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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 288 324
Rank change year-on-year -81 +36 +31
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 43 70 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.56% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.84% 3.87% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 50
10th Percentile £401 £413 £411
25th Percentile £443 £526 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +19.15% -5.05%
75th Percentile £694 £809 £703
90th Percentile £790 £831 £825
England median daily rate £500 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.38% +2.17%

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 2,343 1,810 2,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.20% 14.50% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 1,225 1,649
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £778
England median daily rate £500 £500 £532
% change year-on-year - -6.06% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 25
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -3.13% -40.30%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.63
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -4 12 £519 -30.86%
Central London -26 2 £410 -36.92% 4
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 12 (27.91%) Confluence
2 7 (16.28%) nginx
3 2 (4.65%) Apache
3 2 (4.65%) IIS
4 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) AWS
2 17 (39.53%) Amazon S3
3 16 (37.21%) Serverless
4 15 (34.88%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (30.23%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (30.23%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (30.23%) GitHub
6 11 (25.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (18.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (18.60%) AWS CodePipeline
8 7 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (16.28%) Azure
8 7 (16.28%) Route 53
9 4 (9.30%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
11 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (4.65%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) DNS
1 7 (16.28%) Firewall
1 7 (16.28%) OpenVPN
1 7 (16.28%) TCP/IP
1 7 (16.28%) VPN
2 1 (2.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.30%) DynamoDB
3 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.65%) ClickHouse
4 2 (4.65%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.33%) DB2
5 1 (2.33%) Metadata
5 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Pinecone
5 1 (2.33%) Power BI
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) Tableau
5 1 (2.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (39.53%) JIRA
2 11 (25.58%) Git
2 11 (25.58%) Jenkins
3 9 (20.93%) SonarQube
4 7 (16.28%) GitLab
5 4 (9.30%) TeamCity
6 3 (6.98%) Maven
7 2 (4.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (4.65%) JUnit
7 2 (4.65%) Mockito
7 2 (4.65%) REST Assured
7 2 (4.65%) Selenium
7 2 (4.65%) Vite
7 2 (4.65%) webpack
8 1 (2.33%) Babel
8 1 (2.33%) Claude Code
8 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.33%) Gradle
8 1 (2.33%) MSBuild
8 1 (2.33%) Postman
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Banking
3 8 (18.60%) Finance
4 7 (16.28%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (13.95%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.98%) Front Office
7 3 (6.98%) Investment Banking
7 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Developer
2 8 (18.60%) Architect
3 7 (16.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Technical Architect
6 4 (9.30%) React Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.98%) T24 Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Manager
8 2 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) LDAP
1 8 (18.60%) React
2 7 (16.28%) OpenID
3 6 (13.95%) Node.js
3 6 (13.95%) RESTful
4 5 (11.63%) CSS
4 5 (11.63%) HTML
5 4 (9.30%) .NET
5 4 (9.30%) boto
6 3 (6.98%) ASP.NET
6 3 (6.98%) AWS CDK
6 3 (6.98%) JWT
6 3 (6.98%) REST
7 2 (4.65%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (4.65%) Playwright
7 2 (4.65%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (4.65%) Vitest
7 2 (4.65%) XML
7 2 (4.65%) XSD
7 2 (4.65%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.98%) Derivative
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.33%) Blog
4 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.33%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) DevOps
2 27 (62.79%) Agile
3 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
4 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
6 10 (23.26%) Scrum
6 10 (23.26%) Test Automation
7 9 (20.93%) Decision-Making
8 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (18.60%) Microservices
9 7 (16.28%) Migration
9 7 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
10 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
10 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (13.95%) OOP
10 6 (13.95%) SDLC
11 5 (11.63%) Clean Code
11 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
11 5 (11.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Python
2 8 (18.60%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) C#
3 7 (16.28%) Java
4 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.63%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.65%) Bash
7 2 (4.65%) Bicep
8 1 (2.33%) C++
8 1 (2.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Degree
5 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) MiFID
3 1 (2.33%) PMO
3 1 (2.33%) SLA
3 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
2 8 (18.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Terraform
2 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (16.28%) Consul
3 7 (16.28%) FortiGate
3 7 (16.28%) Grafana
3 7 (16.28%) Prometheus
3 7 (16.28%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.98%) Ansible
5 2 (4.65%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Atlassian
2 8 (18.60%) Dynatrace
3 7 (16.28%) Red Hat
4 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.98%) jBASE
5 3 (6.98%) Temenos
6 2 (4.65%) Google
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle
7 1 (2.33%) SAP
7 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.33%) Zscaler