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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 264 304
Rank change year-on-year -51 +40 -26
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 59 105 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.70% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.62% 5.08% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 76 81
10th Percentile £366 £471 £463
25th Percentile £456 £583 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £640
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.47% -1.54%
75th Percentile £738 £810 £810
90th Percentile £780 - £823
England median daily rate £575 £631 £575
% change year-on-year -8.91% +9.78% -

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 2,250 2,068 2,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.57% 13.82% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,536 1,354 1,770
10th Percentile £353 £348 £385
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 22
10th Percentile £37.65 £28.75 £25.80
25th Percentile £42.63 £41.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £67.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +50.00% -21.74%
75th Percentile £86.88 £83.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £90.25 £73.74
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 25 December 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 25 December 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 -1 16 £625 -9.09% 8
South London -6 2 £690 -8.00%
East London -2 1 £450 - 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 21 (35.59%) Confluence
2 6 (10.17%) nginx
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.69%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.69%) Apache
4 1 (1.69%) IIS
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (3.39%) Magento
3 1 (1.69%) Maximo
3 1 (1.69%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) AWS
2 22 (37.29%) GitHub
3 14 (23.73%) Azure
4 5 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (8.47%) Serverless
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.08%) GCP
6 3 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (3.39%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (3.39%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (3.39%) Datadog
7 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.69%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) Firewall
2 2 (3.39%) SSL
3 1 (1.69%) DNS
3 1 (1.69%) DSL
3 1 (1.69%) HTTP
3 1 (1.69%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.69%) SSH
3 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.86%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.78%) DB2
4 4 (6.78%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.08%) MySQL
5 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.69%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.69%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.69%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.69%) Redis
7 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (55.93%) Git
2 30 (50.85%) JIRA
3 27 (45.76%) Jenkins
4 11 (18.64%) Selenium
5 10 (16.95%) GitLab
6 8 (13.56%) Cucumber
7 5 (8.47%) Postman
8 4 (6.78%) JUnit
8 4 (6.78%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (5.08%) Android Studio
9 3 (5.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (5.08%) TeamCity
10 2 (3.39%) Maven
10 2 (3.39%) Mockito
10 2 (3.39%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.69%) Babel
11 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.69%) TestRail
11 1 (1.69%) webpack
General
1 25 (42.37%) Finance
2 24 (40.68%) Banking
3 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Front Office
5 5 (8.47%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Back Office
7 2 (3.39%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) Developer
2 14 (23.73%) Java Developer
3 7 (11.86%) Angular Developer
4 5 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) JIRA Specialist
5 4 (6.78%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Agile Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Agile Java Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Android Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Lead
6 3 (5.08%) Senior
7 2 (3.39%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Magento Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) React
2 12 (20.34%) REST
3 10 (16.95%) AngularJS
4 9 (15.25%) Spring Boot
5 7 (11.86%) Node.js
5 7 (11.86%) RESTful
6 6 (10.17%) .NET
7 5 (8.47%) CSS
7 5 (8.47%) HTML
8 4 (6.78%) Web Services
9 3 (5.08%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (5.08%) Android Jetpack
9 3 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (5.08%) Gherkin
9 3 (5.08%) Jetpack Compose
9 3 (5.08%) JSON
9 3 (5.08%) Kafka
10 2 (3.39%) boto
10 2 (3.39%) Spring
10 2 (3.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.39%) Replication
3 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.69%) Animation
3 1 (1.69%) Blog
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Derivative
3 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (1.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
2 8 (13.56%) Unix
3 3 (5.08%) Android
4 2 (3.39%) Windows
5 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (71.19%) Agile
2 31 (52.54%) DevOps
3 29 (49.15%) Scrum
4 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
5 24 (40.68%) Test Automation
6 19 (32.20%) Microservices
7 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (18.64%) Kanban
9 10 (16.95%) BDD
10 9 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (13.56%) TDD
12 7 (11.86%) Unit Testing
12 7 (11.86%) Validation
13 6 (10.17%) Front End Development
13 6 (10.17%) Non-Functional Testing
13 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
13 6 (10.17%) Test Scripting
14 5 (8.47%) Computer Science
14 5 (8.47%) Functional Testing
15 4 (6.78%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (52.54%) Java
2 19 (32.20%) SQL
3 16 (27.12%) Python
4 8 (13.56%) Bash
4 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
5 7 (11.86%) C#
5 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.78%) Kotlin
6 4 (6.78%) VB.NET
7 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.39%) Perl
8 2 (3.39%) PHP
8 2 (3.39%) Ruby
9 1 (1.69%) C++
9 1 (1.69%) Go
9 1 (1.69%) Jython
9 1 (1.69%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) Degree
4 5 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) ITGC
4 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (28.81%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (23.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) Terraform
3 3 (5.08%) Ambari
3 3 (5.08%) Puppet
3 3 (5.08%) ZABBIX
4 2 (3.39%) Ansible
4 2 (3.39%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.69%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) Atlassian
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) Dynatrace
4 5 (8.47%) Splunk
5 4 (6.78%) UiPath
6 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.39%) Google
7 2 (3.39%) IBM
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.39%) Okta
8 1 (1.69%) Adobe
8 1 (1.69%) Apple
8 1 (1.69%) Confluent
8 1 (1.69%) Informatica
8 1 (1.69%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.69%) jBASE
8 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.69%) Solace
8 1 (1.69%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.69%) Temenos