Windows Contracts in Cheltenham

Microsoft Windows
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 19 5
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 15 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 4.52% 9.26% 20.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.77% 60.00% 64.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 19
10th Percentile £321 £149 £145
25th Percentile £525 £286 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £444 £413
Median % change year-on-year +29.58% +7.58% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £689 £500
90th Percentile £698 £700 £579
Gloucestershire median daily rate £350 £440 £260
% change year-on-year -20.45% +69.23% -36.97%

All Operating Systems
Cheltenham

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 26 25 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 14.69% 15.43% 31.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 29
10th Percentile £503 £168 £155
25th Percentile £525 £319 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +17.50% +12.36%
75th Percentile £659 £700 £620
90th Percentile £775 - £659
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -10.53%

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 26 April 2024.

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

Windows
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%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) IPv4
1 2 (25.00%) OSPF
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Deskside Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ADO
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (25.00%) Puppet
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft