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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 19 5
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 33 46 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 14.04% 9.68% 18.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.00% 48.42% 55.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 56
10th Percentile £178 £205 £238
25th Percentile £208 £325 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £470 £476
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% -1.26% +138.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £578
90th Percentile £669 £628 £600
South West median daily rate £450 £525 £476
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.29% +36.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £16.90
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £14.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -65.85% +118.67%
75th Percentile - - £55.75
90th Percentile - - £64.30
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £40.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -52.83% -28.89% +31.58%

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 50 95 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 21.28% 20.00% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 65 95
10th Percentile £184 £318 £275
25th Percentile £221 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% +27.06%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £653
90th Percentile £756 £695 £713
South West median daily rate £495 £538 £520
% change year-on-year -7.91% +3.37% +16.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 16
10th Percentile - - £70.25
25th Percentile - £14.00 £76.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -46.15% +395.55%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - £84.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +24.63%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +1 11 £250 -46.81% 50
Cheltenham +16 8 £615 -1.60% 42
Filton +7 3 £300 +36.36% 2
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 4 (12.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) IBM Notes
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Azure
2 10 (30.30%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 8 (24.24%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) DNS
2 9 (27.27%) DHCP
3 8 (24.24%) HTTP
3 8 (24.24%) TCP/IP
4 7 (21.21%) VPN
5 6 (18.18%) VoIP
6 4 (12.12%) LAN
6 4 (12.12%) WAN
7 2 (6.06%) Firewall
7 2 (6.06%) SAN
7 2 (6.06%) VLAN
7 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) MS Access
1 1 (3.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Legal
3 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Support Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Technical Support
3 5 (15.15%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Desktop Support
5 3 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (6.06%) Active Directory Technician
6 2 (6.06%) Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Hardware Technician
6 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) IT Technician
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Head of Infrastructure
7 1 (3.03%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) .NET
1 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.03%) Middleware
1 1 (3.03%) ODBC
1 1 (3.03%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (12.12%) iPad
2 4 (12.12%) iPhone
2 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) Windows 10
2 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 8 (24.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (9.09%) Android
4 3 (9.09%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.03%) Unix
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) ITIL
1 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
2 7 (21.21%) Service Management
3 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
4 4 (12.12%) Antivirus Management
4 4 (12.12%) Incident Management
4 4 (12.12%) Inventory Management
4 4 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (12.12%) Time Management
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.09%) ITSM
5 3 (9.09%) Migration
6 2 (6.06%) Agile
6 2 (6.06%) Records Management
6 2 (6.06%) Server Management
6 2 (6.06%) Software Deployment
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 9 (27.27%) Python
3 8 (24.24%) Bash
3 8 (24.24%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Ada
5 1 (3.03%) C++
5 1 (3.03%) VB
5 1 (3.03%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.03%) VB6
5 1 (3.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (57.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (9.09%) MCSE
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (6.06%) A+ Certification
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
6 2 (6.06%) MCP
7 1 (3.03%) Degree
7 1 (3.03%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) Def Stans
2 1 (3.03%) IEC 61508
2 1 (3.03%) MISRA
2 1 (3.03%) MISRA C
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Active Directory
2 10 (30.30%) Hyper-V
2 10 (30.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (24.24%) Docker
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Terraform
2 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (24.24%) Puppet
3 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 11 (33.33%) VMware
2 8 (24.24%) Red Hat
2 8 (24.24%) ServiceNow
3 5 (15.15%) Remedy
4 4 (12.12%) McAfee
5 2 (6.06%) Veeam
6 1 (3.03%) Dell
6 1 (3.03%) Lotus
6 1 (3.03%) NetApp
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle
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