Scrum Contracts in Hertfordshire

Scrum
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 21 45 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.55% 5.51% 6.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 6.36% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 25
10th Percentile £365 - £396
25th Percentile £388 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +5.00% +0.40%
75th Percentile £470 £638 £588
90th Percentile £563 £688 £645
East of England median daily rate £550 £530 £508
% change year-on-year +3.77% +4.43% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 4
10th Percentile £53.25 - £46.70
25th Percentile £60.00 - £53.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.04% -
75th Percentile - £65.75 £63.81
90th Percentile - £70.78 £76.98
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year - +15.04% +19.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 744 708 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.40% 86.66% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 376 406
10th Percentile £235 £239 £203
25th Percentile £315 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £703 £788 £688
East of England median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 157 82
10th Percentile £38.12 £21.00 £21.15
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.50 £39.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.93
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +22.82% +17.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.10 -
East of England median hourly rate £39.55 £23.31 £15.50
% change year-on-year +69.67% +50.39% -11.93%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Hertfordshire

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Hertfordshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Hertfordshire

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Hertfordshire

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage -23 13 - - 3
Watford +6 6 £406 -22.62% 3
Hemel Hempstead +11 1 £600 -14.29% 1
Scrum
East of England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (14.29%) Apache
1 3 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (14.29%) Serverless
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (4.76%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) Modbus
1 8 (38.10%) RS-422
1 8 (38.10%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Hive
1 2 (9.52%) Big Data
1 2 (9.52%) Presto
1 2 (9.52%) SAP Data Services
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) HBase
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) JIRA
2 4 (19.05%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) IntelliJ
3 2 (9.52%) Maven
General
1 8 (38.10%) Electronics
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 2 (9.52%) Games
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) C Software Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) C/C++ Software Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Data Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.76%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) ETL Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Scrum Master
6 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
1 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Software Engineering
3 10 (47.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (47.62%) Software Testing
4 8 (38.10%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (38.10%) Customer Requirements
4 8 (38.10%) DevOps
4 8 (38.10%) Pair Programming
4 8 (38.10%) TDD
4 8 (38.10%) Unit Testing
5 6 (28.57%) SDLC
6 5 (23.81%) Use Case
6 5 (23.81%) Validation
6 5 (23.81%) Verification and Validation
7 4 (19.05%) Content Development
7 4 (19.05%) Data Management
8 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 3 (14.29%) ETL
9 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
9 2 (9.52%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) C
1 8 (38.10%) C#
1 8 (38.10%) C++
1 8 (38.10%) Java
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (4.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Informatica
1 2 (9.52%) SAP
1 2 (9.52%) Talend
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow