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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing Windows 13 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 10.08% 17.86% 4.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.33% 41.67% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 7
10th Percentile - £542 £389
25th Percentile £156 £608 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £163 £615 £625
Median % change year-on-year -73.58% -1.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £169 £623 £631
90th Percentile £414 £646 £653
Gloucestershire median daily rate £215 £500 £350
% change year-on-year -57.00% +42.86% -26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £195.00 £70.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +178.57% +400.00% +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 30 24 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 23.26% 42.86% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 25
10th Percentile - £516 £521
25th Percentile £156 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +9.33% -13.46%
75th Percentile £613 £624 £630
90th Percentile - £690 £755
Gloucestershire median daily rate £350 £600 £535
% change year-on-year -41.67% +12.10% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £195.00 £70.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +178.57% +400.00% -82.05%

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 27 May 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 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) Wireless
2 1 (7.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Desktop Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Desktop Support
1 9 (69.23%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Lead
2 1 (7.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) NOC Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
2 2 (15.38%) ITSM
2 2 (15.38%) Service Management
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.69%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
3 1 (7.69%) FinOps
3 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Observability
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Stability
3 1 (7.69%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) C
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kibana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) logstash
2 1 (7.69%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) EMC
3 1 (7.69%) Infoblox
3 1 (7.69%) NetScout
3 1 (7.69%) Remedy
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) VMware