Windows Server 2016 Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 97 128 165
Rank change year-on-year +31 +37 -47
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 12 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.92% 2.66% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 9
10th Percentile £206 £182 £166
25th Percentile £328 £200 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £275 £350
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% -5.08%
75th Percentile £363 £363 £427
90th Percentile £940 £384 £453
England median daily rate £525 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
England median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -11.11%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 244 413 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.68% 17.35% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 277 449
10th Percentile £185 £171 £150
25th Percentile £251 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £505 £405
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% +24.69% +11.72%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £519
90th Percentile £698 £694 £600
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 36
10th Percentile £14.83 £14.71 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.25 £13.84
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £48.13 £25.75 £23.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the West Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the West Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the West Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +14 10 £350 - 1
Staffordshire +5 1 £275 -
Warwickshire - 1 £400 -
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
3 8 (66.67%) OneDrive
4 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (50.00%) Power Automate
4 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (50.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) DNS
3 4 (33.33%) SAN
3 4 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
4 2 (16.67%) NAS
4 2 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (16.67%) Wireless
5 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 2 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Support
3 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Digital Signage
1 6 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 11 (91.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
5 2 (16.67%) VMS
5 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 7 (58.33%) ITIL
3 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 6 (50.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (8.33%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Terminal Services
3 2 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (16.67%) SCCM
4 1 (8.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle
3 5 (41.67%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) Aruba
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (16.67%) ProCurve
4 2 (16.67%) Synology
4 2 (16.67%) Veeam
4 2 (16.67%) Zerto
5 1 (8.33%) 3PAR
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco
5 1 (8.33%) HP
5 1 (8.33%) NetApp
5 1 (8.33%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (8.33%) Veritas