Windows Server 2016 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 247 271
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 +17
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 75 154 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.74% 0.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.42% 4.70% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 134 152
10th Percentile £208 £203 £178
25th Percentile £350 £313 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £490
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +9.69% +50.77%
75th Percentile £605 £608 £600
90th Percentile £620 - £700
UK median daily rate £425 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £22.99
25th Percentile - £56.50 £26.48
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year - +60.00% +92.50%
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - £56.70
UK median hourly rate - £61.60 £38.50
% change year-on-year - +60.00% +92.50%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,195 3,275 4,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.19% 15.77% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,176 3,246
10th Percentile £178 £173 £163
25th Percentile £241 £256 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 320 334
10th Percentile £15.72 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.94 £22.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -29.60% +56.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
North of England +25 24 £350 -6.67% 19
North West +33 22 £350 +40.00% 8
South East -14 21 £550 -4.35% 17
South West +47 11 £588 +167.05% 8
Wales +2 6 £365 +65.91%
Midlands +12 5 £400 +14.29% 20
West Midlands +7 5 £400 +14.29% 7
Scotland +2 5 £200 -38.46%
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
East of England +23 2 £575 -11.54% 11
Yorkshire 0 2 £375 -3.16% 5
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 20 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (21.33%) SharePoint
3 8 (10.67%) IIS
3 8 (10.67%) Skype for Business
4 3 (4.00%) Confluence
5 2 (2.67%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.33%) Apache
6 1 (1.33%) SAS
6 1 (1.33%) WinCC
Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (8.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.33%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (34.67%) Azure
1 26 (34.67%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (16.00%) Entra ID
3 7 (9.33%) OpenShift
3 7 (9.33%) SaaS
4 6 (8.00%) Nutanix
4 6 (8.00%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.00%) AWS
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.33%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.33%) Cohesity
7 1 (1.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 24 (32.00%) DNS
2 19 (25.33%) DHCP
3 14 (18.67%) Firewall
4 11 (14.67%) LAN
5 10 (13.33%) VPN
6 8 (10.67%) SAN
6 8 (10.67%) Skype
7 6 (8.00%) WAN
8 5 (6.67%) Unified Communications
9 4 (5.33%) Internet
9 4 (5.33%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (4.00%) iSCSI
10 3 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (4.00%) Wireless
11 1 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (1.33%) Modbus
11 1 (1.33%) Network Security
11 1 (1.33%) Profibus
11 1 (1.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.67%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 5 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.33%) Legal
6 2 (2.67%) Military
6 2 (2.67%) Publishing
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (12.00%) Support Engineer
3 8 (10.67%) Administrator
4 7 (9.33%) Senior
4 7 (9.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) VMWare Administrator
4 7 (9.33%) Wintel Administrator
5 6 (8.00%) Architect
5 6 (8.00%) Desktop Support
6 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) IT Support
6 5 (6.67%) Server Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) Apache Axis
2 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.33%) CSS
2 1 (1.33%) LDAP
2 1 (1.33%) SOAP
2 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) PKI
2 9 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (10.67%) Management Information System
4 7 (9.33%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.00%) IVR
7 2 (2.67%) Clustering
7 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.33%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.33%) CCTV
8 1 (1.33%) CMDB
8 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.33%) PDA
8 1 (1.33%) SCADA
8 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (100.00%) Windows
2 66 (88.00%) Windows Server
3 37 (49.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 33 (44.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (29.33%) Linux
6 19 (25.33%) Windows 10
7 10 (13.33%) CentOS
8 8 (10.67%) Ubuntu
9 7 (9.33%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (8.00%) Android
10 6 (8.00%) Windows XP
11 5 (6.67%) Windows 8
11 5 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (5.33%) Unix
13 3 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (2.67%) Apple iOS
14 2 (2.67%) Mac OS
14 2 (2.67%) Solaris
15 1 (1.33%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 31 (41.33%) ITIL
2 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (18.67%) Agile
3 14 (18.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (14.67%) Patch Management
5 10 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 9 (12.00%) Migration
7 8 (10.67%) Application Packaging
7 8 (10.67%) High Availability
7 8 (10.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 7 (9.33%) Change Control
8 7 (9.33%) DevSecOps
9 6 (8.00%) Information Security
9 6 (8.00%) Time Management
10 5 (6.67%) Asset Management
10 5 (6.67%) Incident Management
10 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 5 (6.67%) Mentoring
10 5 (6.67%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (16.00%) SQL
3 4 (5.33%) C#
3 4 (5.33%) Java
4 3 (4.00%) Python
4 3 (4.00%) Ruby
4 3 (4.00%) VB
4 3 (4.00%) VBScript
5 1 (1.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 36 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (34.67%) SC Cleared
3 16 (21.33%) DV Cleared
4 13 (17.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (16.00%) Degree
6 8 (10.67%) MCSE
7 6 (8.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (5.33%) MCSA
8 4 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (4.00%) CISSP
9 3 (4.00%) HND
9 3 (4.00%) MCP
10 1 (1.33%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.33%) HNC
10 1 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) SLA
2 6 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.33%) QA
4 2 (2.67%) NCSC
4 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.33%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 54 (72.00%) Active Directory
2 29 (38.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (26.67%) Hyper-V
4 14 (18.67%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 9 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (12.00%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (12.00%) vSphere
6 3 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (4.00%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.67%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.67%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.33%) Firmware
8 1 (1.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 19 (25.33%) vCenter Server
2 16 (21.33%) WSUS
3 14 (18.67%) SCCM
4 12 (16.00%) Ansible
5 10 (13.33%) Terraform
6 8 (10.67%) Kubernetes
7 7 (9.33%) Nessus
8 4 (5.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (5.33%) NetApp OnCommand
8 4 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (5.33%) vMotion
9 2 (2.67%) Nagios
9 2 (2.67%) OPNET
9 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.67%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.33%) SCOM
10 1 (1.33%) ServiceCenter
10 1 (1.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 46 (61.33%) Microsoft
2 37 (49.33%) VMware
3 11 (14.67%) Red Hat
4 7 (9.33%) Veeam
5 5 (6.67%) Canon
5 5 (6.67%) Citrix
6 3 (4.00%) Apple
6 3 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.00%) Cisco
6 3 (4.00%) Dell
6 3 (4.00%) HP
6 3 (4.00%) Oracle
7 2 (2.67%) Commvault
7 2 (2.67%) IBM
7 2 (2.67%) McAfee
7 2 (2.67%) NetApp
7 2 (2.67%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.67%) Splunk
7 2 (2.67%) Symantec
8 1 (1.33%) Fujitsu