IT Engineer Contracts in Croydon

IT Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median IT Engineer daily rate in Croydon is £170, 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 22 25 36
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 5 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 5.49% 6.21% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.62% 6.29% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £137 - -
25th Percentile £143 - £121
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £170 - £123
75th Percentile - - £124
90th Percentile £353 - -
South London median daily rate £170 £190 £236
% change year-on-year -10.53% -19.58% +43.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate - £23.00 -

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%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings that featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Croydon

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in Croydon

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in Croydon

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in Croydon

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT Engineer 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 IT Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) EPoS
1 2 (40.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) SonicWALL
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust

IT Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) EPoS
1 2 (40.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (20.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Dell
1 1 (20.00%) EMC
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (20.00%) SonicWALL
1 1 (20.00%) VMware