Windows Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 28 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -20 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 21 29 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.02% 5.57% 12.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.76% 64.44% 61.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 29
10th Percentile £178 £168 £150
25th Percentile £185 £200 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £240 £250
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £445 £318 £319
90th Percentile £470 £516 £438
East of England median daily rate £278 £400 £300
% change year-on-year -30.61% +33.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 27
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.60
25th Percentile - £14.12 £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £14.83 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.28% -3.33%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £17.69
90th Percentile - - £23.60
East of England median hourly rate £22.56 £63.75 £18.51
% change year-on-year -64.61% +244.36% -7.44%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

Windows 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 45 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.37% 8.64% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 57
10th Percentile £179 £168 £161
25th Percentile £193 £219 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 £278 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.96% -34.71% -
75th Percentile £464 £513 £488
90th Percentile £482 £638 £540
East of England median daily rate £450 £493 £425
% change year-on-year -8.63% +15.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 31
10th Percentile - £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile - £14.16 £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £57.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.39% +296.55% -6.45%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £20.26
90th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £19.51
% change year-on-year -20.83% +207.53% -31.33%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
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 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 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 +9 6 £190 -37.70% 17
Cambridge -5 6 £338 +40.63% 94
Huntingdon +1 1 £383 +91.25% 4
Wisbech - 1 £185 - 1
Windows
East of England

Windows
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 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (14.29%) Nutanix
2 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.76%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (9.52%) LAN
2 2 (9.52%) NAS
2 2 (9.52%) SAN
2 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) DHCP
3 1 (4.76%) DNS
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) IT Support
2 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Support Officer
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Molecular Biology
2 3 (14.29%) Clustering
2 3 (14.29%) Replication
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (9.52%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) ITIL
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Problem Management
3 4 (19.05%) Biology
3 4 (19.05%) Biomedicine
3 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (19.05%) Data Management
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Project Management
4 3 (14.29%) Capacity Management
4 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 3 (14.29%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (14.29%) Proactive Management
4 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 3 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (9.52%) Change Management
5 2 (9.52%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
3 3 (14.29%) Docker
3 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) SCCM
2 3 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (14.29%) Podman
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) NetApp
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) Apple
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds