Senior Contracts in Croydon

Senior
South London > Croydon

The median Senior daily rate in Croydon is £380, 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 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 5 18 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 5.49% 12.41% 16.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.62% 12.59% 18.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 25
10th Percentile - £445 -
25th Percentile - £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% - +25.00%
75th Percentile - £575 £650
90th Percentile - £591 £681
South London median daily rate £925 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +68.18% - +22.22%

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%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Croydon

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Croydon

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Croydon

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

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

1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) JIRA
3 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) Postman
4 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) SDET
4 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (40.00%) WireMock
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) Mockito
4 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting

Senior 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Postman
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) JMeter
3 2 (40.00%) JUnit
3 2 (40.00%) Mockito
3 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) WireMock
2 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Process Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDET
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Biometrics
4 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Test Assurance
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk