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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 21 39 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 24.14% 28.47% 40.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.25% 29.32% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 49
10th Percentile £451 £356 £453
25th Percentile £467 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% -2.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £538 £594
90th Percentile £638 £561 £625
South London median daily rate £584 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +14.40% -7.18% +4.76%

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 80 133 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.95% 97.08% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 86 122
10th Percentile £434 £363 £450
25th Percentile £463 £431 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £646
90th Percentile £700 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +8.92%

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 18 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Serverless
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (14.29%) DynamoDB
4 3 (14.29%) Parquet
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Jenkins
2 9 (42.86%) JUnit
2 9 (42.86%) Mockito
3 5 (23.81%) Gradle
3 5 (23.81%) Liquibase
4 4 (19.05%) Git
5 2 (9.52%) JMeter
5 2 (9.52%) Maven
5 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.76%) JIRA
6 1 (4.76%) Postman
6 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.76%) Storybook
General
1 18 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Electronics
3 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
3 5 (23.81%) Marketing
3 5 (23.81%) Telecoms
4 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Java Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Product Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Architect
5 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Spring
2 9 (42.86%) Kafka
2 9 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 6 (28.57%) React
4 5 (23.81%) JSON
4 5 (23.81%) OpenAPI
4 5 (23.81%) REST
4 5 (23.81%) Swagger
5 4 (19.05%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (14.29%) Apache Avro
6 3 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 3 (14.29%) Web Services
7 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
7 2 (9.52%) Apache Camel
7 2 (9.52%) Bootstrap
7 2 (9.52%) HTML
7 2 (9.52%) JPA
7 2 (9.52%) jQuery
7 2 (9.52%) SOAP
7 2 (9.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
1 10 (47.62%) Microservices
1 10 (47.62%) TDD
2 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (23.81%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (23.81%) Migration
5 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (23.81%) Product Management
5 5 (23.81%) Programme Management
5 5 (23.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (14.29%) Predictive Modelling
7 3 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Java
2 9 (42.86%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 5 (23.81%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) Lua
4 2 (9.52%) Perl
4 2 (9.52%) PHP
4 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kibana
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) SAP
2 2 (9.52%) Dynatrace
2 2 (9.52%) Splunk