Public Sector Contracts in Croydon

Public Sector
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector 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 3 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 28 35 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 30.77% 24.14% 42.61%
As % of the General category 56.00% 53.03% 68.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 60
10th Percentile £447 £380 £450
25th Percentile £464 £449 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £488 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -10.55% -7.00%
75th Percentile £583 £560 £681
90th Percentile £596 £600 £725
South London median daily rate £493 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.85% -7.56%

All General Skills
Croydon

Public Sector 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 50 66 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 54.95% 45.52% 61.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 84
10th Percentile £447 £284 £450
25th Percentile £481 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £483 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.80% -12.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £560 £675
90th Percentile £649 £598 £725
South London median daily rate £600 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -49.32%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Croydon

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Croydon

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Croydon

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Croydon

Public Sector
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 (10.71%) Apache
2 2 (7.14%) Camunda
3 1 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Serverless
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
3 4 (14.29%) Azure
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.71%) MySQL
2 3 (10.71%) Parquet
3 2 (7.14%) GIS
3 2 (7.14%) Power BI
3 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.14%) Redis
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.00%) JUnit
2 7 (25.00%) Mockito
3 5 (17.86%) Gradle
3 5 (17.86%) Liquibase
4 2 (7.14%) JMeter
5 1 (3.57%) GitLab
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Electronics
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
3 5 (17.86%) Marketing
3 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Military
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Developer
1 5 (17.86%) Java Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Change Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Management Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) Kafka
2 10 (35.71%) Spring
3 9 (32.14%) Spring Boot
4 5 (17.86%) JSON
4 5 (17.86%) OpenAPI
4 5 (17.86%) React
4 5 (17.86%) Swagger
5 4 (14.29%) HTML
5 4 (14.29%) XML
6 3 (10.71%) Apache Avro
6 3 (10.71%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (10.71%) Keycloak
7 2 (7.14%) .NET
7 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
7 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.14%) Apache Camel
7 2 (7.14%) jQuery
7 2 (7.14%) REST
7 2 (7.14%) Web Services
7 2 (7.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 13 (46.43%) Microservices
3 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 11 (39.29%) Containerisation
5 10 (35.71%) DevOps
6 8 (28.57%) TDD
7 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (21.43%) Workflow
9 5 (17.86%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (17.86%) Migration
9 5 (17.86%) Product Management
9 5 (17.86%) Programme Management
9 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
9 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (17.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 4 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
10 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Java
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.86%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Lua
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
4 2 (7.14%) PHP
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (82.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Istio
2 2 (7.14%) Kibana
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) HAProxy
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Puppet
3 1 (3.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) SAP
2 4 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Confluent
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow