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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 87 104 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 19.64% 15.01% 19.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.50% 74.29% 68.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 106
10th Percentile £162 £261 £168
25th Percentile £464 £405 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% +69.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile - £585 £675
East of England median daily rate £335 £493 £300
% change year-on-year -31.98% +64.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 16
10th Percentile £16.95 £62.50 £17.13
25th Percentile £29.52 - £22.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile £65.75 £65.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -34.62% +209.52% -3.45%

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 127 140 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 28.67% 20.20% 27.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 80 160
10th Percentile £225 £289 £180
25th Percentile £465 £350 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £641
90th Percentile - £605 £700
East of England median daily rate £450 £483 £425
% change year-on-year -6.78% +13.59% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 26 17
10th Percentile £17.69 £57.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £62.50 £24.73
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £66.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £67.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £57.00 £65.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -12.31% +205.09% -52.66%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -1 54 £550 - 32
Welwyn Garden City - 13 £675 - 2
Hatfield +2 9 £500 +53.85% 3
Watford -2 5 £550 +43.79% 7
St Albans - 2 £240 - 1
Broxbourne - 1 - -
Letchworth - 1 £175 - 2
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 5 (5.75%) Apache
1 5 (5.75%) IIS
1 5 (5.75%) WebSphere
2 3 (3.45%) CMS
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.29%) Cohesity
2 10 (11.49%) Entra ID
2 10 (11.49%) Google Workspace
3 5 (5.75%) Azure
3 5 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.15%) IaaS
4 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (29.89%) DNS
2 22 (25.29%) SAN
3 16 (18.39%) TCP/IP
4 15 (17.24%) Ethernet
5 6 (6.90%) SpaceWire
6 4 (4.60%) RS-232
7 3 (3.45%) Firewall
7 3 (3.45%) VLAN
8 2 (2.30%) DHCP
8 2 (2.30%) Skype
9 1 (1.15%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.15%) FTP
9 1 (1.15%) HTTP
9 1 (1.15%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.15%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.15%) NAS
9 1 (1.15%) SMTP
9 1 (1.15%) SSL
9 1 (1.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.75%) DB2
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) Eclipse
1 16 (18.39%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) GitLab
3 1 (1.15%) MSI
General
1 36 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.39%) Presentation Skills
3 15 (17.24%) Military
4 8 (9.20%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Aviation
5 4 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.30%) Law
6 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.15%) Avionics
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (21.84%) Software Engineer
2 16 (18.39%) C# Software Engineer
3 15 (17.24%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) Analyst
4 7 (8.05%) IT Support
4 7 (8.05%) Support Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) Junior
6 5 (5.75%) 1st Line Support
6 5 (5.75%) Consultant
6 5 (5.75%) IT Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Junior IT Support
6 5 (5.75%) Maximo Consultant
7 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Junior Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Senior
8 3 (3.45%) IT Support Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Junior Support Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Support Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.99%) Web Services
2 15 (17.24%) Node.js
3 5 (5.75%) SOAP
3 5 (5.75%) XML
4 1 (1.15%) LDAP
4 1 (1.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) iPad
1 10 (11.49%) iPhone
2 4 (4.60%) CAN bus
2 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.45%) FPGA
3 3 (3.45%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.45%) PCIe
3 3 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (3.45%) State Machine
4 2 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.30%) PKI
5 1 (1.15%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.15%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Replication
5 1 (1.15%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.15%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 32 (36.78%) Linux
2 30 (34.48%) Windows Server
3 21 (24.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (24.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (12.64%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.45%) Unix
6 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.15%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.29%) CI/CD
1 22 (25.29%) Validation
2 21 (24.14%) Agile
2 21 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (24.14%) SIEM
3 20 (22.99%) Build Automation
3 20 (22.99%) Deployment Automation
3 20 (22.99%) Operations Management
4 19 (21.84%) Software Engineering
5 17 (19.54%) Unit Testing
6 16 (18.39%) Synthetic Environment
7 15 (17.24%) Digital Twin
7 15 (17.24%) ITSM
7 15 (17.24%) Verification and Validation
7 15 (17.24%) Visualisation
8 14 (16.09%) Continuous Delivery
8 14 (16.09%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (16.09%) TDD
9 10 (11.49%) Customer Service
9 10 (11.49%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 20 (22.99%) JavaScript
3 19 (21.84%) C#
3 19 (21.84%) C++
4 10 (11.49%) Python
5 6 (6.90%) SQL
6 4 (4.60%) Bash
7 3 (3.45%) C
7 3 (3.45%) Java
7 3 (3.45%) Tcl
7 3 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 27 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 23 (26.44%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.05%) Degree
5 3 (3.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) SLA
3 1 (1.15%) GMP
3 1 (1.15%) GxP
System Software
1 28 (32.18%) Active Directory
2 22 (25.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (22.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (22.99%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.30%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (26.44%) SCCM
1 23 (26.44%) WSUS
2 22 (25.29%) Ansible
3 7 (8.05%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.15%) Nessus
5 1 (1.15%) SCOM
5 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (63.22%) Microsoft
2 24 (27.59%) Splunk
3 23 (26.44%) VMware
4 21 (24.14%) NetApp
5 10 (11.49%) Google
5 10 (11.49%) MobileIron
5 10 (11.49%) Nexthink
5 10 (11.49%) ServiceNow
6 8 (9.20%) Apple
7 7 (8.05%) Samsung
7 7 (8.05%) SOTI
8 5 (5.75%) IBM
9 4 (4.60%) Twitter
10 3 (3.45%) Darktrace
10 3 (3.45%) FireEye
10 3 (3.45%) LogRhythm
11 2 (2.30%) EMC
11 2 (2.30%) HP
11 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.30%) Tenable