Windows Server 2016 Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 342 396
Rank change year-on-year +15 +54 +67
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 19 57 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.33% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.24% 2.72% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 37 70
10th Percentile £200 £243 £306
25th Percentile £263 £344 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -30.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £582
90th Percentile £528 £650 £625
England median daily rate £532 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +5.00% +21.21%

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 1,530 2,094 3,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.93% 11.98% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 1,472 2,734
10th Percentile £243 £213 £213
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £629 £611 £666
90th Percentile £738 £749 £765
England median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 68 61
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.19 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.13 £22.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -56.00% +109.12%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £44.85 £60.00 £83.75
England median hourly rate £19.32 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.74% -41.18% +88.89%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2016 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in London

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in London

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in London

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in London

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 30 June 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
Central London -6 7 £400 +14.29% 5
East London - 1 £225 - 1
South London - 1 £525 -
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) DHCP
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.53%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) VLAN
3 1 (5.26%) VSAN
3 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Local Government
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Service Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.26%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Operations Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Manager
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) CMDB
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (84.21%) Windows Server
3 7 (36.84%) Windows 10
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (10.53%) Android
5 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
5 2 (10.53%) Linux
5 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) ITIL
2 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
3 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
3 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
3 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
3 2 (10.53%) Time Management
4 1 (5.26%) Change Management
4 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.26%) High Availability
4 1 (5.26%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.26%) ITSM
4 1 (5.26%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (5.26%) Network Design
4 1 (5.26%) Risk Management
4 1 (5.26%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
1 2 (10.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
2 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) GIAC
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.79%) vSphere
4 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 2 (10.53%) WSUS
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
3 5 (26.32%) Citrix
4 4 (21.05%) Cisco
5 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.26%) BMC
6 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.26%) EMC
6 1 (5.26%) HP
6 1 (5.26%) McAfee
6 1 (5.26%) NetApp
6 1 (5.26%) Remedy
6 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.26%) Symantec