Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Windows Server
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.13% - 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.11% - 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £346 - -
25th Percentile £378 - £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £170
Median % change year-on-year - - -60.00%
75th Percentile £553 - £180
90th Percentile £589 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £470
% change year-on-year - +17.02% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 £51.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year -68.93% +221.88% -37.86%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 36 37 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.14% 9.74% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 39
10th Percentile £163 £225 £132
25th Percentile £185 £344 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £448 £500 £575
90th Percentile £613 £595 £678
East of England median daily rate £403 £431 £465
% change year-on-year -6.67% -7.26% +24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 29
10th Percentile - £48.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £13.00 £49.38 £13.29
Median hourly rate £22.75 £57.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% +296.55% -13.36%
75th Percentile £39.28 £63.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £49.22 - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -34.62% +266.82% -45.27%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Cambridgeshire

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Cambridge - 2 £575 - 4
Peterborough - 2 £350 - 3
Windows Server
East of England

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Forensic Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Server Management
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) Kaspersky
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Sophos
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable