Windows Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Windows skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 36 15
Rank change year-on-year +19 -21 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 27 11 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.56% 2.51% 7.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.50% 26.83% 49.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 12
10th Percentile £163 £159 £133
25th Percentile £189 £201 £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £225 £180
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +25.00% -44.62%
75th Percentile £417 £238 £213
90th Percentile £448 £260 £273
East of England median daily rate £350 £470 £416
% change year-on-year -25.53% +12.91% +51.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 19
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - - £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 - £14.50
75th Percentile £34.43 - £17.11
90th Percentile £47.28 - £35.25
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -34.62% +251.35% -26.06%

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 40 41 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.20% 9.36% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 43
10th Percentile £163 £225 £133
25th Percentile £193 £314 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £443 £581 £509
90th Percentile £534 £638 £575
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 23
10th Percentile - £48.63 £13.06
25th Percentile - £50.31 £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £57.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.39% +296.55% -0.10%
75th Percentile £34.43 £63.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £47.28 - £74.25
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -34.62% +182.61% -54.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Windows

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 26 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 0 14 £328 +45.56% 37
Peterborough - 7 £213 - 12
Wisbech - 1 £155 -
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 4
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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) IIS
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
2 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
2 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) VLAN
2 2 (7.41%) Wireless
3 1 (3.70%) SAN
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.11%) Multimedia
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Wearables
6 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) IT Support
2 4 (14.81%) Deployment Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Support Officer
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (3.70%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) FastAPI
1 3 (11.11%) React
1 3 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Molecular Biology
2 2 (7.41%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.70%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
1 6 (22.22%) Windows 10
2 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) CentOS
3 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (18.52%) ITIL
1 5 (18.52%) Project Management
2 4 (14.81%) Biology
2 4 (14.81%) Biomedicine
2 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (14.81%) Data Management
2 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (14.81%) Software Testing
3 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
3 3 (11.11%) Data Collection
3 3 (11.11%) DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Migration
3 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (11.11%) Server Management
3 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 3 (11.11%) Validation
4 2 (7.41%) Agile
4 2 (7.41%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.41%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Bourne shell
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) CEH
2 1 (3.70%) CISSP
2 1 (3.70%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.70%) MCTS
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) SCCM
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco
3 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.41%) Dell
4 2 (7.41%) Intel
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) Kaspersky
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.70%) Sophos
5 1 (3.70%) Tenable