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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 349 391
Rank change year-on-year -56 +42 +77
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 80 195 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.34% 3.84% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 150 226
10th Percentile £285 £210 £223
25th Percentile £350 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £600
90th Percentile £623 - £700
UK median daily rate £425 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £22.99
25th Percentile - £56.50 £26.48
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year - +60.00% +92.50%
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - £56.70
UK median hourly rate - £61.60 £38.50
% change year-on-year - +60.00% +92.50%

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 3,414 5,072 8,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.02% 13.64% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 3,461 5,863
10th Percentile £200 £181 £193
25th Percentile £313 £289 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 369 384
10th Percentile £15.26 £12.75 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.17 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%
75th Percentile £64.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
North of England +25 24 £350 -6.67% 16
North West +33 22 £350 +40.00% 7
South East -14 21 £550 -4.35% 16
London -4 19 £400 +9.59% 18
South West +47 11 £588 +167.05% 8
Midlands +12 5 £400 +14.29% 19
West Midlands +7 5 £400 +14.29% 7
East of England +23 2 £575 -11.54% 11
Yorkshire 0 2 £375 -3.16% 5
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 23 (28.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 8 (10.00%) IIS
3 8 (10.00%) Skype for Business
4 4 (5.00%) Confluence
5 2 (2.50%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.25%) Apache
6 1 (1.25%) SAS
6 1 (1.25%) WinCC
Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.25%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (31.25%) Azure
3 13 (16.25%) Entra ID
4 7 (8.75%) OpenShift
4 7 (8.75%) SaaS
5 6 (7.50%) Nutanix
6 5 (6.25%) AWS
7 4 (5.00%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.25%) Cohesity
10 1 (1.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 26 (32.50%) DNS
2 21 (26.25%) DHCP
3 11 (13.75%) Firewall
3 11 (13.75%) LAN
4 9 (11.25%) VPN
5 8 (10.00%) Skype
6 6 (7.50%) SAN
6 6 (7.50%) WAN
7 5 (6.25%) Unified Communications
8 4 (5.00%) Wireless
9 3 (3.75%) Internet
9 3 (3.75%) iSCSI
9 3 (3.75%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
10 2 (2.50%) VSAN
11 1 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (1.25%) Network Security
11 1 (1.25%) VLAN
11 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Finance
3 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Banking
6 4 (5.00%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Military
7 2 (2.50%) Publishing
8 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Local Government
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (17.50%) Support Engineer
3 8 (10.00%) Administrator
4 7 (8.75%) Senior
4 7 (8.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) VMWare Administrator
4 7 (8.75%) Windows Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Wintel Administrator
5 6 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (7.50%) Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Desktop Support
5 6 (7.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Server Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Windows Server Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) Apache Axis
2 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.25%) LDAP
2 1 (1.25%) SOAP
2 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) PKI
2 9 (11.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 7 (8.75%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.75%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) IVR
6 2 (2.50%) Clustering
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.25%) CCTV
7 1 (1.25%) CMDB
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.25%) Equities
7 1 (1.25%) Eurex
7 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.25%) Replication
7 1 (1.25%) SCADA
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 80 (100.00%) Windows
2 74 (92.50%) Windows Server
3 32 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 26 (32.50%) Linux
4 26 (32.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (27.50%) Windows 10
6 11 (13.75%) CentOS
7 9 (11.25%) Ubuntu
8 8 (10.00%) Android
9 6 (7.50%) Windows 8
9 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (6.25%) Windows XP
11 4 (5.00%) Apple iOS
11 4 (5.00%) Unix
12 3 (3.75%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (3.75%) Solaris
13 2 (2.50%) Mac OS
14 1 (1.25%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 27 (33.75%) ITIL
2 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
3 14 (17.50%) Agile
4 11 (13.75%) Project Delivery
5 10 (12.50%) High Availability
6 9 (11.25%) Migration
7 8 (10.00%) Application Packaging
7 8 (10.00%) Change Control
7 8 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 8 (10.00%) Patch Management
8 7 (8.75%) DevSecOps
9 6 (7.50%) Customer Service
9 6 (7.50%) Information Security
9 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 6 (7.50%) Time Management
10 5 (6.25%) Asset Management
10 5 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 5 (6.25%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.50%) PowerShell
2 14 (17.50%) SQL
3 5 (6.25%) Java
3 5 (6.25%) Python
4 4 (5.00%) C#
4 4 (5.00%) VBScript
5 3 (3.75%) Ruby
5 3 (3.75%) VB
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) Bicep
6 1 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 18 (22.50%) DV Cleared
4 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (13.75%) Degree
6 8 (10.00%) MCSE
7 7 (8.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (5.00%) CISSP
8 4 (5.00%) MCSA
8 4 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.50%) MCP
10 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.25%) GIAC
10 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) SLA
2 6 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.00%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) NCSC
4 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.25%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 50 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 33 (41.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (23.75%) Hyper-V
4 16 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (16.25%) vSphere
6 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (11.25%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (11.25%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (3.75%) VMware NSX
9 2 (2.50%) BitLocker
9 2 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.25%) Firmware
10 1 (1.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) vCenter Server
2 18 (22.50%) WSUS
3 15 (18.75%) SCCM
4 12 (15.00%) Ansible
4 12 (15.00%) Terraform
5 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
6 7 (8.75%) Nessus
7 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (5.00%) NetApp OnCommand
8 4 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (5.00%) vMotion
9 3 (3.75%) ZABBIX
10 2 (2.50%) Nagios
10 2 (2.50%) OPNET
10 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (1.25%) Rundeck
11 1 (1.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 47 (58.75%) Microsoft
2 40 (50.00%) VMware
3 12 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 9 (11.25%) Citrix
5 7 (8.75%) Veeam
6 6 (7.50%) Cisco
7 5 (6.25%) Canon
8 4 (5.00%) HP
8 4 (5.00%) McAfee
8 4 (5.00%) Symantec
9 3 (3.75%) Apple
9 3 (3.75%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.75%) NetApp
9 3 (3.75%) Oracle
10 2 (2.50%) CheckPoint
10 2 (2.50%) Dell
10 2 (2.50%) EMC
10 2 (2.50%) IBM
10 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.50%) Splunk
82 Windows Server 2016 jobs Nationwide