Windows Server 2016 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 266 285
Rank change year-on-year +25 +19 -21
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 152 203 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.84% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.65% 4.34% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 154 179
10th Percentile £200 £179 £158
25th Percentile £313 £319 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £608 £600 £475
90th Percentile - £700 £539
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -6.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile - £23.86 £15.75
25th Percentile £56.50 £26.48 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -
75th Percentile - £48.63 -
90th Percentile - £76.04 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -13.04%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,269 4,677 5,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.73% 19.34% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,174 3,270 3,875
10th Percentile £170 £163 £149
25th Percentile £250 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +9.68%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 344 470
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.59
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.49 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £29.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +48.25% +21.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £63.80
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.39
% change year-on-year -42.11% +69.72% +26.00%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2016 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
South East +63 80 £575 +22.67% 25
North of England +19 16 £390 +4.00% 30
Scotland +14 16 £325 +85.71% 2
Midlands +19 15 £350 +40.00% 19
West Midlands +29 12 £350 +27.27% 8
South West -21 10 £220 -60.00% 6
Yorkshire +26 9 £400 +18.52% 10
Wales +25 8 £220 -53.19% 2
East of England -19 8 £650 -7.14% 13
North West +5 5 £295 -39.49% 14
North East +17 2 £350 +137.29% 7
East Midlands +10 2 £513 +129.82% 11
Windows Server 2016
UK

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 40 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (9.87%) SharePoint
3 12 (7.89%) IIS
4 2 (1.32%) WordPress
5 1 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (9.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.66%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.95%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.66%) assyst
2 1 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 63 (41.45%) Azure
2 53 (34.87%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (22.37%) Entra ID
4 15 (9.87%) OneDrive
5 14 (9.21%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (9.21%) Azure Storage
6 13 (8.55%) OCI
7 6 (3.95%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.95%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.95%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.63%) AWS
9 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.66%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.66%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 49 (32.24%) Firewall
2 46 (30.26%) DNS
3 40 (26.32%) DHCP
4 31 (20.39%) SAN
5 8 (5.26%) NAS
6 7 (4.61%) TCP/IP
6 7 (4.61%) Unified Communications
6 7 (4.61%) VPN
7 5 (3.29%) LAN
8 4 (2.63%) Network Security
8 4 (2.63%) WAN
9 3 (1.97%) Skype
9 3 (1.97%) Wireless
10 2 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (1.32%) iSCSI
10 2 (1.32%) NetScaler
10 2 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.32%) VLAN
10 2 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.95%) Power BI
3 4 (2.63%) Big Data
3 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.66%) GitLab
1 1 (0.66%) Gradle
1 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.66%) Liquibase
1 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
1 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 76 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.18%) Public Sector
3 5 (3.29%) Finance
3 5 (3.29%) Manufacturing
4 4 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.66%) Back Office
6 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.66%) Law
6 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (24.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (17.11%) Windows Engineer
3 21 (13.82%) Build Engineer
3 21 (13.82%) Windows Build Engineer
4 15 (9.87%) Support Specialist
5 14 (9.21%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (9.21%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (9.21%) Administrator
5 14 (9.21%) Azure Specialist
6 12 (7.89%) Analyst
6 12 (7.89%) Support Analyst
7 11 (7.24%) Support Engineer
7 11 (7.24%) Systems Administrator
8 10 (6.58%) Senior
9 9 (5.92%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
10 8 (5.26%) IT Support
10 8 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) IT Support Analyst
11 7 (4.61%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.21%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.95%) Itk
3 2 (1.32%) LAMP
4 1 (0.66%) jQuery
4 1 (0.66%) JSON
4 1 (0.66%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.66%) Node.js
4 1 (0.66%) RESTful
4 1 (0.66%) SOAP
4 1 (0.66%) Spring
4 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.66%) Swagger
4 1 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.08%) PKI
2 27 (17.76%) Data Centre
3 15 (9.87%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.92%) Clustering
5 7 (4.61%) Replication
6 6 (3.95%) Digital Signage
7 5 (3.29%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.97%) IoT
9 2 (1.32%) CMDB
9 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.32%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.32%) iPad
9 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.32%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.66%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.66%) LIMS
10 1 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 145 (95.39%) Windows
2 112 (73.68%) Windows Server
3 110 (72.37%) Windows Server 2019
4 71 (46.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 58 (38.16%) Windows 10
6 48 (31.58%) Linux
7 21 (13.82%) Windows NT
8 19 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
9 12 (7.89%) Windows XP
10 9 (5.92%) Windows 7
11 8 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (3.95%) CentOS
12 6 (3.95%) Debian
12 6 (3.95%) VMS
13 3 (1.97%) Ubuntu
13 3 (1.97%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
14 2 (1.32%) Unix
15 1 (0.66%) Android
15 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (53.29%) ITIL
2 43 (28.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (25.66%) Service Management
4 38 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 38 (25.00%) Release Management
5 30 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (13.82%) Deployment Automation
6 21 (13.82%) DevOps
6 21 (13.82%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (13.82%) User Acceptance Testing
7 20 (13.16%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 19 (12.50%) Project Management
9 18 (11.84%) Migration
10 17 (11.18%) Analytics
10 17 (11.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (10.53%) Agile
12 15 (9.87%) CI/CD
12 15 (9.87%) Converged Infrastructure
13 14 (9.21%) Log Analytics
13 14 (9.21%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.18%) PowerShell
2 19 (12.50%) SQL
3 16 (10.53%) VBScript
4 14 (9.21%) Bicep
4 14 (9.21%) C#
4 14 (9.21%) VB
5 4 (2.63%) C
5 4 (2.63%) C++
6 3 (1.97%) Python
6 3 (1.97%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.66%) Java
Qualifications
1 74 (48.68%) Security Cleared
2 66 (43.42%) DV Cleared
3 36 (23.68%) Degree
4 32 (21.05%) SC Cleared
5 14 (9.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (7.89%) CCNA
6 12 (7.89%) CCNP
6 12 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.95%) MCSA
8 6 (3.95%) MCSE
8 6 (3.95%) RHCT
9 2 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.32%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.47%) QA
2 5 (3.29%) SLA
3 4 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
System Software
1 121 (79.61%) Active Directory
2 45 (29.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (23.03%) Hyper-V
4 21 (13.82%) Firmware
5 20 (13.16%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (11.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (5.26%) vSphere
8 8 (5.26%) XenApp
9 6 (3.95%) KVM
10 5 (3.29%) XenDesktop
11 4 (2.63%) VMware NSX
12 2 (1.32%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.66%) Docker
13 1 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 74 (48.68%) SCCM
2 53 (34.87%) WSUS
3 30 (19.74%) SCOM
4 26 (17.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (14.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (13.82%) Sysprep
7 18 (11.84%) NetBackup
8 15 (9.87%) vCenter Server
9 14 (9.21%) Kubernetes
10 12 (7.89%) EMC NetWorker
11 8 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (3.29%) VxRail
13 4 (2.63%) Ansible
13 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Clustering
14 3 (1.97%) Terraform
15 2 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 2 (1.32%) Nessus
16 1 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
16 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 98 (64.47%) Microsoft
2 55 (36.18%) VMware
3 24 (15.79%) HP
4 22 (14.47%) Cisco
5 21 (13.82%) Oracle
6 20 (13.16%) Dell
7 19 (12.50%) Citrix
8 18 (11.84%) 3PAR
9 17 (11.18%) EMC
10 16 (10.53%) Red Hat
11 15 (9.87%) Palo Alto
11 15 (9.87%) Veeam
12 14 (9.21%) Symantec
13 12 (7.89%) Extreme Networks
13 12 (7.89%) Juniper
14 6 (3.95%) NetApp
15 4 (2.63%) Nimble Storage
16 3 (1.97%) Aruba
16 3 (1.97%) Brocade
16 3 (1.97%) Veritas