Windows Server 2016 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server 2016 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 395 460
Rank change year-on-year +47 +65 -61
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 192 286 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.57% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.81% 3.46% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 228 258
10th Percentile £210 £223 £165
25th Percentile £350 £369 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% +8.97%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £500
90th Percentile - £700 £588
UK median daily rate £473 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.50% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile - £22.99 £15.80
25th Percentile £56.50 £26.48 £18.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - £56.70 £30.46
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -13.04%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2016 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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2016 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +79 82 £575 +27.78% 25
London +53 60 £350 -25.05% 27
North of England +19 16 £390 +4.00% 27
Midlands +16 15 £350 +40.00% 14
West Midlands +31 12 £350 +27.27% 7
South West -19 10 £220 -60.00% 5
Yorkshire +19 9 £400 +18.52% 10
East of England -12 9 £650 -7.14% 14
North West +5 5 £295 -39.49% 13
North East +18 2 £350 +137.29% 5
East Midlands +10 2 £513 +129.82% 7
Windows Server 2016
UK

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 56 (29.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (9.38%) SharePoint
3 11 (5.73%) IIS
4 4 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.56%) WordPress
6 2 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 10 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.04%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 70 (36.46%) Azure
2 58 (30.21%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (18.23%) Entra ID
4 16 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (7.81%) Azure Storage
6 14 (7.29%) OCI
7 12 (6.25%) OneDrive
8 6 (3.13%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.60%) AWS
9 5 (2.60%) WhatsApp
10 2 (1.04%) GitHub
11 1 (0.52%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.52%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.52%) GCP
11 1 (0.52%) IaaS
11 1 (0.52%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.52%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 64 (33.33%) Firewall
2 54 (28.13%) DNS
3 44 (22.92%) DHCP
4 39 (20.31%) SAN
5 8 (4.17%) VPN
6 7 (3.65%) NAS
6 7 (3.65%) Unified Communications
7 5 (2.60%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.60%) WAN
8 4 (2.08%) LAN
8 4 (2.08%) Network Security
8 4 (2.08%) Wireless
9 3 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (1.56%) iSCSI
9 3 (1.56%) Skype
10 2 (1.04%) Kerberos
10 2 (1.04%) NetScaler
10 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.04%) VLAN
10 2 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.13%) Power BI
3 4 (2.08%) Big Data
3 4 (2.08%) MySQL
4 3 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.04%) JIRA
2 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.52%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) Gradle
3 1 (0.52%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 75 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.71%) Public Sector
3 24 (12.50%) Finance
4 13 (6.77%) Banking
5 7 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.04%) Back Office
7 2 (1.04%) Law
7 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.52%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 59 (30.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (15.10%) Support Engineer
3 25 (13.02%) Windows Engineer
4 21 (10.94%) Build Engineer
4 21 (10.94%) Windows Build Engineer
5 18 (9.38%) Wintel Engineer
6 15 (7.81%) Active Directory Support
6 15 (7.81%) Support Specialist
7 14 (7.29%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (7.29%) Administrator
7 14 (7.29%) Azure Specialist
8 12 (6.25%) Senior
9 11 (5.73%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (5.73%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Migration Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Server Engineer
12 7 (3.65%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.81%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.13%) Itk
3 4 (2.08%) CSS
3 4 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (2.08%) HTML
3 4 (2.08%) HTML5
4 3 (1.56%) LAMP
5 2 (1.04%) LDAP
5 2 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.52%) jQuery
6 1 (0.52%) JSON
6 1 (0.52%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.52%) Node.js
6 1 (0.52%) RESTful
6 1 (0.52%) SOAP
6 1 (0.52%) Spring
6 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.52%) Swagger
6 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.67%) PKI
2 28 (14.58%) Replication
3 21 (10.94%) Data Centre
4 16 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (6.77%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (5.73%) Clustering
7 6 (3.13%) Digital Signage
8 5 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.56%) IoT
10 3 (1.56%) iPad
10 3 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.04%) Fat Client
11 2 (1.04%) iPhone
11 2 (1.04%) Thin Client
12 1 (0.52%) CMDB
12 1 (0.52%) LIMS
12 1 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 185 (96.35%) Windows
2 142 (73.96%) Windows Server 2019
3 140 (72.92%) Windows Server
4 89 (46.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 59 (30.73%) Windows 10
6 54 (28.13%) Linux
7 21 (10.94%) Windows NT
8 18 (9.38%) Windows Server 2008
9 13 (6.77%) Windows XP
10 9 (4.69%) Windows 7
11 8 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (3.65%) VMS
13 6 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (2.08%) CentOS
14 4 (2.08%) Ubuntu
15 2 (1.04%) Android
15 2 (1.04%) Unix
16 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (38.54%) ITIL
2 65 (33.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (21.35%) Migration
4 40 (20.83%) Release Management
5 39 (20.31%) Service Management
6 35 (18.23%) Disaster Recovery
7 34 (17.71%) Customer Service
8 32 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (10.94%) Deployment Automation
9 21 (10.94%) DevOps
9 21 (10.94%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 21 (10.94%) User Acceptance Testing
10 19 (9.90%) Analytics
11 18 (9.38%) CI/CD
12 17 (8.85%) Agile
12 17 (8.85%) Project Management
13 16 (8.33%) Identity Management
13 16 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (8.33%) Log Analytics
14 15 (7.81%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (34.90%) PowerShell
2 29 (15.10%) SQL
3 17 (8.85%) VBScript
4 15 (7.81%) Bicep
4 15 (7.81%) C#
4 15 (7.81%) VB
5 7 (3.65%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.08%) Bash
6 4 (2.08%) C
6 4 (2.08%) C++
6 4 (2.08%) PHP
6 4 (2.08%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.04%) Python
8 1 (0.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 97 (50.52%) Security Cleared
2 86 (44.79%) DV Cleared
3 38 (19.79%) Degree
4 36 (18.75%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (6.77%) CCNA
6 13 (6.77%) CCNP
6 13 (6.77%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.52%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.46%) QA
2 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.04%) NIST
3 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.04%) SLA
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 152 (79.17%) Active Directory
2 40 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (14.06%) Hyper-V
4 23 (11.98%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (10.94%) Firmware
6 20 (10.42%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (9.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (4.69%) vSphere
9 8 (4.17%) XenApp
10 5 (2.60%) XenDesktop
11 4 (2.08%) VMware NSX
12 2 (1.04%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.52%) Docker
13 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 85 (44.27%) SCCM
2 55 (28.65%) WSUS
3 43 (22.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 34 (17.71%) SCOM
5 28 (14.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (10.94%) Sysprep
7 16 (8.33%) Kubernetes
7 16 (8.33%) NetBackup
7 16 (8.33%) vCenter Server
8 13 (6.77%) EMC NetWorker
8 13 (6.77%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.56%) Ansible
10 3 (1.56%) Kibana
10 3 (1.56%) Nessus
10 3 (1.56%) Packer
10 3 (1.56%) Terraform
11 2 (1.04%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (1.04%) logstash
11 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 107 (55.73%) Microsoft
2 47 (24.48%) VMware
3 37 (19.27%) Veeam
4 35 (18.23%) HP
5 30 (15.63%) Cisco
6 29 (15.10%) EMC
7 24 (12.50%) Citrix
8 21 (10.94%) Oracle
9 16 (8.33%) 3PAR
9 16 (8.33%) Dell
9 16 (8.33%) Palo Alto
10 15 (7.81%) Juniper
10 15 (7.81%) Symantec
11 14 (7.29%) Avaya
11 14 (7.29%) Red Hat
12 13 (6.77%) CheckPoint
12 13 (6.77%) Extreme Networks
13 5 (2.60%) NetApp
13 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
14 4 (2.08%) Aruba
115 Windows Server 2016 jobs Nationwide