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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 32 19
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows 6 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 5.88% 3.76% 5.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.58% 17.07% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile - £502 £153
25th Percentile £425 £524 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £560 £488
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +14.87% -11.36%
75th Percentile £559 £725 £597
90th Percentile £621 £823 £669
Gloucestershire median daily rate £386 £470 £545
% change year-on-year -17.82% -13.76% +36.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £63.14 - £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 41 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 18.63% 22.04% 23.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 18
10th Percentile £436 £520 £327
25th Percentile £463 £568 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £694
90th Percentile £636 £733 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £425 £544 £575
% change year-on-year -21.84% -5.43% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
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 28 November 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
1 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Security Patching
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft