Windows Server 2016 Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 132 152
Rank change year-on-year +57 +20 -22
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 70 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.62% 0.54% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.90% 3.62% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 11 7
10th Percentile £400 £350 £148
25th Percentile £575 £363 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £170
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +164.71% -50.72%
75th Percentile £608 £506 £372
90th Percentile - £519 £462
South East median daily rate £575 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +27.78% +5.88% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £81.37 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.30% +306.85% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £49.94 £20.00
% change year-on-year +23.36% +149.68% -

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 391 442 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.63% 15.04% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 318 440
10th Percentile £191 £213 £145
25th Percentile £213 £350 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +11.80%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £575
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 22
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.13 £19.52 £12.63
Median hourly rate £38.75 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +143.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.13 £62.97 £42.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.19 £67.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £53.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.38% +165.00% -

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire +52 69 £603 +37.71% 7
Buckinghamshire +22 1 £175 -64.10% 1
Windows Server 2016
South East

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 15 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (48.57%) Azure
2 15 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
2 15 (21.43%) Azure Storage
2 15 (21.43%) Entra ID
2 15 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (18.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (42.86%) DHCP
1 30 (42.86%) DNS
2 28 (40.00%) Firewall
3 16 (22.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
General
1 53 (75.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (31.43%) Windows Engineer
2 21 (30.00%) Build Engineer
2 21 (30.00%) Windows Build Engineer
3 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (21.43%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (20.00%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (20.00%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (20.00%) Support Specialist
6 10 (14.29%) Administrator
6 10 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
7 9 (12.86%) Storage Engineer
8 7 (10.00%) Senior
8 7 (10.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 5 (7.14%) Support Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Applications Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Support
10 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) PowerShell Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Server Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) ARM Templates
2 6 (8.57%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) PKI
1 15 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (18.57%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.43%) CCTV
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 70 (100.00%) Windows
2 67 (95.71%) Windows Server 2019
3 62 (88.57%) Windows Server
4 42 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 38 (54.29%) Windows 10
6 31 (44.29%) Linux
7 21 (30.00%) Windows NT
8 13 (18.57%) Windows XP
9 5 (7.14%) Windows 7
10 3 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (77.14%) ITIL
2 39 (55.71%) Release Management
3 36 (51.43%) Service Management
4 25 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (30.00%) Customer Service
5 21 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 21 (30.00%) DevOps
5 21 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 18 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (22.86%) Project Management
8 15 (21.43%) Agile
8 15 (21.43%) Analytics
8 15 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 15 (21.43%) Identity Management
8 15 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (21.43%) Log Analytics
8 15 (21.43%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 15 (21.43%) Privileged Identity Management
8 15 (21.43%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.71%) PowerShell
2 15 (21.43%) Bicep
2 15 (21.43%) C#
2 15 (21.43%) VB
2 15 (21.43%) VBScript
3 4 (5.71%) C
3 4 (5.71%) C++
4 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (87.14%) Security Cleared
2 56 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 31 (44.29%) Degree
3 31 (44.29%) SC Cleared
4 15 (21.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 13 (18.57%) CCNA
5 13 (18.57%) CCNP
5 13 (18.57%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (31.43%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (72.86%) Active Directory
2 21 (30.00%) Firmware
3 15 (21.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (18.57%) Hyper-V
4 13 (18.57%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (18.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (5.71%) XenApp
5 4 (5.71%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (75.71%) SCCM
2 49 (70.00%) WSUS
3 31 (44.29%) SCOM
4 21 (30.00%) Sysprep
5 16 (22.86%) NetBackup
6 15 (21.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 15 (21.43%) Kubernetes
6 15 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (18.57%) EMC NetWorker
7 13 (18.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.86%) 3PAR
2 16 (22.86%) HP
3 13 (18.57%) Cisco
3 13 (18.57%) Dell
3 13 (18.57%) EMC
3 13 (18.57%) Extreme Networks
3 13 (18.57%) Juniper
3 13 (18.57%) Oracle
3 13 (18.57%) Palo Alto
3 13 (18.57%) Symantec
3 13 (18.57%) Veeam
3 13 (18.57%) VMware
4 4 (5.71%) Citrix
5 3 (4.29%) NetApp
5 3 (4.29%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.29%) Veritas