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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 12 20
Rank change year-on-year -21 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing Windows 51 55 55
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.94% 10.15% 7.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 49.04% 84.62% 73.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 39 42
10th Percentile £128 £171 £188
25th Percentile £150 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £325 £381
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -14.75% +22.00%
75th Percentile £538 £463 £443
90th Percentile £618 £695 £536
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £330 £375
% change year-on-year +21.21% -12.00% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.89
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +26.87% -8.73%
75th Percentile - - £15.30
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.23 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +0.52% +2.31% +4.64%

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 104 65 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.11% 11.99% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 43 55
10th Percentile £138 £174 £189
25th Percentile £222 £190 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £538 £599 £469
90th Percentile £619 £700 £560
West Midlands median daily rate £440 £435 £400
% change year-on-year +1.15% +8.75% -19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.89
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +26.87% -8.73%
75th Percentile - - £15.30
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.84 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.45% -19.42% +32.86%

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 1 March 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 4 (7.84%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) IIS
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (31.37%) Azure
3 8 (15.69%) AWS
4 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.88%) GitHub
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.92%) AWS KMS
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.92%) SaaS
5 2 (3.92%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.96%) PaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.96%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 16 (31.37%) VPN
2 15 (29.41%) DNS
3 11 (21.57%) Firewall
4 10 (19.61%) DHCP
5 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
6 5 (9.80%) Network Security
7 2 (3.92%) FTP
7 2 (3.92%) HTTP
7 2 (3.92%) NAS
7 2 (3.92%) SAN
7 2 (3.92%) SMTP
7 2 (3.92%) SSH
8 1 (1.96%) IMAP
8 1 (1.96%) LAN
8 1 (1.96%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) JIRA
2 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.92%) CircleCI
3 2 (3.92%) Git
3 2 (3.92%) GitLab
3 2 (3.92%) Toad
3 2 (3.92%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (62.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Legal
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Finance
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Analyst
2 10 (19.61%) IT Support
3 9 (17.65%) Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Support Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) IT Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 6 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (9.80%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
7 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 5 (9.80%) IT Analyst
7 5 (9.80%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (9.80%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Network Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) 1st Line Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) 1st Line Support
8 3 (5.88%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) CyberArk Architect
8 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) Middleware
2 2 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.92%) Kafka
2 2 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.92%) XML
2 2 (3.92%) YAML
3 1 (1.96%) .NET
3 1 (1.96%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.96%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (31.37%) Linux
2 11 (21.57%) Windows 10
2 11 (21.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (9.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.88%) Unix
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (3.92%) VMS
6 1 (1.96%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Customer Service
2 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (19.61%) ITIL
4 9 (17.65%) DevOps
5 8 (15.69%) Change Management
5 8 (15.69%) SIEM
6 7 (13.73%) Cloud Security
7 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.76%) Problem Management
7 6 (11.76%) Service Delivery
7 6 (11.76%) Threat Detection
8 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (9.80%) CRM
8 5 (9.80%) Disk Encryption
8 5 (9.80%) Mobile Device Management
8 5 (9.80%) Service Management
8 5 (9.80%) SOAR
8 5 (9.80%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (9.80%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 4 (7.84%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
1 11 (21.57%) Python
2 6 (11.76%) SQL
3 3 (5.88%) Java
4 2 (3.92%) Bicep
4 2 (3.92%) Go
4 2 (3.92%) Groovy
4 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.96%) Bash
5 1 (1.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) MCDST
3 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 3 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.96%) Degree
6 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.84%) NIST
2 4 (7.84%) QA
3 2 (3.92%) GMP
3 2 (3.92%) GxP
4 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (37.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.80%) Docker
3 2 (3.92%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.96%) Dovecot
4 1 (1.96%) Postfix
4 1 (1.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (11.76%) SCCM
3 5 (9.80%) Terraform
4 4 (7.84%) Grafana
4 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.92%) Ansible
5 2 (3.92%) Argo
5 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) Nessus
6 1 (1.96%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) Splunk
3 5 (9.80%) iManage
3 5 (9.80%) Mitel
3 5 (9.80%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.88%) CyberArk
4 3 (5.88%) Oracle
5 2 (3.92%) Ariba
5 2 (3.92%) Remedy
5 2 (3.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (1.96%) Canon
6 1 (1.96%) Citrix
6 1 (1.96%) Dell
6 1 (1.96%) Foundry
6 1 (1.96%) HP
6 1 (1.96%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.96%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.96%) Veeam