Windows Contracts in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 23 5
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 40 59 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 12.54% 7.03% 21.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.33% 54.13% 73.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 42 128
10th Percentile £223 £258 £168
25th Percentile £450 £293 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -17.65% +39.34%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £581
90th Percentile £585 £650 £657
East of England median daily rate £225 £300 £300
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 16
10th Percentile £16.95 £39.71 £16.56
25th Percentile £17.87 - £41.01
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% - +64.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £73.94
90th Percentile £67.85 - £74.50
East of England median hourly rate £30.91 £14.16 £17.00
% change year-on-year +118.29% -16.71% +8.01%

All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 75 109 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 23.51% 12.99% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 67 182
10th Percentile £300 £261 £186
25th Percentile £444 £313 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £557 £600 £650
90th Percentile £588 £680 £738
East of England median daily rate £383 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 16
10th Percentile £16.95 £53.50 £16.56
25th Percentile £22.65 £58.75 £41.01
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £73.94
90th Percentile £87.50 - £74.50
East of England median hourly rate £45.91 £32.75 £17.75
% change year-on-year +40.20% +84.48% -12.99%

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 2 May 2025.

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 2 May 2025.

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 2 May 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 +20 21 £450 -18.18% 22
Welwyn Garden City +4 8 £240 +45.45% 3
Hatfield +5 7 £560 +65.93% 11
Letchworth - 1 - -
Hoddesdon - 1 £215 -
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 4 (10.00%) CMS
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) Skype for Business
2 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (2.50%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Entra ID
2 5 (12.50%) Cohesity
2 5 (12.50%) Google Workspace
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.50%) Azure
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) DNS
2 4 (10.00%) Ethernet
2 4 (10.00%) Skype
2 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.50%) SAN
3 3 (7.50%) SMTP
3 3 (7.50%) SpaceWire
4 2 (5.00%) FTP
4 2 (5.00%) HTTP
4 2 (5.00%) SSL
5 1 (2.50%) Firewall
5 1 (2.50%) IMAP
5 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.50%) RS-232
5 1 (2.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (12.50%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) MSI
3 1 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Military
4 3 (7.50%) Aerospace
4 3 (7.50%) Law
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Aviation
6 1 (2.50%) Avionics
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Analyst
2 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
3 4 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Senior
3 4 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Electrical Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Information Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Information Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Junior
5 2 (5.00%) Solutions Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Messaging Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) Node.js
1 4 (10.00%) Web Services
2 2 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) iPad
1 5 (12.50%) iPhone
2 4 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.00%) Cyberattack
3 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) PKI
3 2 (5.00%) Smartcard
3 2 (5.00%) YubiKey
4 1 (2.50%) CAN bus
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Linux
2 8 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 5 (12.50%) Unix
4 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.50%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (30.00%) Agile
3 7 (17.50%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (17.50%) Customer Service
3 7 (17.50%) Mobile Device Management
3 7 (17.50%) PRINCE2
3 7 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (15.00%) ITSM
4 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (15.00%) Validation
5 5 (12.50%) Digital Twin
5 5 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (12.50%) Synthetic Environment
6 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (10.00%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (10.00%) TDD
6 4 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.00%) C++
3 5 (12.50%) C#
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) Bash
5 3 (7.50%) C
5 3 (7.50%) Java
5 3 (7.50%) Python
5 3 (7.50%) Tcl
5 3 (7.50%) VBA
6 2 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 21 (52.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (12.50%) WSUS
3 4 (10.00%) SCCM
4 3 (7.50%) Ansible
5 2 (5.00%) Nessus
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.50%) SCOM
6 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Apple
2 7 (17.50%) Samsung
2 7 (17.50%) SOTI
3 6 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 6 (15.00%) Splunk
4 5 (12.50%) Google
4 5 (12.50%) MobileIron
4 5 (12.50%) Nexthink
4 5 (12.50%) VMware
5 4 (10.00%) Darktrace
5 4 (10.00%) FireEye
5 4 (10.00%) LogRhythm
6 3 (7.50%) NetApp
6 3 (7.50%) Tenable
7 2 (5.00%) Computacenter
7 2 (5.00%) EMC
7 2 (5.00%) HP
7 2 (5.00%) Oracle
7 2 (5.00%) Symantec