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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 280 330
Rank change year-on-year -91 +50 +21
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 43 69 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.56% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.83% 3.81% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 47 51
10th Percentile £401 £413 £413
25th Percentile £426 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +12.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £694 £806 £707
90th Percentile £800 £830 £825
England median daily rate £500 £545 £600
% change year-on-year -8.26% -9.17% +4.35%

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 2,346 1,809 2,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.12% 14.60% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,551 1,231 1,639
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £672 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £778
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 26
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% +6.16% -46.72%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.75 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.45% -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 15 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 15 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 -2 12 £519 -30.86%
Central London -20 1 £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 20 (46.51%) 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
6 11 (25.58%) 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%) Route 53
9 6 (13.95%) Azure
10 4 (9.30%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
12 2 (4.65%) npm
12 2 (4.65%) Yarn
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%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.65%) ClickHouse
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%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.33%) Pinecone
5 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Power BI
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.33%) Tableau
5 1 (2.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (41.86%) JIRA
2 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (20.93%) Git
3 9 (20.93%) SonarQube
4 7 (16.28%) GitLab
5 5 (11.63%) TeamCity
6 3 (6.98%) Maven
7 2 (4.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (4.65%) MSBuild
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%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.33%) Claude Code
8 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.33%) Gradle
8 1 (2.33%) Postman
8 1 (2.33%) PowerDesigner
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Banking
3 8 (18.60%) Finance
4 7 (16.28%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (13.95%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (11.63%) Investment Banking
7 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.98%) Front Office
7 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) 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%) 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 DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) C# Developer
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
2 7 (16.28%) OpenID
2 7 (16.28%) React
3 6 (13.95%) Node.js
4 5 (11.63%) .NET
4 5 (11.63%) RESTful
5 4 (9.30%) ASP.NET
5 4 (9.30%) boto
5 4 (9.30%) JWT
6 3 (6.98%) AWS CDK
6 3 (6.98%) CSS
6 3 (6.98%) HTML
7 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (4.65%) JSON
7 2 (4.65%) Middleware
7 2 (4.65%) Swagger
7 2 (4.65%) XML
7 2 (4.65%) XSD
7 2 (4.65%) XSLT
7 2 (4.65%) YAML
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
3 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.33%) Blog
4 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.33%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) Unix
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) DevOps
2 27 (62.79%) Agile
3 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
4 15 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
5 11 (25.58%) Test Automation
6 10 (23.26%) Scrum
7 9 (20.93%) Decision-Making
8 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (18.60%) Roadmaps
9 7 (16.28%) Migration
9 7 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
10 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (13.95%) Microservices
11 5 (11.63%) Clean Code
11 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
11 5 (11.63%) SDLC
11 5 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (11.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) SQL
3 8 (18.60%) C#
4 6 (13.95%) Java
4 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
5 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
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 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) WCAG
4 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.33%) MiFID
4 1 (2.33%) PMO
4 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Docker
1 8 (18.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Terraform
2 10 (23.26%) 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 1 (2.33%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.33%) Zscaler