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 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 260 293
Rank change year-on-year -25 +33 +21
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 81 129 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.66% 0.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.32% 3.98% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 109 95
10th Percentile £170 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £255 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +19.05% +29.23%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £575
90th Percentile £588 - £700
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £462
% change year-on-year +10.53% +2.81% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £57.52 £20.53
25th Percentile - £59.05 £24.69
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - +128.15% +35.00%
75th Percentile - - £35.56
90th Percentile - - £50.98
UK median hourly rate - £61.60 £27.00
% change year-on-year - +128.15% +35.00%

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 2,442 3,241 4,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 16.69% 17.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,549 2,086 2,694
10th Percentile £180 £180 £165
25th Percentile £250 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +3.91% +1.41%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £575
90th Percentile £623 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 331 299
10th Percentile £15.33 £12.38 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.59 £31.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £58.39 £65.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.88% -43.11% +86.81%

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 July 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 25 July 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
East of England +25 24 £550 -4.35% 23
South East -11 24 £500 -17.36% 21
North of England -6 13 £375 +25.00% 12
North West +14 12 £350 +55.56% 5
South West +31 7 £575 +36.09% 10
Midlands -5 6 £400 +14.29% 6
West Midlands -1 5 £400 +14.29% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
Scotland -4 4 £170 -12.82% 2
East Midlands -5 1 - - 2
Yorkshire -9 1 £400 +14.29% 7
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 16 (19.75%) SharePoint
2 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (6.17%) IIS
3 5 (6.17%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.47%) Confluence
5 1 (1.23%) Apache
5 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.23%) WinCC
Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (6.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.69%) Cohesity
2 16 (19.75%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (12.35%) Azure
4 6 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 6 (7.41%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.47%) AWS
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.23%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.23%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (44.44%) DNS
2 34 (41.98%) SAN
3 16 (19.75%) Firewall
4 10 (12.35%) TCP/IP
4 10 (12.35%) VPN
5 8 (9.88%) DHCP
6 7 (8.64%) LAN
7 5 (6.17%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (6.17%) Skype
8 4 (4.94%) Unified Communications
9 3 (3.70%) VSAN
10 2 (2.47%) WAN
11 1 (1.23%) Modbus
11 1 (1.23%) Profibus
11 1 (1.23%) SSL
11 1 (1.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Bitbucket
1 2 (2.47%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Git
General
1 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.11%) Legal
4 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.64%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Law
5 5 (6.17%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.17%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Military
7 1 (1.23%) Finance
7 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 13 (16.05%) IT Support
2 10 (12.35%) Support Officer
3 7 (8.64%) Administrator
4 6 (7.41%) Help Desk Support
4 6 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Desktop Support
5 5 (6.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Developer
5 5 (6.17%) Help Desk Officer
5 5 (6.17%) Service Desk Officer
5 5 (6.17%) Service Desk Support
6 4 (4.94%) Backup Administrator
6 4 (4.94%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) Apache Axis
2 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.23%) LDAP
2 1 (1.23%) SOAP
2 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) PKI
2 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.94%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) CCTV
5 1 (1.23%) Clustering
5 1 (1.23%) CMDB
5 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.23%) Replication
5 1 (1.23%) SCADA
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 80 (98.77%) Windows
2 66 (81.48%) Windows Server
3 45 (55.56%) Windows Server 2019
4 27 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (27.16%) Linux
6 20 (24.69%) Windows 10
7 8 (9.88%) Ubuntu
7 8 (9.88%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (7.41%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (6.17%) Debian
9 5 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (6.17%) Unix
9 5 (6.17%) Windows 8
9 5 (6.17%) Windows XP
10 4 (4.94%) CentOS
10 4 (4.94%) Windows 7
11 3 (3.70%) AIX
11 3 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (3.70%) Solaris
12 1 (1.23%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.51%) ITIL
2 21 (25.93%) SIEM
3 20 (24.69%) Build Automation
3 20 (24.69%) Deployment Automation
3 20 (24.69%) Operations Management
3 20 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (9.88%) Agile
6 7 (8.64%) Mentoring
6 7 (8.64%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 7 (8.64%) Patch Management
6 7 (8.64%) Project Delivery
7 6 (7.41%) High Availability
8 5 (6.17%) Asset Management
8 5 (6.17%) CRM
8 5 (6.17%) Data Modelling
8 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 5 (6.17%) PRINCE2
8 5 (6.17%) Technical Analysis
8 5 (6.17%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.74%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.58%) SQL
3 8 (9.88%) Python
4 5 (6.17%) Java
5 4 (4.94%) C#
5 4 (4.94%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.70%) Ruby
7 1 (1.23%) Bicep
7 1 (1.23%) VB
7 1 (1.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (56.79%) Security Cleared
2 33 (40.74%) DV Cleared
3 21 (25.93%) SC Cleared
4 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (9.88%) Degree
6 6 (7.41%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (6.17%) HND
8 4 (4.94%) MCSE
8 4 (4.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (3.70%) CISSP
10 1 (1.23%) HNC
10 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.17%) GDPR
3 4 (4.94%) QA
4 3 (3.70%) SLA
5 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.23%) IEC 61131
5 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (71.60%) Active Directory
2 37 (45.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (30.86%) Virtual Servers
4 24 (29.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 18 (22.22%) Hyper-V
6 9 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (9.88%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (7.41%) Terminal Services
9 4 (4.94%) vSphere
10 2 (2.47%) VMware NSX
11 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (39.51%) WSUS
2 29 (35.80%) SCCM
3 22 (27.16%) Ansible
4 7 (8.64%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.94%) NetBackup
5 4 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.70%) VxRail
7 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.47%) NetApp OnCommand
7 2 (2.47%) vMotion
8 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.23%) Nagios
8 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.23%) SCOM
8 1 (1.23%) Terraform
8 1 (1.23%) vRealize
8 1 (1.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (67.90%) Microsoft
2 49 (60.49%) VMware
3 24 (29.63%) NetApp
4 21 (25.93%) Splunk
5 16 (19.75%) Red Hat
6 12 (14.81%) Citrix
7 7 (8.64%) Oracle
8 6 (7.41%) Veeam
9 5 (6.17%) Canon
9 5 (6.17%) HP
10 4 (4.94%) 3PAR
10 4 (4.94%) Dell
10 4 (4.94%) Veritas
11 3 (3.70%) Nimble Storage
12 2 (2.47%) Atlassian
13 1 (1.23%) EMC
13 1 (1.23%) Rockwell
13 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds
13 1 (1.23%) Tenable
13 1 (1.23%) Zerto