Developer Contracts in Croydon

Developer
South London > Croydon

The median Developer daily rate in Croydon is £473, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 8 35 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 8.79% 24.14% 18.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.99% 24.48% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 17
10th Percentile £407 £425 £452
25th Percentile £446 £443 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £485 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% -0.51% -
75th Percentile £499 £556 £494
90th Percentile £500 £612 £572
South London median daily rate £925 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +85.00% -20.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 89 143 154
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.80% 98.62% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 123
10th Percentile £380 £360 £430
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £663 £630 £679
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
% change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%

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
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 1 May 2025, 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 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Docker
2 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) Spring
3 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
4 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
4 5 (62.50%) TDD
4 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
5 4 (50.00%) HTML
5 4 (50.00%) XML
5 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
6 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (37.50%) Azure
6 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (37.50%) GCP
6 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
6 3 (37.50%) CQRS
6 3 (37.50%) REST
7 2 (25.00%) High Availability
7 2 (25.00%) Splunk
7 2 (25.00%) Mockito
7 2 (25.00%) BDD
7 2 (25.00%) MongoDB

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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) GIS
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) Redis
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Mockito
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) XML
3 3 (37.50%) REST
4 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (25.00%) Apache Camel
4 2 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (25.00%) jQuery
4 2 (25.00%) JSON
4 2 (25.00%) Kafka
4 2 (25.00%) Keycloak
4 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 2 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (62.50%) TDD
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) CQRS
4 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
4 3 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) GitOps
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Process Management
5 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Istio
2 2 (25.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk