Windows Server 2016 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 359 404
Rank change year-on-year -48 +45 +71
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 91 200 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.54% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.50% 3.84% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 150 178
10th Percentile £300 £210 £223
25th Percentile £388 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +6.06% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £597
90th Percentile £591 £609 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +10.53% -3.06% +18.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £22.12
25th Percentile - £56.50 £26.48
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £26.74
Median % change year-on-year - +130.37% +33.70%
75th Percentile - - £27.00
90th Percentile - - £54.19
UK median hourly rate - £61.60 £26.74
% change year-on-year - +130.37% +33.70%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,638 5,205 7,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.93% 13.93% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,435 3,439 5,328
10th Percentile £200 £190 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 394 368
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.00 £18.47
Median hourly rate £20.00 £24.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% -41.94% +88.89%
75th Percentile £49.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.70 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.53 £24.68 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.70% -41.94% +88.89%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
South East -20 23 £500 -17.36% 30
East of England +34 21 £550 -6.38% 29
London +8 19 £400 +14.29% 49
North of England +6 16 £350 +16.67% 43
North West +17 15 £350 +40.00% 18
South West +31 8 £575 +53.33% 15
Midlands 0 6 £400 +14.29% 11
West Midlands -1 5 £400 +14.29% 2
East Midlands -1 1 - - 9
Yorkshire -3 1 £400 +14.29% 23
Windows Server 2016
UK

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (17.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (16.48%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.59%) IIS
3 6 (6.59%) Skype for Business
4 4 (4.40%) Confluence
5 1 (1.10%) Apache
5 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.10%) WinCC
Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (5.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.27%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (21.98%) Cohesity
3 15 (16.48%) Azure
4 11 (12.09%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.49%) AWS
5 5 (5.49%) Nutanix
6 4 (4.40%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.10%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.10%) GitHub
9 1 (1.10%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 39 (42.86%) DNS
2 34 (37.36%) SAN
3 14 (15.38%) DHCP
4 11 (12.09%) Firewall
5 9 (9.89%) VPN
6 8 (8.79%) LAN
6 8 (8.79%) TCP/IP
7 6 (6.59%) Skype
8 5 (5.49%) Unified Communications
9 3 (3.30%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (3.30%) VSAN
9 3 (3.30%) WAN
10 2 (2.20%) VLAN
10 2 (2.20%) Wireless
11 1 (1.10%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.10%) Modbus
11 1 (1.10%) Network Security
11 1 (1.10%) Profibus
11 1 (1.10%) SSL
11 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) JIRA
2 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.20%) Git
General
1 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.89%) Finance
4 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.59%) Legal
6 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Banking
7 3 (3.30%) Military
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.10%) Local Government
9 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (13.19%) Support Engineer
3 8 (8.79%) Administrator
4 6 (6.59%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (6.59%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (6.59%) Desktop Support
4 6 (6.59%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Developer
5 5 (5.49%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Backup Administrator
6 4 (4.40%) Python Developer
6 4 (4.40%) Senior
6 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.40%) Storage Administrator
6 4 (4.40%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 4 (4.40%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) Apache Axis
2 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.10%) LDAP
2 1 (1.10%) SOAP
2 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) PKI
2 7 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.59%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.20%) Clustering
5 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.20%) Replication
6 1 (1.10%) CCTV
6 1 (1.10%) CMDB
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) IVR
6 1 (1.10%) SCADA
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 90 (98.90%) Windows
2 81 (89.01%) Windows Server
3 47 (51.65%) Windows Server 2019
4 25 (27.47%) Linux
5 24 (26.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 20 (21.98%) Windows 10
7 7 (7.69%) Ubuntu
8 5 (5.49%) Debian
8 5 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (5.49%) Unix
8 5 (5.49%) Windows 8
8 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (5.49%) Windows XP
9 4 (4.40%) CentOS
10 3 (3.30%) Android
10 3 (3.30%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (3.30%) Solaris
11 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
12 1 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.46%) ITIL
2 22 (24.18%) SIEM
3 21 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (21.98%) Build Automation
4 20 (21.98%) Deployment Automation
4 20 (21.98%) Operations Management
5 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (9.89%) Agile
6 9 (9.89%) Project Delivery
7 8 (8.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 7 (7.69%) Asset Management
8 7 (7.69%) High Availability
8 7 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (7.69%) Time Management
9 6 (6.59%) Customer Service
9 6 (6.59%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (5.49%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 37 (40.66%) PowerShell
2 13 (14.29%) SQL
3 9 (9.89%) Python
4 6 (6.59%) Java
5 4 (4.40%) C#
5 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.30%) Ruby
7 2 (2.20%) VBScript
8 1 (1.10%) Bicep
8 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 35 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 23 (25.27%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.89%) Degree
4 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (4.40%) CISSP
6 4 (4.40%) MCSE
6 4 (4.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.20%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.10%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.40%) QA
2 4 (4.40%) SLA
3 3 (3.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.10%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 61 (67.03%) Active Directory
2 40 (43.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (29.67%) Virtual Servers
4 26 (28.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 17 (18.68%) Hyper-V
6 12 (13.19%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (8.79%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (6.59%) vSphere
9 3 (3.30%) VMware NSX
10 2 (2.20%) Terminal Services
10 2 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (38.46%) WSUS
2 30 (32.97%) SCCM
3 24 (26.37%) Ansible
4 8 (8.79%) vCenter Server
5 5 (5.49%) Terraform
6 4 (4.40%) NetBackup
6 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.20%) Nagios
8 2 (2.20%) NetApp OnCommand
8 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.20%) vMotion
8 2 (2.20%) VxRail
8 2 (2.20%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
9 1 (1.10%) Packer
9 1 (1.10%) SCOM
9 1 (1.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 54 (59.34%) VMware
3 25 (27.47%) NetApp
4 21 (23.08%) Splunk
5 15 (16.48%) Red Hat
6 11 (12.09%) Citrix
7 7 (7.69%) HP
7 7 (7.69%) Veeam
8 5 (5.49%) Canon
9 4 (4.40%) 3PAR
9 4 (4.40%) Cisco
9 4 (4.40%) Dell
9 4 (4.40%) Oracle
9 4 (4.40%) Veritas
10 3 (3.30%) Atlassian
10 3 (3.30%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (2.20%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.20%) IBM
11 2 (2.20%) Remedy
11 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds