Windows Server 2016 Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 355 341
Rank change year-on-year -66 -14 +41
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 16 17 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.081% 0.12% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.05% 1.08% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 36
10th Percentile £337 £278 £216
25th Percentile £400 £369 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +14.29% -30.00%
75th Percentile £506 £513 £556
90th Percentile £568 £530 £650
England median daily rate £450 £543 £513
% change year-on-year -17.05% +5.85% +10.22%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,529 1,579 2,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.71% 11.61% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 1,073 1,421
10th Percentile £206 £250 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -8.68%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
England median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 58
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.87 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.25 £20.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £24.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -56.18%
75th Percentile £26.25 £25.15 £28.78
90th Percentile £57.00 £51.60 £60.43
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year +41.30% -7.07% -41.76%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in London

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in London over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in London

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 23 July 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
Central London -22 2 £413 -8.33%
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (25.00%) nginx
1 4 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (18.75%) WebLogic
3 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) DHCP
3 4 (25.00%) HTTP
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall
4 2 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (12.50%) WAN
5 1 (6.25%) BGP
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (6.25%) DSL
5 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (6.25%) LAN
5 1 (6.25%) MPLS
5 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
5 1 (6.25%) OSPF
5 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
5 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) AdminStudio
1 2 (12.50%) InstallShield
1 2 (12.50%) MSI
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix Support
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Server Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) ADO
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) EJB
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) JavaBeans
3 1 (6.25%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
4 1 (6.25%) Replication
4 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 13 (81.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (37.50%) Linux
5 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (25.00%) Solaris
5 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
6 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (6.25%) Android
7 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) ITIL
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) ITSM
4 3 (18.75%) Master Data Management
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Refactoring
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Application Packaging
5 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Release Management
5 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Software Asset Management
5 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) CCA
4 1 (6.25%) CCNA
4 1 (6.25%) CCNP
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
1 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (25.00%) Docker
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (12.50%) vSphere
6 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (6.25%) XenApp
6 1 (6.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) SCCM
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) logstash
3 1 (6.25%) SCOM
3 1 (6.25%) SCVMM
3 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (62.50%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
4 4 (25.00%) IBM
4 4 (25.00%) Oracle
4 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco
5 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (6.25%) Forcepoint
6 1 (6.25%) ForeScout
6 1 (6.25%) Juniper
6 1 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (6.25%) Meraki
6 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto