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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 13 31
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 3.57% 8.89% 5.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.17% 40.00% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £408 £341 £506
25th Percentile £419 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -20.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £491 £662 £663
90th Percentile £519 £707 £781
Gloucestershire median daily rate £340 £325 £470
% change year-on-year +4.62% -30.85% -9.62%

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 24 20 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.24% 22.22% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 26
10th Percentile £425 £411 £525
25th Percentile £508 £488 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.20% -5.77%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £666
90th Percentile £675 £670 £713
Gloucestershire median daily rate £515 £379 £563
% change year-on-year +35.97% -32.67% -4.26%

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
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%) Entra ID
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Technician
3 1 (14.29%) IT Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) NOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Service Management
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (28.57%) Application Packaging
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
3 1 (14.29%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) CCNA
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) KVM
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
3 1 (14.29%) NetScout
3 1 (14.29%) VMware