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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 47 39
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 5 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.49% 0.44% 2.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.71% 5.56% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile £238 - £257
25th Percentile £328 - £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £200 £298
Median % change year-on-year +112.25% -32.77% -30.00%
75th Percentile £471 - £331
90th Percentile £473 - £419
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £425
% change year-on-year - +29.41% +6.25%
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% -59.41%

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 34 36 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.15% 7.96% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 59
10th Percentile £169 £179 £158
25th Percentile £185 £225 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £420 £569 £488
90th Percentile £484 £638 £571
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 28
10th Percentile - £29.65 £13.00
25th Percentile - £51.25 £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £57.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.39% +296.55% -6.45%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £22.63
90th Percentile - £65.25 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +185.71% -49.85%

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 26 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 26 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
Peterborough +8 1 - - 4
Huntingdon -2 1 £383 +91.25% 7
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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 2 (40.00%) Proactive Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (20.00%) Forensic Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Network Management
4 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Server Building
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DBS Check
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%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Podman
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Tenable