Windows Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Microsoft Windows
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 16 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 13.22% 7.22% 6.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 30.43% 37.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 7
10th Percentile - £589 £159
25th Percentile £156 £608 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £163 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -73.58% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £475 £623 £619
90th Percentile £520 - £678
Gloucestershire median daily rate £413 £555 £275
% change year-on-year -25.68% +101.82% -37.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £62.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £142.00 - £14.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

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 32 23 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 26.45% 23.71% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 18
10th Percentile - £513 £309
25th Percentile £156 £543 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £615 £568
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +8.37% -12.69%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £734
90th Percentile £632 - £758
Gloucestershire median daily rate £450 £606 £425
% change year-on-year -25.77% +42.65% -19.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £62.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year - +223.81% -32.26%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Windows job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Cheltenham

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) NAS
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MSI
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Desktop Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) Desktop Support
1 9 (56.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Application Packaging
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (6.25%) Agile
3 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
3 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL
3 1 (6.25%) ITSM
3 1 (6.25%) Migration
3 1 (6.25%) Performance Testing
3 1 (6.25%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.25%) Scrum
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Kibana
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) EMC
2 1 (6.25%) Remedy
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) VMware