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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 55 74 80
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.54% 10.54% 10.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.38% 61.67% 81.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 41 57
10th Percentile £122 - £184
25th Percentile £180 £190 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £250 £375
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -33.33% +24.17%
75th Percentile £488 £425 £438
90th Percentile - £538 £609
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £345 £350
% change year-on-year +15.94% -1.43% -1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +34.28%
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -15.59% +21.84% +7.72%

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 105 120 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.30% 17.09% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 72 66
10th Percentile £128 £190 £178
25th Percentile £244 £250 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £518 £575 £450
90th Percentile £584 £724 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £375
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -22.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +34.28%
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £18.50
% change year-on-year -15.59% +16.70% +12.46%

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 October 2025.

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 23 (41.82%) Confluence
2 9 (16.36%) nginx
3 1 (1.82%) IIS
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) AWS
2 22 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 22 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (38.18%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (38.18%) Amazon ELB
3 21 (38.18%) Amazon S3
3 21 (38.18%) AWS KMS
3 21 (38.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 17 (30.91%) Azure
5 12 (21.82%) Amazon Glacier
6 9 (16.36%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (16.36%) Route 53
7 4 (7.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.82%) GitHub
8 1 (1.82%) IaaS
8 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.82%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 32 (58.18%) DNS
2 25 (45.45%) Firewall
3 21 (38.18%) FTP
3 21 (38.18%) HTTP
3 21 (38.18%) SMTP
3 21 (38.18%) SSH
4 10 (18.18%) DHCP
5 9 (16.36%) IMAP
5 9 (16.36%) OpenLDAP
5 9 (16.36%) TCP/IP
6 8 (14.55%) VPN
7 2 (3.64%) VoIP
7 2 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.82%) BGP
8 1 (1.82%) Broadband
8 1 (1.82%) Internet
8 1 (1.82%) LAN
8 1 (1.82%) OSPF
8 1 (1.82%) WAN
8 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.18%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (16.36%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (43.64%) JIRA
2 21 (38.18%) Git
2 21 (38.18%) Jenkins
2 21 (38.18%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (49.09%) Social Skills
2 25 (45.45%) Public Sector
3 9 (16.36%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Legal
6 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.82%) Finance
8 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (29.09%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (29.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (29.09%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 11 (20.00%) Analyst
5 9 (16.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 8 (14.55%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) IT Support
7 6 (10.91%) Support Analyst
8 5 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 5 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
8 5 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) IT Analyst
8 5 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (7.27%) 1st Line Support
9 4 (7.27%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) LDAP
2 2 (3.64%) YAML
3 1 (1.82%) .NET
3 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.18%) Replication
2 5 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (3.64%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.82%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (47.27%) Linux
2 21 (38.18%) Amazon Linux
2 21 (38.18%) VMS
3 9 (16.36%) Ubuntu
3 9 (16.36%) Windows 10
4 4 (7.27%) Android
4 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.45%) Mac OS X
6 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) Change Management
2 23 (41.82%) DevOps
3 22 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 21 (38.18%) Configuration Management
4 21 (38.18%) Patch Management
4 21 (38.18%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (21.82%) ITIL
6 11 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.36%) CI/CD
8 9 (16.36%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (10.91%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (9.09%) CRM
10 5 (9.09%) Disk Encryption
10 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (9.09%) Problem Management
10 5 (9.09%) Service Delivery
11 4 (7.27%) Migration
12 3 (5.45%) SIEM
13 2 (3.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) PowerShell
2 22 (40.00%) Python
3 21 (38.18%) Groovy
4 12 (21.82%) Java
4 12 (21.82%) Perl
5 10 (18.18%) SQL
6 2 (3.64%) Bash
6 2 (3.64%) Bicep
7 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (49.09%) Security Cleared
2 25 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 10 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 10 (18.18%) Degree
4 6 (10.91%) MCP
4 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (9.09%) MCDST
6 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.64%) CCNA
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.82%) CCNP
8 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.82%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 22 (40.00%) Docker
3 21 (38.18%) DFS Replication
4 9 (16.36%) Dovecot
4 9 (16.36%) Postfix
4 9 (16.36%) Squid
5 1 (1.82%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.82%) Firmware
5 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.82%) Snort
5 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (40.00%) Grafana
1 22 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 22 (40.00%) Terraform
2 11 (20.00%) SCCM
3 9 (16.36%) Nessus
3 9 (16.36%) Proxmox
4 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.82%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 22 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 16 (29.09%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.36%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (9.09%) iManage
4 5 (9.09%) Mitel
5 2 (3.64%) Cisco
5 2 (3.64%) VMware
6 1 (1.82%) Apple
6 1 (1.82%) Citrix
6 1 (1.82%) Commvault
6 1 (1.82%) HP
6 1 (1.82%) McAfee
6 1 (1.82%) MobileIron
6 1 (1.82%) New Relic
6 1 (1.82%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.82%) Splunk
6 1 (1.82%) Veeam