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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 297 317
Rank change year-on-year -77 +20 +7
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 50 74 69
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.98% 3.59% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 53 51
10th Percentile £402 £403 £450
25th Percentile £447 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £713 £775 £750
90th Percentile £763 £835 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -4.76% -19.23% +13.04%

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 2,519 2,062 2,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.69% 15.25% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 1,392 1,761
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £430 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £661
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 25
10th Percentile - £25.52 £23.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.13 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -48.28%
75th Percentile £72.88 £59.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.63 £71.63
England median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 0 12 £519 -18.34% 2
Central London -16 5 £700 +18.14% 3
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 15 (30.00%) Confluence
2 7 (14.00%) nginx
3 4 (8.00%) IIS
4 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.00%) Apache
5 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) AWS
2 19 (38.00%) Amazon S3
3 18 (36.00%) GitHub
4 17 (34.00%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (34.00%) Serverless
5 16 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (22.00%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (22.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (20.00%) Azure
9 7 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (14.00%) Route 53
10 6 (12.00%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (6.00%) npm
11 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
11 3 (6.00%) PowerApps
11 3 (6.00%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) DNS
1 7 (14.00%) Firewall
1 7 (14.00%) OpenVPN
1 7 (14.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (14.00%) VPN
2 2 (4.00%) Internet
2 2 (4.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (4.00%) ClickHouse
5 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.00%) Redis
6 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) Db2
6 1 (2.00%) Metadata
6 1 (2.00%) Power BI
6 1 (2.00%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (40.00%) JIRA
2 19 (38.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (26.00%) Git
4 12 (24.00%) GitLab
5 10 (20.00%) TeamCity
6 8 (16.00%) SonarQube
7 5 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (10.00%) REST Assured
7 5 (10.00%) Selenium
8 4 (8.00%) Cucumber
8 4 (8.00%) Maven
9 3 (6.00%) Artifactory
9 3 (6.00%) Gradle
9 3 (6.00%) MSBuild
9 3 (6.00%) webpack
10 2 (4.00%) JUnit
10 2 (4.00%) TestNG
10 2 (4.00%) Vite
10 2 (4.00%) WebDriver
11 1 (2.00%) Postman
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Banking
3 12 (24.00%) Finance
4 9 (18.00%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (14.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (10.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.00%) Back Office
8 2 (4.00%) Front Office
8 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) Senior
3 7 (14.00%) Architect
3 7 (14.00%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Release Manager
5 5 (10.00%) Technical Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Automation Tester
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Architect
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) C# Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Junior
7 3 (6.00%) React Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Technical Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) LDAP
2 7 (14.00%) .NET
2 7 (14.00%) ASP.NET
2 7 (14.00%) OpenID
2 7 (14.00%) React
3 6 (12.00%) RESTful
4 5 (10.00%) JWT
4 5 (10.00%) REST
5 4 (8.00%) AWS CDK
5 4 (8.00%) Node.js
5 4 (8.00%) XML
6 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (6.00%) CSS
6 3 (6.00%) Dapper ORM
6 3 (6.00%) Entity Framework
6 3 (6.00%) Gherkin
6 3 (6.00%) HTML
6 3 (6.00%) Swagger
6 3 (6.00%) XSLT
6 3 (6.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Unix
3 3 (6.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (70.00%) DevOps
2 29 (58.00%) Agile
3 28 (56.00%) CI/CD
4 15 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 14 (28.00%) Scrum
6 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 9 (18.00%) Decision-Making
9 9 (18.00%) Roadmaps
9 9 (18.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (16.00%) Workflow
11 7 (14.00%) AI
11 7 (14.00%) Release Management
12 6 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (12.00%) Project Management
12 6 (12.00%) Service Management
12 6 (12.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) SQL
3 10 (20.00%) C#
4 8 (16.00%) Java
5 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.00%) Bash
6 3 (6.00%) Bicep
6 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.00%) Korn
8 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) QA
2 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.00%) WCAG
4 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.00%) GDPR
5 1 (2.00%) ISO 20022
5 1 (2.00%) PMO
5 1 (2.00%) SEPA
5 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
2 8 (16.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 17 (34.00%) Terraform
2 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (14.00%) Consul
4 7 (14.00%) FortiGate
4 7 (14.00%) Grafana
4 7 (14.00%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (6.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Dynatrace
2 7 (14.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.00%) New Relic
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) Sybase
5 1 (2.00%) Zscaler