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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 62 68 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.30% 9.48% 9.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.92% 60.18% 76.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 60
10th Percentile £106 £190 £190
25th Percentile £150 £203 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -20.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £488 £519 £445
90th Percentile - £670 £633
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £368 £375
% change year-on-year +8.84% -2.00% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £12.81 £17.13
25th Percentile - £14.86 £17.31
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% -4.05%
75th Percentile - £20.56 £18.31
90th Percentile - £22.48 £18.58
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.61 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +13.75% -15.56% +36.78%

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 97 113 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.11% 15.76% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 70 67
10th Percentile £120 £190 £181
25th Percentile £166 £250 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £426 £375
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +13.60% -6.25%
75th Percentile £488 £629 £469
90th Percentile £562 £750 £609
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £449 £400
% change year-on-year +0.22% +12.25% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £12.81 £17.25
25th Percentile - £14.86 £17.63
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -5.41% -
75th Percentile - £20.56 £36.25
90th Percentile - £22.48 £46.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.61 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.75% -24.00% +51.98%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 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 18 September 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 and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (35.48%) Confluence
2 9 (14.52%) nginx
3 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (37.10%) AWS
3 22 (35.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 22 (35.48%) Azure
4 21 (33.87%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (33.87%) Amazon ELB
4 21 (33.87%) Amazon S3
4 21 (33.87%) AWS KMS
4 21 (33.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 12 (19.35%) Amazon Glacier
6 10 (16.13%) Entra ID
7 9 (14.52%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (14.52%) Route 53
8 3 (4.84%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.61%) GitHub
9 1 (1.61%) IaaS
9 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.61%) PaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (48.39%) DNS
2 24 (38.71%) Firewall
3 21 (33.87%) FTP
3 21 (33.87%) HTTP
3 21 (33.87%) SMTP
3 21 (33.87%) SSH
4 9 (14.52%) DHCP
4 9 (14.52%) IMAP
4 9 (14.52%) OpenLDAP
5 7 (11.29%) TCP/IP
6 6 (9.68%) VPN
7 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (3.23%) Internet
8 2 (3.23%) VoIP
9 1 (1.61%) BGP
9 1 (1.61%) Broadband
9 1 (1.61%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.61%) Network Security
9 1 (1.61%) OSPF
9 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (33.87%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (14.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (37.10%) JIRA
2 21 (33.87%) Git
2 21 (33.87%) Jenkins
2 21 (33.87%) Vagrant
General
1 30 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 24 (38.71%) Public Sector
3 9 (14.52%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (25.81%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (25.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (25.81%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (24.19%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (24.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) Analyst
5 9 (14.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (11.29%) 1st Line Support
8 6 (9.68%) Support Officer
9 5 (8.06%) IT Analyst
9 5 (8.06%) IT Support
9 5 (8.06%) Support Analyst
10 4 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (6.45%) IT Support Analyst
10 4 (6.45%) Support Engineer
10 4 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
11 3 (4.84%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.52%) LDAP
2 1 (1.61%) .NET
2 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.87%) Replication
2 7 (11.29%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.61%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (40.32%) Linux
2 21 (33.87%) Amazon Linux
2 21 (33.87%) VMS
3 16 (25.81%) Windows 10
4 9 (14.52%) Ubuntu
5 7 (11.29%) Android
6 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
7 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.23%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.32%) Change Management
2 22 (35.48%) Cloud Security
2 22 (35.48%) DevOps
3 21 (33.87%) Configuration Management
3 21 (33.87%) Patch Management
3 21 (33.87%) Platform Engineering
4 16 (25.81%) ITIL
5 15 (24.19%) Customer Service
6 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.52%) CI/CD
7 9 (14.52%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (6.45%) Migration
8 4 (6.45%) Mobile Device Management
9 3 (4.84%) CRM
9 3 (4.84%) Disk Encryption
9 3 (4.84%) Problem Management
9 3 (4.84%) Service Delivery
10 2 (3.23%) Collaborative Working
10 2 (3.23%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (43.55%) PowerShell
2 22 (35.48%) Python
3 21 (33.87%) Groovy
4 12 (19.35%) Java
4 12 (19.35%) Perl
5 10 (16.13%) SQL
6 2 (3.23%) Bash
7 1 (1.61%) Bicep
7 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (48.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.13%) AWS Certification
3 10 (16.13%) Degree
4 9 (14.52%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.45%) MCP
5 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.84%) CCNA
6 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.84%) MCDST
7 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.61%) CCNP
8 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.61%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 22 (35.48%) Docker
3 21 (33.87%) DFS Replication
4 9 (14.52%) Dovecot
4 9 (14.52%) Postfix
4 9 (14.52%) Squid
5 1 (1.61%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.61%) Firmware
5 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.61%) Snort
5 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (35.48%) Grafana
1 22 (35.48%) Prometheus
1 22 (35.48%) Terraform
2 9 (14.52%) Nessus
2 9 (14.52%) Proxmox
2 9 (14.52%) SCCM
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.61%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 22 (35.48%) ServiceNow
2 20 (32.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (14.52%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (9.68%) HP
5 5 (8.06%) Dell
6 3 (4.84%) Cisco
6 3 (4.84%) iManage
6 3 (4.84%) Mitel
7 2 (3.23%) VMware
8 1 (1.61%) Apple
8 1 (1.61%) Citrix
8 1 (1.61%) Commvault
8 1 (1.61%) McAfee
8 1 (1.61%) MobileIron
8 1 (1.61%) New Relic
8 1 (1.61%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.61%) Veeam