Windows Server 2016 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 382 409 487
Rank change year-on-year +27 +78 -94
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 223 334 414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.56% 0.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.86% 3.44% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 255 300
10th Percentile £200 £193 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £500
90th Percentile £608 £700 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £490 £325
% change year-on-year +12.24% +50.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile - £22.99 £15.85
25th Percentile £56.50 £26.48 £19.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile - £40.25 £26.54
90th Percentile - £56.70 £50.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,775 9,719 13,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 16.25% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 6,848 9,128
10th Percentile £184 £189 £175
25th Percentile £300 £326 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £615
90th Percentile £700 £717 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 422 633
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.80% +56.25% +17.65%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England +47 192 £525 +5.00% 111
UK excluding London +30 152 £550 +12.24% 89
South East +79 82 £575 +27.78% 25
Work from Home +92 67 £420 -11.58% 33
London +53 60 £350 -25.05% 27
Scotland +21 16 £325 +85.71% 2
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
Wales +20 5 £220 -53.19% 2
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
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 66 (29.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (9.42%) SharePoint
3 19 (8.52%) IIS
4 4 (1.79%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.35%) WordPress
6 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (8.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.90%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.69%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.45%) assyst
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 79 (35.43%) Azure
2 73 (32.74%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (17.49%) Entra ID
4 19 (8.52%) OneDrive
5 16 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (6.73%) Azure Storage
7 14 (6.28%) OCI
8 8 (3.59%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.69%) AWS
9 6 (2.69%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.69%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.24%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.90%) GitHub
11 2 (0.90%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.45%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.45%) GCP
12 1 (0.45%) IaaS
12 1 (0.45%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.45%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 70 (31.39%) Firewall
2 58 (26.01%) DNS
3 47 (21.08%) DHCP
4 44 (19.73%) SAN
5 10 (4.48%) NAS
6 9 (4.04%) VPN
7 7 (3.14%) Unified Communications
8 6 (2.69%) LAN
9 5 (2.24%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.24%) WAN
9 5 (2.24%) Wireless
10 4 (1.79%) Network Security
10 4 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.35%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (1.35%) iSCSI
11 3 (1.35%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.35%) Skype
12 2 (0.90%) VLAN
12 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (20.63%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.59%) Power BI
3 4 (1.79%) Big Data
3 4 (1.79%) MySQL
4 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.35%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.35%) JIRA
2 2 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Gradle
3 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 88 (39.46%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.49%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.76%) Finance
4 13 (5.83%) Banking
5 7 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Back Office
8 2 (0.90%) Law
8 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.45%) French Language
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Russian Language
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (28.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (14.35%) Support Engineer
3 28 (12.56%) Windows Engineer
4 21 (9.42%) Build Engineer
4 21 (9.42%) Windows Build Engineer
5 19 (8.52%) Wintel Engineer
6 15 (6.73%) Active Directory Support
6 15 (6.73%) Administrator
6 15 (6.73%) Support Specialist
7 14 (6.28%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (6.28%) Azure Specialist
8 12 (5.38%) Analyst
8 12 (5.38%) Senior
8 12 (5.38%) Support Analyst
9 11 (4.93%) Server Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (4.93%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) 2nd Line Support
10 9 (4.04%) Migration Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.73%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.69%) Itk
3 4 (1.79%) CSS
3 4 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.79%) HTML
3 4 (1.79%) HTML5
4 3 (1.35%) LAMP
4 3 (1.35%) Web Services
5 2 (0.90%) LDAP
5 2 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.90%) REST
6 1 (0.45%) jQuery
6 1 (0.45%) JSON
6 1 (0.45%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.45%) Node.js
6 1 (0.45%) RESTful
6 1 (0.45%) SOAP
6 1 (0.45%) Spring
6 1 (0.45%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.35%) PKI
2 28 (12.56%) Replication
3 27 (12.11%) Data Centre
4 17 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (5.83%) Video Conferencing
6 12 (5.38%) Clustering
7 6 (2.69%) Digital Signage
7 6 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.35%) IoT
9 3 (1.35%) iPad
9 3 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.90%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.90%) CMDB
10 2 (0.90%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.90%) iPhone
10 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.90%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 214 (95.96%) Windows
2 159 (71.30%) Windows Server
3 151 (67.71%) Windows Server 2019
4 105 (47.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 69 (30.94%) Windows 10
6 60 (26.91%) Linux
7 25 (11.21%) Windows Server 2008
8 21 (9.42%) Windows NT
9 13 (5.83%) Windows XP
10 10 (4.48%) CentOS
11 9 (4.04%) Windows 7
12 8 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (3.14%) VMS
13 7 (3.14%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (2.69%) Debian
15 4 (1.79%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.90%) Android
16 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.90%) Unix
17 1 (0.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (38.57%) ITIL
2 70 (31.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 46 (20.63%) Migration
4 40 (17.94%) Release Management
4 40 (17.94%) Service Management
5 39 (17.49%) Customer Service
6 38 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (15.70%) Disaster Recovery
8 22 (9.87%) DevOps
9 21 (9.42%) Deployment Automation
9 21 (9.42%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 21 (9.42%) User Acceptance Testing
10 20 (8.97%) Analytics
11 18 (8.07%) Agile
11 18 (8.07%) CI/CD
11 18 (8.07%) Project Management
12 16 (7.17%) Identity Management
12 16 (7.17%) Log Analytics
12 16 (7.17%) RBAC
12 16 (7.17%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (33.18%) PowerShell
2 31 (13.90%) SQL
3 17 (7.62%) VBScript
4 15 (6.73%) Bicep
4 15 (6.73%) C#
4 15 (6.73%) VB
5 7 (3.14%) Shell Script
6 4 (1.79%) Bash
6 4 (1.79%) C
6 4 (1.79%) C++
6 4 (1.79%) PHP
6 4 (1.79%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.35%) Python
8 1 (0.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 101 (45.29%) Security Cleared
2 88 (39.46%) DV Cleared
3 39 (17.49%) Degree
3 39 (17.49%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 13 (5.83%) CCNA
5 13 (5.83%) CCNP
5 13 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.14%) MCSA
8 6 (2.69%) MCSE
8 6 (2.69%) RHCT
9 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.87%) QA
2 6 (2.69%) SLA
3 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.90%) NIST
4 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 180 (80.72%) Active Directory
2 52 (23.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (16.59%) Hyper-V
4 23 (10.31%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (9.87%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (9.42%) Firmware
7 19 (8.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (4.93%) vSphere
9 9 (4.04%) XenApp
10 6 (2.69%) KVM
10 6 (2.69%) XenDesktop
11 5 (2.24%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.90%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.90%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.45%) Docker
13 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 98 (43.95%) SCCM
2 57 (25.56%) WSUS
3 45 (20.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 37 (16.59%) SCOM
5 32 (14.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (9.42%) Sysprep
7 17 (7.62%) vCenter Server
8 16 (7.17%) Kubernetes
8 16 (7.17%) NetBackup
9 13 (5.83%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (5.83%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (3.14%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.35%) Ansible
11 3 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.35%) Kibana
11 3 (1.35%) Nessus
11 3 (1.35%) Packer
11 3 (1.35%) Terraform
12 2 (0.90%) logstash
12 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 121 (54.26%) Microsoft
2 62 (27.80%) VMware
3 39 (17.49%) HP
4 37 (16.59%) Veeam
5 36 (16.14%) Cisco
6 34 (15.25%) Citrix
7 31 (13.90%) EMC
8 24 (10.76%) Oracle
9 20 (8.97%) Red Hat
10 19 (8.52%) Dell
11 17 (7.62%) Palo Alto
12 16 (7.17%) 3PAR
12 16 (7.17%) Symantec
13 15 (6.73%) Juniper
14 14 (6.28%) Avaya
15 13 (5.83%) CheckPoint
15 13 (5.83%) Extreme Networks
16 7 (3.14%) ServiceNow
17 6 (2.69%) NetApp
18 4 (1.79%) Aruba
115 Windows Server 2016 jobs Nationwide