Windows Contracts in Cumbria

Microsoft Windows
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 16 30 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 8.21% 11.58% 7.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.26% 90.91% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £238 £213 £425
25th Percentile £360 £264 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £354 £426
Median % change year-on-year +48.31% -16.90% +0.24%
75th Percentile £538 £452 -
90th Percentile - £506 -
North West median daily rate £338 £350 £425
% change year-on-year -3.57% -17.65% +54.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 28 0
10th Percentile £71.76 - -
25th Percentile £74.10 - -
Median hourly rate £80.59 £10.95 -
Median % change year-on-year +635.96% - -
75th Percentile £84.48 - -
90th Percentile £85.26 £11.32 -
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £13.00 £28.70
% change year-on-year +34.15% -54.70% +59.44%

All Operating Systems
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 27 33 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 13.85% 12.74% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £238 £296 £425
25th Percentile £360 - £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £426
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% +10.33% +0.24%
75th Percentile £538 £476 £432
90th Percentile - £516 £443
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 28 0
10th Percentile £71.76 - -
25th Percentile £74.10 - -
Median hourly rate £80.59 £10.95 -
Median % change year-on-year +635.96% - -
75th Percentile £84.48 - -
90th Percentile £85.26 £11.32 -
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Cumbria

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Cumbria

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Cumbria over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Cumbria

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Cumbria

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness 0 6 £465 -
Carlisle - 1 £275 - 5
Windows
North West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (43.75%) SharePoint
3 4 (25.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
1 9 (56.25%) Entra ID
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) DHCP
1 12 (75.00%) DNS
2 6 (37.50%) WAN
3 5 (31.25%) LAN
4 4 (25.00%) Skype
4 4 (25.00%) VLAN
4 4 (25.00%) VPN
4 4 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (6.25%) Firewall
5 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (6.25%) Wireless
General
1 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Military
2 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Deployment Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Field Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) SCCM Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
2 6 (37.50%) VMS
3 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (18.75%) Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Android
5 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) ITSM
2 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (43.75%) ITIL
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (31.25%) Service Management
6 4 (25.00%) Disk Encryption
7 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
7 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (12.50%) Demand Management
7 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
8 1 (6.25%) Agile
8 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
8 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
8 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
8 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (6.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (25.00%) VB
1 4 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) BitLocker
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (43.75%) WSUS
2 4 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (68.75%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Apple
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco