Windows Server 2016 Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 111 113 135
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 5 16 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.72% 0.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.47% 4.46% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 16
10th Percentile £176 £180 £131
25th Percentile £185 £253 £136
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £325 £175
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +85.71% -10.26%
75th Percentile £225 £430 £245
90th Percentile £240 £442 £445
UK median daily rate £425 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 341 359 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.98% 16.19% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 235 377
10th Percentile £191 £184 £160
25th Percentile £407 £324 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £626 £600
90th Percentile £581 £745 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.23 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.27 £20.79
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%
75th Percentile £23.50 £60.75 £59.03
90th Percentile £24.43 £62.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in Scotland

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in Scotland

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in Scotland

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +6 3 £210 +13.51%
Dundee - 2 £200 -
Windows Server 2016
UK

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Acrobat
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Technician
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) ICT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) HNC
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceCenter
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Adobe
3 1 (20.00%) Bomgar
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Commvault
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Peregrine
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) SonicWALL
3 1 (20.00%) VMware