Contract Management Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Contract Management
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Contract Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 37 64
Rank change year-on-year -28 +27 +5
Contract jobs citing Contract Management 2 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.24% 2.43% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 2.68% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £258 £503 £172
25th Percentile £334 £525 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £200
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +175.00% -63.64%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £481
90th Percentile £686 £673 £568
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £318
% change year-on-year -9.09% +73.23% -49.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
East of England median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

Contract Management 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 661 298 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 78.41% 90.58% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 151 258
10th Percentile £200 £375 £236
25th Percentile £406 £450 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £600
90th Percentile £750 £675 £704
East of England median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 79 315
10th Percentile £16.35 £20.03 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £43.13 £40.25
Median hourly rate £41.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.13% +26.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £81.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £78.80
East of England median hourly rate £23.83 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -40.44% - +81.82%

Contract Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Contract Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Contract Management job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Contract Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Contract Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Contract Management

Contract Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contract Management in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Contract Management in Hertfordshire

Contract Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Contract Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Contract Management

Contract Management
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 Contract Management within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 2026. 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 -19 1 £725 -
Rickmansworth - 1 £215 -
Contract Management
East of England

Contract Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Buyer
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Applications
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle