Developer Contracts in Hertfordshire

Developer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Developer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 58 23
Rank change year-on-year +43 -35 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 35 19 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.26% 2.53% 7.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.76% 2.71% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 48
10th Percentile £373 £361 £356
25th Percentile £403 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -27.27% +29.41%
75th Percentile £459 £452 £738
90th Percentile £538 £494 £775
East of England median daily rate £398 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -16.32% -13.64% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile - £56.50 -
25th Percentile - £58.75 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +85.71% -37.50%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £38.44
90th Percentile £66.13 £69.50 £51.38
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.20 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.69% +32.00% +22.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 451 700 767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 93.21% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 398 478
10th Percentile £263 £263 £225
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -4.72% +16.61%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £650
90th Percentile £625 £739 £738
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 150 128
10th Percentile £15.34 £17.75 £16.11
25th Percentile £36.70 £42.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +147.42%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £65.82
90th Percentile £74.25 £90.00 £70.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £43.15 £19.81
% change year-on-year +10.08% +117.82% +41.50%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Hertfordshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Hertfordshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Hertfordshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Hertfordshire

Developer
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 Developer within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +20 14 - - 3
Welwyn Garden City +3 6 £450 -7.69%
Letchworth -2 2 £600 +20.00%
Potters Bar - 2 - -
Hoddesdon - 2 - -
Hemel Hempstead +12 1 £525 +35.48% 6
Hatfield +3 1 £225 -43.75% 2
Rickmansworth - 1 £400 -
Developer
East of England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 14 (40.00%) C++
2 13 (37.14%) Linux
3 12 (34.29%) Visualisation
4 10 (28.57%) C#
5 9 (25.71%) C
5 9 (25.71%) Java
5 9 (25.71%) Data Analysis
6 8 (22.86%) Mathematics
6 8 (22.86%) Multithreading
6 8 (22.86%) MATLAB
6 8 (22.86%) Simulink
6 8 (22.86%) Mathematical Modelling
6 8 (22.86%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
8 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
8 6 (17.14%) TDD
9 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
9 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
9 5 (14.29%) Agile
9 5 (14.29%) Android
9 5 (14.29%) Python
9 5 (14.29%) Visual Studio
9 5 (14.29%) Eclipse
9 5 (14.29%) Synthetic Environment
9 5 (14.29%) Kotlin
9 5 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (14.29%) Mobile Development
9 5 (14.29%) Android Development
10 4 (11.43%) Node.js
10 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills

Developer Skill Set
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 2 (5.71%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Simulink
2 3 (8.57%) InVision
2 3 (8.57%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Azure
1 3 (8.57%) Figma
1 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.71%) AWS
3 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Ethernet
1 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
1 4 (11.43%) Wireless
2 1 (2.86%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Power BI
2 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.71%) DB2
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.86%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.86%) MS Access
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Eclipse
1 5 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) PROIV
3 1 (2.86%) PetaLinux
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Military
2 4 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Node.js
1 4 (11.43%) Web Services
2 2 (5.71%) HTML
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.86%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Micronaut
3 1 (2.86%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
1 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
1 2 (5.71%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) FMCG
2 1 (2.86%) FPGA
2 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.86%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Android
3 4 (11.43%) Windows
4 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Visualisation
2 9 (25.71%) Data Analysis
3 8 (22.86%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 8 (22.86%) Mathematical Modelling
3 8 (22.86%) Mathematics
3 8 (22.86%) Multithreading
4 6 (17.14%) TDD
5 5 (14.29%) Agile
5 5 (14.29%) Android Development
5 5 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (14.29%) Mobile Development
5 5 (14.29%) Synthetic Environment
6 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (11.43%) Digital Twin
6 4 (11.43%) Unit Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Validation
6 4 (11.43%) Verification and Validation
7 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (8.57%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) C++
2 10 (28.57%) C#
3 9 (25.71%) C
3 9 (25.71%) Java
4 8 (22.86%) MATLAB
5 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
6 5 (14.29%) Kotlin
6 5 (14.29%) Python
7 4 (11.43%) SQL
8 2 (5.71%) COBOL
8 2 (5.71%) JCL
9 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) HAProxy
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Sybase
2 1 (2.86%) Xilinx