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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 39 56 60
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.26% 9.98% 8.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 73.58% 73.68% 64.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 47 36
10th Percentile £168 £106 £190
25th Percentile £210 £150 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £275 £350
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £438 £488 £538
90th Percentile £558 - £691
West Midlands median daily rate £430 £438 £436
% change year-on-year -1.71% +0.34% +22.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £16.50
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% -2.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile - - £21.63
90th Percentile - - £22.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £21.59 £19.00
% change year-on-year +192.49% +13.61% -1.30%

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 53 76 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.79% 13.55% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 57 60
10th Percentile £187 £110 £190
25th Percentile £222 £163 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.58% -29.41% +8.97%
75th Percentile £469 £488 £575
90th Percentile £576 £500 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.00% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £16.50
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% -2.58% +7.04%
75th Percentile - - £21.63
90th Percentile - - £22.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £21.59 £19.00
% change year-on-year +192.49% +13.61% -5.00%

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 August 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 (17.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.13%) Apache
3 2 (5.13%) CloudStack
4 1 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (46.15%) Azure
3 17 (43.59%) Entra ID
4 8 (20.51%) OneDrive
5 5 (12.82%) AWS
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (7.69%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.13%) IaaS
8 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.56%) n8n
9 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.56%) SaaS
9 1 (2.56%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) DNS
2 9 (23.08%) DHCP
3 7 (17.95%) VPN
4 5 (12.82%) NAS
4 5 (12.82%) SAN
5 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
6 3 (7.69%) Firewall
6 3 (7.69%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (5.13%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.56%) LAN
8 1 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Banking
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Legal
5 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Law
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Service Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Service Desk Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Support Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) IT Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) IT Support
3 4 (10.26%) Lead
3 4 (10.26%) Support Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Team Leader
4 3 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.13%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (5.13%) Kafka
1 2 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (5.13%) YAML
2 1 (2.56%) JSON
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Onboarding
2 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.26%) iPhone
3 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
4 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) CMDB
5 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.56%) EPoS
6 1 (2.56%) PKI
6 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Windows Server
2 10 (25.64%) Windows 10
3 6 (15.38%) Mac OS
4 4 (10.26%) Linux
5 3 (7.69%) Unix
6 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) ITSM
2 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (30.77%) Customer Service
4 11 (28.21%) ITIL
5 8 (20.51%) Service Management
6 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (15.38%) Migration
7 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
8 4 (10.26%) AI
8 4 (10.26%) Coaching
8 4 (10.26%) DevOps
8 4 (10.26%) Generative AI
8 4 (10.26%) Observability
9 3 (7.69%) Data Protection
9 3 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (7.69%) Incident Management
9 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (7.69%) Project Delivery
9 3 (7.69%) Runbook
9 3 (7.69%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (5.13%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (5.13%) SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) A+ Certification
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.13%) CCNP
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.13%) CISSP
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) SLA
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) etcd
3 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.13%) vSphere
3 2 (5.13%) XenApp
3 2 (5.13%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (51.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) SCCM
3 4 (10.26%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (10.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Check_MK
4 2 (5.13%) Fluentd
4 2 (5.13%) Grafana
5 1 (2.56%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (38.46%) ServiceNow
3 5 (12.82%) Citrix
3 5 (12.82%) Splunk
3 5 (12.82%) VMware
4 4 (10.26%) Apple
4 4 (10.26%) Remedy
4 4 (10.26%) Samsung
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco
6 2 (5.13%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (5.13%) Commvault
6 2 (5.13%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (5.13%) Dell
6 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.13%) Veeam
7 1 (2.56%) Canon
7 1 (2.56%) EMC
7 1 (2.56%) HP
7 1 (2.56%) Isilon
7 1 (2.56%) Proofpoint