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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.45% - 0.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.16% - 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £336 - £198
25th Percentile £352 - £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 - £355
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.47%
75th Percentile £499 - £419
90th Percentile £567 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £438
% change year-on-year - +25.71% +2.94%
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 £13.94 £32.88 £16.00
% change year-on-year -57.60% +105.50% -69.52%

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 38 33 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.01% 7.66% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 52
10th Percentile £173 £225 £137
25th Percentile £190 £255 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £394 £450
Median % change year-on-year -36.51% -12.50% +12.50%
75th Percentile £448 £556 £492
90th Percentile £545 £638 £575
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 22
10th Percentile - £48.63 £13.00
25th Percentile - £50.31 £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £57.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.39% +296.55% -11.96%
75th Percentile £34.43 £63.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £47.28 - £61.25
East of England median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -2.31% +182.61% -54.00%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 - 2
Peterborough - 2 £350 - 3
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 2
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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
1 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Database Security
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Line Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Security Management
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CEH
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) Kaspersky
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Sophos
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable