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

 6 months to
2 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows 46 44 56
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.28% 8.53% 7.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.42% 88.00% 76.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 39 40
10th Percentile £168 £150 £190
25th Percentile £200 £178 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £275 £350
Median % change year-on-year +67.73% -21.43% -0.07%
75th Percentile £544 £419 £486
90th Percentile £618 £689 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £442 £325 £393
% change year-on-year +36.08% -17.20% -11.30%
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 £21.46 £18.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year +18.37% -4.58% +9.65%

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 50 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.14% 9.69% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 42 51
10th Percentile £197 £150 £190
25th Percentile £365 £184 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £278 £413
Median % change year-on-year +71.17% -32.73% +3.13%
75th Percentile £537 £495 £472
90th Percentile £611 £693 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £448 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +5.40% +3.03% -17.95%
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 £52.50 £18.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year +189.58% -4.58% +7.22%

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 2 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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 2 (4.35%) OpenStack
1 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) IIS
2 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) Azure
2 13 (28.26%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (13.04%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
7 1 (2.17%) n8n
7 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.17%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) VPN
2 9 (19.57%) DNS
3 8 (17.39%) Firewall
4 6 (13.04%) DHCP
5 5 (10.87%) Network Security
6 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.35%) NAS
7 2 (4.35%) SAN
8 1 (2.17%) LAN
8 1 (2.17%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.17%) Power BI
1 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) CircleCI
2 2 (4.35%) GitLab
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) Toad
General
1 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Legal
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.52%) Banking
3 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Analyst
3 7 (15.22%) Support Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) IT Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) IT Support
5 5 (10.87%) Network Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Service Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) CyberArk Architect
8 2 (4.35%) 1st Line Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) 1st Line Support
8 2 (4.35%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Engineering Specialist
8 2 (4.35%) Field Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) SAP Test Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Test Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Unix Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Kafka
2 3 (6.52%) Middleware
3 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.35%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (4.35%) XML
3 2 (4.35%) YAML
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.35%) CMDB
3 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Linux
1 13 (28.26%) Windows Server
2 8 (17.39%) Windows 10
3 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.39%) Customer Service
1 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (15.22%) DevOps
2 7 (15.22%) ITSM
2 7 (15.22%) SIEM
3 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Security
3 5 (10.87%) ITIL
3 5 (10.87%) Service Management
3 5 (10.87%) SOAR
3 5 (10.87%) Threat Detection
3 5 (10.87%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (10.87%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (8.70%) High Availability
4 4 (8.70%) Network Optimisation
4 4 (8.70%) Validation
5 3 (6.52%) Agile
5 3 (6.52%) Incident Management
5 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 9 (19.57%) Python
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 2 (4.35%) Bicep
4 2 (4.35%) Go
4 2 (4.35%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.35%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.52%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.70%) NIST
2 4 (8.70%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) GMP
3 2 (4.35%) GxP
4 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) Docker
3 2 (4.35%) etcd
4 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.17%) XenApp
4 1 (2.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.70%) Terraform
4 3 (6.52%) Ansible
5 2 (4.35%) Argo
5 2 (4.35%) Fluentd
5 2 (4.35%) Grafana
5 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) Splunk
3 6 (13.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.52%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) Ariba
5 2 (4.35%) Citrix
5 2 (4.35%) Remedy
5 2 (4.35%) SAP
6 1 (2.17%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (2.17%) Canon
6 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.17%) Dell
6 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.17%) Foundry
6 1 (2.17%) HP
6 1 (2.17%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.17%) Veeam
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