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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 30 19
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 7.92% 5.45% 5.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.10% 23.40% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile £355 £524 £159
25th Percentile £425 £576 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% +7.84%
75th Percentile £628 £663 £594
90th Percentile £700 £781 £640
Gloucestershire median daily rate £375 £470 £525
% change year-on-year -20.21% -10.48% +18.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £48.07 - £41.00

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 21 47 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 20.79% 23.27% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 21
10th Percentile £425 £529 £388
25th Percentile £463 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £681 £700
90th Percentile £685 £726 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £425 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -29.17% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.25
25th Percentile - - £69.38
Median hourly rate - - £76.25
75th Percentile - - £83.13
90th Percentile - - £87.25
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% -10.26% +90.10%

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 7 November 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MSI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Support 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 Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support 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 5 (62.50%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Android
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Application Packaging
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Security Patching
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow