Agile Contracts in Croydon

Agile Software Development
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 19 41 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 20.88% 28.28% 43.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.89% 29.50% 44.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 58
10th Percentile £412 £340 £452
25th Percentile £453 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £600
90th Percentile £605 £573 £625
South London median daily rate £583 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +14.31% -7.27% +7.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 139 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.21% 95.86% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 137
10th Percentile £425 £363 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £678 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Croydon

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Croydon

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Croydon

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Serverless
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (36.84%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
3 3 (15.79%) Parquet
4 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 7 (36.84%) JUnit
2 7 (36.84%) Mockito
3 5 (26.32%) Gradle
3 5 (26.32%) Liquibase
4 2 (10.53%) JIRA
4 2 (10.53%) JMeter
4 2 (10.53%) Postman
5 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.26%) Git
5 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
General
1 16 (84.21%) Public Sector
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Electronics
3 5 (26.32%) Manufacturing
3 5 (26.32%) Marketing
3 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
4 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (5.26%) Military
6 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Java Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Product Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Integration Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Senior QA Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Kafka
2 7 (36.84%) Spring
2 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
3 5 (26.32%) JSON
3 5 (26.32%) OpenAPI
3 5 (26.32%) React
3 5 (26.32%) Swagger
4 3 (15.79%) Apache Avro
4 3 (15.79%) Web Services
5 2 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (10.53%) Apache Camel
5 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 2 (10.53%) jQuery
5 2 (10.53%) REST
5 2 (10.53%) WireMock
5 2 (10.53%) XML
6 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) TDD
3 7 (36.84%) Microservices
4 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (26.32%) Migration
5 5 (26.32%) Product Management
5 5 (26.32%) Programme Management
5 5 (26.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (21.05%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
6 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.53%) Lua
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
4 2 (10.53%) PHP
4 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (84.21%) SC Cleared
1 16 (84.21%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kibana
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk