Windows Contracts in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 60 165 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.15% 20.94% 16.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.56% 72.69% 67.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 123 63
10th Percentile £258 £173 £142
25th Percentile £300 £239 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £275
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +54.55% -14.46%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £400
90th Percentile £650 £650 £486
East of England median daily rate £295 £313 £325
% change year-on-year -5.60% -3.85% +14.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 18
10th Percentile £49.82 £16.89 £14.20
25th Percentile - £51.56 £21.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year - +64.35% +64.79%
75th Percentile - £74.31 £51.75
90th Percentile - £74.50 £55.00
East of England median hourly rate £14.16 £17.00 £15.87
% change year-on-year -16.71% +7.12% -2.34%

All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire

Windows is in the Operating Systems 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 operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 108 227 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 12.87% 28.81% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 177 90
10th Percentile £259 £195 £150
25th Percentile £313 £300 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £603 £650 £486
90th Percentile £683 £738 £566
East of England median daily rate £350 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 38
10th Percentile £54.00 £16.89 £19.18
25th Percentile - £51.56 £39.55
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +129.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.31 £60.00
90th Percentile - £74.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.31 £17.47 £20.50
% change year-on-year +130.74% -14.78% +24.24%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Hertfordshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Hertfordshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Hertfordshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Hertfordshire

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Hertfordshire

Windows
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 Windows within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 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 41 £550 +27.17% 16
Hatfield -10 8 £350 -36.36%
Watford -8 6 £333 +70.08% 10
Welwyn Garden City +3 1 £165 -45.00% 4
Hemel Hempstead -5 1 £575 -11.54% 7
Potters Bar - 1 £250 -
Windows
East of England

Windows
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 13 (21.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (20.00%) CMS
3 8 (13.33%) IIS
4 7 (11.67%) Tomcat
5 5 (8.33%) Apache
6 4 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2000
6 4 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.33%) BigCommerce
3 1 (1.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.33%) SMTP
1 11 (18.33%) TCP/IP
2 8 (13.33%) HTTP
3 6 (10.00%) Ethernet
4 5 (8.33%) H.323
5 4 (6.67%) FTP
6 3 (5.00%) DNS
6 3 (5.00%) SSL
7 2 (3.33%) SAN
8 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.67%) DHCP
8 1 (1.67%) Firewall
8 1 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Visual Studio
2 6 (10.00%) Eclipse
General
1 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Military
3 6 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.67%) Legal
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Analyst
2 12 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (15.00%) Messaging Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Senior
4 8 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (11.67%) C# Software Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Software Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Storage Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Technical Support
7 3 (5.00%) Implementation Specialist
7 3 (5.00%) Junior
7 3 (5.00%) Junior Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Applications Support
8 2 (3.33%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Desktop Support
8 2 (3.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) Web Services
2 6 (10.00%) Node.js
3 4 (6.67%) LDAP
4 2 (3.33%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 11 (18.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (15.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (8.33%) IVR
5 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.00%) BYOD
7 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (3.33%) iPad
7 2 (3.33%) iPhone
8 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.67%) Replication
8 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (56.67%) Linux
2 11 (18.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.67%) Android
5 4 (6.67%) Windows 2000
5 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.67%) Unix
8 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 9 (15.00%) Security Operations
4 8 (13.33%) Agile
4 8 (13.33%) Change Management
4 8 (13.33%) Digital Twin
4 8 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 8 (13.33%) Synthetic Environment
5 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 6 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (10.00%) TDD
5 6 (10.00%) Unit Testing
5 6 (10.00%) Validation
5 6 (10.00%) Verification and Validation
5 6 (10.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (8.33%) Asset Management
6 5 (8.33%) Capacity Management
7 4 (6.67%) Migration
7 4 (6.67%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.33%) C#
1 8 (13.33%) C++
2 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.33%) Python
4 2 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) MCP
5 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.67%) HDFS
3 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.67%) NFS
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) MAILsweeper
2 5 (8.33%) SCCM
3 3 (5.00%) WSUS
4 1 (1.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.00%) Darktrace
2 12 (20.00%) FireEye
2 12 (20.00%) LogRhythm
2 12 (20.00%) Splunk
3 10 (16.67%) Sophos
4 8 (13.33%) Trend Micro
4 8 (13.33%) VMware
5 7 (11.67%) NetApp
6 6 (10.00%) IronPort
7 5 (8.33%) Avaya
7 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
8 4 (6.67%) Verint
9 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
9 3 (5.00%) Symantec
10 2 (3.33%) Adobe
10 2 (3.33%) Apple
10 2 (3.33%) CheckPoint
10 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
10 2 (3.33%) SAP