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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 275 288
Rank change year-on-year -39 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing Bitbucket 67 102 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.65% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.95% 4.76% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 75 97
10th Percentile £368 £455 £450
25th Percentile £450 £581 £513
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 - £829
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +1.87%

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 2,271 2,144 2,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.89% 13.74% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,416 1,938
10th Percentile £350 £356 £400
25th Percentile £419 £430 £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 £775 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 25
10th Percentile £39.95 £24.88 £25.95
25th Percentile £42.50 £32.19 £36.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £88.75 £77.19 £72.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +15 18 £625 -7.41% 2
South London -9 2 £690 -6.44% 1
West London - 2 £408 -
East London +1 1 £450 -
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 (37.31%) Confluence
2 6 (8.96%) nginx
3 3 (4.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.99%) Apache
5 1 (1.49%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.49%) IIS
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.99%) Magento
3 1 (1.49%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.81%) AWS
1 26 (38.81%) GitHub
2 18 (26.87%) Azure
3 7 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (8.96%) Serverless
5 5 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
5 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.48%) GCP
7 3 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.99%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (2.99%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.99%) Datadog
8 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.49%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Firewall
2 2 (2.99%) SSL
3 1 (1.49%) DNS
3 1 (1.49%) DSL
3 1 (1.49%) HTTP
3 1 (1.49%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.49%) SSH
3 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.39%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.45%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.97%) DB2
4 4 (5.97%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.97%) MySQL
4 4 (5.97%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.49%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.49%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.49%) Redis
7 1 (1.49%) Tableau
7 1 (1.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 38 (56.72%) Git
2 34 (50.75%) JIRA
3 30 (44.78%) Jenkins
4 13 (19.40%) Selenium
5 10 (14.93%) Cucumber
5 10 (14.93%) GitLab
6 7 (10.45%) Postman
7 5 (7.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (5.97%) Android Studio
8 4 (5.97%) JUnit
8 4 (5.97%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (4.48%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.99%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.99%) Maven
10 2 (2.99%) Mockito
10 2 (2.99%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.49%) Babel
11 1 (1.49%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.49%) TestRail
General
1 28 (41.79%) Finance
2 26 (38.81%) Banking
3 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.45%) Front Office
5 7 (10.45%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.97%) Back Office
7 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (37.31%) Developer
2 14 (20.90%) Java Developer
3 7 (10.45%) Angular Developer
4 6 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Test Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) JIRA Specialist
6 4 (5.97%) Android Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Agile Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Agile Java Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Lead
7 3 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Scrum Master
7 3 (4.48%) Senior
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) React
2 12 (17.91%) REST
3 10 (14.93%) AngularJS
4 9 (13.43%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.45%) .NET
5 7 (10.45%) Node.js
5 7 (10.45%) RESTful
6 5 (7.46%) CSS
6 5 (7.46%) HTML
7 4 (5.97%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (5.97%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (5.97%) Kafka
7 4 (5.97%) Web Services
8 3 (4.48%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (4.48%) Gherkin
8 3 (4.48%) JSON
9 2 (2.99%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.99%) Spring
9 2 (2.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.99%) Replication
4 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.49%) Animation
4 1 (1.49%) Blog
4 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.39%) Linux
2 10 (14.93%) Unix
3 4 (5.97%) Android
4 3 (4.48%) Windows
5 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.49%) CentOS
5 1 (1.49%) Debian
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (68.66%) Agile
2 36 (53.73%) DevOps
3 33 (49.25%) Scrum
4 30 (44.78%) CI/CD
5 27 (40.30%) Test Automation
6 19 (28.36%) Microservices
6 19 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.91%) Kanban
8 10 (14.93%) BDD
8 10 (14.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (13.43%) Validation
10 8 (11.94%) TDD
10 8 (11.94%) Test Scripting
10 8 (11.94%) Unit Testing
11 7 (10.45%) Computer Science
11 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
12 6 (8.96%) Front End Development
12 6 (8.96%) Non-Functional Testing
13 5 (7.46%) End-to-End Testing
13 5 (7.46%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.75%) Java
2 22 (32.84%) Python
3 19 (28.36%) SQL
4 11 (16.42%) Bash
5 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
5 9 (13.43%) TypeScript
6 8 (11.94%) C#
7 6 (8.96%) VB.NET
8 5 (7.46%) Kotlin
9 3 (4.48%) C++
9 3 (4.48%) Perl
9 3 (4.48%) PHP
9 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.99%) Go
10 2 (2.99%) Ruby
11 1 (1.49%) Jython
11 1 (1.49%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (28.36%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.94%) Degree
4 5 (7.46%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.49%) OCA
6 1 (1.49%) OCP
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.48%) ITGC
4 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (31.34%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.49%) VirtualBox
3 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.45%) Terraform
3 5 (7.46%) Ansible
4 4 (5.97%) Puppet
5 3 (4.48%) Ambari
5 3 (4.48%) Grafana
5 3 (4.48%) ZABBIX
6 2 (2.99%) Opsgenie
6 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.49%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.49%) Icinga
7 1 (1.49%) Nagios
7 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.49%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Atlassian
2 9 (13.43%) Oracle
3 7 (10.45%) Dynatrace
3 7 (10.45%) Splunk
4 6 (8.96%) UiPath
5 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.99%) Google
6 2 (2.99%) IBM
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.99%) Okta
7 1 (1.49%) Adobe
7 1 (1.49%) Confluent
7 1 (1.49%) Informatica
7 1 (1.49%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.49%) New Relic
7 1 (1.49%) Nintex
7 1 (1.49%) Solace
7 1 (1.49%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.49%) VMware