Windows Server Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Windows Server
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 55 39
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 7 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.24% 0.98% 2.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 10.87% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 11
10th Percentile £298 - £175
25th Percentile £396 £200 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £240 £298
Median % change year-on-year +79.17% -19.33% -30.00%
75th Percentile £470 £245 £325
90th Percentile £471 - £419
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +22.22% +9.09% +3.13%
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 £14.69 £12.86 £21.31
% change year-on-year +14.23% -39.65% -52.64%

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 35 46 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.22% 8.98% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 59
10th Percentile £180 £168 £161
25th Percentile £195 £219 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £278 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -34.71% -
75th Percentile £457 £513 £488
90th Percentile £479 £638 £565
East of England median daily rate £440 £478 £425
% change year-on-year -7.85% +12.35% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 31
10th Percentile - £14.14 £13.00
25th Percentile - £14.43 £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £57.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.39% +296.55% -6.45%
75th Percentile - £65.63 £20.26
90th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £60.00 £19.51
% change year-on-year -29.17% +207.53% -31.33%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Cambridgeshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Cambridgeshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Cambridgeshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Cambridgeshire

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 5 July 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 +3 2 £428 +78.13% 25
Huntingdon +1 1 £383 +91.25% 4
Wisbech - 1 £185 -
Windows Server
East of England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Nutanix
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
4 3 (42.86%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (42.86%) Proactive Management
4 3 (42.86%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (28.57%) Change Management
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Coaching
6 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 1 (14.29%) Server Building
6 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) DBS Check
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
3 3 (42.86%) Docker
3 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (42.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) Podman
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) NetApp
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Apple
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds