Windows Server 2016 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 259 297
Rank change year-on-year +9 +38 -26
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 154 181 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.80% 0.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.55% 4.22% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 126 162
10th Percentile £200 £181 £158
25th Percentile £306 £302 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £476 £323
Median % change year-on-year +15.55% +47.60% -7.86%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £475
90th Percentile - £700 £538
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £413
% change year-on-year -5.00% +21.21% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile - £22.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £56.50 £26.48 £17.35
Median hourly rate £61.60 £27.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.15% +35.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - £56.70 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £27.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +128.15% +35.00% -55.73%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,388 4,286 5,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.95% 18.87% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,219 2,940 3,824
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.95% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 307 425
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £14.72 £17.70 £15.04
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +21.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.52 £45.06 £22.00
% change year-on-year -50.02% +104.80% +25.71%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2016 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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 +67 83 £603 +33.89% 31
Midlands +16 18 £350 +55.56% 11
North of England +28 17 £300 -20.00% 22
Scotland +30 14 £325 +92.59% 2
West Midlands +20 13 £350 +27.27% 7
East of England -14 10 £588 -16.07% 11
Yorkshire +14 9 £350 +3.70% 10
South West -43 7 £298 -45.91% 14
Wales +24 5 £220 - 1
North West +9 5 £250 -45.95% 7
East Midlands +7 4 £475 +113.00% 4
North East +13 3 £300 +118.18% 5
Windows Server 2016
UK

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 51 (33.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (9.74%) SharePoint
3 12 (7.79%) IIS
4 3 (1.95%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (1.30%) WordPress
6 1 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 19 (12.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.30%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.90%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.65%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 69 (44.81%) Azure
2 63 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (24.68%) Entra ID
4 22 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (12.99%) Azure Storage
6 15 (9.74%) OneDrive
7 14 (9.09%) OCI
8 6 (3.90%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.90%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.90%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.60%) AWS
10 2 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.65%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 58 (37.66%) Firewall
2 54 (35.06%) DNS
3 49 (31.82%) DHCP
4 26 (16.88%) SAN
5 10 (6.49%) VPN
6 7 (4.55%) TCP/IP
6 7 (4.55%) Unified Communications
7 6 (3.90%) NAS
7 6 (3.90%) VLAN
8 5 (3.25%) LAN
8 5 (3.25%) Wireless
9 4 (2.60%) WAN
10 3 (1.95%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.30%) Internet
11 2 (1.30%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.30%) Network Security
11 2 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.30%) VoIP
11 2 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.90%) Power BI
3 4 (2.60%) Big Data
4 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.65%) GitLab
1 1 (0.65%) Gradle
1 1 (0.65%) InstallShield
1 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.65%) JIRA
1 1 (0.65%) Liquibase
1 1 (0.65%) MSI
1 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
1 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (51.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.39%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.55%) Finance
4 5 (3.25%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.95%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.30%) Local Government
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 20 (12.99%) Active Directory Support
4 18 (11.69%) Support Engineer
5 17 (11.04%) Analyst
5 17 (11.04%) Support Analyst
6 16 (10.39%) Build Engineer
6 16 (10.39%) Windows Build Engineer
7 15 (9.74%) Administrator
8 14 (9.09%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (9.09%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (9.09%) Support Specialist
9 12 (7.79%) Senior
9 12 (7.79%) Systems Administrator
10 11 (7.14%) IT Analyst
10 11 (7.14%) IT Support
10 11 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
11 10 (6.49%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (5.84%) 2nd Line Support
12 9 (5.84%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.99%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.90%) Itk
3 2 (1.30%) LAMP
4 1 (0.65%) jQuery
4 1 (0.65%) JSON
4 1 (0.65%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.65%) Node.js
4 1 (0.65%) RESTful
4 1 (0.65%) SOAP
4 1 (0.65%) Spring
4 1 (0.65%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.65%) Swagger
4 1 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.43%) PKI
2 26 (16.88%) Data Centre
3 21 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.55%) Clustering
5 6 (3.90%) Digital Signage
5 6 (3.90%) Replication
6 4 (2.60%) iPad
7 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.30%) iPhone
8 2 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.65%) CCTV
9 1 (0.65%) CMDB
9 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) IoT
9 1 (0.65%) NHS
9 1 (0.65%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 146 (94.81%) Windows
2 118 (76.62%) Windows Server
3 109 (70.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 62 (40.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 59 (38.31%) Windows 10
6 54 (35.06%) Linux
7 16 (10.39%) Windows NT
8 14 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
8 14 (9.09%) Windows XP
9 7 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (4.55%) VMS
10 6 (3.90%) CentOS
10 6 (3.90%) Debian
11 5 (3.25%) Windows 7
12 3 (1.95%) Android
12 3 (1.95%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.95%) Ubuntu
13 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
13 2 (1.30%) Unix
13 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (51.95%) ITIL
2 40 (25.97%) Service Management
3 37 (24.03%) Release Management
4 36 (23.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 35 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (22.08%) Customer Service
7 26 (16.88%) DevOps
7 26 (16.88%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 21 (13.64%) Agile
8 21 (13.64%) Analytics
8 21 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 21 (13.64%) Identity Management
9 20 (12.99%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (12.99%) Log Analytics
9 20 (12.99%) Privileged Identity Management
9 20 (12.99%) RBAC
10 17 (11.04%) Proactive Monitoring
10 17 (11.04%) Project Management
10 17 (11.04%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (40.26%) PowerShell
2 22 (14.29%) VBScript
3 20 (12.99%) Bicep
3 20 (12.99%) C#
3 20 (12.99%) VB
4 11 (7.14%) SQL
5 4 (2.60%) C
5 4 (2.60%) C++
6 2 (1.30%) Python
7 1 (0.65%) Java
7 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (46.75%) Security Cleared
2 67 (43.51%) DV Cleared
3 43 (27.92%) Degree
4 36 (23.38%) SC Cleared
5 20 (12.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (9.09%) CCNA
6 14 (9.09%) CCNP
6 14 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.55%) MCSE
9 6 (3.90%) MCSA
9 6 (3.90%) RHCT
10 2 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.30%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.65%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.04%) QA
2 5 (3.25%) SLA
3 2 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 124 (80.52%) Active Directory
2 50 (32.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (23.38%) Hyper-V
4 27 (17.53%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (15.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (10.39%) Firmware
8 7 (4.55%) vSphere
9 6 (3.90%) KVM
10 4 (2.60%) XenApp
11 2 (1.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (1.30%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.30%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.65%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.65%) Docker
12 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (48.70%) SCCM
2 57 (37.01%) WSUS
3 40 (25.97%) SCOM
4 33 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (16.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (12.99%) Kubernetes
7 17 (11.04%) vCenter Server
8 16 (10.39%) Sysprep
9 15 (9.74%) NetBackup
10 14 (9.09%) EMC NetWorker
11 8 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (2.60%) Nessus
13 2 (1.30%) Backup Exec
13 2 (1.30%) SCDPM
13 2 (1.30%) SCVMM
14 1 (0.65%) Ansible
14 1 (0.65%) HP SIM
14 1 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.65%) Kibana
14 1 (0.65%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 107 (69.48%) Microsoft
2 57 (37.01%) VMware
3 23 (14.94%) Cisco
4 22 (14.29%) Oracle
5 20 (12.99%) HP
6 19 (12.34%) Dell
7 18 (11.69%) Veeam
8 17 (11.04%) Citrix
8 17 (11.04%) EMC
8 17 (11.04%) Symantec
9 16 (10.39%) Palo Alto
10 15 (9.74%) 3PAR
11 14 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (9.09%) Juniper
12 13 (8.44%) Red Hat
13 5 (3.25%) Qualys
14 4 (2.60%) SolarWinds
15 3 (1.95%) Aruba
15 3 (1.95%) Ivanti
15 3 (1.95%) WatchGuard