Windows Server 2016 Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 126 162
Rank change year-on-year -12 +36 +67
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 26 64 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.74% 1.30% 0.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.43% 7.26% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 55 25
10th Percentile £153 £301 £356
25th Percentile £220 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +34.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £519
90th Percentile £560 - £583
England median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - - £24.23
25th Percentile - - £27.00
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £49.07
Median % change year-on-year - +25.55% +145.33%
75th Percentile - - £56.02
90th Percentile - - £57.62
England median hourly rate - £61.60 £49.07
% change year-on-year - +25.55% +145.33%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 587 882 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.66% 17.90% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 582 733
10th Percentile £190 £205 £185
25th Percentile £253 £331 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £565
90th Percentile £650 £638 £640
England median daily rate £454 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -6.96% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 48 68
10th Percentile £15.12 £16.32 £16.20
25th Percentile £16.95 £22.50 £21.24
Median hourly rate £18.87 £55.13 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.77% +0.23% +223.53%
75th Percentile £28.00 £70.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £58.75 £71.13 £73.72
England median hourly rate £23.00 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.35% -20.00% +88.89%

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 9 August 2025.

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 9 August 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
Thames Valley -9 14 £525 -13.22% 3
Berkshire -14 8 £450 -25.62% 3
Hampshire +11 6 £550 +12.82% 7
Buckinghamshire - 6 £529 -
Kent - 5 £155 - 1
West Sussex +2 1 £625 +31.58%
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 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) WinCC
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
2 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) Firewall
1 10 (38.46%) SAN
2 9 (34.62%) TCP/IP
3 7 (26.92%) DNS
4 5 (19.23%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (19.23%) VPN
5 2 (7.69%) DHCP
5 2 (7.69%) VSAN
6 1 (3.85%) Modbus
6 1 (3.85%) NAS
6 1 (3.85%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Law
2 5 (19.23%) Legal
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Back Office
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Developer
1 5 (19.23%) Help Desk Officer
1 5 (19.23%) Help Desk Support
1 5 (19.23%) IT Support
1 5 (19.23%) Service Desk Officer
1 5 (19.23%) Service Desk Support
1 5 (19.23%) Support Officer
2 4 (15.38%) Administrator
2 4 (15.38%) Backup Administrator
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Python Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Senior
2 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Storage Administrator
2 4 (15.38%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Applications Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Axis
2 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (11.54%) PKI
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) SCADA
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (84.62%) Windows Server
3 17 (65.38%) Linux
4 12 (46.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (42.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (30.77%) Ubuntu
7 7 (26.92%) Windows 10
8 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (19.23%) Debian
10 3 (11.54%) CentOS
11 2 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (7.69%) Solaris
12 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) ITIL
2 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (23.08%) Agile
4 5 (19.23%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) CRM
4 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
4 5 (19.23%) Preventative Maintenance
4 5 (19.23%) PRINCE2
5 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (7.69%) Cost Reduction
7 2 (7.69%) Customer Service
7 2 (7.69%) Design Patterns
7 2 (7.69%) Prototyping
7 2 (7.69%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) Ruby
6 1 (3.85%) Bicep
6 1 (3.85%) VB
6 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (7.69%) CISSP
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) GDPR
2 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) IEC 61131
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (30.77%) Hyper-V
3 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (19.23%) Terminal Services
5 3 (11.54%) vSphere
6 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) NetBackup
2 2 (7.69%) SCCM
2 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (7.69%) VxRail
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.85%) SCOM
3 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) VMware
2 14 (53.85%) Red Hat
3 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
4 6 (23.08%) Citrix
5 4 (15.38%) 3PAR
5 4 (15.38%) HP
5 4 (15.38%) Veritas
6 3 (11.54%) NetApp
6 3 (11.54%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (11.54%) Oracle
7 1 (3.85%) Dell
7 1 (3.85%) EMC
7 1 (3.85%) Remedy
7 1 (3.85%) Rockwell
7 1 (3.85%) Siemens