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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 54 59 73
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.14% 9.19% 10.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 84.38% 53.64% 61.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 48 39
10th Percentile £163 £106 £190
25th Percentile £210 £144 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £300 £250
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £438 £488 £431
90th Percentile £540 - £561
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £12.35
25th Percentile £16.01 - £13.72
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £16.00
75th Percentile £18.23 - £19.88
90th Percentile - - £22.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.23 £21.59
% change year-on-year +23.46% -15.59% -13.64%

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 64 110 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.27% 17.13% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 80 70
10th Percentile £169 £125 £190
25th Percentile £210 £200 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £438 £503 £575
90th Percentile £617 £562 £728
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £475 £440
% change year-on-year -3.37% +7.95% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £12.35
25th Percentile £16.01 - £13.72
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -53.96%
75th Percentile £18.23 - £19.88
90th Percentile - - £22.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £20.11 £21.59
% change year-on-year +11.87% -6.84% -16.96%

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 10 October 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 12 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.70%) Apache
3 2 (3.70%) CloudStack
4 1 (1.85%) Confluence
4 1 (1.85%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (57.41%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (50.00%) Azure
3 24 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 10 (18.52%) OneDrive
5 6 (11.11%) AWS
6 3 (5.56%) GitHub
6 3 (5.56%) SaaS
7 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.70%) IaaS
7 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.85%) GCP
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.85%) n8n
8 1 (1.85%) OCI
8 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.85%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.52%) Firewall
2 8 (14.81%) DHCP
2 8 (14.81%) DNS
3 7 (12.96%) VPN
4 5 (9.26%) TCP/IP
4 5 (9.26%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (7.41%) SAN
5 4 (7.41%) Wireless
6 3 (5.56%) BGP
6 3 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (5.56%) NAS
6 3 (5.56%) NX-OS
6 3 (5.56%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (5.56%) TACACS
6 3 (5.56%) VXLAN
7 2 (3.70%) Unified Communications
7 2 (3.70%) VLAN
7 2 (3.70%) VoIP
8 1 (1.85%) LAN
8 1 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
1 3 (5.56%) GitLab
2 2 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Banking
4 2 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Legal
5 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Support Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Analyst
2 7 (12.96%) IT Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) IT Support
2 7 (12.96%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Senior
3 6 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Lead
3 6 (11.11%) Team Leader
4 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Desktop Support
4 5 (9.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 4 (7.41%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Mobile Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) YAML
2 4 (7.41%) JSON
2 4 (7.41%) REST
3 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Onboarding
2 7 (12.96%) Data Centre
3 6 (11.11%) iPhone
3 6 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.70%) Acoustics
5 2 (3.70%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.85%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) EPoS
6 1 (1.85%) PKI
6 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (27.78%) Windows Server
2 9 (16.67%) Mac OS
2 9 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.56%) Linux
4 2 (3.70%) Android
4 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.85%) Unix
5 1 (1.85%) VMS
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.04%) Customer Service
2 19 (35.19%) ITIL
2 19 (35.19%) ITSM
3 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (22.22%) Migration
5 11 (20.37%) Mentoring
5 11 (20.37%) Service Management
6 7 (12.96%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (11.11%) AI
7 6 (11.11%) Coaching
7 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (11.11%) Generative AI
7 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (11.11%) Ticket Management
8 5 (9.26%) Change Control
8 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (9.26%) Validation
9 4 (7.41%) DevOps
9 4 (7.41%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 6 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (1.85%) Bash
2 1 (1.85%) Bicep
2 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Degree
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (7.41%) A+ Certification
2 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.41%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.70%) CCNP
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.70%) CISSP
4 2 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) SLA
2 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.70%) NIST
4 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (42.59%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.56%) Docker
3 3 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 3 (5.56%) vSphere
4 2 (3.70%) Firmware
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.85%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (46.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (12.96%) SCCM
3 6 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (7.41%) Ansible
5 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.70%) Check_MK
6 2 (3.70%) Grafana
6 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.85%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (38.89%) ServiceNow
3 10 (18.52%) VMware
4 9 (16.67%) Cisco
5 7 (12.96%) Apple
5 7 (12.96%) Samsung
6 3 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 3 (5.56%) Infoblox
6 3 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.56%) Splunk
7 2 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (3.70%) Citrix
7 2 (3.70%) Commvault
7 2 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (3.70%) Nexthink
7 2 (3.70%) Remedy
7 2 (3.70%) Veeam
8 1 (1.85%) Kaseya
8 1 (1.85%) Pure Storage