Finance Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Financial
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 19 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +20
Contract jobs citing Finance 9 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 10.84% 10.42% 4.64%
As % of the General category 19.57% 27.78% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £310 £430 £290
25th Percentile £371 £475 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £486 £569 £629
90th Percentile £493 £580 £714
South London median daily rate £474 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -17.61% +2.22% +2.27%

All General Skills
Croydon

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 46 36 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 55.42% 37.50% 65.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 74
10th Percentile £256 £404 £387
25th Percentile £412 £425 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £562 £522 £650
90th Percentile £623 £558 £675
South London median daily rate £475 £475 £531
% change year-on-year - -10.55% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.97
% change year-on-year -18.77% -63.19% +17.71%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Croydon

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Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Croydon over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Croydon

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Finance

Finance
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 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (22.22%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle CX
1 3 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Gradle
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
1 5 (55.56%) JUnit
1 5 (55.56%) Liquibase
1 5 (55.56%) Mockito
General
1 7 (77.78%) Public Sector
2 5 (55.56%) Electronics
2 5 (55.56%) Manufacturing
2 5 (55.56%) Marketing
2 5 (55.56%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Java Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
1 5 (55.56%) OpenAPI
1 5 (55.56%) React
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
1 5 (55.56%) Swagger
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Digital Marketing
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Programme Management
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) TDD
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) MCSA
2 1 (11.11%) MCSE
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) SAP
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) Avaya
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Polycom
3 1 (11.11%) Wyse