Windows Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 213 198 233
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.06% 10.45% 11.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.74% 66.22% 76.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 117 166
10th Percentile £163 £174 £163
25th Percentile £207 £206 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £538 £570 £499
90th Percentile £609 £627 £625
England median daily rate £395 £415 £415
% change year-on-year -4.82% - -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 14
10th Percentile - £15.87 £16.54
25th Percentile £17.14 £20.30 £17.18
Median hourly rate £18.23 £22.05 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +24.41% +7.85%
75th Percentile £21.46 £24.07 £26.00
90th Percentile £25.80 £49.59 £28.75
England median hourly rate £21.46 £24.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year -11.29% +7.51% +3.97%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 329 299 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.54% 15.79% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 184 206
10th Percentile £185 £188 £161
25th Percentile £263 £271 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £466 £375
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +24.20% -24.24%
75th Percentile £546 £582 £500
90th Percentile £604 £675 £614
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 16
10th Percentile - £16.75 £16.54
25th Percentile £17.14 £20.30 £17.54
Median hourly rate £19.84 £22.50 £18.11
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +24.24% +10.23%
75th Percentile £22.99 £28.97 £28.19
90th Percentile £38.50 £50.25 £28.75
England median hourly rate £23.00 £58.49 £38.16
% change year-on-year -60.68% +53.30% +52.62%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Windows job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Birmingham -8 62 £400 +60.00% 32
Warwickshire -3 46 £480 -17.45% 12
Shropshire -8 37 £450 - 7
Worcestershire -1 21 £575 +342.31% 15
Staffordshire +8 14 £205 -29.31% 18
Coventry -13 8 £350 +117.05% 8
Wolverhampton +5 5 £267 - 4
Herefordshire -8 4 £413 -36.54% 5
Solihull -2 3 £410 +31.83% 4
West Bromwich - 1 £170 -
Windows
England

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 29 (13.62%) Confluence
2 16 (7.51%) WebLogic
3 14 (6.57%) Apache
4 10 (4.69%) nginx
5 8 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (2.82%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.94%) FileNet
8 1 (0.47%) IIS
8 1 (0.47%) JBoss
Applications
1 22 (10.33%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.47%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (29.58%) Azure
2 58 (27.23%) AWS
3 48 (22.54%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (12.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (12.21%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (12.21%) Amazon S3
5 26 (12.21%) AWS KMS
5 26 (12.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (10.33%) Amazon ELB
7 14 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (5.63%) Amazon Glacier
9 11 (5.16%) Entra ID
9 11 (5.16%) Route 53
10 10 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.76%) PaaS
12 6 (2.82%) GitHub
13 5 (2.35%) IaaS
14 4 (1.88%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (23.47%) DNS
2 36 (16.90%) Firewall
3 29 (13.62%) SSH
4 24 (11.27%) DHCP
5 22 (10.33%) FTP
5 22 (10.33%) HTTP
5 22 (10.33%) SMTP
6 17 (7.98%) VPN
7 15 (7.04%) TCP/IP
8 10 (4.69%) IMAP
8 10 (4.69%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (2.82%) Network Security
10 5 (2.35%) Kerberos
10 5 (2.35%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (1.41%) VoIP
12 3 (1.41%) Wireless
13 2 (0.94%) LAN
13 2 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.80%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.94%) DB2
7 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.47%) Power BI
7 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 38 (17.84%) JIRA
2 26 (12.21%) Git
3 23 (10.80%) Jenkins
4 22 (10.33%) Vagrant
5 5 (2.35%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.35%) PVCS
6 4 (1.88%) Toad
7 3 (1.41%) GitLab
8 2 (0.94%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.94%) MSI
9 1 (0.47%) AdminStudio
9 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.47%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 101 (47.42%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (17.37%) Public Sector
3 19 (8.92%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (7.98%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (5.16%) Legal
6 10 (4.69%) Finance
7 8 (3.76%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.94%) Law
9 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.47%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.47%) Automotive
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (16.43%) Support Engineer
2 27 (12.68%) Analyst
3 25 (11.74%) Platform Engineer
4 23 (10.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.39%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (8.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 16 (7.51%) Desktop Engineer
8 15 (7.04%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (7.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.63%) Desktop Support
9 12 (5.63%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 12 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) Deployment Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) IT Support
10 11 (5.16%) Windows Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) Administrator
11 10 (4.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Architect
12 9 (4.23%) Consultant
12 9 (4.23%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.98%) LDAP
2 9 (4.23%) XML
3 5 (2.35%) OAuth
3 5 (2.35%) SAML
4 2 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.94%) Middleware
4 2 (0.94%) YAML
5 1 (0.47%) .NET
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.47%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.27%) Replication
2 8 (3.76%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (1.88%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.41%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.41%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.41%) PKI
6 3 (1.41%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.94%) NHS
7 2 (0.94%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.94%) SCADA
7 2 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) IoT
8 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (36.62%) Linux
2 37 (17.37%) Windows 10
2 37 (17.37%) Windows Server
3 24 (11.27%) VMS
4 23 (10.80%) Amazon Linux
4 23 (10.80%) Unix
5 12 (5.63%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.23%) AIX
6 9 (4.23%) Solaris
7 7 (3.29%) Android
7 7 (3.29%) Apple iOS
7 7 (3.29%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.41%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.47%) SUSE
10 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (19.25%) Change Management
2 40 (18.78%) Cloud Security
3 36 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (15.49%) ITIL
5 31 (14.55%) DevOps
6 29 (13.62%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (13.15%) Service Management
8 27 (12.68%) Configuration Management
9 26 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (11.74%) Migration
11 23 (10.80%) Patch Management
12 22 (10.33%) Incident Response
13 21 (9.86%) Analytics
13 21 (9.86%) Customer Service
14 18 (8.45%) Agile
15 16 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (7.51%) Incident Management
15 16 (7.51%) Visualisation
16 15 (7.04%) CI/CD
16 15 (7.04%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (30.52%) PowerShell
2 41 (19.25%) Python
3 37 (17.37%) SQL
4 22 (10.33%) Groovy
5 19 (8.92%) Java
6 13 (6.10%) Perl
7 7 (3.29%) Bash
8 5 (2.35%) VBScript
9 2 (0.94%) Bicep
10 1 (0.47%) Ladder Logic
10 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (38.97%) Security Cleared
2 74 (34.74%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.86%) Degree
4 17 (7.98%) AWS Certification
5 16 (7.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (7.04%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.23%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.29%) MCP
9 5 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.35%) MCDST
10 4 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.41%) CCNA
11 3 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.41%) MCSE
12 2 (0.94%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.94%) ISEB
12 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.23%) SLA
2 7 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.29%) NIST
3 4 (1.88%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.41%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.94%) PMO
6 1 (0.47%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 92 (43.19%) Active Directory
2 27 (12.68%) Docker
3 22 (10.33%) DFS Replication
4 11 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (4.69%) Dovecot
5 10 (4.69%) Postfix
5 10 (4.69%) Squid
6 6 (2.82%) Firmware
6 6 (2.82%) Terminal Services
7 5 (2.35%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.41%) vSphere
9 2 (0.94%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.94%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.47%) Snort
10 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (15.96%) SCCM
2 33 (15.49%) Terraform
3 23 (10.80%) Grafana
3 23 (10.80%) Prometheus
4 20 (9.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (5.16%) Nessus
6 10 (4.69%) Proxmox
7 8 (3.76%) Ansible
8 6 (2.82%) Kubernetes
9 3 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.94%) SCOM
10 2 (0.94%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.47%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.47%) Kibana
11 1 (0.47%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 71 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.02%) ServiceNow
3 23 (10.80%) Oracle
4 20 (9.39%) Cisco
5 18 (8.45%) AppDynamics
5 18 (8.45%) VMware
6 17 (7.98%) Dynatrace
6 17 (7.98%) Splunk
7 16 (7.51%) CyberArk
8 15 (7.04%) BeyondTrust
9 10 (4.69%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (2.82%) Apple
11 5 (2.35%) Atlassian
11 5 (2.35%) Broadcom
11 5 (2.35%) Citrix
11 5 (2.35%) iManage
11 5 (2.35%) Mitel
11 5 (2.35%) SAP
12 4 (1.88%) Dell
12 4 (1.88%) IBM
113 Windows jobs in the West Midlands