Windows Contract Job Trends in Cirencester

Microsoft Windows
Gloucestershire > Cirencester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cirencester requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cirencester 15.38% - 87.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - £350
75th Percentile - - £394
90th Percentile - - £405
Gloucestershire median daily rate £215 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -49.41% +21.43% -26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £195.00 £70.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +178.57% +400.00% +16.67%

All Operating Systems
Cirencester

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 Cirencester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cirencester 15.38% - 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - £350
75th Percentile - - £394
90th Percentile - - £405
Gloucestershire median daily rate £363 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -39.58% +11.63% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
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 Cirencester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cirencester.

Windows job vacancy trend in Cirencester

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Cirencester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cirencester citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cirencester citing Windows

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Cirencester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cirencester citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cirencester citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cirencester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Server Migrations
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory