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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 64 68
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 1 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.13% 0.50% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.05% 2.78% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £463 £223
Median % change year-on-year - +107.40% -55.40%
England median daily rate £550 £470 £425
% change year-on-year +17.02% +10.59% +6.25%

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 95 144 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.04% 18.14% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 83 89
10th Percentile £134 £160 £128
25th Percentile £200 £268 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £475 £499 £525
90th Percentile £490 £541 £628
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 22
10th Percentile £15.66 £12.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £23.99 £13.52 £14.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.32 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +37.28% +3.39% +0.91%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile - £38.68 £23.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £47.67
% change year-on-year -56.07% +20.11% +99.35%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 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 18 September 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 and Capabilities in the East 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:

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