Windows Server 2016 Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 98 131 141
Rank change year-on-year +33 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 22 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.12% 0.22% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.46% 1.69% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 15
10th Percentile £208 £189 £357
25th Percentile £313 £200 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £250 £488
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -48.72% +186.76%
75th Percentile £416 £395 £550
90th Percentile £508 £421 £600
England median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 295 355 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.99% 12.89% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 226 368
10th Percentile £156 £174 £173
25th Percentile £208 £284 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £476
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
75th Percentile £510 £582 £575
90th Percentile £593 £825 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 65 47
10th Percentile £13.00 - £15.53
25th Percentile £13.60 £10.95 £21.83
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%
75th Percentile £23.22 £18.75 £45.38
90th Percentile £80.59 £40.30 £49.52
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the North West

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the North West

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the North West

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the North West

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Lancashire - 9 £438 - 3
Cheshire +4 7 £350 +40.00% 1
Merseyside +7 4 £215 +14.67%
Manchester +17 2 £425 - 3
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (22.73%) IIS
2 5 (22.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) SAS
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (22.73%) MS Visio
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (31.82%) Entra ID
3 4 (18.18%) OneDrive
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.09%) Nutanix
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) DNS
2 8 (36.36%) DHCP
2 8 (36.36%) LAN
3 5 (22.73%) VPN
4 4 (18.18%) SAN
5 3 (13.64%) Firewall
5 3 (13.64%) Internet
5 3 (13.64%) iSCSI
5 3 (13.64%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (13.64%) WAN
5 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (13.64%) Wireless
6 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Manufacturing
2 5 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Legal
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Administrator
2 6 (27.27%) VMWare Administrator
2 6 (27.27%) Wintel Administrator
3 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Desktop Support
3 5 (22.73%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Support
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) IVR
4 2 (9.09%) Clustering
5 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
1 22 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 15 (68.18%) Windows Server 2012
3 11 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (40.91%) Linux
5 6 (27.27%) Windows 10
6 5 (22.73%) Windows 8
6 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (22.73%) Windows XP
7 4 (18.18%) Android
7 4 (18.18%) Unix
8 2 (9.09%) CentOS
9 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
9 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) ITIL
2 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (31.82%) High Availability
3 7 (31.82%) Patch Management
3 7 (31.82%) Project Delivery
3 7 (31.82%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
4 5 (22.73%) Business Case
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
4 5 (22.73%) Proactive Maintenance
4 5 (22.73%) Technical Analysis
4 5 (22.73%) Time Management
5 4 (18.18%) E-Discovery
5 4 (18.18%) Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 4 (18.18%) RBAC
6 3 (13.64%) BCP
6 3 (13.64%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.55%) VB
1 1 (4.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) MCSE
4 4 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) MCP
5 1 (4.55%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) SLA
2 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (95.45%) Active Directory
2 13 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (54.55%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (31.82%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (27.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (13.64%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
8 1 (4.55%) BitLocker
8 1 (4.55%) Firmware
8 1 (4.55%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) vCenter Server
2 7 (31.82%) WSUS
3 6 (27.27%) SCCM
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (13.64%) NetApp OnCommand
4 3 (13.64%) vMotion
5 2 (9.09%) Ansible
5 2 (9.09%) Nagios
5 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.09%) Terraform
5 2 (9.09%) ZABBIX
6 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (59.09%) VMware
3 5 (22.73%) Canon
4 4 (18.18%) Citrix
5 3 (13.64%) Apple
6 2 (9.09%) Dell
6 2 (9.09%) HP
6 2 (9.09%) IBM
6 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.55%) McAfee
7 1 (4.55%) Symantec