Windows Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 55 89 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.21% 9.77% 9.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 76.39% 77.39% 74.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 50 88
10th Percentile £190 £182 £139
25th Percentile £200 £241 £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £390 £356
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +9.47% +18.75%
75th Percentile £519 £542 £500
90th Percentile £750 £731 £679
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £445 £300
% change year-on-year -10.16% +48.42% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.44 £14.50
25th Percentile £15.04 £15.74 £15.19
Median hourly rate £16.80 £16.48 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% -1.61% -6.94%
75th Percentile £18.45 £17.74 £19.38
90th Percentile £19.08 £18.35 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £16.94 £16.50
% change year-on-year +31.38% +2.64% -

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 72 115 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.44% 12.62% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 59 125
10th Percentile £190 £185 £161
25th Percentile £250 £304 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £486 £600 £525
90th Percentile £733 £731 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £510 £400
% change year-on-year -16.67% +27.50% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.54 £14.50
25th Percentile £15.04 £15.98 £15.19
Median hourly rate £16.80 £17.49 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +4.42% -6.94%
75th Percentile £18.45 £27.50 £19.38
90th Percentile £19.08 £43.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
% change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -

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 24 April 2024.

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

Windows
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 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (14.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.45%) CMS
4 2 (3.64%) IIS
4 2 (3.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) Azure
2 25 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 11 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 8 (14.55%) OneDrive
5 6 (10.91%) Azure Functions
5 6 (10.91%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (10.91%) Power Automate
5 6 (10.91%) PowerApps
5 6 (10.91%) Serverless
6 4 (7.27%) AWS
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.64%) IaaS
7 2 (3.64%) PaaS
8 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.82%) GCP
8 1 (1.82%) GitHub
8 1 (1.82%) Route 53
8 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.00%) DNS
2 9 (16.36%) VPN
2 9 (16.36%) WAN
3 8 (14.55%) Firewall
4 7 (12.73%) LAN
5 6 (10.91%) Unified Communications
6 4 (7.27%) DHCP
6 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
7 3 (5.45%) VLAN
7 3 (5.45%) VoIP
7 3 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (3.64%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (3.64%) iSCSI
8 2 (3.64%) NAS
8 2 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (3.64%) SAN
8 2 (3.64%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) Power BI
2 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.82%) MySQL
3 1 (1.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Hudson
1 1 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 27 (49.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Finance
3 6 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Games
7 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 9 (16.36%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 8 (14.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) Support Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Service Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) LAMP
1 2 (3.64%) Middleware
2 1 (1.82%) .NET
2 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (1.82%) JSON
2 1 (1.82%) Kafka
2 1 (1.82%) LDAP
2 1 (1.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Digital Signage
1 6 (10.91%) PKI
2 4 (7.27%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.45%) Clustering
3 3 (5.45%) Cyberattack
3 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.45%) Replication
3 3 (5.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.64%) iPad
4 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.82%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.82%) PDA
5 1 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (34.55%) Windows Server
2 14 (25.45%) Windows Server 2019
3 13 (23.64%) Linux
3 13 (23.64%) Windows 10
4 10 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (5.45%) Mac OS
6 3 (5.45%) Unix
7 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.64%) VMS
7 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.82%) Android
8 1 (1.82%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.82%) ITIL
2 11 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 8 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (12.73%) Analytics
4 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (10.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 6 (10.91%) Runbook
5 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
6 5 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (9.09%) Data Science
6 5 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 5 (9.09%) Problem Management
6 5 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (7.27%) DevOps
7 4 (7.27%) Incident Response
7 4 (7.27%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (5.45%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (5.45%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.45%) Python
2 3 (5.45%) SQL
3 1 (1.82%) Bicep
3 1 (1.82%) C#
3 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) Degree
3 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) SLA
2 2 (3.64%) ISO 9000
2 2 (3.64%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.82%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 5 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.64%) Terminal Services
5 2 (3.64%) vSphere
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (27.27%) SCCM
2 13 (23.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (10.91%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (9.09%) SysTrack
5 3 (5.45%) Autotask
5 3 (5.45%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.45%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.82%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.82%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (41.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.00%) VMware
3 6 (10.91%) Oracle
4 5 (9.09%) Citrix
4 5 (9.09%) New Relic
4 5 (9.09%) OpenAI
5 4 (7.27%) Apple
5 4 (7.27%) Splunk
6 3 (5.45%) Darktrace
6 3 (5.45%) Datto
6 3 (5.45%) FireEye
6 3 (5.45%) LogRhythm
7 2 (3.64%) Aruba
7 2 (3.64%) Databricks
7 2 (3.64%) Fujitsu
7 2 (3.64%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.64%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.64%) Synology
7 2 (3.64%) Veeam
7 2 (3.64%) Zerto