Windows Contracts in Cheltenham

Microsoft Windows
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 31 23
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 -15
Contract jobs citing Windows 5 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 6.67% 5.38% 6.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.25% 25.45% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile £349 £367 £139
25th Percentile £446 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +8.70% +43.75%
75th Percentile £678 £650 £657
90th Percentile £714 £760 £703
Gloucestershire median daily rate £196 £470 £510
% change year-on-year -58.24% -7.84% +27.50%

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 16 55 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 21.33% 21.15% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 33 25
10th Percentile £429 - £503
25th Percentile £525 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +57.58%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £713
90th Percentile £726 £735 £800
Gloucestershire median daily rate £250 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -55.56% +2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -10.26% +345.71%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Cheltenham.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Cheltenham

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Cheltenham

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Cheltenham.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Cheltenham

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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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Digital
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Agile
1 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) ITSM
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Release Management
1 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow