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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 13 31
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows 6 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 3.61% 6.41% 5.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 31.25% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £405 £349 £367
25th Percentile £413 £446 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% -2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £506 £678 £650
90th Percentile £525 £714 £760
Gloucestershire median daily rate £333 £273 £470
% change year-on-year +22.02% -42.02% -9.62%

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 24 16 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 14.46% 20.51% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 31
10th Percentile £475 £429 -
25th Percentile £508 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £613 £671 £656
90th Percentile £638 £726 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £450 £345 £550
% change year-on-year +30.43% -37.27% -

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
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 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
1 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Technician
3 1 (16.67%) IT Technician
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) NOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Service Management
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Stability
3 1 (16.67%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) CCNA
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
3 1 (16.67%) NetScout
3 1 (16.67%) VMware