Windows Server 2016 Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 153 166
Rank change year-on-year -87 +13 +37
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 5 18 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.073% 0.52% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.65% 3.16% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 17
10th Percentile £277 £218 £193
25th Percentile £298 £313 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £350 £300
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +16.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £386 £438 £550
90th Percentile £406 £528 £569
England median daily rate £450 £532 £525
% change year-on-year -15.37% +1.29% +5.00%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 774 569 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.24% 16.33% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 367 458
10th Percentile £173 £181 £178
25th Percentile £301 £269 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £549
90th Percentile £624 £620 £670
England median daily rate £459 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 21 82
10th Percentile £16.62 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.20 £10.95
Median hourly rate £23.41 £17.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.74% +9.38% -28.89%
75th Percentile £47.05 £18.87 £21.13
90th Percentile £178.75 £19.75 £48.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £18.94 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.64% -21.69% -46.33%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in the North of England

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the North of England

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Yorkshire -52 3 £344 -14.06% 2
North West -53 2 - - 5
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DTS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Sybase DBA
3 1 (20.00%) VMWare Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Wintel Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Change Control
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Database Mirroring
4 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (20.00%) vMotion
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) Sybase