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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 351 344
Rank change year-on-year -64 -7 +31
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 19 11 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.095% 0.082% 0.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.14% 0.72% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 28
10th Percentile £337 £186 £255
25th Percentile £400 £241 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £338 £356
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -26.92%
75th Percentile £538 £441 £578
90th Percentile £570 £499 £650
England median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +10.47%

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 1,674 1,535 2,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.33% 11.47% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 1,025 1,378
10th Percentile £206 £225 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -1.90% -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £706 £738 £725
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 44
10th Percentile £17.77 £18.87 £18.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +5.67% -43.22%
75th Percentile £25.78 £25.18 £41.25
90th Percentile £53.28 £58.93 £61.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year +35.42% -30.43% -13.75%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 1 - - 3
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 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (15.79%) nginx
1 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
2 6 (31.58%) DHCP
3 3 (15.79%) Firewall
3 3 (15.79%) HTTP
4 2 (10.53%) Network Security
4 2 (10.53%) VPN
4 2 (10.53%) WAN
5 1 (5.26%) BGP
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (5.26%) DSL
5 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (5.26%) LAN
5 1 (5.26%) MPLS
5 1 (5.26%) NAS
5 1 (5.26%) OSPF
5 1 (5.26%) SAN
5 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.26%) Unified Communications
5 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) AdminStudio
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) InstallShield
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.53%) MSI
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) JSON
3 2 (10.53%) ADO
3 2 (10.53%) EJB
3 2 (10.53%) JSP
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.26%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (5.26%) Java SE
4 1 (5.26%) JavaBeans
4 1 (5.26%) Middleware
4 1 (5.26%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) Clustering
4 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (94.74%) Windows Server
3 14 (73.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (47.37%) Linux
5 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (15.79%) Solaris
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (5.26%) Android
7 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps
1 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (36.84%) ITIL
3 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (26.32%) Incident Management
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (15.79%) ITSM
6 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Release Management
6 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (10.53%) Application Packaging
7 2 (10.53%) High Availability
7 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CCNA
5 1 (5.26%) CCNP
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Active Directory
1 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (26.32%) Docker
2 5 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (15.79%) vSphere
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (5.26%) Firmware
5 1 (5.26%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) SCCM
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) Kibana
3 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.53%) Nagios
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (10.53%) SCOM
5 1 (5.26%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (5.26%) Grafana
5 1 (5.26%) logstash
5 1 (5.26%) SCVMM
5 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 13 (68.42%) VMware
3 4 (21.05%) Citrix
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco
4 3 (15.79%) IBM
4 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
4 3 (15.79%) Splunk
5 2 (10.53%) Commvault
5 2 (10.53%) Meraki
5 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.26%) Dell
6 1 (5.26%) Forcepoint
6 1 (5.26%) ForeScout
6 1 (5.26%) Juniper
6 1 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.26%) Veeam