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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -21 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 47 43 56
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.29% 8.27% 7.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.65% 87.76% 76.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 39 41
10th Percentile £168 £150 £190
25th Percentile £209 £174 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £275 £350
Median % change year-on-year +67.73% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £544 £413 £519
90th Percentile £618 £689 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £449 £313 £400
% change year-on-year +43.52% -21.88% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.35
25th Percentile - - £15.04
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £16.80
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +10.21% +5.07%
75th Percentile - - £18.45
90th Percentile - - £19.08
West Midlands median hourly rate £42.30 £18.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year +133.30% -4.58% +12.19%

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 86 49 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.67% 9.42% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 42 52
10th Percentile £190 £150 £191
25th Percentile £281 £176 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £275 £413
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £538 £495 £486
90th Percentile £618 £693 £733
West Midlands median daily rate £443 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +10.81% -5.88% -15.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.35
25th Percentile - - £15.04
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £16.80
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +10.21% +5.07%
75th Percentile - - £18.45
90th Percentile - - £19.08
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.82 £18.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year +218.91% -4.58% +9.65%

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 9 April 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 2 (4.26%) OpenStack
1 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) Azure
2 14 (29.79%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (12.77%) AWS
4 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.51%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (6.38%) GitHub
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.26%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.26%) SaaS
7 2 (4.26%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (2.13%) IaaS
8 1 (2.13%) PaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.66%) VPN
2 11 (23.40%) DNS
3 8 (17.02%) DHCP
4 7 (14.89%) Firewall
5 5 (10.64%) Network Security
6 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.26%) NAS
7 2 (4.26%) NetScaler
7 2 (4.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.13%) Power BI
1 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) JIRA
2 2 (4.26%) CircleCI
2 2 (4.26%) GitLab
2 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.26%) Toad
General
1 24 (51.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.51%) Banking
3 4 (8.51%) Legal
4 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.15%) Analyst
1 9 (19.15%) Architect
2 7 (14.89%) Support Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) IT Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) IT Support
4 5 (10.64%) Network Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Service Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) CyberArk Architect
7 2 (4.26%) 1st Line Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (4.26%) Citrix Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Engineering Specialist
7 2 (4.26%) Field Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) IT Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Security Specialist
7 2 (4.26%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Unix Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Kafka
2 3 (6.38%) Middleware
3 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.26%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (4.26%) XML
4 1 (2.13%) .NET
4 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (12.77%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.38%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.26%) CMDB
3 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Windows Server
2 13 (27.66%) Linux
3 10 (21.28%) Windows 10
4 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.15%) ITSM
2 8 (17.02%) Customer Service
2 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (14.89%) SIEM
4 6 (12.77%) DevOps
4 6 (12.77%) ITIL
4 6 (12.77%) Service Management
5 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.64%) Cloud Security
5 5 (10.64%) SOAR
5 5 (10.64%) Threat Detection
5 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.51%) High Availability
6 4 (8.51%) Incident Management
6 4 (8.51%) Network Optimisation
6 4 (8.51%) Validation
7 3 (6.38%) Privileged Access Management
7 3 (6.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
1 9 (19.15%) Python
2 5 (10.64%) SQL
3 2 (4.26%) Go
3 2 (4.26%) Java
3 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.26%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.51%) NIST
1 4 (8.51%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) GMP
2 2 (4.26%) GxP
2 2 (4.26%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (36.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.38%) Docker
3 2 (4.26%) etcd
3 2 (4.26%) XenApp
3 2 (4.26%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.51%) Terraform
4 3 (6.38%) Ansible
5 2 (4.26%) Argo
5 2 (4.26%) Fluentd
5 2 (4.26%) Grafana
5 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (46.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.02%) Splunk
3 7 (14.89%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.38%) Citrix
4 3 (6.38%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) Ariba
5 2 (4.26%) Remedy
5 2 (4.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (2.13%) Canon
6 1 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.13%) Dell
6 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.13%) Foundry
6 1 (2.13%) HP
6 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.13%) Veeam