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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 33 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 9 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.38% 2.68% 0.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.37% 22.86% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 4
10th Percentile £304 £414 £153
25th Percentile £356 £415 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £430 £240
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +79.17% -41.82%
75th Percentile £375 £470 £245
90th Percentile £583 £471 -
East of England median daily rate £425 £430 £275
% change year-on-year -1.16% +56.36% -45.00%

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 49 35 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.96% 11.71% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 26
10th Percentile £191 £344 £143
25th Percentile £274 £375 £182
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £430 £305
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +40.98% -6.15%
75th Percentile £487 £473 £565
90th Percentile £564 £623 £681
East of England median daily rate £350 £366 £415
% change year-on-year -4.44% -11.75% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 38
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £47.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.08 £50.00 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -55.85% +253.11% -10.35%
75th Percentile £34.38 £52.50 £23.32
90th Percentile £43.34 - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £62.50 £14.16
% change year-on-year -64.00% +341.38% -30.07%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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
Huntingdon +2 5 £363 - 1
Cambridge -8 3 £575 +33.72% 3
Peterborough - 1 £350 -
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 (55.56%) Apache
1 5 (55.56%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) Mimecast
2 3 (33.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) DHCP
2 4 (44.44%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Switch Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Network Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Network Support
3 2 (22.22%) Network Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) IT Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) ITIL
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) PRINCE2
3 5 (55.56%) Server Building
4 1 (11.11%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Facilities Management
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Line Management
4 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 1 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Hyper-V
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
1 5 (55.56%) Palo Alto
1 5 (55.56%) SolarWinds
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) Kaspersky
3 1 (11.11%) Sophos
3 1 (11.11%) Thales