Agile Contracts in Hertfordshire

Agile Software Development
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Agile 66 77 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 17.37% 9.28% 15.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.97% 10.56% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 64
10th Percentile £447 £186 £350
25th Percentile £463 £200 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £413 £638
Median % change year-on-year +28.48% -35.29% +13.33%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £725
90th Percentile £660 £663 £764
East of England median daily rate £500 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.71% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 51 32
10th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £60.15
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £66.69
90th Percentile £71.20 - £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 729 680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.58% 87.83% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 251 372
10th Percentile £250 £225 £260
25th Percentile £442 £313 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £516
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.02% +3.15%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £676
90th Percentile £675 £701 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £428 £500
% change year-on-year +16.96% -14.41% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 315 149
10th Percentile £16.95 £35.00 £17.78
25th Percentile £30.06 £38.12 £49.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.91 £70.00 £87.50
East of England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% +90.48% +7.69%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Hertfordshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Hertfordshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Hertfordshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Hertfordshire

Agile
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 Agile within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. 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 +10 29 £500 - 82
Hatfield +12 20 £560 +180.00% 22
Welwyn Garden City - 5 £575 - 9
Watford +5 2 £313 -26.47% 61
St Albans - 2 £475 - 8
Harpenden - 2 - -
Hemel Hempstead +9 1 £463 -22.92% 65
Agile
East of England

Agile
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 4 (6.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) IBM Domino
2 2 (3.03%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.52%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (1.52%) Sketch
2 1 (1.52%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) SAP LE
1 3 (4.55%) SAP WM
2 1 (1.52%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.61%) Entra ID
2 4 (6.06%) Azure
3 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.52%) AWS
4 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.52%) GCP
4 1 (1.52%) GitHub
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.52%) OCI
4 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.52%) SaaS
4 1 (1.52%) Serverless
4 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.67%) Ethernet
1 11 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 7 (10.61%) Firewall
3 4 (6.06%) Wireless
4 1 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) DB2
1 2 (3.03%) InfluxDB
1 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.03%) Power BI
2 1 (1.52%) Big Data
2 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 11 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (4.55%) JIRA
3 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.52%) Git
4 1 (1.52%) GitLab
4 1 (1.52%) Selenium
4 1 (1.52%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (19.70%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (16.67%) Military
5 7 (10.61%) Finance
6 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Law
6 3 (4.55%) Retail
6 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.03%) Local Government
7 2 (3.03%) Police
8 1 (1.52%) Games
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (15.15%) C# Software Engineer
1 10 (15.15%) Software Engineer
2 7 (10.61%) Analyst
2 7 (10.61%) Architect
2 7 (10.61%) Lead
3 6 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
4 4 (6.06%) Developer
4 4 (6.06%) Functional Architect
4 4 (6.06%) IT Manager
4 4 (6.06%) Oracle Architect
4 4 (6.06%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.55%) Logistics Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Sales Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) SAP Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) SAP Logistics Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Service Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Technical Manager
5 3 (4.55%) Technical Services Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) Node.js
1 11 (16.67%) Web Services
2 4 (6.06%) CSS
2 4 (6.06%) SAP PI
3 3 (4.55%) REST
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (1.52%) ggplot2
5 1 (1.52%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.52%) JSON
5 1 (1.52%) Shiny
5 1 (1.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Management Information System
1 7 (10.61%) Operational Technology
1 7 (10.61%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.52%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.52%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.27%) Windows
2 17 (25.76%) Linux
3 5 (7.58%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.76%) Validation
2 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
2 15 (22.73%) PRINCE2
3 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 11 (16.67%) Digital Twin
5 11 (16.67%) Synthetic Environment
5 11 (16.67%) TDD
5 11 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 11 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 10 (15.15%) Roadmaps
6 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
6 10 (15.15%) Verification and Validation
7 9 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (12.12%) Incident Management
8 8 (12.12%) Project Management
9 7 (10.61%) Coaching
9 7 (10.61%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 11 (16.67%) C#
2 11 (16.67%) C++
3 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.06%) Python
4 4 (6.06%) SQL
5 3 (4.55%) R
6 1 (1.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (4.55%) PMP
5 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.52%) ISEB
6 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) GxP
2 4 (6.06%) QA
3 3 (4.55%) PMO
4 1 (1.52%) GDPR
4 1 (1.52%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.55%) Docker
3 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) Apple
2 7 (10.61%) Samsung
2 7 (10.61%) SOTI
3 6 (9.09%) Oracle
3 6 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.06%) SAP
5 3 (4.55%) Databricks
6 2 (3.03%) Computacenter
6 2 (3.03%) LabWare
7 1 (1.52%) Adobe
7 1 (1.52%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.52%) Planview
7 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.52%) Spotify
7 1 (1.52%) Tagetik