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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 29 20
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 -13
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 7.22% 5.80% 6.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.84% 25.49% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £341 £506 £166
25th Percentile £425 £550 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +36.36%
75th Percentile £662 £663 £625
90th Percentile £707 £781 £704
Gloucestershire median daily rate £348 £470 £523
% change year-on-year -26.06% -10.05% +17.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.00 - £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 19 51 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 19.59% 22.77% 26.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 25
10th Percentile £433 £525 £398
25th Percentile £463 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +38.30%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £713
90th Percentile £645 £718 £800
Gloucestershire median daily rate £413 £569 £588
% change year-on-year -27.47% -3.19% +14.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £68.00
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 21 October 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 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MSI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Digital
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows 10
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Application Packaging
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
2 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow