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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -30 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 36 54 59
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.89% 9.84% 8.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.45% 72.97% 83.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 47 34
10th Percentile £165 £106 £190
25th Percentile £210 £150 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £275 £350
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £438 £488 £538
90th Percentile £563 - £632
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £448
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.71% +19.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £16.50
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% -2.58% +13.50%
75th Percentile - - £21.63
90th Percentile - - £22.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £17.83 £19.00
% change year-on-year +254.04% -6.14% -1.30%

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 55 74 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.95% 13.48% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 57 41
10th Percentile £190 £110 £190
25th Percentile £241 £160 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £300 £380
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% -21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £538
90th Percentile £631 £500 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +7.56% -4.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £16.50
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% -2.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile - - £21.63
90th Percentile - - £22.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £17.83 £19.00
% change year-on-year +254.04% -6.14% -5.00%

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 31 July 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 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) CloudStack
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (44.44%) Azure
3 14 (38.89%) Entra ID
4 7 (19.44%) OneDrive
5 5 (13.89%) AWS
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.56%) IaaS
8 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) DNS
2 8 (22.22%) DHCP
3 6 (16.67%) VPN
4 5 (13.89%) NAS
4 5 (13.89%) SAN
5 3 (8.33%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.56%) Firewall
6 2 (5.56%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 3 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Service Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Service Desk Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Support Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) IT Support
4 3 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Support Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Team Leader
5 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 2 (5.56%) Field Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.56%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (5.56%) Kafka
1 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.78%) JSON
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.78%) REST
2 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) iPhone
3 3 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.56%) CMDB
4 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) EPoS
5 1 (2.78%) PKI
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Windows Server
2 9 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (13.89%) Mac OS
4 4 (11.11%) Linux
5 3 (8.33%) Unix
6 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) ITSM
2 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (27.78%) Customer Service
4 9 (25.00%) ITIL
5 7 (19.44%) Service Management
6 6 (16.67%) Migration
7 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 4 (11.11%) Observability
9 3 (8.33%) AI
9 3 (8.33%) Coaching
9 3 (8.33%) Data Protection
9 3 (8.33%) DevOps
9 3 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (8.33%) Generative AI
9 3 (8.33%) Incident Management
9 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
9 3 (8.33%) Runbook
9 3 (8.33%) Server Management
10 2 (5.56%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.33%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.56%) CCNP
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.56%) CISSP
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.78%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) SLA
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (47.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.56%) etcd
3 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.56%) vSphere
3 2 (5.56%) XenApp
3 2 (5.56%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 4 (11.11%) SCCM
4 3 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (5.56%) Ansible
5 2 (5.56%) Check_MK
5 2 (5.56%) Fluentd
5 2 (5.56%) Grafana
6 1 (2.78%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (38.89%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.89%) Citrix
3 5 (13.89%) Splunk
3 5 (13.89%) VMware
4 4 (11.11%) Remedy
5 3 (8.33%) Apple
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco
5 3 (8.33%) Samsung
6 2 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (5.56%) Commvault
6 2 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (5.56%) Dell
6 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.56%) Veeam
7 1 (2.78%) Canon
7 1 (2.78%) EMC
7 1 (2.78%) HP
7 1 (2.78%) Isilon