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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 16 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 57 62 71
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.60% 9.05% 9.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.44% 59.62% 81.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 37 52
10th Percentile £128 £182 £200
25th Percentile £200 £190 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £250 £400
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -37.50% +50.94%
75th Percentile £498 £338 £445
90th Percentile £585 £455 £571
West Midlands median daily rate £449 £325 £375
% change year-on-year +38.00% -13.33% -
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 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.45% +2.31% +7.39%

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 113 104 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.07% 15.18% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 66 63
10th Percentile £173 £190 £185
25th Percentile £241 £222 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £520
90th Percentile £619 £738 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £426 £400
% change year-on-year +11.63% +6.38% -19.19%
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 £21.46 £18.57 £17.72
% change year-on-year +15.59% +4.77% +7.39%

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 December 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 17 (29.82%) Confluence
2 9 (15.79%) nginx
3 2 (3.51%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.75%) IIS
4 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (35.09%) AWS
3 18 (31.58%) Azure
4 16 (28.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (28.07%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (28.07%) Amazon ELB
4 16 (28.07%) Amazon S3
4 16 (28.07%) AWS KMS
4 16 (28.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (15.79%) Route 53
6 7 (12.28%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.51%) GitHub
8 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.51%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.75%) n8n
9 1 (1.75%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 25 (43.86%) DNS
2 21 (36.84%) Firewall
3 16 (28.07%) FTP
3 16 (28.07%) HTTP
3 16 (28.07%) SMTP
3 16 (28.07%) SSH
4 11 (19.30%) VPN
5 10 (17.54%) TCP/IP
6 9 (15.79%) IMAP
6 9 (15.79%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (12.28%) DHCP
8 3 (5.26%) Network Security
9 1 (1.75%) Internet
9 1 (1.75%) LAN
9 1 (1.75%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.75%) VoIP
9 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.07%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (40.35%) JIRA
2 18 (31.58%) Jenkins
3 16 (28.07%) Git
3 16 (28.07%) Vagrant
4 2 (3.51%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.51%) GitLab
4 2 (3.51%) Toad
General
1 35 (61.40%) Social Skills
2 21 (36.84%) Public Sector
3 9 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.53%) Legal
5 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.75%) Finance
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) AWS Engineer
1 16 (28.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 16 (28.07%) DevOps Engineer
1 16 (28.07%) Platform Engineer
2 15 (26.32%) AWS DevOps
2 15 (26.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 11 (19.30%) Analyst
4 9 (15.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) Architect
5 8 (14.04%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) IT Support
6 7 (12.28%) Support Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 6 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (8.77%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
8 5 (8.77%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 5 (8.77%) IT Analyst
8 5 (8.77%) IT Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) IT Support Analyst
8 5 (8.77%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) LDAP
2 2 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.51%) Kafka
2 2 (3.51%) Middleware
2 2 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.51%) XML
3 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.07%) Replication
2 6 (10.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.75%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (49.12%) Linux
2 16 (28.07%) Amazon Linux
2 16 (28.07%) VMS
3 9 (15.79%) Ubuntu
3 9 (15.79%) Windows 10
4 6 (10.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.26%) Mac OS X
7 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.75%) Android
8 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Change Management
2 21 (36.84%) DevOps
3 19 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 16 (28.07%) Configuration Management
4 16 (28.07%) Patch Management
4 16 (28.07%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
6 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (17.54%) Customer Service
7 10 (17.54%) SIEM
8 9 (15.79%) ITIL
8 9 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (10.53%) SOAR
9 6 (10.53%) Threat Detection
10 5 (8.77%) CRM
10 5 (8.77%) Disk Encryption
10 5 (8.77%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (8.77%) Problem Management
10 5 (8.77%) Service Delivery
11 4 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) PowerShell
1 24 (42.11%) Python
2 16 (28.07%) Groovy
3 11 (19.30%) SQL
4 9 (15.79%) Java
5 7 (12.28%) Perl
6 2 (3.51%) Go
6 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.75%) Bicep
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 24 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.54%) Azure Certification
4 9 (15.79%) AWS Certification
4 9 (15.79%) Degree
5 5 (8.77%) MCDST
5 5 (8.77%) MCP
5 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.26%) NIST
3 2 (3.51%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (38.60%) Active Directory
2 18 (31.58%) Docker
3 16 (28.07%) DFS Replication
4 9 (15.79%) Dovecot
4 9 (15.79%) Postfix
4 9 (15.79%) Squid
5 1 (1.75%) Snort
Systems Management
1 18 (31.58%) Grafana
1 18 (31.58%) Terraform
2 16 (28.07%) Prometheus
3 9 (15.79%) Nessus
3 9 (15.79%) Proxmox
4 7 (12.28%) SCCM
5 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.51%) Ansible
6 2 (3.51%) Argo
6 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (35.09%) Microsoft
2 19 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 9 (15.79%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (10.53%) Splunk
5 5 (8.77%) iManage
5 5 (8.77%) Mitel
6 2 (3.51%) Ariba
6 2 (3.51%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle
6 2 (3.51%) SAP
7 1 (1.75%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco
7 1 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.75%) Foundry
7 1 (1.75%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.75%) Veeam