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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 12 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 10.17% 9.76% 5.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.86% 34.78% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 7
10th Percentile - £592 £159
25th Percentile £156 £607 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £163 £615 £400
Median % change year-on-year -73.58% +53.75% -38.46%
75th Percentile £169 £623 £613
90th Percentile £230 - £678
Gloucestershire median daily rate £300 £550 £325
% change year-on-year -45.45% +69.23% -25.71%
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 28 23 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 23.73% 28.05% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 20
10th Percentile - £529 £185
25th Percentile £156 £571 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +11.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £728
90th Percentile £613 £625 £775
Gloucestershire median daily rate £425 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -29.17% +33.33% -15.09%
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 £89.00 £68.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +30.88% +223.81% -73.08%

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 28 March 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 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) NAS
1 1 (8.33%) SAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) MSI
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) Desktop Support
1 9 (75.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Agile
2 1 (8.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (8.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (8.33%) FinOps
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (8.33%) ITSM
2 1 (8.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (8.33%) Scrum
2 1 (8.33%) Service Management
2 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) EMC
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) VMware