Windows Server 2016 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server 2016 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 397 485
Rank change year-on-year +47 +88 -100
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 196 276 339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.55% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.89% 3.37% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 217 254
10th Percentile £210 £223 £164
25th Percentile £350 £375 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £500
90th Percentile - £700 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile - £22.99 £15.80
25th Percentile £56.50 £26.48 £18.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - £56.70 £30.46
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -40.30%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2016 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,037 8,198 11,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.66% 16.41% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,441 5,821 7,669
10th Percentile £183 £195 £173
25th Percentile £293 £325 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.84% +0.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 389 557
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.23 £17.72 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.66% +71.11% +26.62%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +79 84 £575 +27.78% 22
London +73 60 £365 -25.13% 30
North of England +19 19 £363 -3.33% 24
Midlands +23 15 £350 +40.00% 19
West Midlands +24 12 £350 +27.27% 7
Yorkshire +22 11 £375 +15.38% 11
East of England -10 9 £650 -7.14% 15
South West -19 9 £223 -59.55% 10
North West +14 6 £250 -48.72% 8
North East +15 2 £350 +137.29% 6
East Midlands +12 2 £513 +129.82% 12
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 56 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (10.20%) SharePoint
3 11 (5.61%) IIS
4 4 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.53%) WordPress
6 2 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 13 (6.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.02%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 72 (36.73%) Azure
2 63 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (17.86%) Entra ID
4 17 (8.67%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (8.16%) Azure Storage
6 15 (7.65%) OCI
7 13 (6.63%) OneDrive
8 6 (3.06%) AWS
8 6 (3.06%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.06%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.55%) WhatsApp
10 2 (1.02%) GitHub
11 1 (0.51%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.51%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.51%) GCP
11 1 (0.51%) IaaS
11 1 (0.51%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.51%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.51%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 65 (33.16%) Firewall
2 56 (28.57%) DNS
3 46 (23.47%) DHCP
4 40 (20.41%) SAN
5 9 (4.59%) VPN
6 8 (4.08%) NAS
7 7 (3.57%) Unified Communications
8 5 (2.55%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.55%) WAN
9 4 (2.04%) LAN
9 4 (2.04%) Network Security
9 4 (2.04%) Skype
9 4 (2.04%) Wireless
10 3 (1.53%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.53%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.02%) Internet
11 2 (1.02%) Kerberos
11 2 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.02%) VLAN
11 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (21.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.06%) Power BI
3 4 (2.04%) Big Data
3 4 (2.04%) MySQL
4 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.02%) JIRA
2 2 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.51%) GitLab
3 1 (0.51%) Gradle
3 1 (0.51%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.35%) Public Sector
3 23 (11.73%) Finance
4 12 (6.12%) Banking
5 7 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Back Office
7 2 (1.02%) Law
7 2 (1.02%) Legal
7 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.51%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 59 (30.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (14.80%) Support Engineer
3 25 (12.76%) Windows Engineer
4 21 (10.71%) Build Engineer
4 21 (10.71%) Windows Build Engineer
5 18 (9.18%) Wintel Engineer
6 16 (8.16%) Active Directory Support
7 15 (7.65%) Support Specialist
8 14 (7.14%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (7.14%) Administrator
8 14 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
9 12 (6.12%) Senior
10 11 (5.61%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (5.10%) Server Engineer
11 10 (5.10%) Storage Engineer
11 10 (5.10%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Migration Engineer
13 8 (4.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.16%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.06%) Itk
3 4 (2.04%) CSS
3 4 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (2.04%) HTML
