Agile Contracts in Hertfordshire

Agile Software Development
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 84 126 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 10.23% 15.33% 17.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.35% 17.70% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 53 75
10th Percentile £200 £350 £390
25th Percentile £275 £388 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £494 £725 £631
90th Percentile £575 £788 £695
East of England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.76% +5.00% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 36 5
10th Percentile - £63.25 £44.90
25th Percentile £61.25 - £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.04% +25.56%
75th Percentile - £69.06 -
90th Percentile - £73.75 £74.05
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +18.64% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

Agile 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 740 712 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.13% 86.62% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 383 404
10th Percentile £237 £240 £202
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £701 £785 £688
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £467
% change year-on-year - +1.82% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 155 83
10th Percentile £38.12 £25.18 £20.20
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.63 £39.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +27.83% +13.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.40 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -11.43%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 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 -11 50 £250 -28.57% 29
Watford -1 11 £425 -41.38% 9
Hatfield +1 10 £200 -55.56% 6
Hemel Hempstead +9 2 £588 -2.08% 6
Hertford 0 2 - - 4
Rickmansworth -1 1 £350 -12.50%
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 3 (3.57%) Apache
1 3 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Mendix
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.19%) SAP EHS
2 1 (1.19%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.52%) AWS
2 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
2 3 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (3.57%) Serverless
3 2 (2.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.38%) SaaS
4 1 (1.19%) Azure
4 1 (1.19%) GCP
4 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (45.24%) Modbus
1 38 (45.24%) RS-422
1 38 (45.24%) RS-485
2 4 (4.76%) Ethernet
2 4 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.38%) 4G
3 2 (2.38%) 5G
3 2 (2.38%) DNS
3 2 (2.38%) Internet
3 2 (2.38%) Wireless
4 1 (1.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Hive
2 2 (2.38%) Big Data
2 2 (2.38%) Power BI
2 2 (2.38%) Presto
2 2 (2.38%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.19%) HBase
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) JIRA
2 5 (5.95%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.76%) Eclipse
3 4 (4.76%) Git
3 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.38%) GitLab
4 2 (2.38%) IntelliJ
4 2 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 51 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 38 (45.24%) Electronics
3 11 (13.10%) Finance
4 6 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Games
5 4 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Military
6 3 (3.57%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.38%) Marketing
7 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.19%) Law
8 1 (1.19%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (51.19%) Software Engineer
2 31 (36.90%) C++ Software Engineer
3 9 (10.71%) C Software Engineer
3 9 (10.71%) C/C++ Software Engineer
4 6 (7.14%) Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 4 (4.76%) Architect
5 4 (4.76%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (4.76%) Coordinator
5 4 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 4 (4.76%) Developer
5 4 (4.76%) Project Coordinator
6 3 (3.57%) Business Analyst
6 3 (3.57%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.38%) Lead
7 2 (2.38%) Power BI Analyst
7 2 (2.38%) Python Engineer
7 2 (2.38%) Senior
7 2 (2.38%) Senior Manager
7 2 (2.38%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) Web Services
2 4 (4.76%) Node.js
3 3 (3.57%) REST
4 2 (2.38%) CSS
4 2 (2.38%) HTML
4 2 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.38%) RESTful
4 2 (2.38%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.19%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (35.71%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.38%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 5 (5.95%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (54.76%) Software Engineering
2 43 (51.19%) DevOps
3 42 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 42 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 42 (50.00%) TDD
3 42 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 40 (47.62%) Customer Requirements
4 40 (47.62%) Software Testing
5 38 (45.24%) Pair Programming
6 22 (26.19%) Scrum
7 14 (16.67%) PRINCE2
8 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.71%) Project Management
9 9 (10.71%) Validation
9 9 (10.71%) Verification and Validation
10 7 (8.33%) Change Management
11 6 (7.14%) Contract Management
11 6 (7.14%) SDLC
11 6 (7.14%) Visualisation
12 5 (5.95%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 43 (51.19%) C#
1 43 (51.19%) C++
2 38 (45.24%) C
3 10 (11.90%) Java
3 10 (11.90%) SQL
4 6 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.14%) Python
5 2 (2.38%) Apex Code
5 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) PMP
4 2 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) Degree
5 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) PgMP
5 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.19%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (1.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) PMO
2 3 (3.57%) QA
3 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.19%) GxP
4 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
1 2 (2.38%) LXC
2 1 (1.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Proxmox
1 2 (2.38%) Terraform
2 1 (1.19%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 12 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
2 4 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (2.38%) Informatica
3 2 (2.38%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (2.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (2.38%) Talend
4 1 (1.19%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.19%) Google
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.19%) Workday