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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 268 311
Rank change year-on-year -61 +43 -2
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 60 93 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.67% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.65% 4.81% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 66 73
10th Percentile £384 £500 £450
25th Percentile £508 £603 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £688 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +14.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £714 £810 £810
90th Percentile £755 - £825
England median daily rate £575 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -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 2,262 1,935 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.47% 13.87% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,551 1,261 1,731
10th Percentile £356 £341 £400
25th Percentile £420 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -5.98% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £731 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £511 £538
% change year-on-year -2.15% -5.02% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 20
10th Percentile £42.63 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £45.19 £25.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £73.25 £48.75 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.26% +7.14% -20.87%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £73.66
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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -5 13 £625 -9.09% 6
South London 0 6 £550 -26.67% 4
East London -1 1 £450 -5.26% 1
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 22 (36.67%) Confluence
2 11 (18.33%) nginx
3 2 (3.33%) Apache
4 1 (1.67%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.67%) IIS
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.67%) Maximo
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) AWS
2 19 (31.67%) GitHub
3 11 (18.33%) Azure
4 10 (16.67%) Serverless
5 9 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (15.00%) Amazon S3
5 9 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (8.33%) Route 53
8 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.00%) GCP
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (3.33%) Datadog
10 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Firewall
2 6 (10.00%) DNS
2 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (10.00%) VPN
3 5 (8.33%) OpenVPN
4 2 (3.33%) SSL
5 1 (1.67%) DSL
5 1 (1.67%) HTTP
5 1 (1.67%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.67%) DB2
4 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.00%) MySQL
6 2 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.67%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.67%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.67%) Redis
7 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (50.00%) JIRA
2 28 (46.67%) Git
3 26 (43.33%) Jenkins
4 11 (18.33%) GitLab
5 10 (16.67%) Selenium
6 7 (11.67%) Cucumber
7 6 (10.00%) SonarQube
8 4 (6.67%) JUnit
8 4 (6.67%) Maven
8 4 (6.67%) Postman
8 4 (6.67%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (5.00%) Android Studio
9 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
10 2 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (3.33%) Mockito
10 2 (3.33%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.67%) Babel
11 1 (1.67%) TestRail
11 1 (1.67%) webpack
General
1 24 (40.00%) Banking
1 24 (40.00%) Finance
2 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.67%) Front Office
4 4 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.00%) Back Office
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (38.33%) Developer
2 13 (21.67%) Java Developer
3 6 (10.00%) Angular Developer
3 6 (10.00%) Architect
4 5 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) JIRA Specialist
5 4 (6.67%) Technical Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Agile Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Agile Java Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Android Developer
6 3 (5.00%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Lead
6 3 (5.00%) Senior
6 3 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) T24 Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.00%) React
2 11 (18.33%) REST
3 8 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 8 (13.33%) Node.js
3 8 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.00%) RESTful
5 5 (8.33%) .NET
5 5 (8.33%) CSS
5 5 (8.33%) HTML
5 5 (8.33%) LDAP
5 5 (8.33%) OpenID
6 4 (6.67%) JSON
6 4 (6.67%) Web Services
7 3 (5.00%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (5.00%) Gherkin
7 3 (5.00%) Jetpack Compose
7 3 (5.00%) Kafka
7 3 (5.00%) XML
8 2 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Derivative
1 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.33%) Replication
3 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.67%) Animation
3 1 (1.67%) Blog
3 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.67%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (1.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Unix
3 3 (5.00%) Android
4 2 (3.33%) Windows
5 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (61.67%) Agile
2 32 (53.33%) DevOps
3 26 (43.33%) Scrum
4 24 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 21 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (28.33%) Microservices
8 11 (18.33%) Kanban
9 9 (15.00%) BDD
9 9 (15.00%) Software Engineering
10 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (11.67%) TDD
12 6 (10.00%) Front End Development
12 6 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
12 6 (10.00%) Unit Testing
12 6 (10.00%) Validation
13 5 (8.33%) Decision-Making
13 5 (8.33%) Functional Testing
13 5 (8.33%) Roadmaps
13 5 (8.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 29 (48.33%) Java
2 17 (28.33%) Python
2 17 (28.33%) SQL
3 9 (15.00%) Bash
4 7 (11.67%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.00%) C#
5 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.00%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.00%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.33%) Perl
7 2 (3.33%) Ruby
8 1 (1.67%) C++
8 1 (1.67%) Go
8 1 (1.67%) Jython
8 1 (1.67%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.67%) PHP
8 1 (1.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) Degree
4 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (26.67%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) Squid
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.67%) Terraform
3 6 (10.00%) Grafana
4 5 (8.33%) Consul
4 5 (8.33%) FortiGate
4 5 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 5 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (5.00%) Ansible
6 2 (3.33%) Opsgenie
7 1 (1.67%) Ambari
7 1 (1.67%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.67%) Puppet
7 1 (1.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Atlassian
2 11 (18.33%) Dynatrace
3 6 (10.00%) Oracle
4 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 5 (8.33%) Splunk
5 3 (5.00%) jBASE
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.00%) Temenos
5 3 (5.00%) UiPath
6 2 (3.33%) Google
6 2 (3.33%) IBM
6 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.67%) Adobe
7 1 (1.67%) Apple
7 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.67%) Informatica
7 1 (1.67%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.67%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.67%) TIBCO