Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft Windows Server
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.51% 2.53% 2.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.82% 15.38% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £541 £413 £153
25th Percentile £547 £414 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £430 £240
Median % change year-on-year +33.72% +79.17% -26.15%
75th Percentile £603 £445 £245
90th Percentile £609 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £363 £430 £240
% change year-on-year -15.70% +79.17% -41.82%

All Operating Systems
Cambridge

Windows Server 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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 34 26 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 17.09% 16.46% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 18
10th Percentile £166 £328 £127
25th Percentile £283 £344 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £428 £240
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +78.13% -4.00%
75th Percentile £518 £492 £531
90th Percentile £605 £688 £562
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £400 £430 £305
% change year-on-year -6.98% +40.98% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £32.00 - £54.65
25th Percentile £33.13 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £70.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.81%
75th Percentile £45.43 - £77.50
90th Percentile £51.68 - £79.25
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £22.08 £50.00 £14.16
% change year-on-year -55.85% +253.11% -10.35%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Windows Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Windows Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (33.33%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Thales