Windows Server 2016 Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 423 392
Rank change year-on-year -177 -31 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 37 76 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.080% 0.28% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.81% 2.01% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 55 108
10th Percentile £331 £160 £221
25th Percentile £406 £319 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £470
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +17.02% +10.59%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £608
90th Percentile £573 - £612
UK median daily rate £450 £540 £425
% change year-on-year -16.67% +27.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.75 - -
Median hourly rate £16.50 - -
75th Percentile £17.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.50 - -

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 4,551 3,777 4,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.83% 13.78% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 2,485 2,965
10th Percentile £190 £190 £201
25th Percentile £310 £298 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 256 224
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £21.66
Median hourly rate £38.50 £25.08 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year +53.54% -57.68% +24.29%
75th Percentile £67.92 £60.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +6.00% -52.10% +14.43%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in England

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in England over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2016

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 22 September 2026. 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
London -78 18 £463 -13.95% 13
Midlands -44 7 £450 - 7
East Midlands -10 5 £450 - 3
North of England -69 5 £381 +17.31% 10
East of England -53 4 - - 2
North West -53 3 £450 +38.46% 7
South East -82 3 £475 -9.82% 17
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 4
Yorkshire - 2 £313 - 2
Windows Server 2016
UK

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (16.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (8.11%) IIS
3 3 (8.11%) nginx
3 3 (8.11%) Tomcat
4 2 (5.41%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.81%) AWS
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.70%) IaaS
6 1 (2.70%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 12 (32.43%) DNS
2 10 (27.03%) DHCP
3 3 (8.11%) Firewall
3 3 (8.11%) HTTP
3 3 (8.11%) SAN
3 3 (8.11%) VPN
4 2 (5.41%) LAN
4 2 (5.41%) Network Security
4 2 (5.41%) Skype
4 2 (5.41%) WAN
5 1 (2.70%) BGP
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.70%) DSL
5 1 (2.70%) MPLS
5 1 (2.70%) NAS
5 1 (2.70%) OSPF
5 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.70%) DTS
3 1 (2.70%) GIS
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) AdminStudio
1 2 (5.41%) GitLab
1 2 (5.41%) InstallShield
1 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.41%) MSI
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Military
5 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Administrator
3 4 (10.81%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Consultant
3 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Applications Support
4 2 (5.41%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Citrix Administrator
4 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Server Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) JSON
2 4 (10.81%) LDAP
3 2 (5.41%) ADO
3 2 (5.41%) EJB
3 2 (5.41%) JSP
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (5.41%) Middleware
4 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.70%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (2.70%) Java SE
4 1 (2.70%) JavaBeans
4 1 (2.70%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) PKI
2 4 (10.81%) Clustering
2 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.11%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.41%) Replication
5 1 (2.70%) CMDB
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (94.59%) Windows
2 33 (89.19%) Windows Server
3 21 (56.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 15 (40.54%) Linux
5 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (8.11%) Solaris
9 1 (2.70%) CentOS
9 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
9 1 (2.70%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (2.70%) Unix
9 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (29.73%) ITIL
3 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.62%) DevOps
5 7 (18.92%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (18.92%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (16.22%) Incident Management
6 6 (16.22%) Migration
6 6 (16.22%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (13.51%) High Availability
7 5 (13.51%) Server Migrations
8 4 (10.81%) Application Virtualisation
8 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.81%) Patch Management
8 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (10.81%) User Experience
9 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
4 2 (5.41%) Go
4 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) Degree
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.70%) CCNA
6 1 (2.70%) CCNP
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (59.46%) Active Directory
2 17 (45.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (24.32%) Hyper-V
4 6 (16.22%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (13.51%) Docker
5 5 (13.51%) vSphere
6 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (5.41%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (5.41%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (5.41%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (5.41%) XenApp
7 2 (5.41%) XenDesktop
8 1 (2.70%) Firmware
8 1 (2.70%) Terminal Services
8 1 (2.70%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) SCCM
2 5 (13.51%) WSUS
3 4 (10.81%) Ansible
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (8.11%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (8.11%) Kibana
4 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.41%) Nagios
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (5.41%) SCOM
5 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.70%) Grafana
6 1 (2.70%) logstash
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.70%) SCVMM
6 1 (2.70%) vMotion
6 1 (2.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (75.68%) Microsoft
2 20 (54.05%) VMware
3 7 (18.92%) Citrix
4 4 (10.81%) Oracle
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco
5 3 (8.11%) IBM
5 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.11%) Splunk
6 2 (5.41%) Commvault
6 2 (5.41%) Meraki
7 1 (2.70%) Forcepoint
7 1 (2.70%) ForeScout
7 1 (2.70%) Juniper
7 1 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.70%) NetApp
7 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.70%) Remedy
7 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.70%) Sybase
7 1 (2.70%) Veeam