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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 343 345
Rank change year-on-year -72 +2 +55
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 16 20 57
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.081% 0.15% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.04% 1.25% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 38
10th Percentile £331 £200 £222
25th Percentile £401 £263 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £356
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +12.28% -28.75%
75th Percentile £514 £500 £569
90th Percentile £571 £528 £650
England median daily rate £450 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -15.89% +1.90% +10.53%

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 1,537 1,600 2,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.78% 11.80% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,023 1,084 1,447
10th Percentile £205 £244 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
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 14 40 65
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £14.89
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.38 £18.13
Median hourly rate £22.11 £24.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +9.09% -56.00%
75th Percentile £26.75 £25.18 £27.00
90th Percentile £58.30 £50.68 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £24.34
% change year-on-year +41.30% -5.51% -42.73%

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 16 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 16 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 -24 2 £413 +3.13% 2
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%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (25.00%) nginx
1 4 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (18.75%) WebLogic
3 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 4 (25.00%) DHCP
2 4 (25.00%) HTTP
3 3 (18.75%) WAN
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall
4 2 (12.50%) LAN
4 2 (12.50%) VPN
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%) 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%) VoIP
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 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Senior
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%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix Support
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Support 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%) iPhone
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 5 (31.25%) Linux
5 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (25.00%) Solaris
5 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
6 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (6.25%) Android
7 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) ITSM
3 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
3 3 (18.75%) ETL
3 3 (18.75%) Master Data Management
3 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Refactoring
3 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Application Virtualisation
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Software Asset Management
4 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 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%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) 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
2 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (25.00%) Docker
5 3 (18.75%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (6.25%) vSphere
7 1 (6.25%) XenApp
7 1 (6.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) SCCM
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Kibana
4 1 (6.25%) logstash
4 1 (6.25%) SCOM
4 1 (6.25%) SCVMM
4 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (56.25%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
4 4 (25.00%) IBM
4 4 (25.00%) Oracle
4 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco
7 1 (6.25%) Forcepoint
7 1 (6.25%) ForeScout
7 1 (6.25%) Juniper
7 1 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (6.25%) Meraki
7 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto