Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2016 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 416 530
Rank change year-on-year +1 +114 -164
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 602 751 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.76% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.32% 4.75% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 524 609 861
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,200 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,906 £29,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,250 £54,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £65,813
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £33,500 £38,217
% change year-on-year +19.40% -12.34% -4.46%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2016 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,934 15,823 30,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 16.06% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 10,615 16,434
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2016 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016.

Salary trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2016 within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +21 577 £40,000 - 126
UK excluding London +7 513 £40,000 +19.40% 108
Work from Home +25 194 £42,500 - 45
South East 0 159 £50,000 +58.73% 37
South West +54 105 £37,500 -10.18% 12
North of England -16 98 £37,500 -6.25% 25
London -11 82 £50,000 -4.76% 32
Midlands -11 74 £35,000 +7.69% 15
East of England +29 60 £33,000 +14.78% 18
Yorkshire +74 51 £37,500 +16.46% 17
West Midlands +4 51 £31,000 -3.13% 7
North West -60 28 £40,000 -11.11% 6
East Midlands -4 22 £35,000 - 8
North East +3 19 £32,000 -40.47% 2
Scotland -61 13 £37,500 -6.25% 3
Northern Ireland +20 3 £40,000 +23.08%
Wales -4 2 £46,250 +68.18%

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 180 (29.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (16.45%) SharePoint
3 33 (5.48%) IIS
4 21 (3.49%) Exchange Server 2010
5 20 (3.32%) Exchange Server 2013
6 18 (2.99%) Exchange Server 2007
7 13 (2.16%) Confluence
8 9 (1.50%) WordPress
9 5 (0.83%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.17%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.17%) Site Server
Applications
1 97 (16.11%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.16%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 335 (55.65%) Microsoft 365
2 312 (51.83%) Azure
3 110 (18.27%) Entra ID
4 60 (9.97%) AWS
5 55 (9.14%) OneDrive
6 46 (7.64%) Mimecast
7 18 (2.99%) Azure Storage
7 18 (2.99%) SaaS
8 17 (2.82%) Google Workspace
8 17 (2.82%) Nutanix
9 16 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (1.99%) OCI
11 12 (1.99%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
13 10 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.66%) GCP
14 9 (1.50%) IaaS
15 8 (1.33%) PowerApps
16 7 (1.16%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 227 (37.71%) DNS
2 215 (35.71%) Firewall
3 192 (31.89%) DHCP
4 97 (16.11%) TCP/IP
5 88 (14.62%) WAN
6 73 (12.13%) LAN
7 72 (11.96%) VPN
8 65 (10.80%) Wireless
9 57 (9.47%) SAN
10 44 (7.31%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (5.48%) VoIP
12 32 (5.32%) VLAN
13 22 (3.65%) Remote Desktop
14 20 (3.32%) SD-WAN
15 16 (2.66%) Network Security
16 14 (2.33%) NAS
17 12 (1.99%) Fibre Channel
17 12 (1.99%) iSCSI
18 9 (1.50%) Multicast
18 9 (1.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 34 (5.65%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.49%) MySQL
5 9 (1.50%) DB2
6 7 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.83%) InfluxDB
7 5 (0.83%) MariaDB
7 5 (0.83%) Power BI
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.17%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.82%) JIRA
2 8 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.00%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.83%) Git
5 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.33%) Hudson
5 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.17%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 193 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 95 (15.78%) Finance
3 27 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 17 (2.82%) Telecoms
6 16 (2.66%) Retail
7 13 (2.16%) Back Office
7 13 (2.16%) Legal
8 12 (1.99%) Automotive
9 10 (1.66%) Law
10 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.33%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.00%) Aviation
13 5 (0.83%) Banking
13 5 (0.83%) Games
14 4 (0.66%) Electronics
15 1 (0.17%) Advertising
15 1 (0.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 152 (25.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 136 (22.59%) IT Engineer
3 115 (19.10%) IT Support
4 95 (15.78%) Support Engineer
5 81 (13.46%) Senior
6 70 (11.63%) Administrator
7 69 (11.46%) IT Support Engineer
8 61 (10.13%) Analyst
9 49 (8.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 44 (7.31%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 35 (5.81%) IT Technician
12 34 (5.65%) 3rd Line Support
12 34 (5.65%) DBA
13 32 (5.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 31 (5.15%) DV Cleared DBA
15 30 (4.98%) 2nd Line Support
16 29 (4.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 29 (4.82%) Systems Administrator
17 28 (4.65%) Lead
17 28 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.99%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.50%) LAMP
3 7 (1.16%) LDAP
4 3 (0.50%) SAML
5 2 (0.33%) ServiceStack
5 2 (0.33%) WSH
6 1 (0.17%) .NET
6 1 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.17%) Kafka
6 1 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.17%) XML
6 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.47%) Self-Motivation
2 42 (6.98%) Driving Licence
3 35 (5.81%) Data Centre
4 29 (4.82%) PKI
5 28 (4.65%) Replication
6 21 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.49%) CCTV
9 14 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.99%) Clustering
11 9 (1.50%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.33%) VAX
13 6 (1.00%) EMC VNX
13 6 (1.00%) Fat Client
13 6 (1.00%) Handset
13 6 (1.00%) iPad
13 6 (1.00%) Thin Client
13 6 (1.00%) Xbox
14 5 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
15 4 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 590 (98.01%) Windows
2 426 (70.76%) Windows Server
3 413 (68.60%) Windows Server 2019
4 285 (47.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 227 (37.71%) Windows 10
6 182 (30.23%) Linux
7 70 (11.63%) Windows Server 2008
8 60 (9.97%) CentOS
9 46 (7.64%) Windows 7
10 30 (4.98%) Ubuntu
11 22 (3.65%) Windows 8
12 20 (3.32%) Apple iOS
12 20 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 17 (2.82%) Windows XP
14 16 (2.66%) Windows NT
15 15 (2.49%) Mac OS
16 9 (1.50%) VMS
17 7 (1.16%) Unix
18 5 (0.83%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.83%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (31.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 168 (27.91%) ITIL
3 126 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (17.28%) Customer Service
5 71 (11.79%) Cybersecurity
6 63 (10.47%) Mentoring
7 59 (9.80%) Project Management
8 53 (8.80%) Performance Monitoring
9 52 (8.64%) Change Management
9 52 (8.64%) Time Management
10 49 (8.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 49 (8.14%) Storage Management
11 47 (7.81%) Service Management
12 40 (6.64%) DevOps
13 39 (6.48%) User Experience
14 36 (5.98%) Agile
14 36 (5.98%) Line Management
15 34 (5.65%) Capacity Management
15 34 (5.65%) Database Tuning
16 33 (5.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 213 (35.38%) PowerShell
2 78 (12.96%) SQL
3 49 (8.14%) Bash
4 28 (4.65%) VBScript
5 20 (3.32%) VB
6 18 (2.99%) C#
7 15 (2.49%) Bicep
8 8 (1.33%) Python
9 6 (1.00%) Perl
10 2 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.17%) C++
11 1 (0.17%) Java
11 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (20.76%) Security Cleared
2 110 (18.27%) Degree
3 85 (14.12%) DV Cleared
4 61 (10.13%) SC Cleared
5 48 (7.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (6.98%) DBS Check
7 36 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (4.15%) CCNA
9 24 (3.99%) MCSE
10 23 (3.82%) CCNP
11 21 (3.49%) MCSA
12 18 (2.99%) HNC
13 16 (2.66%) A+ Certification
13 16 (2.66%) Network+ Certification
14 15 (2.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 14 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (1.99%) Azure Certification
17 8 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 4 (0.66%) RHCT
19 3 (0.50%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.14%) SLA
2 12 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.50%) GDPR
4 6 (1.00%) NIST
5 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.50%) PMO
5 3 (0.50%) QA
6 2 (0.33%) NCSC
6 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 385 (63.95%) Active Directory
2 226 (37.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 180 (29.90%) Hyper-V
4 61 (10.13%) vSphere
5 47 (7.81%) VMware ESXi
6 39 (6.48%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.99%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (2.49%) Firmware
9 14 (2.33%) Terminal Services
10 9 (1.50%) Docker
11 8 (1.33%) XenApp
12 5 (0.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.83%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.66%) KVM
14 3 (0.50%) NFS
15 2 (0.33%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.33%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 114 (18.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 110 (18.27%) SCCM
3 71 (11.79%) WSUS
4 55 (9.14%) vCenter Server
5 41 (6.81%) SCOM
6 35 (5.81%) Kubernetes
7 24 (3.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (2.99%) Ansible
8 18 (2.99%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (2.16%) Nagios
9 13 (2.16%) NetBackup
9 13 (2.16%) Terraform
10 12 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (1.83%) McAfee ePO
11 11 (1.83%) Sysprep
12 8 (1.33%) EMC VPLEX
12 8 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
12 8 (1.33%) Nessus
12 8 (1.33%) SCVMM
13 7 (1.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 443 (73.59%) Microsoft
2 301 (50.00%) VMware
3 97 (16.11%) Cisco
4 72 (11.96%) Citrix
4 72 (11.96%) Red Hat
5 68 (11.30%) Veeam
6 58 (9.63%) Apple
7 55 (9.14%) HP
8 53 (8.80%) Oracle
9 41 (6.81%) Sophos
10 34 (5.65%) Dell
11 29 (4.82%) Meraki
12 26 (4.32%) EMC
12 26 (4.32%) Palo Alto
13 24 (3.99%) Google
13 24 (3.99%) SolarWinds
14 23 (3.82%) Aruba
14 23 (3.82%) ConnectWise
15 20 (3.32%) Juniper
16 19 (3.16%) Draytek