Windows Server 2016 Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% 0.40% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.88% 2.40% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 -
England median daily rate £539 £431 £425
% change year-on-year +24.93% +1.47% +3.03%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 113 125 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.34% 16.51% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 74 97
10th Percentile £132 £175 £130
25th Percentile £163 £309 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +45.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £472 £475 £500
90th Percentile £489 £525 £610
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 24
10th Percentile £18.28 £14.65 £12.23
25th Percentile £20.93 £17.58 £14.45
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +36.46% +6.80%
75th Percentile - £24.74 £20.38
90th Percentile - £58.75 £46.32
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £43.13
% change year-on-year -60.00% +33.33% +72.50%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. 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
Leicestershire - 1 - -
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zerto