Agile Contracts in Watford

Agile Software Development
Hertfordshire > Watford

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Watford 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Agile 11 15 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 9.40% 10.27% 14.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% 12.82% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 16
10th Percentile £403 £513 £413
25th Percentile £406 £578 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £688 £556
Median % change year-on-year -38.18% +23.60% +46.38%
75th Percentile £538 £788 £738
90th Percentile £703 - £756
Hertfordshire median daily rate £425 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -16.91% -2.57% +3.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 110 117 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 94.02% 80.14% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 83 106
10th Percentile £293 £200 £238
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +21.21% +16.47%
75th Percentile £606 £763 £625
90th Percentile £740 £939 £638
Hertfordshire median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £13.58 - £26.50
25th Percentile £13.69 £21.00 £32.50
Median hourly rate £14.75 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% -37.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £16.06 £34.35 £37.50
90th Percentile £16.33 £38.64 £44.40
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.85
% change year-on-year -23.08% +27.83% +13.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Watford

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Watford

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Watford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Watford over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Watford

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Watford

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Watford

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 (27.27%) Apache
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Mendix
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Hive
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) Presto
1 2 (18.18%) SAP Data Services
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) HBase
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Maven
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Games
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) ETL Tester
2 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
2 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (18.18%) Visualforce
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Scrum
2 5 (45.45%) SDLC
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
3 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) CRM
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Operations Management
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Product Backlog
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Apex Code
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) PMP
2 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) PgMP
3 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 1 (9.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GxP
2 1 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (9.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Informatica
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
1 2 (18.18%) Talend
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle