Windows Server 2016 Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 132 122
Rank change year-on-year +21 -10 +16
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 5 7 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.26% 0.26% 1.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.48% 1.28% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 18
10th Percentile £485 £392 £197
25th Percentile £519 £436 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £470 £464
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% +1.40% +6.55%
75th Percentile £608 £501 £559
90th Percentile £611 £538 £575
England median daily rate £550 £475 £430
% change year-on-year +15.79% +10.47% +7.50%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 337 546 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.52% 20.14% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 345 409
10th Percentile £178 £179 £170
25th Percentile £224 £369 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £672 £718
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 67 59
10th Percentile £18.43 £35.54 £19.85
25th Percentile - £65.00 £49.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +6.70% +0.93%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £37.75 £43.13
% change year-on-year -36.42% -12.46% +80.36%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the South West

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Wiltshire +17 4 £575 +36.09% 4
Gloucestershire +21 1 £475 -4.52% 3
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (60.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Skype
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (20.00%) Fujitsu
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat