Senior Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Senior
South London > Croydon

The median Senior daily rate in Croydon is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 3 16
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 4 27 22
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 4.82% 27.27% 15.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.94% 28.13% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 20
10th Percentile £471 £380 £368
25th Percentile £484 £481 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +0.49% -1.91%
75th Percentile £540 £543 £556
90th Percentile £556 £564 £577
South London median daily rate £510 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -5.20% +2.48% +0.48%

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 81 96 142
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.59% 96.97% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 61 113
10th Percentile £320 £380 £231
25th Percentile £463 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -0.19% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £38.36 £19.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +96.71% -55.52% -0.61%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Senior job vacancy trend in Croydon

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Croydon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Croydon

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Croydon.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Croydon

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Croydon region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Biometrics
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) DbUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Git

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (25.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) jMock
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Biometrics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft