Windows Server 2016 Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 118 108
Rank change year-on-year -23 -10 +38
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 2 2 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.089% 0.11% 0.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.96% 1.08% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £670 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.65%
75th Percentile £710 - -
90th Percentile - - £613
Central London median daily rate £690 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -26.32%

All Operating Systems
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 208 186 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.29% 10.65% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 139 173
10th Percentile £220 £253 £251
25th Percentile £338 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% +1.95%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £716 £727 £725
Central London median daily rate £478 £498 £505
% change year-on-year -4.07% -1.44% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £24.25 £24.68
25th Percentile £19.38 £25.00 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +1.85% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.50 £112.00
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.95 -
Central London median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2016 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in the City of London

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Server Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (50.00%) ForeScout
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow