Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Windows Server
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 42 42
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 7 23 32
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.04% 3.20% 4.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.42% 19.49% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 27
10th Percentile £333 £174 £197
25th Percentile £419 £208 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £263 £400
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% -34.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £544 £374 £431
90th Percentile £568 £417 £613
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £340 £393
% change year-on-year +54.41% -13.38% -1.88%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

Windows Server 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 109 118 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.17% 16.41% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 73 68
10th Percentile £160 £190 £180
25th Percentile £275 £250 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% +13.07%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £466
90th Percentile £579 £723 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £463 £375
% change year-on-year -2.70% +23.33% -24.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £16.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - -0.18% +34.28%
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.23 £22.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -19.00% +21.62% +12.60%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Windows Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Birmingham over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Birmingham

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Windows Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) n8n
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) Broadband
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) IP Telephony
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) VoIP
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Network Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Security Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Educational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Commvault
2 1 (14.29%) Proofpoint
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Veeam
2 1 (14.29%) VMware