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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 32 46
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 13 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.35% 3.52% 1.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.66% 32.14% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 6
10th Percentile - £342 £159
25th Percentile £356 £414 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £430 £220
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +95.45% -32.31%
75th Percentile £515 £470 £245
90th Percentile - £471 -
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £240
% change year-on-year - +87.50% -43.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.72 - -
Median hourly rate £29.48 - -
75th Percentile £30.24 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £53.00 £14.31
% change year-on-year -57.55% +270.37% -37.69%

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 47 28 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.11% 10.94% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 21 24
10th Percentile £218 £180 £159
25th Percentile £318 £313 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £273
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +57.80% -12.80%
75th Percentile £514 £470 £496
90th Percentile £518 £588 £650
East of England median daily rate £363 £375 £325
% change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 26
10th Percentile £19.49 - £13.29
25th Percentile £20.50 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.04 - £14.08
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.16%
75th Percentile £31.21 - £15.35
90th Percentile £34.39 - £66.25
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £15.63
% change year-on-year -58.33% +245.49% -11.94%

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 19 April 2026.

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 19 April 2026. 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 -1 7 £510 +18.60% 4
Huntingdon -1 5 £363 -
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 5 (38.46%) Apache
1 5 (38.46%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
2 3 (23.08%) Mimecast
2 3 (23.08%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) DHCP
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Switch Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Network Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Network Support
4 2 (15.38%) Network Support Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) IT Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) PRINCE2
2 5 (38.46%) Server Building
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (7.69%) Facilities Management
4 1 (7.69%) High Availability
4 1 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) vSphere
2 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
2 4 (30.77%) VMware NSX
3 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Palo Alto
2 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.69%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Thales