Windows Contracts in Peterborough

Microsoft Windows
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Peterborough 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 32 9
Rank change year-on-year +12 -23 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 6 3 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Peterborough 6.59% 1.49% 16.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 100.00% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 13
10th Percentile £154 £209 £196
25th Percentile £171 £223 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £253 £298
Median % change year-on-year -24.75% -15.13% -8.46%
75th Percentile £200 £288 £419
90th Percentile - £306 £438
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £200 £240 £250
% change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 20
10th Percentile - - £12.90
25th Percentile - £15.25 £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £15.50 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +14.14% -12.39%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £15.78
90th Percentile - - £21.65
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £13.00 £62.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -79.20% +331.03% -6.45%

All Operating Systems
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6 3 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Peterborough 6.59% 1.49% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 13
10th Percentile £154 £209 £196
25th Percentile £171 £223 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £253 £298
Median % change year-on-year -24.75% -15.13% -8.46%
75th Percentile £200 £288 £419
90th Percentile - £306 £438
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £250 £305 £425
% change year-on-year -18.03% -28.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 20
10th Percentile - - £12.90
25th Percentile - £15.25 £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £15.50 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +14.14% -12.39%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £15.78
90th Percentile - - £21.65
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £13.00 £57.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -77.39% +296.55% -6.45%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Peterborough

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Peterborough

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Peterborough

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Peterborough 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Database Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Business Transformation
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft