Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Watford

Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Migration	2	+5	£170	-53.89%	12 19.35%	10
Agile	3	+2	£475	+52.00%	11 17.74%	18
Problem-Solving	5	+5	£190	-52.79%	9 14.52%	15
DevOps	7	-	£588	-	7 11.29%	6
Customer Service	8	-	£170	-	6 9.68%	5
Analytics	8	+3	£588	-	6 9.68%	11
Project Management	9	0	£400	+32.23%	5 8.06%	11
Data Management	9	-	-	-	5 8.06%	2
Continuous Improvement	9	-1	£640	+70.66%	5 8.06%	8
Full-Stack Development	9	-	-	-	5 8.06%	2
Design Patterns	9	-	£675	-	5 8.06%	1
Data-Driven Decision Making	10	-	£575	-	4 6.45%	1
Inventory Management	10	-	£350	-	4 6.45%	1
CI/CD	10	-	-	-	4 6.45%	4
Order Management	10	-	£350	-	4 6.45%
SDLC	10	+1	£475	+35.71%	4 6.45%	1
Unit Testing	10	-	-	-	4 6.45%
Test Scripting	10	-6	£400	+28.00%	4 6.45%	1
Data Modelling	10	-	£575	-	4 6.45%	4
E-Commerce	10	+1	£350	+22.80%	4 6.45%	3
Validation	11	-1	£508	+26.87%	3 4.84%	5
Stakeholder Management	11	0	£640	-	3 4.84%	6
Scrum	11	-2	£475	+2.70%	3 4.84%	1
Change Management	11	-1	£560	-4.68%	3 4.84%	1
Business Intelligence	11	0	-	-	3 4.84%	9
ERP	11	-6	£560	+14.28%	3 4.84%	1
Email Marketing	11	-	-	-	3 4.84%
User Acceptance Testing	11	-4	£400	+28.00%	3 4.84%	2
Software Engineering	11	-	£675	-	3 4.84%	1
Facilities Management	11	-	-	-	3 4.84%
Test Automation	11	-3	£675	+116.00%	3 4.84%	2
Customer Engagement	11	-	-	-	3 4.84%	1
Waterfall	11	-4	£475	+52.00%	3 4.84%
Marketing Strategy	11	-	-	-	3 4.84%	1
Marketing Analytics	11	-	-	-	3 4.84%	1
Social Media Management	11	-	-	-	3 4.84%
System Integration Testing	11	-	£400	-	3 4.84%
Manual Testing	11	-	£400	-	3 4.84%	2
Lead Generation	11	-	-	-	3 4.84%
Scenario Testing	11	-	£400	-	3 4.84%	1
Customer Acquisition	11	-	-	-	3 4.84%	1
Data Pipeline	11	-	£588	-	3 4.84%	1
End-to-End Testing	12	-2	£475	+52.00%	2 3.23%
Data Collection	12	-1	-	-	2 3.23%
Knowledge Transfer	12	-	£475	-	2 3.23%
Data Loss Prevention	12	-	£475	-	2 3.23%
Decision-Making	12	-2	£588	-	2 3.23%	4
Cybersecurity	12	-2	£588	+130.39%	2 3.23%	2
Programme Governance	12	-	£600	-	2 3.23%
Virtual Environments	12	-	£475	-	2 3.23%