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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 406 416
Rank change year-on-year -60 +10 +76
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 91 156 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.41% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.08% 2.89% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 121 151
10th Percentile £158 £200 £223
25th Percentile £313 £262 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.65% - +3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £530
90th Percentile - - £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +22.22% +12.43% +7.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £27.00
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate - - £52.87
75th Percentile - - £59.95
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.87
% change year-on-year - - +164.33%

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 4,383 5,402 7,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.50% 14.16% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,798 3,476 5,281
10th Percentile £190 £200 £186
25th Percentile £300 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £625
90th Percentile £675 £684 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.22% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 274 375
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.53 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.07 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.93% +3.68% +98.66%
75th Percentile £58.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £77.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -52.10% +14.43% +108.55%

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
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 15 September 2025.

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 14 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 15 September 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 -44 80 £550 +17.02% 33
UK excluding London -35 73 £550 +22.22% 32
East of England +22 25 £550 +129.17% 2
South East -7 25 £513 -15.29% 13
Work from Home -9 15 £500 - 9
London -10 13 £250 -28.57% 10
North West -9 7 £325 +36.84% 2
North of England -26 7 £325 -7.14% 3
South West +26 6 £563 +19.68% 9
Midlands -15 6 £400 +30.08% 2
West Midlands -11 5 £400 +142.42%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
East Midlands -5 1 - - 2
Scotland -12 1 £163 -14.47% 3

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 (18.68%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.20%) IIS
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (2.20%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.10%) Confluence
4 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (5.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.98%) Cohesity
2 10 (10.99%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (6.59%) Azure
4 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.20%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.10%) GitHub
6 1 (1.10%) IaaS
6 1 (1.10%) PaaS
6 1 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (50.55%) DNS
2 30 (32.97%) SAN
3 18 (19.78%) DHCP
3 18 (19.78%) VPN
4 17 (18.68%) Firewall
5 16 (17.58%) TCP/IP
6 14 (15.38%) LAN
7 9 (9.89%) WAN
8 5 (5.49%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (4.40%) Skype
9 4 (4.40%) VSAN
10 1 (1.10%) BGP
10 1 (1.10%) Internet
10 1 (1.10%) MPLS
10 1 (1.10%) NAS
10 1 (1.10%) Network Security
10 1 (1.10%) OSPF
10 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.10%) SSL
10 1 (1.10%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) JIRA
2 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.10%) Git
General
1 25 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.79%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.49%) Law
4 5 (5.49%) Legal
4 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Military
6 2 (2.20%) Finance
6 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Back Office
7 1 (1.10%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 21 (23.08%) IT Support
2 11 (12.09%) 2nd Line Support
3 10 (10.99%) Support Officer
4 8 (8.79%) Support Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Administrator
6 6 (6.59%) Desktop Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Desktop Support
6 6 (6.59%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Help Desk Support
6 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Wintel Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Help Desk Officer
7 5 (5.49%) IT Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) Service Desk Officer
7 5 (5.49%) Service Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) Apache Axis
2 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.10%) Middleware
2 1 (1.10%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) PKI
2 6 (6.59%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.20%) Replication
5 1 (1.10%) CCTV
5 1 (1.10%) CMDB
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.10%) FMCG
5 1 (1.10%) NHS
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 90 (98.90%) Windows
2 66 (72.53%) Windows Server
3 51 (56.04%) Windows Server 2019
4 29 (31.87%) Windows 10
5 27 (29.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 19 (20.88%) Linux
7 10 (10.99%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (8.79%) Ubuntu
9 6 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (6.59%) Windows 7
9 6 (6.59%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (5.49%) AIX
10 5 (5.49%) Debian
10 5 (5.49%) Windows 8
10 5 (5.49%) Windows XP
11 3 (3.30%) CentOS
11 3 (3.30%) Solaris
12 2 (2.20%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (1.10%) Unix
13 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.16%) ITIL
2 22 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (23.08%) SIEM
4 20 (21.98%) Build Automation
4 20 (21.98%) Deployment Automation
4 20 (21.98%) Operations Management
5 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (12.09%) Patch Management
6 10 (10.99%) Agile
6 10 (10.99%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (7.69%) Asset Management
7 7 (7.69%) Mentoring
7 7 (7.69%) Migration
7 7 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
7 7 (7.69%) Project Delivery
7 7 (7.69%) Time Management
8 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 5 (5.49%) CRM
9 5 (5.49%) PRINCE2
9 5 (5.49%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.16%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.99%) SQL
3 8 (8.79%) Python
4 5 (5.49%) Java
5 4 (4.40%) C#
5 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.30%) Ruby
7 1 (1.10%) Bicep
7 1 (1.10%) VB
7 1 (1.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (54.95%) Security Cleared
2 29 (31.87%) DV Cleared
3 27 (29.67%) SC Cleared
4 13 (14.29%) Degree
5 7 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (5.49%) HND
6 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.40%) CISSP
8 3 (3.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (2.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.10%) CCNA
10 1 (1.10%) CCNP
10 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.10%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.49%) GDPR
3 4 (4.40%) QA
4 2 (2.20%) SLA
5 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (62.64%) Active Directory
2 36 (39.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (24.18%) Virtual Servers
4 21 (23.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 18 (19.78%) Hyper-V
6 7 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (7.69%) vSphere
7 5 (5.49%) Terminal Services
8 3 (3.30%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (30.77%) SCCM
2 25 (27.47%) WSUS
3 20 (21.98%) Ansible
4 8 (8.79%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.40%) NetBackup
5 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.30%) VxRail
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (2.20%) NetApp OnCommand
7 2 (2.20%) vMotion
8 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.10%) SCOM
8 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (59.34%) Microsoft
2 49 (53.85%) VMware
3 23 (25.27%) NetApp
4 20 (21.98%) Splunk
5 15 (16.48%) Red Hat
6 12 (13.19%) Citrix
7 9 (9.89%) Oracle
8 5 (5.49%) Canon
9 4 (4.40%) 3PAR
9 4 (4.40%) Cisco
9 4 (4.40%) HP
9 4 (4.40%) Veeam
9 4 (4.40%) Veritas
10 3 (3.30%) Dell
10 3 (3.30%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (2.20%) Remedy
11 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
12 1 (1.10%) EMC
12 1 (1.10%) Juniper