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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 290 331
Rank change year-on-year -98 +41 -47
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 57 79 68
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.27% 3.71% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 55 52
10th Percentile £400 £405 £450
25th Percentile £447 £453 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £635 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £728 £775 £781
90th Percentile £763 £833 £824
England median daily rate £474 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -9.71% -16.00% +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 2,515 2,130 2,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.54% 15.80% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 1,460 1,586
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £447 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £26.98 £24.60
25th Percentile £26.25 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +20.00% -46.43%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.38 £84.50 £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 24 August 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 24 August 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 £537 -15.43% 3
Central London -20 9 £700 +12.00% 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 11 (19.30%) Confluence
2 4 (7.02%) IIS
3 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.75%) nginx
4 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (40.35%) AWS
2 22 (38.60%) GitHub
3 17 (29.82%) Azure
4 13 (22.81%) Amazon S3
4 13 (22.81%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (19.30%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (19.30%) GCP
5 11 (19.30%) Serverless
6 9 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (12.28%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (8.77%) OpenShift
10 4 (7.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (7.02%) npm
10 4 (7.02%) Yarn
11 3 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
11 3 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (5.26%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) DNS
1 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.26%) VPN
2 2 (3.51%) Internet
2 2 (3.51%) Intranet
2 2 (3.51%) VLAN
3 1 (1.75%) Firewall
3 1 (1.75%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.75%) OpenVPN
3 1 (1.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.04%) Redis
3 7 (12.28%) MongoDB
4 5 (8.77%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.02%) Oracle Database
5 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.26%) BigQuery
6 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.51%) ClickHouse
7 2 (3.51%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.75%) Power BI
8 1 (1.75%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (52.63%) Git
2 29 (50.88%) Jenkins
3 21 (36.84%) JIRA
4 16 (28.07%) GitLab
5 8 (14.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (14.04%) TeamCity
6 5 (8.77%) Artifactory
6 5 (8.77%) REST Assured
7 4 (7.02%) Selenium
8 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
8 3 (5.26%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.51%) Gradle
9 2 (3.51%) JUnit
9 2 (3.51%) Maven
9 2 (3.51%) Mocha
9 2 (3.51%) MSBuild
9 2 (3.51%) TestNG
9 2 (3.51%) WebDriver
9 2 (3.51%) webpack
9 2 (3.51%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 25 (43.86%) Finance
3 16 (28.07%) Banking
4 14 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.28%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (8.77%) Investment Banking
6 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.26%) Back Office
8 2 (3.51%) Front Office
8 2 (3.51%) Local Government
9 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Developer
2 17 (29.82%) Senior
3 8 (14.04%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Junior
6 5 (8.77%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Release Manager
6 5 (8.77%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (8.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Automation Tester
8 3 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Junior Java Software Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Junior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) REST
1 13 (22.81%) Terraform
2 11 (19.30%) .NET
3 8 (14.04%) ASP.NET
3 8 (14.04%) RESTful
3 8 (14.04%) Spring
4 6 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 6 (10.53%) JWT
4 6 (10.53%) React
5 5 (8.77%) .NET Framework
6 4 (7.02%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (7.02%) CSS
6 4 (7.02%) HTML
6 4 (7.02%) Jakarta EE
6 4 (7.02%) JDBC
6 4 (7.02%) JMS
6 4 (7.02%) Kafka
6 4 (7.02%) Node.js
6 4 (7.02%) SOAP
6 4 (7.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.28%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (7.02%) Spread Betting
4 4 (7.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) Replication
6 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.32%) Linux
2 9 (15.79%) Windows
3 7 (12.28%) Unix
4 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 35 (61.40%) Agile
2 35 (61.40%) DevOps
3 19 (33.33%) Scrum
4 17 (29.82%) AI
4 17 (29.82%) Test Automation
5 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (24.56%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (24.56%) SDLC
8 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (17.54%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (15.79%) Observability
10 9 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (15.79%) Workflow
11 8 (14.04%) Containerisation
11 8 (14.04%) Data Modelling
11 8 (14.04%) Microservices
11 8 (14.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.86%) Python
2 20 (35.09%) SQL
3 17 (29.82%) Java
4 12 (21.05%) C#
5 11 (19.30%) JavaScript
6 8 (14.04%) Bash
6 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
7 7 (12.28%) TypeScript
8 6 (10.53%) PL/SQL
9 4 (7.02%) Kotlin
10 3 (5.26%) Bicep
11 2 (3.51%) Go
11 2 (3.51%) Groovy
11 2 (3.51%) Perl
11 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.75%) Korn
12 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.51%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.75%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (28.07%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) WCAG
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.75%) PMO
4 1 (1.75%) SEPA
4 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (36.84%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Squid
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.54%) Grafana
2 10 (17.54%) Prometheus
3 8 (14.04%) Ansible
4 3 (5.26%) Kibana
5 2 (3.51%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.75%) Consul
6 1 (1.75%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.75%) Istio
6 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.75%) WMI
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.04%) Oracle
3 7 (12.28%) Splunk
4 5 (8.77%) Dynatrace
5 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.51%) Google
7 2 (3.51%) ION Trading
7 2 (3.51%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.75%) BMC
8 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.75%) New Relic
8 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.75%) Sybase
8 1 (1.75%) VMware
8 1 (1.75%) Zscaler