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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows 46 44 59
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.34% 8.41% 7.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.46% 86.27% 76.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 39 42
10th Percentile £150 £150 £190
25th Percentile £200 £185 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £275 £363
Median % change year-on-year +67.73% -24.14% +3.57%
75th Percentile £544 £419 £469
90th Percentile £618 £689 £733
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £325 £388
% change year-on-year +34.62% -16.13% -11.93%
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% +8.42%
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% +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 99 51 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.50% 9.75% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 42 54
10th Percentile £198 £151 £190
25th Percentile £371 £188 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £278 £413
Median % change year-on-year +71.17% -32.73% +5.77%
75th Percentile £538 £495 £473
90th Percentile £618 £693 £699
West Midlands median daily rate £447 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +5.18% +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% +8.42%
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%

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 26 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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
1 2 (4.35%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) IIS
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
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 16 (34.78%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (13.04%) AWS
4 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.52%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.35%) SaaS
5 2 (4.35%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) IaaS
6 1 (2.17%) n8n
6 1 (2.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.17%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) VPN
2 9 (19.57%) DNS
2 9 (19.57%) Firewall
3 6 (13.04%) DHCP
4 5 (10.87%) Network Security
5 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.35%) NAS
6 2 (4.35%) SAN
7 1 (2.17%) LAN
7 1 (2.17%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
7 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 25 (54.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.87%) Legal
4 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Finance
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 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
7 3 (6.52%) CyberArk Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Service Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) 1st Line Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) 1st Line Support
8 2 (4.35%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 2 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (4.35%) Engineering Specialist
8 2 (4.35%) Field Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Security Specialist
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
2 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.35%) CMDB
4 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Linux
2 13 (28.26%) Windows Server
3 7 (15.22%) Windows 10
4 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.52%) Unix
6 1 (2.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.39%) Customer Service
1 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (17.39%) SIEM
2 7 (15.22%) DevOps
3 6 (13.04%) ITIL
3 6 (13.04%) ITSM
3 6 (13.04%) Threat Detection
4 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
4 5 (10.87%) Cloud Security
4 5 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (10.87%) Service Management
4 5 (10.87%) SOAR
4 5 (10.87%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (10.87%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 4 (8.70%) High Availability
5 4 (8.70%) Network Optimisation
5 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (8.70%) Validation
6 3 (6.52%) Agile
6 3 (6.52%) Incident Management
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 14 (30.43%) 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
4 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) MCDST
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.87%) NIST
3 4 (8.70%) QA
4 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.35%) GMP
4 2 (4.35%) GxP
5 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (30.43%) 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 10 (21.74%) 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
6 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) Splunk
3 4 (8.70%) 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%) Dell
6 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.17%) Foundry
6 1 (2.17%) HP
6 1 (2.17%) iManage
6 1 (2.17%) Mitel
6 1 (2.17%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.17%) Veeam