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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 113 268 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 12.75% 13.52% 16.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.33% 81.46% 79.49%
Number of salaries quoted 87 242 164
10th Percentile £32,000 £24,250 £24,300
25th Percentile £41,375 £26,438 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -11.76% +19.72%
75th Percentile £63,125 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £61,250
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £32,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year +30.77% -15.58% +2.67%

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 150 329 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 16.93% 16.60% 21.37%
Number of salaries quoted 104 300 219
10th Percentile £34,325 £24,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £27,000 £31,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,375 £66,250 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £38,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.88% -14.44% +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 14 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 14 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 -13 16 £44,000 +50.43% 15
Stevenage +9 14 £41,250 +10.00% 23
Hemel Hempstead -2 12 £55,000 +10.00% 13
St Albans +1 10 £62,500 +83.82% 5
Borehamwood -2 10 £43,250 +64.76% 6
Hertford +3 4 £73,750 +126.92% 1
Potters Bar 0 3 £38,750 -12.92%
Hatfield +7 1 £26,000 -25.71% 8
Hitchin +6 1 £45,000 +60.71% 2
Waltham Cross +1 1 - -
Hoddesdon -2 1 - -
Radlett - 1 - -
Royston - 1 - - 5
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - - 9
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 22 (19.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (15.04%) SharePoint
3 14 (12.39%) IIS
4 3 (2.65%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (1.77%) Alfresco
5 2 (1.77%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (1.77%) Documentum
5 2 (1.77%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (50.44%) Azure
2 53 (46.90%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (25.66%) AWS
4 17 (15.04%) Power Platform
5 12 (10.62%) Entra ID
6 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (8.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (8.85%) PowerApps
8 7 (6.19%) Rubrik
9 5 (4.42%) Nutanix
10 4 (3.54%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.65%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.77%) Cohesity
12 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.88%) Cloudflare
13 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (26.55%) Firewall
2 12 (10.62%) Broadband
3 11 (9.73%) DNS
4 7 (6.19%) FTP
4 7 (6.19%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.31%) DHCP
5 6 (5.31%) VPN
5 6 (5.31%) WAN
6 4 (3.54%) LAN
6 4 (3.54%) VLAN
7 3 (2.65%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.77%) Converged Networks
8 2 (1.77%) IMAP
8 2 (1.77%) LLU
8 2 (1.77%) PBX
8 2 (1.77%) SAN
8 2 (1.77%) Skype
8 2 (1.77%) SMTP
8 2 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.77%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.35%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.19%) GIS
2 7 (6.19%) Power BI
3 6 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.77%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.88%) Git
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) Log4j
3 1 (0.88%) Subversion
General
1 38 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (6.19%) Finance
3 7 (6.19%) Local Government
4 6 (5.31%) Advertising
4 6 (5.31%) Retail
5 4 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.65%) Law
7 2 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.88%) Back Office
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (21.24%) Support Engineer
2 16 (14.16%) Applications Support
3 14 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (11.50%) Analyst
5 12 (10.62%) Senior
6 10 (8.85%) Support Analyst
6 10 (8.85%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) Technical Support
8 8 (7.08%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Applications Specialist
9 7 (6.19%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) IT Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Senior Applications Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Senior Applications Support
9 7 (6.19%) Senior Support Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.54%) LDAP
2 3 (2.65%) .NET
3 2 (1.77%) Web Services
3 2 (1.77%) XSLT
4 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Camel
4 1 (0.88%) CSS
4 1 (0.88%) HTML
4 1 (0.88%) REST
4 1 (0.88%) ServiceStack
4 1 (0.88%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.31%) Data Centre
1 6 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (5.31%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.54%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.77%) Blackberry
4 2 (1.77%) EPoS
4 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) iPad
5 1 (0.88%) iPhone
5 1 (0.88%) PKI
5 1 (0.88%) Robotics
5 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (38.05%) Linux
2 34 (30.09%) Windows Server
3 18 (15.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 17 (15.04%) Mac OS
5 15 (13.27%) Windows 10
6 8 (7.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (5.31%) Apple iOS
8 5 (4.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (3.54%) Android
10 3 (2.65%) Unix
11 2 (1.77%) Debian
11 2 (1.77%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.77%) VMS
11 2 (1.77%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (16.81%) ITIL
2 18 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (15.04%) Coaching
3 17 (15.04%) Customer Service
4 14 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (11.50%) DevOps
5 13 (11.50%) Proactive Maintenance
6 12 (10.62%) Broadcast Engineering
6 12 (10.62%) ITSM
6 12 (10.62%) Post-Production
6 12 (10.62%) Proactive Monitoring
6 12 (10.62%) Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (7.96%) Cloud Security
8 8 (7.08%) Asset Management
8 8 (7.08%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (7.08%) Cost Management
8 8 (7.08%) High Availability
8 8 (7.08%) Project Delivery
8 8 (7.08%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.43%) PowerShell
2 16 (14.16%) Python
3 12 (10.62%) Bash
3 12 (10.62%) SQL
4 7 (6.19%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.42%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.65%) C#
6 3 (2.65%) Java
7 2 (1.77%) C
7 2 (1.77%) Groovy
8 1 (0.88%) C++
8 1 (0.88%) Go
8 1 (0.88%) Tcl
8 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (28.32%) Degree
2 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.08%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.08%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.42%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.88%) MCP
7 1 (0.88%) MCSA
7 1 (0.88%) MCSE
7 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) SLA
2 4 (3.54%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.77%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (38.05%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.85%) Docker
4 9 (7.96%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.77%) pfSense
8 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (23.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.19%) NetBackup
3 3 (2.65%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.65%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.77%) Ansible
4 2 (1.77%) Autotask
4 2 (1.77%) cPanel
5 1 (0.88%) Graylog
5 1 (0.88%) SCCM
5 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (54.87%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.27%) VMware
3 12 (10.62%) Sun
4 7 (6.19%) Commvault
4 7 (6.19%) Zerto
5 4 (3.54%) Apple
6 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.77%) Cisco
7 2 (1.77%) Draytek
7 2 (1.77%) NetApp
7 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.77%) Workday
8 1 (0.88%) EMC
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle
8 1 (0.88%) Remedy
8 1 (0.88%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.88%) Toshiba
8 1 (0.88%) WatchGuard
8 1 (0.88%) Xamarin