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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 32 20
Rank change year-on-year +20 -12 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 8.89% 5.56% 7.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 27.45% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile £341 £506 £139
25th Percentile £425 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +48.39%
75th Percentile £662 £663 £657
90th Percentile £707 £781 £703
Gloucestershire median daily rate £325 £470 £520
% change year-on-year -30.85% -9.62% +34.19%

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 20 51 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 22.22% 20.24% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 27
10th Percentile £411 £525 £510
25th Percentile £488 £528 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +60.00%
75th Percentile £653 £656 £713
90th Percentile £720 £710 £800
Gloucestershire median daily rate £375 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -33.33% +2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £46.10 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -34.15% -10.26% +155.61%

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
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 16 September 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 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%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) VoIP
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MSI
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
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 Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) 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 2012
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
2 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) ITSM
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Security Patching
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) VMware