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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 330 387
Rank change year-on-year -4 +57 +83
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 19 61 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.26% 2.88% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 36 83
10th Percentile £248 £216 £301
25th Percentile £338 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £365 £467
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -21.84% +9.24%
75th Percentile £506 £506 £575
90th Percentile £529 £613 £625
England median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%

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 1,502 2,117 3,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.97% 11.87% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 1,510 2,826
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £641 £629 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 69 61
10th Percentile £17.72 £15.30 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.89 £18.93 £22.63
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%
75th Percentile £32.75 £33.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.80 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -7 7 £400 +14.29% 4
East London - 1 £225 -
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%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) IIS
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Fidessa
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) 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
2 2 (10.53%) VSAN
3 1 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (5.26%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (5.26%) NAS
3 1 (5.26%) VLAN
3 1 (5.26%) Wireless
3 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Local Government
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Service Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Support Analyst
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%) FIX Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Support
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) CMDB
2 1 (5.26%) Equities
2 1 (5.26%) Eurex
2 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (84.21%) Windows Server
3 8 (42.11%) Windows 10
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (21.05%) Linux
6 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (10.53%) Android
7 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
8 1 (5.26%) CentOS
8 1 (5.26%) Debian
8 1 (5.26%) Fedora
8 1 (5.26%) Solaris
8 1 (5.26%) SUSE
8 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
8 1 (5.26%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
2 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
2 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (10.53%) DevOps
2 2 (10.53%) High Availability
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security
3 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
3 1 (5.26%) Risk Register
3 1 (5.26%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
3 1 (5.26%) Threat Detection
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) Perl
3 1 (5.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
2 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.26%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (21.05%) vSphere
4 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.26%) NFS
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 2 (10.53%) WSUS
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (5.26%) Packer
3 1 (5.26%) Rundeck
3 1 (5.26%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (42.11%) VMware
3 5 (26.32%) Cisco
3 5 (26.32%) Citrix
4 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
4 2 (10.53%) EMC
4 2 (10.53%) HP
4 2 (10.53%) McAfee
4 2 (10.53%) Symantec
5 1 (5.26%) Bloomberg
5 1 (5.26%) BMC
5 1 (5.26%) CQG
5 1 (5.26%) ION Trading
5 1 (5.26%) NetApp
5 1 (5.26%) Patsystems
5 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.26%) Remedy
5 1 (5.26%) Reuters
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.26%) Trayport