Windows Server 2016 Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Windows Server 2016 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 141 180
Rank change year-on-year +19 +39 -39
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 15 22 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.55% 0.64% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.69% 3.37% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 17
10th Percentile £219 £190 £166
25th Percentile - £223 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £250 £357
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -29.97% -4.80%
75th Percentile £475 £359 £460
90th Percentile £873 £386 £484
England median daily rate £525 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +140.63% -66.32%
England median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -11.11%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

Windows Server 2016 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 407 652 1,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.84% 18.85% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 440 687
10th Percentile £145 £158 £140
25th Percentile £190 £258 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +26.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £539 £561 £495
90th Percentile £626 £688 £575
England median daily rate £463 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -10.41% +3.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 40 71
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.18 £14.72
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.61 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +3.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.94 £22.13
90th Percentile - £27.86 £24.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +29 12 £350 +27.27% 9
East Midlands +10 2 £513 +129.82% 9
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (53.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (13.33%) IIS
3 2 (13.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (60.00%) Azure
3 8 (53.33%) OneDrive
4 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (40.00%) Power Automate
4 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (40.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) DNS
2 6 (40.00%) Unified Communications
3 5 (33.33%) SAN
3 5 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (20.00%) DHCP
4 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
5 2 (13.33%) NAS
5 2 (13.33%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (13.33%) Wireless
6 1 (6.67%) LAN
6 1 (6.67%) Network Security
6 1 (6.67%) VLAN
6 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 2 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Service Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Support
3 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Digital Signage
1 6 (40.00%) PKI
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (86.67%) Windows Server
3 12 (80.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (20.00%) Linux
5 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (13.33%) VMS
7 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 7 (46.67%) ITIL
3 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 6 (40.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.67%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.67%) Problem Management
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.67%) Release Management
5 1 (6.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (13.33%) Terminal Services
3 2 (13.33%) vSphere
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (13.33%) SCCM
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) NetBackup
4 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.67%) VxRail
4 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
3 6 (40.00%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) Aruba
4 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 2 (13.33%) ProCurve
4 2 (13.33%) Synology
4 2 (13.33%) Veeam
4 2 (13.33%) Zerto
5 1 (6.67%) 3PAR
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) Dell
5 1 (6.67%) EMC
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) NetApp
5 1 (6.67%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (6.67%) Veritas