Windows Jobs in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Windows 111 272 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.29% 13.13% 17.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 76.55% 79.30% 80.39%
Number of salaries quoted 81 245 164
10th Percentile £31,250 £24,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £27,000 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £61,250
East of England median annual salary £43,000 £32,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year +32.31% -15.58% -0.61%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 145 343 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 17.37% 16.55% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 95 311 215
10th Percentile £31,450 £24,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £27,000 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £40,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -16.67% +12.94%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,500 £65,000 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +5.88%

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
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Windows in Hertfordshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Hertfordshire

Windows
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Watford -15 16 £44,000 +41.94% 15
Stevenage +10 14 £41,250 +10.00% 19
Hemel Hempstead -4 12 £57,500 +21.05% 7
Borehamwood -2 11 £43,250 +66.35% 6
St Albans +1 10 £62,500 +83.82% 1
Hertford +5 4 £73,750 +126.92% 1
Welwyn Garden City - 3 - - 3
Hitchin +5 1 £45,000 +60.71% 4
Hatfield +3 1 £26,000 -25.71% 5
Potters Bar -1 1 - -
Waltham Cross -2 1 - -
Radlett - 1 - -
Royston - 1 - - 1
Cheshunt - 1 - -
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 21 (18.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (12.61%) IIS
2 14 (12.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.90%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.90%) Documentum
4 1 (0.90%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 60 (54.05%) Azure
2 52 (46.85%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (24.32%) AWS
4 18 (16.22%) Power Platform
5 17 (15.32%) Entra ID
6 12 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (9.91%) PowerApps
8 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (6.31%) Rubrik
10 5 (4.50%) Nutanix
11 4 (3.60%) IaaS
11 4 (3.60%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.70%) PaaS
13 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.80%) Google Workspace
13 2 (1.80%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
14 1 (0.90%) Cohesity
14 1 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (29.73%) Firewall
2 12 (10.81%) Broadband
3 11 (9.91%) DNS
4 8 (7.21%) DHCP
4 8 (7.21%) VPN
5 7 (6.31%) FTP
5 7 (6.31%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.60%) WAN
7 3 (2.70%) LAN
8 2 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.80%) SAN
9 1 (0.90%) IMAP
9 1 (0.90%) Intranet
9 1 (0.90%) IPv4
9 1 (0.90%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.90%) Skype
9 1 (0.90%) SMTP
9 1 (0.90%) SpaceWire
9 1 (0.90%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.31%) GIS
3 7 (6.31%) Power BI
4 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.90%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.80%) JIRA
2 2 (1.80%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.90%) Git
3 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) Subversion
General
1 41 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (6.31%) Finance
3 7 (6.31%) Local Government
4 6 (5.41%) Advertising
5 4 (3.60%) Retail
6 3 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Law
7 2 (1.80%) Legal
7 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.90%) Back Office
8 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (22.52%) Support Engineer
2 18 (16.22%) Analyst
3 15 (13.51%) Applications Support
3 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (11.71%) Support Analyst
5 12 (10.81%) Senior
6 10 (9.01%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Technical Support
7 9 (8.11%) IT Support
7 9 (8.11%) Technical Analyst
8 8 (7.21%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) IT Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Technical Support Analyst
9 7 (6.31%) 1st Line Technical Support
9 7 (6.31%) IT Analyst
9 7 (6.31%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.60%) LDAP
2 2 (1.80%) Web Services
2 2 (1.80%) XSLT
3 1 (0.90%) .NET
3 1 (0.90%) CSS
3 1 (0.90%) HTML
3 1 (0.90%) ServiceStack
3 1 (0.90%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.21%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (7.21%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.60%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.70%) Biopharmaceutical
4 3 (2.70%) iPad
4 3 (2.70%) iPhone
5 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.90%) Clustering
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.90%) PKI
6 1 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (36.04%) Windows Server
2 37 (33.33%) Linux
3 19 (17.12%) Mac OS
4 17 (15.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (9.91%) Windows 10
6 10 (9.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (6.31%) Apple iOS
8 5 (4.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.80%) Android
9 2 (1.80%) Debian
9 2 (1.80%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (17.12%) Customer Service
1 19 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (16.22%) ITIL
3 15 (13.51%) Coaching
3 15 (13.51%) DevOps
3 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (13.51%) Proactive Maintenance
4 14 (12.61%) ITSM
5 12 (10.81%) Broadcast Engineering
5 12 (10.81%) Post-Production
5 12 (10.81%) Proactive Monitoring
5 12 (10.81%) Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (9.01%) Cloud Security
6 10 (9.01%) Cost Management
6 10 (9.01%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (8.11%) Asset Management
7 9 (8.11%) High Availability
8 8 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (7.21%) Computer Science
8 8 (7.21%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (29.73%) PowerShell
2 15 (13.51%) Python
3 14 (12.61%) Bash
4 10 (9.01%) SQL
5 7 (6.31%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.80%) Groovy
7 2 (1.80%) Java
8 1 (0.90%) C
8 1 (0.90%) Tcl
8 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (31.53%) Degree
2 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.21%) DBS Check
4 7 (6.31%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.31%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) MCP
6 1 (0.90%) MCSA
6 1 (0.90%) MCSE
6 1 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) SLA
2 4 (3.60%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.80%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (39.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.11%) Docker
2 9 (8.11%) Hyper-V
2 9 (8.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (27.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.31%) NetBackup
3 4 (3.60%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (2.70%) SCCM
5 2 (1.80%) Ansible
5 2 (1.80%) Autotask
5 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (61.26%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) VMware
3 12 (10.81%) Sun
4 7 (6.31%) Commvault
4 7 (6.31%) Zerto
5 4 (3.60%) Apple
5 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.80%) Google
6 2 (1.80%) Okta
6 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.80%) Workday
7 1 (0.90%) EMC
7 1 (0.90%) NetApp
7 1 (0.90%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle
7 1 (0.90%) Remedy
7 1 (0.90%) WatchGuard