Windows Contracts in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Windows
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 7 15 5
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 42 52 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 15.33% 12.12% 22.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.67% 60.47% 65.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 34 88
10th Percentile £178 £175 £200
25th Percentile £240 £208 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £350 £445
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% -21.35% +109.41%
75th Percentile £623 £584 £575
90th Percentile £738 £634 £600
South West median daily rate £538 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +8.59% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.00
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £12.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -36.00%
75th Percentile - £19.25 £13.00
90th Percentile - £21.00 -
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £40.00 £52.21
% change year-on-year -53.73% -23.39% +7.69%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 63 86 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.99% 20.05% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 62 123
10th Percentile £186 £201 £210
25th Percentile £331 £316 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £600
90th Percentile £775 £736 £688
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 10
10th Percentile - - £43.85
25th Percentile - £14.00 £70.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £17.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +288.57% -77.56% +395.55%
75th Percentile - £22.94 -
90th Percentile - £30.63 -
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Gloucestershire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Gloucestershire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Gloucestershire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Gloucestershire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Gloucestershire 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
Gloucester +2 18 £470 +44.62% 41
Cheltenham +11 8 £615 +6.96% 41
Filton -1 2 £300 +36.36% 1
Windows
South West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) IBM Notes
3 1 (2.38%) IIS
3 1 (2.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) Azure
2 19 (45.24%) AWS
3 15 (35.71%) OpenShift
4 8 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (42.86%) DNS
2 17 (40.48%) DHCP
3 15 (35.71%) HTTP
3 15 (35.71%) TCP/IP
4 9 (21.43%) VPN
5 2 (4.76%) Firewall
5 2 (4.76%) LAN
5 2 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (4.76%) SAN
5 2 (4.76%) VLAN
5 2 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Administrator
2 5 (11.90%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Technical Support
5 2 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (4.76%) Active Directory Technician
5 2 (4.76%) Desktop Support
5 2 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Hardware Technician
5 2 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) IT Technician
5 2 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (9.52%) iPad
1 4 (9.52%) iPhone
1 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
1 4 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 18 (42.86%) Linux
3 17 (40.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.76%) Android
6 2 (4.76%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.38%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Containerisation
2 14 (33.33%) Service Management
3 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (16.67%) DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) ITIL
4 7 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 6 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (11.90%) Customer Service
6 5 (11.90%) Migration
6 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (9.52%) Agile
7 4 (9.52%) Antivirus Management
7 4 (9.52%) Application Security
7 4 (9.52%) Cloud Security
7 4 (9.52%) Project Management
7 4 (9.52%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 4 (9.52%) Time Management
7 4 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) PowerShell
2 17 (40.48%) Python
3 15 (35.71%) Bash
3 15 (35.71%) Java
4 3 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (2.38%) VB
5 1 (2.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (73.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 15 (35.71%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (9.52%) MCSE
4 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.14%) MCP
6 2 (4.76%) A+ Certification
6 2 (4.76%) Degree
7 1 (2.38%) Dell Certification
7 1 (2.38%) MCSA
7 1 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) NCSC
1 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 21 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (35.71%) Docker
3 12 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 5 (11.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (4.76%) vSphere
6 1 (2.38%) BitLocker
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (40.48%) Terraform
2 16 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 15 (35.71%) Ansible
3 15 (35.71%) Puppet
4 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (11.90%) SCCM
6 4 (9.52%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (7.14%) Norton AntiVirus
7 3 (7.14%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (2.38%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.38%) vMotion
8 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (52.38%) VMware
2 18 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 15 (35.71%) Red Hat
4 9 (21.43%) McAfee
5 4 (9.52%) Symantec
6 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.76%) Citrix
7 2 (4.76%) Dell
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle
7 2 (4.76%) Veeam
8 1 (2.38%) Lotus