Computer Science Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Computer Science
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.81% - 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% - 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £244 - £185
25th Percentile £347 - £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £637 - £365
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.93%
75th Percentile £803 - £515
90th Percentile £831 - £604
South London median daily rate £581 £725 £365
% change year-on-year -19.86% +98.63% -27.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

Computer Science 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 149 97 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.76% 91.51% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 76 89
10th Percentile £456 £403 £231
25th Percentile £500 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £606
90th Percentile £665 £663 £673
South London median daily rate £513 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -1.44% +4.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +286.47% -32.60% -46.72%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Croydon

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Computer Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Croydon over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Croydon

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 20 March 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 Croydon - 1 £190 - 2
Computer Science
South London

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Datadog
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) IPv4
1 2 (66.67%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) GitOps
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google