DevOps Contracts in Croydon

DevOps
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 15 41 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 16.48% 28.28% 34.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.07% 29.50% 35.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 31 52
10th Percentile £448 £363 £475
25th Percentile £450 £409 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £637
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -19.94% +7.42%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £725
90th Percentile £560 £567 -
South London median daily rate £523 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +2.45% -15.00% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

DevOps 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 83 139 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.21% 95.86% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 137
10th Percentile £425 £363 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £678 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Croydon

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Croydon

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Croydon

DevOps
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 3 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) PaaS
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (26.67%) IaaS
3 4 (26.67%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (6.67%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (20.00%) MySQL
4 2 (13.33%) GIS
4 2 (13.33%) Redis
5 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Gradle
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (33.33%) JUnit
1 5 (33.33%) Liquibase
1 5 (33.33%) Mockito
2 4 (26.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) GitLab
General
1 10 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (33.33%) Electronics
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 5 (33.33%) Marketing
2 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Kafka
2 7 (46.67%) Spring
2 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 5 (33.33%) OpenAPI
3 5 (33.33%) React
3 5 (33.33%) Swagger
4 3 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (20.00%) Keycloak
5 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (13.33%) HTML
5 2 (13.33%) XML
6 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
6 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
6 1 (6.67%) LDAP
6 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Containerisation
1 13 (86.67%) Microservices
2 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) TDD
4 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
4 4 (26.67%) Refactoring
4 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
5 3 (20.00%) High Availability
5 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (13.33%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 4 (26.67%) Bash
4 4 (26.67%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (86.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (26.67%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (40.00%) Ansible
3 5 (33.33%) Terraform
4 4 (26.67%) Grafana
4 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (13.33%) Istio
6 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (6.67%) HAProxy
6 1 (6.67%) Puppet
6 1 (6.67%) Rancher
6 1 (6.67%) SELinux
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Confluent
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace