Windows Server 2016 Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Windows Server 2016 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 196 210
Rank change year-on-year +78 +14 -33
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 82 28 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.48% 0.48% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.37% 2.29% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 19 43
10th Percentile £275 £330 £183
25th Percentile £538 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £608 £601 £570
90th Percentile - £738 £600
England median daily rate £525 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - £24.11 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.66 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £49.94 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.36% +149.68% -
75th Percentile - £65.84 -
90th Percentile - £75.16 -
England median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -11.11%

All Operating Systems
South East

Windows Server 2016 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 980 1,225 1,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.66% 20.99% 19.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 842 1,014
10th Percentile £200 £200 £150
25th Percentile £263 £263 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +6.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £674 £650
England median daily rate £463 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.11% +2.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 70 111
10th Percentile £15.98 £18.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.31 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62.25 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £75.00 £64.25
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.24% +63.05% +20.21%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the South East

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the South East

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the South East

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the South East

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +65 70 £600 +33.33% 12
Berkshire +50 69 £603 +37.71% 8
Hampshire +1 5 £501 -25.85% 6
West Sussex - 5 £145 -
Buckinghamshire +26 1 £175 -64.10% 2
Middlesex - 1 £425 -
Surrey - 1 £255 -
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (19.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (47.56%) Azure
2 19 (23.17%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (19.51%) Entra ID
4 15 (18.29%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (18.29%) Azure Storage
5 13 (15.85%) OCI
6 1 (1.22%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (43.90%) DNS
2 35 (42.68%) DHCP
3 32 (39.02%) Firewall
4 17 (20.73%) SAN
5 3 (3.66%) Network Security
6 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.22%) VLAN
6 1 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
General
1 55 (67.07%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.22%) Finance
4 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (30.49%) Windows Engineer
2 23 (28.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (25.61%) Build Engineer
3 21 (25.61%) Windows Build Engineer
4 15 (18.29%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (17.07%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (17.07%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (17.07%) Support Specialist
6 10 (12.20%) Administrator
6 10 (12.20%) Senior
6 10 (12.20%) Support Engineer
6 10 (12.20%) Systems Administrator
7 9 (10.98%) Storage Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 6 (7.32%) Infrastructure Support
9 6 (7.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Server Engineer
10 4 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.29%) ARM Templates
2 6 (7.32%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) PKI
2 15 (18.29%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (15.85%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) CCTV
6 1 (1.22%) CMDB
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 82 (100.00%) Windows
2 75 (91.46%) Windows Server 2019
3 68 (82.93%) Windows Server
4 47 (57.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 42 (51.22%) Windows 10
6 33 (40.24%) Linux
7 21 (25.61%) Windows NT
8 13 (15.85%) Windows XP
9 8 (9.76%) Windows 7
10 5 (6.10%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (2.44%) Unix
12 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
13 1 (1.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (70.73%) ITIL
2 39 (47.56%) Release Management
3 36 (43.90%) Service Management
4 28 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (29.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (26.83%) Customer Service
7 21 (25.61%) Deployment Automation
7 21 (25.61%) DevOps
7 21 (25.61%) User Acceptance Testing
8 17 (20.73%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (19.51%) Project Management
10 15 (18.29%) Agile
10 15 (18.29%) Analytics
10 15 (18.29%) CI/CD
10 15 (18.29%) Identity Management
10 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (18.29%) Log Analytics
10 15 (18.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 15 (18.29%) Privileged Identity Management
10 15 (18.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 39 (47.56%) PowerShell
2 17 (20.73%) VBScript
3 15 (18.29%) Bicep
3 15 (18.29%) C#
3 15 (18.29%) VB
4 6 (7.32%) SQL
5 4 (4.88%) C
5 4 (4.88%) C++
6 3 (3.66%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 63 (76.83%) Security Cleared
2 57 (69.51%) DV Cleared
3 33 (40.24%) Degree
4 31 (37.80%) SC Cleared
5 15 (18.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (15.85%) CCNA
6 13 (15.85%) CCNP
6 13 (15.85%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (26.83%) QA
2 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (71.95%) Active Directory
2 21 (25.61%) Firmware
3 19 (23.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (19.51%) Hyper-V
4 16 (19.51%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (18.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (18.29%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (7.32%) XenApp
7 4 (4.88%) XenDesktop
8 2 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (73.17%) SCCM
2 52 (63.41%) WSUS
3 31 (37.80%) SCOM
4 21 (25.61%) Sysprep
5 16 (19.51%) NetBackup
6 15 (18.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 15 (18.29%) Kubernetes
6 15 (18.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (17.07%) vCenter Server
8 13 (15.85%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (2.44%) Nessus
10 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (73.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (24.39%) VMware
3 16 (19.51%) 3PAR
3 16 (19.51%) HP
4 15 (18.29%) Symantec
5 14 (17.07%) EMC
5 14 (17.07%) Oracle
6 13 (15.85%) Cisco
6 13 (15.85%) Dell
6 13 (15.85%) Extreme Networks
6 13 (15.85%) Juniper
6 13 (15.85%) Palo Alto
6 13 (15.85%) Veeam
7 6 (7.32%) Citrix
8 4 (4.88%) NetApp
8 4 (4.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.66%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (3.66%) Veritas
10 2 (2.44%) Ivanti
10 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds