Java Developer Contracts in Croydon

Java Developer
South London > Croydon

The median Java Developer daily rate in Croydon is £473, 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 21 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 6 19 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 6.59% 13.10% 13.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.74% 13.29% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 15
10th Percentile £450 £449 -
25th Percentile £454 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £483 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% -1.03% +43.38%
75th Percentile £493 £533 £494
90th Percentile £497 £575 £498
South London median daily rate £473 £485 £488
% change year-on-year -2.58% -0.51% -18.75%

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%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Croydon

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Croydon

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
4 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (50.00%) CQRS
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) XML
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (33.33%) JUnit
5 2 (33.33%) Web Services
5 2 (33.33%) Process Management

Java Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) GIS
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) JSON
3 2 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) WireMock
4 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (16.67%) Kafka
4 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) CQRS
4 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) BDD
5 2 (33.33%) Process Management
5 2 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (33.33%) Workflow
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (16.67%) GitOps
6 1 (16.67%) High Availability
6 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
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