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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 20 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -15 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 22 42 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.97% 8.48% 16.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.86% 84.00% 65.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 47
10th Percentile £179 £149 £150
25th Percentile £238 £200 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £240 £288
Median % change year-on-year +68.23% -16.52% -22.82%
75th Percentile £451 £460 £428
90th Percentile £472 £541 £500
East of England median daily rate £225 £295 £300
% change year-on-year -23.73% -1.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 22 35
10th Percentile - £13.36 -
25th Percentile - - £13.29
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% -
75th Percentile - £14.16 £18.50
90th Percentile - £66.25 £19.26
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £14.16 £17.00
% change year-on-year +177.68% -16.71% +8.01%

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 35 50 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.68% 10.10% 25.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 78
10th Percentile £186 £156 £150
25th Percentile £313 £200 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £273 £363
Median % change year-on-year +56.88% -24.83% -14.71%
75th Percentile £471 £477 £484
90th Percentile £573 £629 £510
East of England median daily rate £383 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 25 41
10th Percentile - £13.57 -
25th Percentile - £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate - £14.16 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year - -2.95% +0.62%
75th Percentile - £25.18 £18.88
90th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
% change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%

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 May 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 May 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 9 £428 +78.13% 70
Peterborough 0 3 £180 -40.98% 33
Huntingdon 0 2 £383 +91.25% 3
Wisbech - 1 £185 -
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 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Nutanix
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (18.18%) LAN
1 4 (18.18%) NAS
1 4 (18.18%) SAN
1 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 4 (18.18%) WAN
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Electronics
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Administrator
2 4 (18.18%) DevOps Administrator
2 4 (18.18%) IT Support
2 4 (18.18%) Support Officer
2 4 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (9.09%) C++ Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer in Test
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Database Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (4.55%) Security Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Clustering
1 4 (18.18%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (18.18%) Molecular Biology
1 4 (18.18%) Replication
2 3 (13.64%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Windows Server
2 8 (36.36%) Linux
3 4 (18.18%) Ubuntu
4 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) ITIL
1 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (36.36%) Problem Management
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Biology
4 4 (18.18%) Capacity Management
4 4 (18.18%) Change Management
4 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (18.18%) Data Management
4 4 (18.18%) DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (18.18%) Proactive Maintenance
4 4 (18.18%) Proactive Management
4 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) Resource Management
4 4 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
2 2 (9.09%) C++
2 2 (9.09%) Groovy
2 2 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) Hyper-V
3 4 (18.18%) Docker
3 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (18.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (18.18%) Podman
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Red Hat
3 4 (18.18%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (18.18%) NetApp
3 4 (18.18%) VMware
4 2 (9.09%) HP
4 2 (9.09%) SAP
5 1 (4.55%) Apple
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds