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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Agile 68 72 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 16.19% 9.41% 15.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.85% 10.71% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 16 64
10th Percentile £425 £186 £350
25th Percentile £450 £200 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £650
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -36.54% +15.56%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £728
90th Percentile £675 £613 £784
East of England median daily rate £500 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 45 36
10th Percentile £61.65 £60.00 £62.50
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £66.50 - £69.06
90th Percentile £67.00 - £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 381 672 675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.71% 87.84% 86.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 234 366
10th Percentile £249 £213 £260
25th Percentile £425 £306 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £405 £524
Median % change year-on-year +35.80% -22.67% +4.75%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £675 £700 £744
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 294 152
10th Percentile £16.94 £31.50 £17.88
25th Percentile £29.02 £38.12 £49.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +23.81%
75th Percentile £67.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £70.00 £89.75
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%

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 22 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 22 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 +8 33 £500 - 40
Hatfield +8 16 £555 +177.50% 11
Welwyn Garden City +2 6 £488 - 3
Watford +4 3 £313 -26.47% 18
Harpenden - 2 - -
St Albans - 2 £475 - 7
Hemel Hempstead +8 1 £463 -22.92% 26
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 (4.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) IBM Domino
2 2 (2.94%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.47%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (1.47%) Sketch
3 1 (1.47%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) SAP LE
1 3 (4.41%) SAP WM
2 1 (1.47%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.24%) npm
2 7 (10.29%) Entra ID
3 5 (7.35%) Azure
4 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.47%) AWS
5 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.47%) GCP
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.47%) OCI
5 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.47%) SaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Serverless
5 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.71%) Ethernet
1 10 (14.71%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.82%) Firewall
3 4 (5.88%) Wireless
4 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) DB2
1 2 (2.94%) InfluxDB
1 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (1.47%) Big Data
2 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (27.94%) Visual Studio
2 13 (19.12%) JIRA
3 10 (14.71%) Eclipse
3 10 (14.71%) GitLab
4 9 (13.24%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.47%) Git
6 1 (1.47%) Selenium
6 1 (1.47%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (14.71%) Military
5 8 (11.76%) Finance
6 3 (4.41%) Retail
6 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Law
7 2 (2.94%) Local Government
7 2 (2.94%) Police
8 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.47%) Games
8 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) Software Engineer
2 10 (14.71%) C# Software Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) C++ Software Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) Developer
4 7 (10.29%) Analyst
5 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Lead
7 3 (4.41%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.41%) Logistics Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.41%) Sales Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Senior
7 3 (4.41%) Service Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Software Development Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.41%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.94%) Node.js
2 10 (14.71%) .NET
2 10 (14.71%) .NET Framework
2 10 (14.71%) Web Services
3 9 (13.24%) AngularJS
3 9 (13.24%) CSS
3 9 (13.24%) HTML
3 9 (13.24%) React
3 9 (13.24%) Svelte
3 9 (13.24%) Vue
4 4 (5.88%) SAP PI
5 3 (4.41%) REST
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (2.94%) RESTful
7 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.47%) ggplot2
7 1 (1.47%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.47%) JSON
7 1 (1.47%) Shiny
7 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Data Structures
2 9 (13.24%) Algorithms
2 9 (13.24%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.29%) Management Information System
4 6 (8.82%) Operational Technology
5 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.47%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.47%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.82%) Linux
2 17 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (5.88%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 19 (27.94%) TDD
3 17 (25.00%) Validation
4 14 (20.59%) PRINCE2
5 13 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (19.12%) Software Engineering
5 13 (19.12%) Software Testing
6 12 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 12 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (16.18%) DevOps
7 11 (16.18%) Unit Testing
7 11 (16.18%) Visualisation
8 10 (14.71%) Continuous Delivery
8 10 (14.71%) Design Patterns
8 10 (14.71%) Microservices
8 10 (14.71%) Roadmaps
8 10 (14.71%) SDLC
8 10 (14.71%) Synthetic Environment
8 10 (14.71%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 19 (27.94%) C#
3 17 (25.00%) C++
4 9 (13.24%) TypeScript
5 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.88%) Python
6 4 (5.88%) SQL
7 3 (4.41%) R
8 1 (1.47%) Bicep
8 1 (1.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) PMP
5 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.47%) ISEB
6 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) GxP
2 5 (7.35%) QA
3 3 (4.41%) PMO
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) ITGC
System Software
1 12 (17.65%) Docker
2 8 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.29%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (39.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) Apple
2 7 (10.29%) Samsung
2 7 (10.29%) SOTI
3 5 (7.35%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.88%) SAP
5 3 (4.41%) Databricks
5 3 (4.41%) Oracle
6 2 (2.94%) Computacenter
6 2 (2.94%) LabWare
7 1 (1.47%) Adobe
7 1 (1.47%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.47%) Planview
7 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.47%) Spotify
7 1 (1.47%) Tagetik