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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 22 39 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 27.16% 31.45% 30.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.73% 32.77% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 40
10th Percentile £450 £363 £474
25th Percentile £476 £409 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.00% -14.68%
75th Percentile £589 £534 £675
90th Percentile £633 £562 £725
South London median daily rate £531 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.00% -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 74 119 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.36% 95.97% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 81 119
10th Percentile £425 £377 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £508 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +13.79%

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 2 June 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 (13.64%) Apache
2 2 (9.09%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (18.18%) PaaS
3 4 (18.18%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) Azure
4 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) IaaS
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.55%) AWS KMS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
4 3 (13.64%) MySQL
5 2 (9.09%) GIS
5 2 (9.09%) Redis
6 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (40.91%) Git
3 8 (36.36%) JUnit
3 8 (36.36%) Mockito
4 5 (22.73%) GitLab
4 5 (22.73%) Gradle
4 5 (22.73%) Liquibase
5 3 (13.64%) Maven
5 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (4.55%) DbUnit
6 1 (4.55%) jMock
6 1 (4.55%) Storybook
6 1 (4.55%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (68.18%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Electronics
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Manufacturing
2 5 (22.73%) Marketing
2 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Java Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Security Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) Spring
2 10 (45.45%) Spring Boot
3 9 (40.91%) Kafka
4 6 (27.27%) React
5 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
5 5 (22.73%) OpenAPI
5 5 (22.73%) Swagger
6 4 (18.18%) REST
7 3 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (13.64%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (13.64%) Bootstrap
7 3 (13.64%) JPA
7 3 (13.64%) Keycloak
7 3 (13.64%) SOAP
7 3 (13.64%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
8 2 (9.09%) HTML
8 2 (9.09%) XML
9 1 (4.55%) LDAP
9 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Onboarding
2 4 (18.18%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Microservices
2 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 15 (68.18%) Containerisation
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
4 9 (40.91%) TDD
5 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (22.73%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (22.73%) Migration
6 5 (22.73%) Programme Management
6 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (13.64%) High Availability
8 3 (13.64%) Load Balancing
8 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.64%) Refactoring
8 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
8 3 (13.64%) Scrum
8 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.64%) Bash
4 3 (13.64%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 19 (86.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) CREST Certified
4 1 (4.55%) GIAC
4 1 (4.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (4.55%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Ansible
2 6 (27.27%) Grafana
2 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 5 (22.73%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) Istio
5 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.55%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) Rancher
5 1 (4.55%) SELinux
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) Confluent
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) Jaspersoft