Windows Server 2016 Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 110 117
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 2 8 17
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.12% 0.47% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.00% 2.14% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 13
10th Percentile £187 £173 -
25th Percentile £233 £178 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £195 £325
Median % change year-on-year +63.46% -40.00% +85.71%
75th Percentile £408 £204 £430
90th Percentile £456 £228 £448
UK median daily rate £488 £413 £465
% change year-on-year +18.11% -11.24% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £17.50 - £58.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.65%

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 200 373 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.41% 22.08% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 190 241
10th Percentile £176 £185 £185
25th Percentile £239 £352 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +5.70%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £634
90th Percentile £651 £589 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% -10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 14
10th Percentile £16.13 £17.07 £16.56
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.94 £20.19
Median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% -63.64% +153.56%
75th Percentile £16.33 £23.53 £61.31
90th Percentile £35.67 £24.56 £76.73
UK median hourly rate £23.25 £29.89 £23.63
% change year-on-year -22.21% +26.52% -17.11%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in Scotland

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in Scotland

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

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 4 March 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
Glasgow +10 1 £475 +150.00%
East Renfrewshire - 1 £163 -
Windows Server 2016
UK

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
1 1 (50.00%) QlikView
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) ICT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) ICT Support
1 1 (50.00%) ICT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft