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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 381 406
Rank change year-on-year -39 +25 +82
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 99 225 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.52% 0.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.43% 3.87% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 174 253
10th Percentile £208 £200 £191
25th Percentile £350 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% -6.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £613 £608 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £490
% change year-on-year -22.73% +12.24% +50.77%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - £61.60 £38.50
% change year-on-year - +60.00% +92.50%

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 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -47 80 £425 -19.05% 76
UK excluding London -22 74 £425 -22.73% 63
North of England +35 24 £350 -8.50% 14
Work from Home +6 23 £370 -11.90% 34
North West +27 22 £350 +40.00% 7
London -6 20 £400 +14.29% 16
South East -18 19 £550 -4.35% 15
South West +47 12 £581 +164.20% 7
Wales +6 6 £365 +65.91%
Midlands +14 5 £400 +14.29% 17
West Midlands +9 5 £400 +14.29% 6
Scotland -2 5 £200 -38.46%
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
East of England +26 2 £575 -11.54% 11
Yorkshire +8 2 £375 -6.19% 4

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 24 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (17.17%) SharePoint
3 11 (11.11%) IIS
4 8 (8.08%) Skype for Business
5 5 (5.05%) Confluence
6 2 (2.02%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.01%) Apache
7 1 (1.01%) SAS
7 1 (1.01%) WinCC
Applications
1 13 (13.13%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (6.06%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.01%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.01%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (32.32%) Azure
3 15 (15.15%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.07%) OpenShift
4 7 (7.07%) SaaS
5 6 (6.06%) AWS
5 6 (6.06%) Nutanix
5 6 (6.06%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.02%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (2.02%) GitHub
7 2 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.01%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.01%) Cohesity
8 1 (1.01%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 30 (30.30%) DNS
2 25 (25.25%) DHCP
3 17 (17.17%) Firewall
4 12 (12.12%) VPN
5 11 (11.11%) LAN
6 9 (9.09%) SAN
7 8 (8.08%) Skype
8 6 (6.06%) WAN
9 5 (5.05%) Unified Communications
10 4 (4.04%) Internet
10 4 (4.04%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (4.04%) Wireless
11 3 (3.03%) iSCSI
11 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
11 3 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (2.02%) VSAN
13 1 (1.01%) Fibre Channel
13 1 (1.01%) FIX Connectivity
13 1 (1.01%) NAS
13 1 (1.01%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) JIRA
2 3 (3.03%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.02%) Git
General
1 27 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.11%) Finance
4 9 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Banking
6 5 (5.05%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.04%) Legal
8 2 (2.02%) Publishing
8 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.01%) Local Government
9 1 (1.01%) Marketing
9 1 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (15.15%) Support Engineer
3 9 (9.09%) Administrator
4 8 (8.08%) VMWare Administrator
4 8 (8.08%) Windows Engineer
4 8 (8.08%) Wintel Administrator
5 7 (7.07%) Desktop Support
5 7 (7.07%) Senior
5 7 (7.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Server Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (6.06%) Analyst
6 6 (6.06%) Architect
6 6 (6.06%) Desktop Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 5 (5.05%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.03%) Apache Axis
2 1 (1.01%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.01%) CSS
2 1 (1.01%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.01%) LDAP
2 1 (1.01%) SOAP
2 1 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) PKI
2 9 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (8.08%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.07%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.07%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.03%) IVR
5 3 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.02%) Clustering
6 2 (2.02%) CMDB
6 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.01%) Equities
7 1 (1.01%) Eurex
7 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.01%) IoT
7 1 (1.01%) Replication
7 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 99 (100.00%) Windows
2 86 (86.87%) Windows Server
3 45 (45.45%) Windows Server 2019
4 40 (40.40%) Windows Server 2012
5 26 (26.26%) Windows 10
6 25 (25.25%) Linux
7 10 (10.10%) CentOS
8 8 (8.08%) Android
8 8 (8.08%) Ubuntu
8 8 (8.08%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (6.06%) Windows 8
9 6 (6.06%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (6.06%) Windows XP
10 4 (4.04%) Apple iOS
10 4 (4.04%) Unix
11 2 (2.02%) Mac OS
11 2 (2.02%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (2.02%) Solaris
12 1 (1.01%) Fedora
12 1 (1.01%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.34%) ITIL
2 31 (31.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (17.17%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (14.14%) Agile
4 14 (14.14%) Patch Management
5 11 (11.11%) High Availability
5 11 (11.11%) Migration
5 11 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 8 (8.08%) Application Packaging
6 8 (8.08%) Change Control
6 8 (8.08%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 7 (7.07%) Customer Service
7 7 (7.07%) DevSecOps
8 6 (6.06%) Information Security
8 6 (6.06%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 6 (6.06%) Time Management
9 5 (5.05%) Change Management
9 5 (5.05%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (5.05%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.28%) PowerShell
2 13 (13.13%) SQL
3 6 (6.06%) Java
3 6 (6.06%) Python
4 5 (5.05%) VBScript
5 4 (4.04%) C#
6 3 (3.03%) Ruby
6 3 (3.03%) VB
7 1 (1.01%) Bash
7 1 (1.01%) Bicep
7 1 (1.01%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (40.40%) Security Cleared
2 28 (28.28%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.17%) DV Cleared
4 13 (13.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (12.12%) Degree
6 8 (8.08%) MCSE
7 7 (7.07%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (4.04%) CISSP
8 4 (4.04%) MCSA
8 4 (4.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (3.03%) HND
9 3 (3.03%) MCP
10 1 (1.01%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.01%) GIAC
10 1 (1.01%) HNC
10 1 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.10%) SLA
2 6 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.04%) QA
4 2 (2.02%) NCSC
4 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.01%) GDPR
5 1 (1.01%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 68 (68.69%) Active Directory
2 37 (37.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 19 (19.19%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (14.14%) vSphere
6 10 (10.10%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 9 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (4.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (3.03%) VMware NSX
10 2 (2.02%) BitLocker
10 2 (2.02%) Firmware
10 2 (2.02%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (1.01%) NFS
11 1 (1.01%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 20 (20.20%) WSUS
3 17 (17.17%) SCCM
4 14 (14.14%) Ansible
4 14 (14.14%) Terraform
5 8 (8.08%) Kubernetes
5 8 (8.08%) Nessus
6 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (5.05%) NetApp OnCommand
7 5 (5.05%) vMotion
8 4 (4.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (3.03%) ZABBIX
10 2 (2.02%) Nagios
10 2 (2.02%) OPNET
10 2 (2.02%) Packer
10 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.01%) Rundeck
11 1 (1.01%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 57 (57.58%) Microsoft
2 47 (47.47%) VMware
3 12 (12.12%) Citrix
4 10 (10.10%) Cisco
4 10 (10.10%) Red Hat
5 7 (7.07%) Veeam
6 6 (6.06%) HP
7 5 (5.05%) Canon
8 4 (4.04%) McAfee
8 4 (4.04%) Symantec
9 3 (3.03%) Apple
9 3 (3.03%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.03%) CheckPoint
9 3 (3.03%) Dell
9 3 (3.03%) EMC
9 3 (3.03%) NetApp
10 2 (2.02%) IBM
10 2 (2.02%) Oracle
10 2 (2.02%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.02%) Splunk