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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 40 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 8 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.16% 1.43% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.18% 12.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £484 £336 -
25th Percentile £505 £352 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £383 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £515 £499 -
90th Percentile - £567 -
East of England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +22.22%

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 44 39 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.86% 11.17% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 15
10th Percentile £186 £163 £225
25th Percentile £198 £186 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £238 £425
Median % change year-on-year +77.89% -44.12% -5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £432 £538
90th Percentile £519 £534 £638
East of England median daily rate £345 £448 £450
% change year-on-year -22.91% -0.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £48.63
25th Percentile - - £50.31
Median hourly rate £34.13 £13.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +162.54% -77.39% +296.55%
75th Percentile - £34.43 £63.75
90th Percentile - £47.28 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +209.52%

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
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 17 September 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 +5 6 £510 -11.30% 5
Peterborough +9 1 - - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (37.50%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Runbook
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) vSphere
2 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware