Squid Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Squid Cache
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Squid skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Squid 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 13.27% - -
As % of the System Software category 31.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £542 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
South London median daily rate £519 - -

All System Software Skills
Croydon

Squid falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 41 19 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 41.84% 15.08% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 11 30
10th Percentile £465 £475 £398
25th Percentile £500 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +0.09% -10.42%
75th Percentile £561 £563 £638
90th Percentile £581 £565 £675
South London median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -13.04%

Squid
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Squid relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Squid job vacancy trend in Croydon

Squid
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Squid.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Squid

Squid
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (100.00%) Confluence
2 12 (92.31%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 12 (92.31%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (92.31%) Amazon S3
2 12 (92.31%) Route 53
3 8 (61.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (61.54%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (61.54%) Amazon ELB
3 8 (61.54%) AWS KMS
3 8 (61.54%) Azure
3 8 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (30.77%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) DNS
1 12 (92.31%) Firewall
2 8 (61.54%) FTP
2 8 (61.54%) HTTP
2 8 (61.54%) IMAP
2 8 (61.54%) OpenLDAP
2 8 (61.54%) SMTP
2 8 (61.54%) SSH
3 4 (30.77%) OpenVPN
3 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 4 (30.77%) VPN
4 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) JIRA
2 8 (61.54%) Git
2 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 8 (61.54%) Vagrant
3 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
3 4 (30.77%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) JUnit
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Presentation Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Public Sector
3 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) LDAP
2 5 (38.46%) OpenID
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Ubuntu
2 8 (61.54%) VMS
2 8 (61.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Change Management
3 8 (61.54%) Cloud Security
3 8 (61.54%) Configuration Management
3 8 (61.54%) Patch Management
3 8 (61.54%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (61.54%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 1 (7.69%) API Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.69%) OWASP
6 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
6 1 (7.69%) SIEM
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) Groovy
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) AWS Certification
2 8 (61.54%) Azure Certification
2 8 (61.54%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
2 8 (61.54%) DFS Replication
2 8 (61.54%) Dovecot
2 8 (61.54%) Postfix
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Grafana
1 13 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 13 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (61.54%) Nessus
2 8 (61.54%) Proxmox
3 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (30.77%) Consul
4 4 (30.77%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Jaspersoft
1 8 (61.54%) ServiceNow
2 4 (30.77%) Atlassian
2 4 (30.77%) Dynatrace
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat