Developer Contracts in Croydon

Developer
South London > Croydon

The median Developer daily rate in Croydon is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 34 32 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 23.78% 18.18% 19.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 24.11% 20.78% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 26
10th Percentile £425 £452 £351
25th Percentile £456 £453 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £563 £494 £540
90th Percentile £624 £572 £600
South London median daily rate £500 £613 £500
% change year-on-year -18.37% +22.50% +8.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Croydon. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Croydon with a recognized job title 141 154 158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.60% 87.50% 96.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 123 126
10th Percentile £360 £430 £340
25th Percentile £425 £481 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £639
90th Percentile £630 £679 £700
South London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £17.00 - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - -
Median hourly rate £23.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile £30.23 - -
South London median hourly rate £23.50 £22.98 £47.44
% change year-on-year +2.26% -51.55% +2.20%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Croydon

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Croydon

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Croydon over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Croydon

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Croydon

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Croydon region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 30 (88.24%) SC Cleared
1 30 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 27 (79.41%) Java
3 20 (58.82%) AWS
4 18 (52.94%) Spring
5 17 (50.00%) Spring Boot
6 16 (47.06%) Microservices
6 16 (47.06%) Agile
7 15 (44.12%) Public Sector
8 14 (41.18%) REST
9 13 (38.24%) JavaScript
10 12 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (35.29%) Jenkins
10 12 (35.29%) Docker
11 11 (32.35%) Scrum
12 10 (29.41%) TDD
12 10 (29.41%) Front End Development
12 10 (29.41%) Full Stack Development
13 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
13 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
13 9 (26.47%) Serverless
14 8 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (23.53%) Relational Database
14 8 (23.53%) Git
14 8 (23.53%) HTML
15 7 (20.59%) CSS
15 7 (20.59%) Web Services
15 7 (20.59%) Hibernate
15 7 (20.59%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (20.59%) DevOps

Developer Skill Set
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 6 (17.65%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) JBoss
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Serverless
3 8 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (20.59%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (8.82%) Azure
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub
8 1 (2.94%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (23.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.94%) Flink
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 8 (23.53%) Git
3 5 (14.71%) JUnit
4 3 (8.82%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) JMeter
6 1 (2.94%) Ant
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.94%) Gradle
6 1 (2.94%) Maven
6 1 (2.94%) Mockito
6 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 15 (44.12%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (52.94%) Spring
2 17 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 14 (41.18%) REST
4 8 (23.53%) HTML
5 7 (20.59%) CSS
5 7 (20.59%) Hibernate
5 7 (20.59%) Web Services
6 6 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (17.65%) JPA
6 6 (17.65%) Node.js
6 6 (17.65%) Spring Security
7 5 (14.71%) Kafka
7 5 (14.71%) React
7 5 (14.71%) RESTful
8 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
8 4 (11.76%) SOAP
9 3 (8.82%) J2EE
10 2 (5.88%) Apache Camel
10 2 (5.88%) Guice
10 2 (5.88%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Agile
1 16 (47.06%) Microservices
2 11 (32.35%) Scrum
3 10 (29.41%) Front End Development
3 10 (29.41%) Full Stack Development
3 10 (29.41%) TDD
4 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.59%) DevOps
6 6 (17.65%) BDD
6 6 (17.65%) Kanban
6 6 (17.65%) Observability
7 4 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.82%) High Availability
9 2 (5.88%) Analytics
9 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (5.88%) ETL
9 2 (5.88%) SDLC
9 2 (5.88%) Static Code Analysis
9 2 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (79.41%) Java
2 13 (38.24%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) Python
3 6 (17.65%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (88.24%) SC Cleared
1 30 (88.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (5.88%) Kibana
3 2 (5.88%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.94%) Splunk