Developer Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Developer
South London > Croydon

The median Developer daily rate in Croydon is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 14 18 18
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 16.87% 18.18% 12.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.28% 18.75% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 10
10th Percentile £491 £380 -
25th Percentile £501 £380 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £363
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +10.34% -20.33%
75th Percentile £548 £466 £625
90th Percentile £552 £500 £629
South London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 81 96 142
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.59% 96.97% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 61 113
10th Percentile £320 £380 £231
25th Percentile £463 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -0.19% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £38.36 £19.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +96.71% -55.52% -0.61%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Developer job vacancy trend in Croydon

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Croydon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Croydon

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Croydon over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Croydon

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Croydon.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Croydon

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Croydon region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 12 (85.71%) Docker
2 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) Microservices
2 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
3 10 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
4 9 (64.29%) Java
4 9 (64.29%) Spring
5 8 (57.14%) TDD
6 7 (50.00%) Azure
7 6 (42.86%) AngularJS
7 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (35.71%) Agile
8 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (35.71%) CQRS
8 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
8 5 (35.71%) DevOps
8 5 (35.71%) Domain-Driven Design
8 5 (35.71%) GCP
8 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
8 5 (35.71%) React
9 4 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
9 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (28.57%) Git
9 4 (28.57%) Jenkins

Developer Skill Set
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 2 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
6 2 (14.29%) Azure App Service
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 4 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 3 (21.43%) JUnit
2 3 (21.43%) Maven
2 3 (21.43%) Mockito
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (7.14%) DbUnit
3 1 (7.14%) jMock
General
1 7 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Spring
2 6 (42.86%) AngularJS
3 5 (35.71%) React
4 4 (28.57%) Node.js
4 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
5 3 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (21.43%) Bootstrap
5 3 (21.43%) JPA
5 3 (21.43%) REST
5 3 (21.43%) SOAP
5 3 (21.43%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (14.29%) .NET
6 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
6 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 2 (14.29%) PyTorch
6 2 (14.29%) TensorFlow
7 1 (7.14%) D3.js
7 1 (7.14%) RESTful
7 1 (7.14%) Spring Batch
7 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) AI Agents
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
1 11 (78.57%) Microservices
2 10 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 8 (57.14%) TDD
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (35.71%) CQRS
4 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (21.43%) Data Science
6 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (14.29%) AI
7 2 (14.29%) Analytics
7 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) Bicep
5 2 (14.29%) C#
5 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
3 2 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) Jaspersoft