Windows Server 2016 Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 418 384
Rank change year-on-year -158 -34 +39
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 67 106 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.36% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.40% 2.61% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 76 170
10th Percentile £168 £256 £200
25th Percentile £406 £352 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £608
90th Percentile £638 £603 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +15.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.75 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £61.60
75th Percentile £17.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.50 - £61.60
% change year-on-year - - +89.60%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,790 4,055 5,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.64% 13.85% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 2,654 3,891
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £316 £313 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -1.06% -6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 192 407
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.13 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.73% -2.22% -48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £41.25 £62.25
90th Percentile £71.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £24.18
% change year-on-year +72.23% -21.96% -38.08%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2016 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Windows Server 2016
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
England -162 57 £475 -9.52% 30
UK excluding London -139 43 £475 -13.64% 28
London -75 18 £475 +18.75% 4
South East -58 13 £600 +33.33% 10
Work from Home -62 11 £519 +29.69% 63
Midlands -55 10 £450 +12.50% 1
East Midlands - 8 £450 -
East of England -45 7 £173 -68.64% 2
North of England -91 5 £344 -1.79% 5
South West -35 4 £508 -13.62% 9
Yorkshire -57 3 £344 -14.06%
Scotland -11 2 £319 +59.38% 1
North West -56 2 - - 4
West Midlands -61 2 £450 +12.50% 1
Northern Ireland -1 1 - -
Wales - 1 £543 - 1

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (19.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.45%) nginx
2 7 (10.45%) Tomcat
3 6 (8.96%) SharePoint
4 4 (5.97%) WebLogic
5 3 (4.48%) Apache
5 3 (4.48%) IIS
5 3 (4.48%) SAS
6 2 (2.99%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.85%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (26.87%) Azure
3 8 (11.94%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.99%) AWS
4 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.99%) GCP
4 2 (2.99%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.49%) MinIO
5 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.39%) DHCP
2 13 (19.40%) DNS
3 10 (14.93%) Firewall
4 7 (10.45%) HTTP
5 6 (8.96%) SAN
6 4 (5.97%) NetScaler
6 4 (5.97%) WAN
7 3 (4.48%) BIG-IP
7 3 (4.48%) Kerberos
7 3 (4.48%) Skype
7 3 (4.48%) VSAN
8 2 (2.99%) LAN
8 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.99%) VLAN
9 1 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.49%) DSL
9 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.49%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.49%) VoIP
9 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (8.96%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.48%) GIS
6 1 (1.49%) DTS
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.49%) Power BI
6 1 (1.49%) Power Query
6 1 (1.49%) QlikView
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) AdminStudio
1 2 (2.99%) InstallShield
1 2 (2.99%) MSI
General
1 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.96%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Finance
6 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.49%) Back Office
6 1 (1.49%) Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Electronics
6 1 (1.49%) Front Office
6 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Legal
6 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Marketing
6 1 (1.49%) Military
6 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Publishing
6 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Architect
3 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Support Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Technical Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Technical Support
5 6 (8.96%) Technical Support Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (7.46%) Administrator
6 5 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Senior
7 4 (5.97%) Citrix Support
7 4 (5.97%) Lead
8 3 (4.48%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Lead Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Server Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) EJB
1 4 (5.97%) JSP
2 3 (4.48%) Java SE
2 3 (4.48%) JSON
2 3 (4.48%) Middleware
2 3 (4.48%) OpenLayers
3 2 (2.99%) ADO
3 2 (2.99%) LDAP
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.49%) Java EE
4 1 (1.49%) JavaBeans
4 1 (1.49%) JDBC
4 1 (1.49%) ODBC
4 1 (1.49%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.97%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.48%) Clustering
4 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.48%) PKI
4 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) iPhone
6 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.49%) Replication
6 1 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (98.51%) Windows
2 55 (82.09%) Windows Server
3 35 (52.24%) Windows Server 2019
4 21 (31.34%) Linux
5 13 (19.40%) Windows 10
6 11 (16.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (16.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (11.94%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (10.45%) Solaris
9 6 (8.96%) Windows 7
9 6 (8.96%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (5.97%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.49%) AIX
11 1 (1.49%) Android
11 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
11 1 (1.49%) CentOS
11 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (14.93%) ITIL
2 10 (14.93%) Migration
3 7 (10.45%) Change Management
3 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
3 7 (10.45%) DevOps
3 7 (10.45%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (10.45%) ETL
3 7 (10.45%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (8.96%) High Availability
4 6 (8.96%) Mentoring
4 6 (8.96%) Refactoring
4 6 (8.96%) Test Automation
5 5 (7.46%) Agile
5 5 (7.46%) ITSM
5 5 (7.46%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (7.46%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (7.46%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (7.46%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (7.46%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.33%) PowerShell
2 13 (19.40%) SQL
3 6 (8.96%) Java
3 6 (8.96%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.48%) Python
5 1 (1.49%) Bicep
5 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (44.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (35.82%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) Degree
3 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (7.46%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) MCSE
4 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 4 (5.97%) CCA
5 4 (5.97%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.49%) QA
1 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (44.78%) Active Directory
2 28 (41.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (20.90%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (19.40%) Hyper-V
4 13 (19.40%) vSphere
5 8 (11.94%) VMware NSX
6 7 (10.45%) Docker
7 6 (8.96%) XenApp
7 6 (8.96%) XenDesktop
8 5 (7.46%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (2.99%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (23.88%) SCCM
2 6 (8.96%) WSUS
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (7.46%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (7.46%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.97%) SCVMM
4 4 (5.97%) Terraform
5 3 (4.48%) Ansible
5 3 (4.48%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.99%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.49%) Kibana
7 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.49%) logstash
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (1.49%) Nessus
7 1 (1.49%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (1.49%) SCOM
7 1 (1.49%) vMotion
Vendors
1 40 (59.70%) Microsoft
2 34 (50.75%) VMware
3 12 (17.91%) Oracle
4 11 (16.42%) Citrix
5 10 (14.93%) Red Hat
6 8 (11.94%) IBM
7 3 (4.48%) Dell
7 3 (4.48%) F5
7 3 (4.48%) NetApp
7 3 (4.48%) NVIDIA
7 3 (4.48%) Veeam
8 2 (2.99%) Cisco
8 2 (2.99%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.99%) HP
8 2 (2.99%) McAfee
8 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.99%) Veritas
9 1 (1.49%) Remedy
9 1 (1.49%) SAP
9 1 (1.49%) Sybase