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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -18 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 46 46 56
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.00% 9.26% 7.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.89% 74.19% 77.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 41 37
10th Percentile £163 £106 £189
25th Percentile £211 £150 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £275 £350
Median % change year-on-year +34.09% -21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £522 £480 £521
90th Percentile £619 £689 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £285 £400
% change year-on-year +57.89% -28.75% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £14.52
25th Percentile - - £15.47
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +5.77% +6.19%
75th Percentile - - £20.56
90th Percentile - - £22.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £64.07 £18.13 £22.25
% change year-on-year +253.38% -18.52% +33.17%

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 72 62 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.83% 12.47% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 48 48
10th Percentile £176 £106 £190
25th Percentile £250 £150 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £278 £350
Median % change year-on-year +53.15% -20.71% -15.66%
75th Percentile £510 £500 £487
90th Percentile £618 £690 £684
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +14.75% -8.57% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £14.52
25th Percentile - - £15.47
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +5.77% +0.06%
75th Percentile - - £20.56
90th Percentile - - £22.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £64.07 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +253.38% -19.42% +29.85%

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 29 May 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 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.52%) Apache
3 2 (4.35%) CloudStack
4 1 (2.17%) Confluence
4 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (52.17%) Azure
2 17 (36.96%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (23.91%) Entra ID
4 7 (15.22%) AWS
5 6 (13.04%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (13.04%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.52%) IaaS
6 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.35%) SaaS
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) DNS
2 11 (23.91%) DHCP
2 11 (23.91%) VPN
3 6 (13.04%) Firewall
4 5 (10.87%) NAS
4 5 (10.87%) SAN
5 2 (4.35%) NetScaler
5 2 (4.35%) Network Security
5 2 (4.35%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Banking
3 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Analyst
1 9 (19.57%) Support Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) IT Support
3 6 (13.04%) Architect
3 6 (13.04%) IT Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Service Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) IT Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Desktop Support
6 3 (6.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (4.35%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (4.35%) Kafka
1 2 (4.35%) Middleware
1 2 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.17%) .NET
2 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Onboarding
2 6 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) CMDB
5 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
6 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Windows Server
2 11 (23.91%) Linux
2 11 (23.91%) Windows 10
3 4 (8.70%) Unix
4 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) ITSM
2 9 (19.57%) Customer Service
3 7 (15.22%) Migration
3 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.04%) High Availability
4 6 (13.04%) ITIL
5 5 (10.87%) DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) Observability
5 5 (10.87%) Service Management
6 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (8.70%) Network Optimisation
6 4 (8.70%) Validation
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Security
7 3 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.52%) Incident Management
7 3 (6.52%) Project Management
7 3 (6.52%) Runbook
7 3 (6.52%) Server Management
7 3 (6.52%) SIEM
7 3 (6.52%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.04%) Python
3 3 (6.52%) SQL
4 2 (4.35%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.17%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.52%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.35%) CCNP
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.35%) CISSP
5 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) SLA
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.52%) NIST
3 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) GMP
3 2 (4.35%) GxP
3 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.35%) etcd
3 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (4.35%) vSphere
3 2 (4.35%) XenApp
3 2 (4.35%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.17%) Docker
4 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Check_MK
4 2 (4.35%) Fluentd
4 2 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) SCCM
4 2 (4.35%) Terraform
5 1 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (58.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (26.09%) ServiceNow
3 8 (17.39%) Splunk
4 4 (8.70%) Remedy
4 4 (8.70%) VMware
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco
5 3 (6.52%) Citrix
5 3 (6.52%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (6.52%) Veeam
6 2 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (4.35%) Commvault
6 2 (4.35%) CyberArk
6 2 (4.35%) Dell
6 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.17%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (2.17%) EMC
7 1 (2.17%) HP
7 1 (2.17%) Isilon
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle
7 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds