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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 292 314
Rank change year-on-year -91 +22 -43
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 58 76 75
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.57% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 3.60% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 53 58
10th Percentile £400 £403 £450
25th Percentile £447 £450 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £635 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £738 £775 £808
90th Percentile £785 £835 £815
England median daily rate £485 £500 £625
% change year-on-year -3.00% -20.00% +4.17%

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 2,540 2,109 2,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.58% 15.88% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,641 1,430 1,599
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £653
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £24.60
25th Percentile £27.38 £41.69 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £50.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +35.33% -44.44%
75th Percentile £73.56 £72.81 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.66 £107.88 £71.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 8 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 8 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
South London +2 12 £725 +14.17% 2
Central London -24 10 £713 +14.00% 5
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 10 (17.24%) 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 23 (39.66%) AWS
1 23 (39.66%) GitHub
2 16 (27.59%) Azure
3 14 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (22.41%) Amazon S3
5 11 (18.97%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (18.97%) GCP
5 11 (18.97%) Serverless
6 10 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (15.52%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (12.07%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (10.34%) OpenShift
10 4 (6.90%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (6.90%) npm
10 4 (6.90%) Yarn
11 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
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 10 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
3 8 (13.79%) Redis
4 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
5 5 (8.62%) Oracle Database
6 4 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (5.17%) BigQuery
7 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.45%) ClickHouse
8 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.72%) Metadata
9 1 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (53.45%) Git
1 31 (53.45%) Jenkins
2 20 (34.48%) JIRA
3 17 (29.31%) GitLab
4 8 (13.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 8 (13.79%) TeamCity
5 6 (10.34%) REST Assured
6 5 (8.62%) Artifactory
7 4 (6.90%) Selenium
8 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (5.17%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.45%) Gradle
9 2 (3.45%) Maven
9 2 (3.45%) Mocha
9 2 (3.45%) MSBuild
9 2 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (3.45%) TestNG
9 2 (3.45%) Vite
9 2 (3.45%) WebDriver
9 2 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 27 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 26 (44.83%) Finance
3 17 (29.31%) Banking
4 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.07%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (8.62%) Investment Banking
7 4 (6.90%) Back Office
7 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
8 3 (5.17%) Front Office
9 2 (3.45%) Local Government
10 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Developer
2 18 (31.03%) Senior
3 9 (15.52%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.34%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Junior
6 5 (8.62%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Release Manager
6 5 (8.62%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (8.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Junior Java Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Junior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) Terraform
2 13 (22.41%) REST
3 12 (20.69%) .NET
4 9 (15.52%) Spring
5 8 (13.79%) ASP.NET
5 8 (13.79%) RESTful
6 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
6 6 (10.34%) JWT
6 6 (10.34%) React
7 5 (8.62%) .NET Framework
7 5 (8.62%) ActiveMQ
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%) HTML5
8 4 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (6.90%) SOAP
8 4 (6.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.79%) 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 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) PropTech
7 1 (1.72%) Replication
7 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.86%) Linux
2 9 (15.52%) Windows
3 7 (12.07%) Unix
4 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 36 (62.07%) Agile
3 34 (58.62%) DevOps
4 19 (32.76%) Scrum
5 18 (31.03%) AI
6 17 (29.31%) Test Automation
7 16 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (25.86%) SDLC
9 14 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (17.24%) Microservices
12 9 (15.52%) Data Modelling
12 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (15.52%) Observability
12 9 (15.52%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (15.52%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
12 9 (15.52%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (15.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (46.55%) Python
2 22 (37.93%) SQL
3 19 (32.76%) Java
4 12 (20.69%) C#
5 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
6 8 (13.79%) Bash
6 8 (13.79%) PowerShell
7 7 (12.07%) PL/SQL
7 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.90%) Kotlin
9 3 (5.17%) Bicep
9 3 (5.17%) Go
10 2 (3.45%) 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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.72%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.59%) QA
2 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) WCAG
4 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.72%) PMO
4 1 (1.72%) SEPA
4 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (37.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Squid
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.24%) Ansible
3 9 (15.52%) Grafana
3 9 (15.52%) 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%) Microsoft
1 9 (15.52%) Oracle
2 7 (12.07%) Splunk
3 4 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.45%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) ION Trading
5 2 (3.45%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.72%) BMC
6 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.72%) New Relic
6 1 (1.72%) Sybase
6 1 (1.72%) VMware
6 1 (1.72%) Zscaler