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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 270 320
Rank change year-on-year -74 +50 +37
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 61 79 62
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.62% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.55% 4.37% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 57 45
10th Percentile £400 £420 £405
25th Percentile £463 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +20.93% -12.24%
75th Percentile £693 £775 £704
90th Percentile £780 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £553
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.07% -3.91%

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 2,395 1,806 2,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.00% 14.24% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,600 1,228 1,651
10th Percentile £355 £343 £363
25th Percentile £423 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 24
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £26.03
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -32.20% -23.04%
75th Percentile £73.56 £67.50 £67.75
90th Percentile £93.18 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -7 12 £519 -30.86%
Central London -20 8 £668 -1.11% 4
East London -2 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 21 (34.43%) Confluence
2 13 (21.31%) nginx
3 2 (3.28%) Apache
3 2 (3.28%) IIS
4 1 (1.64%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) AWS
2 21 (34.43%) GitHub
3 17 (27.87%) Serverless
4 16 (26.23%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (24.59%) Amazon S3
6 13 (21.31%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (19.67%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (19.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (14.75%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (14.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (14.75%) Azure
9 7 (11.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (11.48%) AWS CodePipeline
9 7 (11.48%) Route 53
10 4 (6.56%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.92%) GCP
12 2 (3.28%) Amazon MSK
13 1 (1.64%) Bitrise
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) Firewall
2 8 (13.11%) VPN
3 7 (11.48%) DNS
3 7 (11.48%) OpenVPN
3 7 (11.48%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.64%) DSL
4 1 (1.64%) HTTP
4 1 (1.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.48%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (9.84%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.56%) DynamoDB
4 4 (6.56%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.28%) ClickHouse
6 2 (3.28%) DB2
6 2 (3.28%) MySQL
7 1 (1.64%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.64%) Metadata
7 1 (1.64%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.64%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.64%) Power BI
7 1 (1.64%) Tableau
7 1 (1.64%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (47.54%) JIRA
2 27 (44.26%) Git
3 22 (36.07%) Jenkins
4 16 (26.23%) GitLab
5 9 (14.75%) SonarQube
6 5 (8.20%) Selenium
7 4 (6.56%) Cucumber
7 4 (6.56%) Maven
7 4 (6.56%) TeamCity
8 3 (4.92%) Android Studio
8 3 (4.92%) Postman
8 3 (4.92%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.92%) ScriptRunner
9 2 (3.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (3.28%) JUnit
9 2 (3.28%) Mockito
9 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (3.28%) Vite
9 2 (3.28%) webpack
10 1 (1.64%) PowerDesigner
General
1 23 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 20 (32.79%) Banking
3 16 (26.23%) Finance
4 7 (11.48%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (9.84%) Front Office
5 6 (9.84%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking
7 4 (6.56%) Financial Institution
7 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.28%) Back Office
9 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (37.70%) Developer
2 8 (13.11%) Architect
3 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.20%) JIRA Specialist
5 5 (8.20%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.56%) React Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Android Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Angular Developer
7 3 (4.92%) AWS Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) T24 Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Technical Manager
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) React
2 8 (13.11%) LDAP
2 8 (13.11%) Node.js
2 8 (13.11%) REST
3 7 (11.48%) .NET
3 7 (11.48%) OpenID
4 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.20%) CSS
4 5 (8.20%) HTML
4 5 (8.20%) RESTful
4 5 (8.20%) Spring Boot
5 4 (6.56%) boto
6 3 (4.92%) Android Jetpack
6 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.92%) AWS CDK
6 3 (4.92%) Jetpack Compose
6 3 (4.92%) JSON
6 3 (4.92%) JWT
6 3 (4.92%) XML
7 2 (3.28%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.92%) Derivative
2 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.28%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.64%) Animation
4 1 (1.64%) Blog
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.95%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Unix
3 3 (4.92%) Android
3 3 (4.92%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (65.57%) Agile
2 38 (62.30%) DevOps
3 24 (39.34%) CI/CD
4 23 (37.70%) Scrum
5 18 (29.51%) Test Automation
6 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (21.31%) Microservices
8 9 (14.75%) Decision-Making
8 9 (14.75%) Software Engineering
9 8 (13.11%) Workflow
10 7 (11.48%) Kanban
10 7 (11.48%) Roadmaps
10 7 (11.48%) Validation
11 6 (9.84%) Clean Code
11 6 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (9.84%) Migration
12 5 (8.20%) AI
12 5 (8.20%) Computer Science
12 5 (8.20%) Mentoring
12 5 (8.20%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 24 (39.34%) Python
2 19 (31.15%) Java
3 15 (24.59%) SQL
4 8 (13.11%) Bash
4 8 (13.11%) C#
4 8 (13.11%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.92%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.92%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.28%) Perl
8 2 (3.28%) Ruby
8 2 (3.28%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.64%) C++
9 1 (1.64%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (37.70%) Security Cleared
2 20 (32.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) AWS Certification
3 6 (9.84%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) QA
2 5 (8.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.64%) MiFID
4 1 (1.64%) PMO
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
4 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Docker
2 7 (11.48%) Squid
3 2 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 14 (22.95%) Terraform
3 7 (11.48%) Consul
3 7 (11.48%) FortiGate
3 7 (11.48%) Grafana
3 7 (11.48%) Prometheus
3 7 (11.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.28%) Ansible
4 2 (3.28%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.64%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Atlassian
2 8 (13.11%) Dynatrace
3 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.20%) Oracle
5 3 (4.92%) jBASE
5 3 (4.92%) Temenos
6 2 (3.28%) Google
6 2 (3.28%) UiPath
7 1 (1.64%) Adobe
7 1 (1.64%) Apple
7 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.64%) Confluent
7 1 (1.64%) IBM
7 1 (1.64%) Informatica
7 1 (1.64%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.64%) SAP
7 1 (1.64%) StreamSets