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Two years' experience. In lieu of "I have two years of experience." Chicago Manual of Style 7.24. but, New Year's Eve (a true possessive) One-year experience (one-way street) One year of experience. My experience of one year. My experience from two years ago
Bob has 4 years' experience. (="4 years' worth of experience", "experience of 4 years".) Or Bob has 4 years of experience, of course. The phrase Bob's 4‑year experience with C# is meaningful too, but wouldn't normally be useful in this context. One can't ask about "number of years experience" in that sense, not with any apostrophe option.
10+ years of experience is proper. Units of time like years can also be used in a possessive sense, so you can also say 10+ years' experience. See this question and this question for more details about that. In formal writing you should not use 10+ years experience without the apostrophe, but then you would not normally say "10+" in normal ...
If the term is over a year but less than 2 years, I'd rather say something like . experience of over a year. or . over one year of experience. or similar to yours but meaningful- 1+ years of experience. It is also good enough to write exact term in years and months since you mentioned resumés, like . An experience of one year and four months.
"Years/years of experience have taught" is actually more common here than "years of experience has taught". The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) has 2 hits for "years of experience has" vs. 11 hits for "years of experience have".
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Common usage would be years' when talking about more than one year in a possessive sense. Seven years' means it belongs to a group of more than one year. I am a super hero with seven years' experience in blowing out fires with my exhalation. Compare with: It had been years since I last blew out fires with my exhalation.
20+ is an informal yet concise way to represent 20 or more or at least 20. In actual formal writing, it's better to write: Jake has over twenty years of experience. On the other hand, +20 or 20-is normally never used. -20 has a different purpose.
If you had only one year of experience you would write: I have one year's experience working in... That is how you use the possessive apostrophe with a single year. However, as you have multiple years of experience, you should write: I have five years' experience working in...
I have experience [verb]. E.g., I have experience programming databases; I also have experience teaching adults to swim. I have experience with [general noun]. E.g., I have experience with heartbreak. I have experience in [field of knowledge or skill]. E.g., I have experience in electrical engineering.