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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 13 23
Rank change year-on-year -17 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing Windows 50 58 56
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.02% 9.72% 7.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.45% 71.60% 77.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 40 44
10th Percentile £128 £174 £188
25th Percentile £150 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £314 £394
Median % change year-on-year +35.57% -20.38% +26.00%
75th Percentile £538 £444 £438
90th Percentile £618 £694 £533
West Midlands median daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.89
Median hourly rate - £11.44 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year - -21.59% -5.81%
75th Percentile - - £15.30
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.84 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.45% +2.31% +4.64%

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 110 81 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.24% 13.57% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 53 54
10th Percentile £143 £188 £188
25th Percentile £316 £210 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £385 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -3.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £545 £648 £469
90th Percentile £619 £700 £564
West Midlands median daily rate £443 £426 £400
% change year-on-year +4.00% +6.38% -19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.89
Median hourly rate - £11.44 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year - -21.59% -5.81%
75th Percentile - - £15.30
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +18.37% -19.42% +32.86%

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 15 February 2026.

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 7 (14.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) nginx
3 2 (4.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.00%) IIS
4 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (36.00%) Azure
3 11 (22.00%) AWS
4 5 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
4 5 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 5 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (6.00%) GitHub
5 3 (6.00%) Route 53
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.00%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.00%) DNS
2 16 (32.00%) VPN
3 14 (28.00%) Firewall
4 10 (20.00%) DHCP
5 8 (16.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (10.00%) FTP
6 5 (10.00%) HTTP
6 5 (10.00%) Network Security
6 5 (10.00%) SMTP
6 5 (10.00%) SSH
7 3 (6.00%) IMAP
7 3 (6.00%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (2.00%) LAN
8 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) JIRA
2 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.00%) Git
3 5 (10.00%) Vagrant
4 2 (4.00%) CircleCI
4 2 (4.00%) GitLab
4 2 (4.00%) Toad
General
1 32 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Legal
5 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) IT Support
2 9 (18.00%) Analyst
2 9 (18.00%) Architect
3 8 (16.00%) Support Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) IT Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 6 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) IT Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) LDAP
1 3 (6.00%) Middleware
2 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.00%) Kafka
2 2 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.00%) XML
2 2 (4.00%) YAML
3 1 (2.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (12.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (10.00%) Replication
3 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (36.00%) Linux
2 11 (22.00%) Windows 10
3 10 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.00%) VMS
5 3 (6.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.00%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) Customer Service
1 12 (24.00%) DevOps
2 11 (22.00%) Change Management
3 10 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (16.00%) ITIL
5 8 (16.00%) SIEM
6 6 (12.00%) Problem Management
6 6 (12.00%) Service Delivery
6 6 (12.00%) Threat Detection
7 5 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 5 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (10.00%) CRM
7 5 (10.00%) Disk Encryption
7 5 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
7 5 (10.00%) Patch Management
7 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (10.00%) SOAR
7 5 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) PowerShell
1 14 (28.00%) Python
2 7 (14.00%) SQL
3 5 (10.00%) Groovy
4 4 (8.00%) Java
5 2 (4.00%) Bicep
5 2 (4.00%) Go
5 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.00%) Perl
6 1 (2.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) MCDST
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.00%) Degree
6 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.00%) NIST
2 4 (8.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) GMP
3 2 (4.00%) GxP
4 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.00%) Docker
3 5 (10.00%) DFS Replication
4 3 (6.00%) Dovecot
4 3 (6.00%) Postfix
4 3 (6.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (16.00%) Terraform
3 7 (14.00%) Grafana
4 6 (12.00%) SCCM
5 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
7 3 (6.00%) Nessus
7 3 (6.00%) Proxmox
8 2 (4.00%) Ansible
8 2 (4.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 21 (42.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) ServiceNow
3 6 (12.00%) Splunk
4 5 (10.00%) iManage
4 5 (10.00%) Mitel
5 3 (6.00%) CyberArk
5 3 (6.00%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (6.00%) Oracle
6 2 (4.00%) Ariba
6 2 (4.00%) SAP
7 1 (2.00%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.00%) Foundry
7 1 (2.00%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.00%) Veeam