Windows Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 61 75 74
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.56% 10.25% 9.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.14% 63.03% 81.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 46 55
10th Percentile £128 £181 £185
25th Percentile £200 £190 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £250 £388
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -35.48% +40.91%
75th Percentile £488 £416 £442
90th Percentile £560 £538 £614
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +21.43% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £11.44 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.71% +17.50%
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £18.11
% change year-on-year -15.59% +19.22% +10.23%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 117 119 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.41% 16.26% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 75 65
10th Percentile £181 £190 £178
25th Percentile £300 £211 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - +16.79%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £463
90th Percentile £612 £720 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £448 £381
% change year-on-year +6.03% +17.51% -22.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £11.44 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.71% +17.50%
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.84 £21.59 £19.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% +12.16% +17.16%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Birmingham over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Birmingham

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Windows

Windows
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 23 (37.70%) Confluence
2 9 (14.75%) nginx
3 2 (3.28%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.64%) IIS
4 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) AWS
2 22 (36.07%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (34.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (34.43%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (34.43%) Amazon ELB
3 21 (34.43%) Amazon S3
3 21 (34.43%) AWS KMS
3 21 (34.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 15 (24.59%) Azure
5 12 (19.67%) Amazon Glacier
6 9 (14.75%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (14.75%) Route 53
7 3 (4.92%) GitHub
8 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.28%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.64%) n8n
9 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.64%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 30 (49.18%) DNS
2 26 (42.62%) Firewall
3 21 (34.43%) FTP
3 21 (34.43%) HTTP
3 21 (34.43%) SMTP
3 21 (34.43%) SSH
4 12 (19.67%) VPN
5 11 (18.03%) TCP/IP
6 9 (14.75%) IMAP
6 9 (14.75%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (11.48%) DHCP
8 4 (6.56%) Network Security
9 2 (3.28%) VoIP
10 1 (1.64%) BGP
10 1 (1.64%) Broadband
10 1 (1.64%) Internet
10 1 (1.64%) LAN
10 1 (1.64%) OSPF
10 1 (1.64%) WAN
10 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (34.43%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (14.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (47.54%) JIRA
2 23 (37.70%) Jenkins
3 21 (34.43%) Git
3 21 (34.43%) Vagrant
4 2 (3.28%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.28%) GitLab
4 2 (3.28%) Toad
General
1 33 (54.10%) Social Skills
2 26 (42.62%) Public Sector
3 9 (14.75%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Legal
5 4 (6.56%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.64%) Finance
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (26.23%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (26.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (26.23%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (24.59%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (24.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (19.67%) Analyst
5 9 (14.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 8 (13.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (11.48%) IT Support
8 6 (9.84%) Support Analyst
9 5 (8.20%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 5 (8.20%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
9 5 (8.20%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (8.20%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 5 (8.20%) IT Analyst
9 5 (8.20%) IT Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) IT Support Analyst
9 5 (8.20%) Support Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) LDAP
2 2 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.28%) Kafka
2 2 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.28%) XML
2 2 (3.28%) YAML
3 1 (1.64%) .NET
3 1 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (34.43%) Replication
2 5 (8.20%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (8.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (4.92%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.64%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (49.18%) Linux
2 21 (34.43%) Amazon Linux
2 21 (34.43%) VMS
3 9 (14.75%) Ubuntu
3 9 (14.75%) Windows 10
4 6 (9.84%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.92%) Mac OS X
6 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
6 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.64%) Android
7 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.90%) Change Management
2 26 (42.62%) DevOps
3 24 (39.34%) Cloud Security
4 21 (34.43%) Configuration Management
4 21 (34.43%) Patch Management
4 21 (34.43%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
6 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.75%) Customer Service
7 9 (14.75%) ITIL
7 9 (14.75%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (11.48%) SIEM
9 6 (9.84%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.20%) CRM
10 5 (8.20%) Disk Encryption
10 5 (8.20%) Problem Management
10 5 (8.20%) Service Delivery
11 4 (6.56%) ITSM
12 3 (4.92%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.90%) PowerShell
2 26 (42.62%) Python
3 21 (34.43%) Groovy
4 14 (22.95%) Java
5 12 (19.67%) Perl
5 12 (19.67%) SQL
6 2 (3.28%) Bicep
6 2 (3.28%) Go
6 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.64%) Bash
7 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (49.18%) Security Cleared
2 28 (45.90%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.39%) Azure Certification
3 10 (16.39%) Degree
4 9 (14.75%) AWS Certification
5 5 (8.20%) MCDST
5 5 (8.20%) MCP
5 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.64%) CCNA
7 1 (1.64%) CCNP
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.28%) NIST
2 2 (3.28%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (42.62%) Active Directory
2 24 (39.34%) Docker
3 21 (34.43%) DFS Replication
4 9 (14.75%) Dovecot
4 9 (14.75%) Postfix
4 9 (14.75%) Squid
5 1 (1.64%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.64%) Firmware
5 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.64%) Snort
5 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (39.34%) Terraform
2 23 (37.70%) Grafana
3 21 (34.43%) Prometheus
4 9 (14.75%) Nessus
4 9 (14.75%) Proxmox
4 9 (14.75%) SCCM
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
7 2 (3.28%) Ansible
7 2 (3.28%) Argo
8 1 (1.64%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 23 (37.70%) ServiceNow
2 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
3 9 (14.75%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (8.20%) iManage
4 5 (8.20%) Mitel
5 3 (4.92%) Splunk
6 2 (3.28%) Ariba
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) SAP
7 1 (1.64%) Apple
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco
7 1 (1.64%) Citrix
7 1 (1.64%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.64%) Foundry
7 1 (1.64%) HP
7 1 (1.64%) McAfee
7 1 (1.64%) MobileIron
7 1 (1.64%) New Relic
7 1 (1.64%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.64%) VMware