3 4 (2.04%) HTML5
4 3 (1.53%) LAMP
5 2 (1.02%) LDAP
5 2 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.51%) jQuery
6 1 (0.51%) JSON
6 1 (0.51%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.51%) Node.js
6 1 (0.51%) RESTful
6 1 (0.51%) SOAP
6 1 (0.51%) Spring
6 1 (0.51%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.51%) Swagger
6 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.35%) PKI
2 26 (13.27%) Replication
3 22 (11.22%) Data Centre
4 17 (8.67%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (6.12%) Clustering
5 12 (6.12%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (3.06%) Digital Signage
7 5 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.04%) iPad
8 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.53%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.53%) Thin Client
10 2 (1.02%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) IoT
10 2 (1.02%) iPhone
11 1 (0.51%) LIMS
11 1 (0.51%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 189 (96.43%) Windows
2 146 (74.49%) Windows Server
3 143 (72.96%) Windows Server 2019
4 90 (45.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 63 (32.14%) Windows 10
6 57 (29.08%) Linux
7 21 (10.71%) Windows NT
8 18 (9.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 14 (7.14%) Windows XP
10 9 (4.59%) Windows 7
11 8 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (3.57%) VMS
13 6 (3.06%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (2.04%) CentOS
14 4 (2.04%) Ubuntu
15 2 (1.02%) Android
15 2 (1.02%) Unix
16 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.51%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (38.78%) ITIL
2 64 (32.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 42 (21.43%) Service Management
4 41 (20.92%) Release Management
5 39 (19.90%) Migration
6 34 (17.35%) Customer Service
6 34 (17.35%) Disaster Recovery
7 33 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (11.22%) DevOps
8 22 (11.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 21 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
9 21 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
10 19 (9.69%) Analytics
10 19 (9.69%) CI/CD
11 18 (9.18%) Agile
11 18 (9.18%) Project Management
12 17 (8.67%) Identity Management
12 17 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (8.67%) Log Analytics
13 16 (8.16%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (36.22%) PowerShell
2 30 (15.31%) SQL
3 18 (9.18%) VBScript
4 16 (8.16%) Bicep
4 16 (8.16%) C#
4 16 (8.16%) VB
5 7 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.04%) Bash
6 4 (2.04%) C
6 4 (2.04%) C++
6 4 (2.04%) PHP
6 4 (2.04%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.02%) Python
8 1 (0.51%) Java
Qualifications
1 99 (50.51%) Security Cleared
2 88 (44.90%) DV Cleared
3 40 (20.41%) Degree
4 38 (19.39%) SC Cleared
5 16 (8.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (7.14%) CCNA
6 14 (7.14%) CCNP
6 14 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.51%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.22%) QA
2 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.02%) NIST
3 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.02%) SLA
4 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 154 (78.57%) Active Directory
2 43 (21.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (15.31%) Hyper-V
4 24 (12.24%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (10.71%) Firmware
5 21 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (10.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (5.10%) vSphere
8 8 (4.08%) XenApp
9 5 (2.55%) VMware NSX
9 5 (2.55%) XenDesktop
10 2 (1.02%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.51%) Docker
11 1 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 87 (44.39%) SCCM
2 57 (29.08%) WSUS
3 42 (21.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 36 (18.37%) SCOM
5 29 (14.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (10.71%) Sysprep
7 17 (8.67%) Kubernetes
7 17 (8.67%) NetBackup
7 17 (8.67%) vCenter Server
8 14 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (6.63%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.53%) Ansible
11 3 (1.53%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.53%) Kibana
11 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 3 (1.53%) Nessus
11 3 (1.53%) Packer
11 3 (1.53%) Terraform
12 2 (1.02%) logstash
Vendors
1 112 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 50 (25.51%) VMware
3 37 (18.88%) Veeam
4 35 (17.86%) HP
5 30 (15.31%) Cisco
6 29 (14.80%) EMC
7 23 (11.73%) Citrix
8 22 (11.22%) Oracle
9 18 (9.18%) Dell
10 17 (8.67%) 3PAR
10 17 (8.67%) Palo Alto
11 16 (8.16%) Juniper
11 16 (8.16%) Symantec
12 14 (7.14%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (7.14%) Red Hat
13 13 (6.63%) Avaya
14 12 (6.12%) CheckPoint
15 5 (2.55%) NetApp
15 5 (2.55%) ServiceNow
16 4 (2.04%) Nimble Storage
120 Windows Server 2016 jobs Nationwide