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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 290 289
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 -11
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 68 103 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.65% 0.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.00% 4.72% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 77 109
10th Percentile £368 £457 £434
25th Percentile £456 £586 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £640
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.47% -1.54%
75th Percentile £738 £810 £810
90th Percentile £780 - £838
England median daily rate £558 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.80% +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 2,267 2,180 2,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.99% 13.76% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 1,425 2,008
10th Percentile £350 £357 £400
25th Percentile £419 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 25
10th Percentile £39.95 £26.54 £27.45
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.87 £36.88
Median hourly rate £56.50 £49.47 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -10.06% +4.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.80 £72.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £83.13 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +13 18 £625 -7.41% 4
South London -9 2 £690 -6.44% 1
West London - 2 £408 -
East London +1 1 £450 - 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 25 (36.76%) Confluence
2 8 (11.76%) nginx
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.94%) Apache
4 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.47%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.47%) Camunda
5 1 (1.47%) IIS
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.94%) Magento
3 1 (1.47%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (42.65%) GitHub
2 26 (38.24%) AWS
3 20 (29.41%) Azure
4 7 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (7.35%) GCP
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (5.88%) Serverless
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.94%) Datadog
8 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.94%) SaaS
9 1 (1.47%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.47%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) Firewall
2 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.41%) VPN
3 2 (2.94%) BGP
3 2 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (2.94%) IPsec
3 2 (2.94%) LAN
3 2 (2.94%) Multicast
3 2 (2.94%) OSPF
3 2 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.94%) SSL
3 2 (2.94%) VLAN
3 2 (2.94%) VXLAN
3 2 (2.94%) WAN
4 1 (1.47%) DNS
4 1 (1.47%) HTTP
4 1 (1.47%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.29%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.88%) DB2
3 4 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 4 (5.88%) MySQL
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.47%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.47%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.47%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.47%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.47%) Power BI
6 1 (1.47%) Redis
6 1 (1.47%) Tableau
6 1 (1.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (60.29%) Git
2 34 (50.00%) JIRA
3 29 (42.65%) Jenkins
4 13 (19.12%) GitLab
5 12 (17.65%) Selenium
6 10 (14.71%) Cucumber
7 6 (8.82%) Postman
8 5 (7.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (5.88%) Android Studio
9 4 (5.88%) JUnit
9 4 (5.88%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (4.41%) Artifactory
10 3 (4.41%) TeamCity
11 2 (2.94%) Maven
11 2 (2.94%) Mockito
11 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
12 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.47%) TestRail
12 1 (1.47%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (39.71%) Banking
1 27 (39.71%) Finance
2 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.29%) Front Office
4 7 (10.29%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.88%) Back Office
6 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (38.24%) Developer
2 14 (20.59%) Java Developer
3 7 (10.29%) Angular Developer
4 6 (8.82%) Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Test Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) JIRA Specialist
6 4 (5.88%) Android Developer
6 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Agile Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Agile Java Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Scrum Master
7 3 (4.41%) Senior
8 2 (2.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (2.94%) Juniper Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Lead
8 2 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.59%) React
1 14 (20.59%) REST
2 10 (14.71%) AngularJS
2 10 (14.71%) Spring Boot
3 8 (11.76%) .NET
4 7 (10.29%) Node.js
4 7 (10.29%) RESTful
5 6 (8.82%) CSS
5 6 (8.82%) HTML
6 5 (7.35%) Kafka
7 4 (5.88%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (5.88%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (5.88%) Web Services
8 3 (4.41%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (4.41%) Gherkin
8 3 (4.41%) JSON
8 3 (4.41%) Spring
9 2 (2.94%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) Replication
3 2 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.47%) Animation
4 1 (1.47%) Blog
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.47%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.06%) Linux
2 10 (14.71%) Unix
3 4 (5.88%) Android
4 3 (4.41%) Windows
5 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.47%) CentOS
5 1 (1.47%) Debian
5 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) Agile
2 35 (51.47%) DevOps
3 33 (48.53%) Scrum
4 28 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 26 (38.24%) Test Automation
6 19 (27.94%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (26.47%) Microservices
8 12 (17.65%) Kanban
9 10 (14.71%) BDD
9 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (11.76%) TDD
10 8 (11.76%) Test Scripting
10 8 (11.76%) Unit Testing
10 8 (11.76%) Validation
11 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
11 7 (10.29%) Software Engineering
12 6 (8.82%) Front End Development
13 5 (7.35%) Performance Optimisation
13 5 (7.35%) Prototyping
13 5 (7.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.00%) Java
2 22 (32.35%) Python
3 18 (26.47%) SQL
4 11 (16.18%) Bash
4 11 (16.18%) JavaScript
5 9 (13.24%) C#
5 9 (13.24%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.82%) VB.NET
7 5 (7.35%) Kotlin
8 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.41%) C++
9 3 (4.41%) Perl
9 3 (4.41%) PHP
10 2 (2.94%) Go
10 2 (2.94%) Ruby
11 1 (1.47%) Jython
11 1 (1.47%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) Degree
4 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.35%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.94%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.47%) OCA
7 1 (1.47%) OCP
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.71%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.41%) ITGC
4 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (30.88%) Docker
2 3 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.94%) Firmware
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.94%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.47%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 18 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.29%) Ansible
2 7 (10.29%) Terraform
3 4 (5.88%) Puppet
4 3 (4.41%) Ambari
4 3 (4.41%) Grafana
4 3 (4.41%) ZABBIX
5 2 (2.94%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) CloudHub
6 1 (1.47%) Icinga
6 1 (1.47%) Nagios
6 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.47%) Salt
6 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (22.06%) Atlassian
2 9 (13.24%) Oracle
3 7 (10.29%) Dynatrace
3 7 (10.29%) Splunk
4 6 (8.82%) UiPath
5 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.41%) VMware
6 2 (2.94%) Cisco
6 2 (2.94%) F5
6 2 (2.94%) Google
6 2 (2.94%) IBM
6 2 (2.94%) Juniper
6 2 (2.94%) Nintex
6 2 (2.94%) Okta
6 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.47%) New Relic
7 1 (1.47%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.47%) Solace
7 1 (1.47%) StreamSets