Contract IT Job Statistics in Croydon

Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
DevOps Engineer	9	+8	£545	-3.46%	24 24.00%
Developer	11	+11	£500	+31.27%	21 21.00%	12
Full-Stack Developer	19	-	£506	-	11 11.00%	4
AWS Engineer	21	+4	£500	-31.03%	9 9.00%
AWS Platform Engineer	23	-	£475	-	7 7.00%
Cloud Platform Engineer	23	-	£475	-	7 7.00%
AWS DevOps	23	+2	£629	-13.27%	7 7.00%
Architect	23	+3	£550	-16.66%	7 7.00%	2
Platform Engineer	23	-	£475	-	7 7.00%
AWS DevOps Engineer	24	+1	£550	-24.13%	6 6.00%
Senior	24	-13	£521	+9.73%	6 6.00%	4
DevOps Platform Engineer	25	-	-	-	5 5.00%
Data Engineer	25	0	£500	+3.89%	5 5.00%	3
Security Engineer	25	-	£500	-	5 5.00%	3
Test Engineer	25	+1	£513	+34.86%	5 5.00%
Tester	25	+2	£525	+15.38%	5 5.00%
Technical Architect	25	-	£550	-	5 5.00%	2
Full-Stack Engineer	26	-	£484	-	4 4.00%
Lead	26	-4	£545	+3.85%	4 4.00%	1
Trainer	27	-	£163	-	3 3.00%
Administrator	27	-	£275	-	3 3.00%
DBA	27	-	£275	-	3 3.00%	1
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)	27	-	£500	-	3 3.00%	4
Python Engineer	27	-	£525	-	3 3.00%
Backend Developer	27	-	£521	-	3 3.00%	3
Cloud Architect	28	0	£550	-32.92%	2 2.00%
Azure DevOps Engineer	28	-	£541	-	2 2.00%
Artificial Intelligence Developer	28	-	£500	-	2 2.00%
Artificial Intelligence Engineer	28	-	£500	-	2 2.00%
Azure Engineer	28	-	£541	-	2 2.00%
Python Software Engineer	28	-	£531	-	2 2.00%
AWS Architect	28	-	£550	-	2 2.00%
IT Support	28	-	£165	-	2 2.00%	2
IT Technician	28	-1	£165	+17.85%	2 2.00%	2
EPoS Engineer	28	-1	£146	-13.91%	2 2.00%	2
Java Engineer	28	-4	£531	+11.78%	2 2.00%
Microsoft Developer	28	-3	£492	+29.17%	2 2.00%
Senior Test Engineer	28	-2	£494	+29.93%	2 2.00%
IT Support Technician	28	-	£165	-	2 2.00%	1
Project Engineer	28	-	£320	-	2 2.00%	2
Penetration Tester	28	0	£575	+8.49%	2 2.00%
Support Technician	28	-	£165	-	2 2.00%	1
Software Engineer	28	-	£531	-	2 2.00%
Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer	28	-	£500	-	2 2.00%
Integration Architect	29	-	£350	-	1 1.00%
Business Analyst	29	-	£513	-	1 1.00%	3
Consultant	29	-25	£690	+15.00%	1 1.00%	1
Systems Engineer	29	-	£350	-	1 1.00%
Senior Software Engineer	29	-	£537	-	1 1.00%
Java Software Engineer	29	-	£537	-	1 1.00%