Windows Server 2016 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 376 417
Rank change year-on-year -63 +41 +78
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 109 216 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.50% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.50% 3.64% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 164 193
10th Percentile £239 £200 £207
25th Percentile £375 £273 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -3.06% +18.79%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £600
90th Percentile £588 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £22.12
25th Percentile - £56.50 £26.48
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £26.74
Median % change year-on-year - +130.37% +33.70%
75th Percentile - - £27.00
90th Percentile - - £54.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £61.60 £26.74
% change year-on-year - +130.37% +33.70%

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 4,356 5,926 9,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.68% 13.68% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,819 3,884 6,227
10th Percentile £200 £190 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £579 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £693 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £461 £462
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.14% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 434 407
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.25 £18.17
Median hourly rate £22.56 £25.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -41.18% +88.89%
75th Percentile £42.16 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.90 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year -46.09% +19.45% +46.50%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2016 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Top 15 Contract 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 6 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
England -45 93 £529 +5.70% 170
UK excluding London -22 83 £550 +10.00% 138
South East -16 23 £500 -17.36% 30
East of England +39 22 £550 -6.38% 26
Work from Home -18 21 £425 -15.00% 59
London -1 20 £400 +14.29% 43
North of England +2 16 £350 +16.67% 41
North West +18 15 £350 +40.00% 19
South West +39 8 £575 +53.33% 18
Midlands 0 6 £400 +14.29% 13
West Midlands -1 5 £400 +14.29% 2
Scotland -1 5 £170 -47.69% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 4
East Midlands -3 1 - - 11
Yorkshire -3 1 £400 +14.29% 20

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (15.60%) SharePoint
2 16 (14.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (7.34%) IIS
4 6 (5.50%) Skype for Business
5 5 (4.59%) Confluence
6 1 (0.92%) Apache
6 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.92%) WinCC
Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.77%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (18.35%) Cohesity
3 19 (17.43%) Azure
4 11 (10.09%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.50%) AWS
5 6 (5.50%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.59%) Nutanix
7 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.83%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.83%) GitHub
8 2 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.92%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.92%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.92%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 46 (42.20%) DNS
2 34 (31.19%) SAN
3 21 (19.27%) DHCP
4 18 (16.51%) Firewall
5 10 (9.17%) TCP/IP
5 10 (9.17%) VPN
6 9 (8.26%) LAN
7 6 (5.50%) Skype
8 5 (4.59%) Unified Communications
9 4 (3.67%) WAN
10 3 (2.75%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (2.75%) VSAN
11 2 (1.83%) VLAN
11 2 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.83%) Wireless
12 1 (0.92%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.92%) Modbus
12 1 (0.92%) MPLS
12 1 (0.92%) Network Security
12 1 (0.92%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (5.50%) JIRA
2 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.75%) Git
General
1 26 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.01%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.17%) Finance
4 8 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Legal
6 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Banking
7 3 (2.75%) Military
8 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.83%) Law
9 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.92%) Local Government
9 1 (0.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (13.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (11.01%) Support Engineer
3 9 (8.26%) Administrator
4 8 (7.34%) IT Support
4 8 (7.34%) Wintel Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Support Officer
6 6 (5.50%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (5.50%) Desktop Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Desktop Support
6 6 (5.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Developer
7 5 (4.59%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Senior
8 4 (3.67%) Storage and Backup Administrator
8 4 (3.67%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.75%) Apache Axis
2 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.92%) LDAP
2 1 (0.92%) SOAP
2 1 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) PKI
2 7 (6.42%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.50%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.83%) Clustering
5 2 (1.83%) CMDB
5 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.83%) Replication
6 1 (0.92%) CCTV
6 1 (0.92%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) IVR
6 1 (0.92%) SCADA
6 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 108 (99.08%) Windows
2 91 (83.49%) Windows Server
3 58 (53.21%) Windows Server 2019
4 34 (31.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 26 (23.85%) Linux
6 23 (21.10%) Windows 10
7 7 (6.42%) Ubuntu
8 6 (5.50%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (5.50%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (4.59%) Debian
9 5 (4.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (4.59%) Unix
9 5 (4.59%) Windows 8
9 5 (4.59%) Windows XP
10 4 (3.67%) CentOS
11 3 (2.75%) Android
11 3 (2.75%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (2.75%) Solaris
12 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.83%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (34.86%) ITIL
2 22 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (20.18%) SIEM
3 20 (18.35%) Build Automation
3 20 (18.35%) Deployment Automation
3 20 (18.35%) Operations Management
4 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (12.84%) Patch Management
6 12 (11.01%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (8.26%) Agile
7 9 (8.26%) Project Delivery
8 8 (7.34%) Migration
8 8 (7.34%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 7 (6.42%) Asset Management
9 7 (6.42%) Customer Service
9 7 (6.42%) High Availability
9 7 (6.42%) Mentoring
9 7 (6.42%) Time Management
10 6 (5.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.70%) PowerShell
2 13 (11.93%) SQL
3 10 (9.17%) Python
4 7 (6.42%) Java
5 4 (3.67%) C#
5 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.75%) Ruby
6 3 (2.75%) VBScript
7 1 (0.92%) Bicep
7 1 (0.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (49.54%) Security Cleared
2 35 (32.11%) DV Cleared
3 28 (25.69%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.17%) Degree
5 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.42%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (4.59%) HND
8 4 (3.67%) CISSP
8 4 (3.67%) MCSE
8 4 (3.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.83%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.92%) CCNA
11 1 (0.92%) CCNP
11 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.92%) GIAC
11 1 (0.92%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.59%) SLA
3 4 (3.67%) QA
4 3 (2.75%) GDPR
5 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.92%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 76 (69.72%) Active Directory
2 46 (42.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (24.77%) Virtual Servers
4 26 (23.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 23 (21.10%) Hyper-V
6 17 (15.60%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (10.09%) vSphere
8 8 (7.34%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (2.75%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.75%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (33.03%) WSUS
2 31 (28.44%) SCCM
3 26 (23.85%) Ansible
4 13 (11.93%) vCenter Server
5 7 (6.42%) Terraform
6 4 (3.67%) NetBackup
6 4 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.83%) Nagios
8 2 (1.83%) NetApp OnCommand
8 2 (1.83%) Packer
8 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.83%) vMotion
8 2 (1.83%) VxRail
8 2 (1.83%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 68 (62.39%) Microsoft
2 62 (56.88%) VMware
3 25 (22.94%) NetApp
4 21 (19.27%) Splunk
5 15 (13.76%) Citrix
5 15 (13.76%) Red Hat
6 7 (6.42%) Cisco
6 7 (6.42%) HP
6 7 (6.42%) Veeam
7 5 (4.59%) Canon
7 5 (4.59%) Dell
7 5 (4.59%) Oracle
8 4 (3.67%) 3PAR
8 4 (3.67%) Veritas
9 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
9 3 (2.75%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (1.83%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.83%) IBM
10 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.83%) SolarWinds
186 Windows Server 2016 jobs Nationwide