Contract IT Job Statistics in Hertfordshire

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Software Engineer	8	+24	£675	-	82 11.31%	18
IT Support	10	+27	£228	+40.00%	68 9.38%	12
Analyst	13	-7	£450	-7.69%	59 8.14%	32
Administrator	16	+20	£452	+38.01%	54 7.45%	20
Embedded Engineer	17	+22	-	-	53 7.31%	17
Architect	20	-10	£725	+16.00%	48 6.62%	23
Embedded Software Engineer	21	+22	-	-	47 6.48%	6
Senior	23	-11	£550	-13.72%	44 6.07%	47
Project Manager	25	+5	£600	-4.00%	41 5.66%	11
Consultant	30	-10	£565	+25.55%	35 4.83%	9
Systems Engineer	32	+8	£452	-	32 4.41%	20
Developer	37	-25	£528	-12.00%	27 3.72%	28
Technical Support	37	+6	£350	+150.00%	27 3.72%	1
Lead	37	-24	£625	+47.92%	27 3.72%	38
Configuration Manager	42	-	£48	-	22 3.03%	5
Ada Software Engineer	43	-	-	-	21 2.90%	2
Ada Engineer	43	-	-	-	21 2.90%	3
C++ Software Engineer	44	-6	-	-	20 2.76%
Embedded C Engineer	45	-2	-	-	19 2.62%
C Software Engineer	45	-6	-	-	19 2.62%
Embedded C Software Engineer	45	-2	-	-	19 2.62%
Linux Administrator	48	-	£470	-	16 2.21%
Electrical Engineer	48	-5	-	-	16 2.21%	5
Desktop Support	49	-6	£150	-66.66%	15 2.07%
IT Engineer	50	-13	£170	-20.93%	14 1.93%	7
C# Software Engineer	51	-13	-	-	13 1.79%	1
Oracle Consultant	51	-	£440	-	13 1.79%
Systems Manager	51	-	£600	-	13 1.79%	1
Security Officer	51	-	£150	-	13 1.79%
Embedded C/C++ Engineer	51	-	-	-	13 1.79%
Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer	51	-	-	-	13 1.79%
Embedded C++ Engineer	51	-	-	-	13 1.79%
Embedded C++ Software Engineer	51	-	-	-	13 1.79%
C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer	51	-	-	-	13 1.79%
C/C++ Software Engineer	51	-11	-	-	13 1.79%
Solutions Architect	52	-25	£725	+11.53%	12 1.66%	3
SAP Consultant	52	-15	£675	+50.00%	12 1.66%
Test Architect	54	-13	-	-	10 1.38%	4
Infrastructure Engineer	54	-11	£550	+22.22%	10 1.38%	4
Design Engineer	55	-23	-	-	9 1.24%	9
Functional Consultant	55	-	£675	-	9 1.24%	1
IT Administrator	55	-	-	-	9 1.24%
SAP Administrator	55	-	-	-	9 1.24%	9
ERP Manager	55	-	£650	-	9 1.24%
SAP HCM Consultant	55	-	£800	-	9 1.24%
SOC Analyst	55	-28	£553	-7.83%	9 1.24%	2
Business Manager	56	-	-	-	8 1.10%	30
Senior Infrastructure Engineer	56	-	£550	-	8 1.10%	2
Risk Manager	56	-	£575	-	8 1.10%	1
Test Engineer	56	-	£300	-	8 1.10%	8