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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 282 326
Rank change year-on-year -93 +44 +4
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 43 69 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.57% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.84% 3.74% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 47
10th Percentile £403 £413 £430
25th Percentile £494 £502 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £636 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.56% -2.12% -
75th Percentile £694 £803 £750
90th Percentile £759 £829 £825
England median daily rate £500 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +8.70%

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 2,331 1,847 2,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.63% 15.26% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 1,233 1,669
10th Percentile £358 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £627 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 28
10th Percentile - £23.97 £24.10
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.77 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year - +2.64% -47.81%
75th Percentile £73.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £55.50 £71.44
England median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -3 12 £519 -18.34%
Central London -16 1 - - 6
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 3 (6.98%) IIS
4 1 (2.33%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
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 19 (44.19%) AWS
2 16 (37.21%) Amazon S3
3 14 (32.56%) Amazon EKS
3 14 (32.56%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (32.56%) Serverless
4 13 (30.23%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (27.91%) GitHub
6 11 (25.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (16.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (16.28%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (16.28%) Azure
7 7 (16.28%) Route 53
8 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (13.95%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (6.98%) Azure AKS
11 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
11 3 (6.98%) npm
11 3 (6.98%) 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%) Internet
2 1 (2.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.65%) ClickHouse
3 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.33%) Db2
4 1 (2.33%) Metadata
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.33%) Redis
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (37.21%) JIRA
2 11 (25.58%) Jenkins
3 9 (20.93%) Git
4 8 (18.60%) SonarQube
5 7 (16.28%) GitLab
5 7 (16.28%) TeamCity
6 4 (9.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (6.98%) MSBuild
7 3 (6.98%) webpack
8 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
8 2 (4.65%) Maven
8 2 (4.65%) Vite
9 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.33%) Gradle
9 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 16 (37.21%) 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
8 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Architect
2 7 (16.28%) Senior
3 6 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Technical Architect
5 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) React Developer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Architect
6 3 (6.98%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) T24 Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Release Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Senior UI Developer
7 2 (4.65%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) LDAP
1 8 (18.60%) React
2 7 (16.28%) .NET
2 7 (16.28%) OpenID
3 6 (13.95%) ASP.NET
3 6 (13.95%) RESTful
4 5 (11.63%) JWT
5 4 (9.30%) AWS CDK
5 4 (9.30%) Node.js
6 3 (6.98%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (6.98%) CSS
6 3 (6.98%) Dapper ORM
6 3 (6.98%) Entity Framework
6 3 (6.98%) HTML
6 3 (6.98%) Swagger
6 3 (6.98%) YAML
7 2 (4.65%) Middleware
7 2 (4.65%) Redux
7 2 (4.65%) XML
7 2 (4.65%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.98%) Derivative
3 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Unix
3 3 (6.98%) Windows
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) DevOps
2 26 (60.47%) Agile
3 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
4 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (23.26%) Software Engineering
6 9 (20.93%) Decision-Making
6 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (20.93%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
6 9 (20.93%) Scrum
6 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
7 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (16.28%) Migration
8 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
9 5 (11.63%) Build Automation
9 5 (11.63%) Clean Code
9 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) Observability
9 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
9 5 (11.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) Python
2 10 (23.26%) C#
3 8 (18.60%) SQL
4 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
5 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.98%) Bash
6 3 (6.98%) Bicep
6 3 (6.98%) Java
6 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) Korn
7 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 4 (9.30%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.98%) WCAG
4 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.33%) GDPR
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 14 (32.56%) Terraform
2 12 (27.91%) 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
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Atlassian
2 7 (16.28%) Dynatrace
2 7 (16.28%) Red Hat
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) jBASE
4 3 (6.98%) Temenos
5 1 (2.33%) New Relic
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) Sybase
5 1 (2.33%) Zscaler