Windows Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -18 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 34 71 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.39% 13.15% 14.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 73.91% 59.66% 73.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 88
10th Percentile £168 £150 £164
25th Percentile £200 £173 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £225 £373
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -39.60% +14.62%
75th Percentile £318 £314 £438
90th Percentile £516 £438 £488
East of England median daily rate £350 £299 £325
% change year-on-year +17.15% -8.08% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 24
10th Percentile £13.43 £12.40 £12.08
25th Percentile - £13.29 £13.81
Median hourly rate £14.00 £13.58 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -6.34% +20.28%
75th Percentile £15.75 £16.25 £15.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £18.88 £16.49
East of England median hourly rate £15.76 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -4.48% -5.71% -1.41%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 46 119 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.65% 22.04% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 64 112
10th Percentile £168 £150 £183
25th Percentile £213 £180 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% -14.71% +21.43%
75th Percentile £516 £478 £488
90th Percentile £638 £521 £550
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 26
10th Percentile £13.57 £13.00 £12.13
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £14.06
Median hourly rate £14.16 £14.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% - +31.82%
75th Percentile £63.75 £19.20 £15.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £20.75
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £18.39 £22.00
% change year-on-year +226.26% -16.41% +23.94%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. 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
Cambridge -5 19 £240 +33.33% 25
Peterborough -18 13 £305 -2.40% 6
Huntingdon -1 1 £200 +8.11% 1
Ely - 1 £120 -
Windows
East of England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.82%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.88%) WhatsApp
4 1 (2.94%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) VPN
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) Internet
2 2 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.94%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.94%) MQTT
3 1 (2.94%) RS-232
3 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Mercurial
3 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Manufacturing
2 4 (11.76%) Multimedia
3 2 (5.88%) Electronics
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Marketing
3 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Analyst
2 10 (29.41%) Support Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Service Analyst
3 8 (23.53%) Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) IT Support
5 5 (14.71%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Technical Services Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) IT Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Windows Support Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Linux Support
7 3 (8.82%) Linux Support Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (5.88%) Administrator
8 2 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) .NET
1 4 (11.76%) NumPy
1 4 (11.76%) Pandas
1 4 (11.76%) React
1 4 (11.76%) SciPy
2 3 (8.82%) WPF
3 2 (5.88%) MFC
3 2 (5.88%) WinForms
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.94%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.94%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 1 (2.94%) Silverlight
4 1 (2.94%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Social Media
2 3 (8.82%) Clustering
3 2 (5.88%) iPhone
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) NHS
3 2 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (38.24%) Windows 10
2 6 (17.65%) Linux
3 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Android
4 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) ITIL
2 9 (26.47%) Customer Service
3 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 6 (17.65%) Computer Science
5 5 (14.71%) ITSM
5 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
6 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (11.76%) Data Collection
6 4 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (11.76%) High Availability
6 4 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 4 (11.76%) Problem Management
6 4 (11.76%) Signal Processing
6 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
6 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (8.82%) Mathematics
7 3 (8.82%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) C#
2 6 (17.65%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) C++
5 2 (5.88%) C++/CLI
6 1 (2.94%) XAML
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Degree
2 7 (20.59%) MCP
3 5 (14.71%) CCNA
3 5 (14.71%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.94%) CISSP
6 1 (2.94%) MCDST
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (44.12%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.82%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) SCCM
2 1 (2.94%) Autotask
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Citrix
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Cisco
3 3 (8.82%) VMware
4 2 (5.88%) NetApp
4 2 (5.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) Remedy
5 1 (2.94%) SonicWALL
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk