Windows Contracts in Cheltenham

Microsoft Windows
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 29 19
Rank change year-on-year +19 -10 -13
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 16 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.31% 6.48% 7.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 32.00% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 10
10th Percentile £446 £427 £139
25th Percentile £607 £525 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% +55.17%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £642
90th Percentile £680 £718 £701
Gloucestershire median daily rate £250 £470 £477
% change year-on-year -46.81% -1.47% +138.50%

All Operating Systems
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 20 50 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 30.77% 20.24% 21.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 35 22
10th Percentile £513 £521 £296
25th Percentile £525 £525 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -7.69% +57.58%
75th Percentile £624 £675 £709
90th Percentile £718 £733 £800
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% +27.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £70.00 £42.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -46.15% +395.55%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Cheltenham

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Cheltenham

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Cheltenham

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) DHCP
3 4 (50.00%) HTTP
3 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall
4 1 (12.50%) LAN
4 1 (12.50%) VoIP
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
4 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Digital
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Android
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
1 3 (37.50%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Patching
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
1 4 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Puppet
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow