Windows Server 2016 Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 107 119
Rank change year-on-year -63 +12 +28
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 9 5 14
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.22% 0.26% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.98% 1.88% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 13
10th Percentile - - £213
25th Percentile £425 £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £475 £450 £400
90th Percentile - - £915
England median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +5.00%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 455 266 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.00% 14.00% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 182 260
10th Percentile £163 £150 £145
25th Percentile £238 £200 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £393 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% +4.80% -21.05%
75th Percentile £505 £506 £538
90th Percentile £588 £573 £601
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 46
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.17 £13.32
25th Percentile £14.81 £16.67 £14.38
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +25.81% +2.31% +0.62%
75th Percentile £70.29 £20.00 £23.74
90th Percentile £74.00 £24.86 £23.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +41.93% +12.09% -24.91%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2016 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Windows Server 2016

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 19 April 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
East Midlands - 7 £450 - 2
West Midlands -64 2 £450 +12.50%
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (22.22%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Server Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Server Migrations
3 3 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 2 (22.22%) Application Virtualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 2 (22.22%) Runbook
4 2 (22.22%) Server Hardening
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (33.33%) vSphere
3 2 (22.22%) XenApp
3 2 (22.22%) XenDesktop
4 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
1 2 (22.22%) WSUS
2 1 (11.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Dell
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft