Degree Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Academic Degree
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 22 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 9 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 10.84% 6.61% 3.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.29% 11.59% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £141
25th Percentile - - £142
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £385
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.96%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - £698
South London median daily rate £525 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -19.23% +44.44% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.43
Median hourly rate - - £15.86
75th Percentile - - £16.28
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £64.75 - £15.86

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Croydon

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Croydon.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 63 69 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 75.90% 57.02% 74.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 45 75
10th Percentile £462 £380 £365
25th Percentile £492 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% -9.17%
75th Percentile £566 £583 £622
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.43
Median hourly rate - - £15.86
75th Percentile - - £16.28
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £71.27 £73.60 £43.84
% change year-on-year -3.17% +67.88% -9.68%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Degree job vacancy trend in Croydon

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Degree

Degree
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) Confluence
1 9 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 9 (100.00%) Route 53
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) DNS
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) FTP
1 9 (100.00%) HTTP
1 9 (100.00%) IMAP
1 9 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (100.00%) SMTP
1 9 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
1 9 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 9 (100.00%) VMS
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Change Management
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 9 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Groovy
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
1 9 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 9 (100.00%) Postfix
1 9 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Nessus
1 9 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (100.00%) ServiceNow