless
6 12 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (10.00%) OpenShift
10 5 (8.33%) npm
10 5 (8.33%) Yarn
11 4 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (6.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) DNS
1 2 (3.33%) Internet
1 2 (3.33%) Intranet
1 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.33%) VLAN
1 2 (3.33%) VPN
2 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (16.67%) Redis
3 9 (15.00%) MongoDB
4 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
5 6 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 5 (8.33%) Oracle Database
6 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (5.00%) BigQuery
8 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 34 (56.67%) Jenkins
2 32 (53.33%) Git
3 23 (38.33%) JIRA
4 19 (31.67%) GitLab
5 10 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (11.67%) TeamCity
7 6 (10.00%) REST Assured
8 5 (8.33%) Artifactory
9 4 (6.67%) Selenium
9 4 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (6.67%) Zephyr
10 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
10 3 (5.00%) Cypress.io
10 3 (5.00%) MSBuild
10 3 (5.00%) webpack
11 2 (3.33%) Gradle
11 2 (3.33%) JUnit
11 2 (3.33%) Mocha
11 2 (3.33%) TestNG
11 2 (3.33%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (50.00%) Finance
2 25 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 18 (30.00%) Banking
4 16 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.67%) Investment Banking
6 6 (10.00%) Back Office
7 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.33%) Front Office
9 2 (3.33%) Local Government
9 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Developer
1 17 (28.33%) Senior
2 10 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Junior
6 5 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Junior Java Software Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.33%) Terraform
2 15 (25.00%) REST
3 11 (18.33%) .NET
3 11 (18.33%) RESTful
4 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 9 (15.00%) Spring
5 7 (11.67%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET
5 7 (11.67%) Kafka
5 7 (11.67%) React
6 6 (10.00%) JWT
6 6 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (8.33%) .NET Framework
7 5 (8.33%) Jakarta EE
7 5 (8.33%) JDBC
7 5 (8.33%) JMS
8 4 (6.67%) CSS
8 4 (6.67%) HTML
8 4 (6.67%) SOAP
8 4 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Cloud Native
1 11 (18.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.67%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (8.33%) Spread Betting
4 4 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.33%) PropTech
7 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.67%) PKI
7 1 (1.67%) Replication
7 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.67%) Linux
2 9 (15.00%) Unix
2 9 (15.00%) Windows
3 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (76.67%) CI/CD
2 33 (55.00%) Agile
3 31 (51.67%) DevOps
4 20 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (31.67%) AI
6 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (30.00%) Scrum
7 16 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (26.67%) SDLC
8 15 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 14 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (20.00%) Event-Driven
10 12 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (20.00%) Microservices
11 11 (18.33%) Containerisation
11 11 (18.33%) Data Modelling
11 11 (18.33%) Observability
11 11 (18.33%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (18.33%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (15.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 32 (53.33%) Python
2 22 (36.67%) Java
2 22 (36.67%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) Bash
4 11 (18.33%) C#
5 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
7 7 (11.67%) PL/SQL
8 5 (8.33%) Go
8 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
9 4 (6.67%) Groovy
9 4 (6.67%) Kotlin
10 3 (5.00%) Bicep
10 3 (5.00%) Perl
10 3 (5.00%) Shell Script
11 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.67%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (28.33%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.00%) WCAG
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (43.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Squid
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (21.67%) Ansible
2 13 (21.67%) Grafana
3 11 (18.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.00%) Kibana
5 2 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.67%) Istio
6 1 (1.67%) WMI
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Splunk
2 9 (15.00%) Oracle
3 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (10.00%) Dynatrace
5 4 (6.67%) Google
5 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.33%) ION Trading
7 2 (3.33%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.67%) BMC
8 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.67%) IBM
8 1 (1.67%) New Relic
8 1 (1.67%) Sparx
8 1 (1.67%) Sybase
8 1 (1.67%) VMware
8 1 (1.67%) Zscaler