Windows Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 55 62 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.22% 7.97% 9.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 73.33% 79.49% 77.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 40 53
10th Percentile £106 £190 £191
25th Percentile £150 £200 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £488 £538 £600
90th Percentile £656 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £300 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -25.00% +6.67% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £14.52 £15.44
25th Percentile - £15.47 £15.74
Median hourly rate £18.51 £17.50 £16.48
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +6.19% +3.00%
75th Percentile - £20.56 £17.74
90th Percentile - £22.48 £18.35
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.83 £22.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -18.94% +14.29% +17.02%

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 75 78 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.94% 10.03% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 49 59
10th Percentile £111 £190 £192
25th Percentile £161 £200 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £616
90th Percentile £689 £675 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £401 £444 £428
% change year-on-year -9.62% +3.74% +0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £14.52 £15.54
25th Percentile - £15.47 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.51 £17.50 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +0.06% +9.31%
75th Percentile - £20.56 £27.50
90th Percentile - £22.48 £43.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.83 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.74% +12.50% +21.58%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Birmingham

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Birmingham

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Birmingham over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Birmingham

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (14.55%) Confluence
2 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.82%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.09%) Azure
1 16 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (23.64%) Entra ID
3 9 (16.36%) AWS
4 8 (14.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (12.73%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.91%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (10.91%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (10.91%) Amazon Glacier
6 6 (10.91%) AWS KMS
6 6 (10.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (5.45%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.64%) GitHub
9 1 (1.82%) Asana
9 1 (1.82%) IaaS
9 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.82%) PaaS
9 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.82%) DNS
2 10 (18.18%) Firewall
3 7 (12.73%) HTTP
3 7 (12.73%) SMTP
4 6 (10.91%) DHCP
4 6 (10.91%) FTP
4 6 (10.91%) SSH
5 3 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.64%) VoIP
6 2 (3.64%) VPN
7 1 (1.82%) BGP
7 1 (1.82%) Broadband
7 1 (1.82%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.82%) Internet
7 1 (1.82%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.82%) OSPF
7 1 (1.82%) SAN
7 1 (1.82%) SSL
7 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) JIRA
2 7 (12.73%) Git
2 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.91%) Vagrant
4 5 (9.09%) MSI
5 1 (1.82%) GitLab
5 1 (1.82%) Maven
5 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.91%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Legal
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (12.73%) Analyst
1 7 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (10.91%) 1st Line Support
2 6 (10.91%) Support Officer
3 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Service Analyst
4 4 (7.27%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (7.27%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (3.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Desktop Support
6 2 (3.64%) IT Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Support Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Windows Support Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) Software Packaging
2 2 (3.64%) YAML
3 1 (1.82%) .NET
3 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.82%) Kafka
3 1 (1.82%) LDAP
3 1 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Driving Licence
2 6 (10.91%) Replication
3 2 (3.64%) SCADA
4 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.82%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.73%) Windows 10
2 14 (25.45%) Linux
3 8 (14.55%) Android
4 6 (10.91%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (10.91%) VMS
5 3 (5.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.82%) CentOS
7 1 (1.82%) Debian
7 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.64%) Customer Service
2 12 (21.82%) ITIL
2 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (14.55%) DevOps
4 7 (12.73%) Cloud Security
4 7 (12.73%) Patch Management
5 6 (10.91%) Change Management
5 6 (10.91%) Configuration Management
5 6 (10.91%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (9.09%) Migration
6 5 (9.09%) Software Delivery
6 5 (9.09%) Software Deployment
6 5 (9.09%) Software Distribution
7 3 (5.45%) Asset Management
7 3 (5.45%) ITSM
8 2 (3.64%) Agile
8 2 (3.64%) Containerisation
8 2 (3.64%) Project Delivery
9 1 (1.82%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.18%) PowerShell
2 13 (23.64%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) Bash
4 6 (10.91%) Groovy
4 6 (10.91%) Java
4 6 (10.91%) Perl
5 1 (1.82%) Bicep
5 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 22 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) CCNA
3 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.82%) CCNP
5 1 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.82%) MCP
5 1 (1.82%) MCSA
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) QA
1 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (43.64%) Active Directory
2 8 (14.55%) Docker
3 6 (10.91%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.82%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.82%) Firmware
4 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) Prometheus
1 8 (14.55%) SCCM
2 7 (12.73%) Grafana
2 7 (12.73%) Terraform
3 6 (10.91%) Ansible
3 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.82%) logstash
5 1 (1.82%) Nessus
5 1 (1.82%) Puppet
5 1 (1.82%) QRadar
5 1 (1.82%) SysTrack
5 1 (1.82%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 20 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.00%) HP
3 10 (18.18%) Dell
4 9 (16.36%) ServiceNow
5 5 (9.09%) Tanium
5 5 (9.09%) VMware
6 4 (7.27%) Cisco
7 2 (3.64%) Apple
8 1 (1.82%) Citrix
8 1 (1.82%) Commvault
8 1 (1.82%) Foundry
8 1 (1.82%) McAfee
8 1 (1.82%) MobileIron
8 1 (1.82%) New Relic
8 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.82%) Sophos
8 1 (1.82%) Veeam