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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 301 317
Rank change year-on-year -85 +16 -4
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 54 79 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.58% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.16% 3.74% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 56 49
10th Percentile £320 £400 £450
25th Percentile £428 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £781 £763
90th Percentile £793 £838 £835
England median daily rate £463 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -11.90% -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 2,495 2,111 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.47% 15.50% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,607 1,446 1,616
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 24
10th Percentile - £26.98 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £72.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £84.50 £71.69
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 August 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 August 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 -4 12 £516 -18.82% 4
Central London -15 7 £713 +14.00% 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 11 (20.37%) Confluence
2 4 (7.41%) IIS
3 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.70%) nginx
4 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) AWS
1 23 (42.59%) GitHub
2 15 (27.78%) Amazon S3
2 15 (27.78%) Azure
2 15 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
3 14 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (24.07%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (24.07%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (24.07%) Serverless
5 11 (20.37%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (14.81%) GCP
7 7 (12.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (9.26%) OpenShift
10 4 (7.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (7.41%) npm
10 4 (7.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) DNS
1 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.56%) VPN
2 2 (3.70%) Firewall
2 2 (3.70%) Internet
2 2 (3.70%) Intranet
2 2 (3.70%) OpenVPN
3 1 (1.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 6 (11.11%) Redis
1 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.26%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle Database
3 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.70%) ClickHouse
5 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.85%) Metadata
6 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Power BI
6 1 (1.85%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (46.30%) Jenkins
2 24 (44.44%) Git
3 19 (35.19%) JIRA
4 18 (33.33%) GitLab
5 9 (16.67%) TeamCity
6 7 (12.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (11.11%) REST Assured
8 4 (7.41%) Artifactory
8 4 (7.41%) Selenium
9 3 (5.56%) Cucumber
9 3 (5.56%) MSBuild
9 3 (5.56%) SonarQube
9 3 (5.56%) webpack
10 2 (3.70%) Cypress.io
10 2 (3.70%) Gradle
10 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (3.70%) TestNG
10 2 (3.70%) Vite
10 2 (3.70%) WebDriver
10 2 (3.70%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 21 (38.89%) Finance
3 16 (29.63%) Banking
4 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (9.26%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.56%) Back Office
7 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.70%) Front Office
9 1 (1.85%) Local Government
9 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Developer
2 15 (27.78%) Senior
3 8 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Junior
6 5 (9.26%) Release Manager
7 4 (7.41%) AWS Data Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Junior Java Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Junior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) React Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.56%) Technical Manager
8 3 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) .NET
2 8 (14.81%) REST
2 8 (14.81%) Spring
3 7 (12.96%) ASP.NET
4 6 (11.11%) JWT
4 6 (11.11%) React
4 6 (11.11%) RESTful
5 4 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (7.41%) AWS CDK
5 4 (7.41%) Jakarta EE
5 4 (7.41%) JDBC
5 4 (7.41%) JMS
5 4 (7.41%) Ktor
6 3 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.56%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.56%) J2SE
6 3 (5.56%) LDAP
6 3 (5.56%) Node.js
6 3 (5.56%) XML
6 3 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
3 6 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (7.41%) Spread Betting
5 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.85%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.85%) Replication
7 1 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Linux
2 7 (12.96%) Windows
3 5 (9.26%) Unix
4 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 35 (64.81%) Agile
3 33 (61.11%) DevOps
4 17 (31.48%) Test Automation
5 16 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
5 16 (29.63%) Scrum
6 15 (27.78%) AI
6 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (24.07%) SDLC
8 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (18.52%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (16.67%) Observability
10 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
11 8 (14.81%) Microservices
11 8 (14.81%) Workflow
12 7 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (12.96%) Integration Testing
12 7 (12.96%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (46.30%) Python
2 17 (31.48%) SQL
3 16 (29.63%) Java
4 11 (20.37%) C#
5 7 (12.96%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 6 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 6 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 5 (9.26%) Bash
8 4 (7.41%) Kotlin
9 3 (5.56%) Bicep
9 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.70%) Go
10 2 (3.70%) Groovy
10 2 (3.70%) Perl
11 1 (1.85%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.85%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (24.07%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.56%) WCAG
4 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.85%) GDPR
5 1 (1.85%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.85%) PMO
5 1 (1.85%) SEPA
5 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Kubernetes
2 13 (24.07%) Terraform
3 8 (14.81%) Ansible
3 8 (14.81%) Prometheus
4 5 (9.26%) Grafana
5 2 (3.70%) Consul
5 2 (3.70%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.85%) Istio
6 1 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.96%) Oracle
3 5 (9.26%) Dynatrace
4 4 (7.41%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 4 (7.41%) Splunk
5 2 (3.70%) Google
5 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.70%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.85%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.85%) New Relic
6 1 (1.85%) Sybase
6 1 (1.85%) Zscaler