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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 290 308
Rank change year-on-year -99 +18 -29
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 59 74 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.55% 0.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 3.50% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 49 61
10th Percentile £401 £410 £450
25th Percentile £462 £456 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £810
90th Percentile £763 £838 -
England median daily rate £488 £519 £650
% change year-on-year -6.02% -20.19% +8.33%

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 2,590 2,117 2,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.72% 15.83% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,684 1,431 1,582
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £742 £750 £774
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 16
10th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £23.63
25th Percentile £30.75 £41.69 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +27.53% -47.73%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £107.88 £71.56
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 23 September 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 23 September 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
Central London -18 13 £700 +30.23% 5
South London +1 11 £725 +14.17%
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 (18.64%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.08%) IIS
3 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Trello
2 1 (1.69%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (49.15%) AWS
2 24 (40.68%) GitHub
3 19 (32.20%) Azure
4 16 (27.12%) Amazon S3
4 16 (27.12%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (23.73%) GCP
6 13 (22.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (22.03%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (22.03%) Serverless
7 12 (20.34%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (10.17%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (10.17%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (10.17%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (10.17%) OpenShift
11 4 (6.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (6.78%) Datadog
11 4 (6.78%) npm
11 4 (6.78%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) DNS
1 2 (3.39%) Internet
1 2 (3.39%) Intranet
1 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.39%) VLAN
1 2 (3.39%) VPN
2 1 (1.69%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.34%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (13.56%) Redis
2 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (11.86%) MongoDB
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (8.47%) Oracle Database
5 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (5.08%) BigQuery
7 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.69%) ClickHouse
9 1 (1.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 32 (54.24%) Git
1 32 (54.24%) Jenkins
2 21 (35.59%) JIRA
3 19 (32.20%) GitLab
4 10 (16.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (11.86%) TeamCity
6 6 (10.17%) REST Assured
7 5 (8.47%) Artifactory
8 4 (6.78%) Selenium
8 4 (6.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (6.78%) Zephyr
9 3 (5.08%) Cucumber
9 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
10 2 (3.39%) Gradle
10 2 (3.39%) JUnit
10 2 (3.39%) Maven
10 2 (3.39%) Mocha
10 2 (3.39%) MSBuild
10 2 (3.39%) TestNG
10 2 (3.39%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (47.46%) Finance
2 25 (42.37%) Social Skills
3 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (27.12%) Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Back Office
5 5 (8.47%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.08%) Front Office
8 2 (3.39%) Local Government
8 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (30.51%) Senior
2 17 (28.81%) Developer
3 10 (16.95%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Data Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Junior
6 6 (10.17%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Java Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (8.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Automation Tester
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Java Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Junior Java Software Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.81%) Terraform
2 13 (22.03%) REST
3 11 (18.64%) .NET
4 9 (15.25%) Spring
5 8 (13.56%) RESTful
6 7 (11.86%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (11.86%) ASP.NET
7 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
7 6 (10.17%) JWT
7 6 (10.17%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (8.47%) .NET Framework
8 5 (8.47%) Jakarta EE
8 5 (8.47%) JDBC
8 5 (8.47%) JMS
8 5 (8.47%) Kafka
8 5 (8.47%) React
9 4 (6.78%) Ktor
9 4 (6.78%) SOAP
9 4 (6.78%) Web Services
10 3 (5.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Product Ownership
2 10 (16.95%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.17%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (8.47%) Spread Betting
5 4 (6.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.39%) PropTech
8 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.69%) PKI
8 1 (1.69%) Replication
8 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.81%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Windows
3 7 (11.86%) Unix
4 5 (8.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (72.88%) CI/CD
2 32 (54.24%) Agile
3 31 (52.54%) DevOps
4 20 (33.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (32.20%) AI
6 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (27.12%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (27.12%) Scrum
7 16 (27.12%) Test Automation
8 15 (25.42%) SDLC
9 13 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (18.64%) Containerisation
10 11 (18.64%) Data Modelling
10 11 (18.64%) Event-Driven
10 11 (18.64%) Observability
11 10 (16.95%) Microservices
11 10 (16.95%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (15.25%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (15.25%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.85%) Python
2 23 (38.98%) SQL
3 22 (37.29%) Java
4 11 (18.64%) C#
5 10 (16.95%) Bash
5 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
6 9 (15.25%) PowerShell
7 7 (11.86%) PL/SQL
8 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
9 5 (8.47%) Go
10 4 (6.78%) Groovy
10 4 (6.78%) Kotlin
11 3 (5.08%) Bicep
11 3 (5.08%) Perl
12 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
13 1 (1.69%) Korn
13 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.39%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.69%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.12%) QA
2 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) WCAG
4 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (40.68%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Squid
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (42.37%) Kubernetes
2 13 (22.03%) Ansible
3 11 (18.64%) Grafana
3 11 (18.64%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.08%) Kibana
5 2 (3.39%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.69%) Istio
6 1 (1.69%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Oracle
1 9 (15.25%) Splunk
2 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.17%) Dynatrace
4 4 (6.78%) Google
4 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.39%) ION Trading
6 2 (3.39%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.69%) BMC
7 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.69%) IBM
7 1 (1.69%) New Relic
7 1 (1.69%) Sparx
7 1 (1.69%) Sybase
7 1 (1.69%) VMware
7 1 (1.69%) Zscaler