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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 443 388
Rank change year-on-year -65 -55 +93
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 71 116 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.32% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.50% 2.30% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 87 148
10th Percentile £126 £202 £239
25th Percentile £171 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £425 £436
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -2.58% +0.34%
75th Percentile £558 £608 £500
90th Percentile £586 £675 £577
UK excluding London median daily rate £196 £425 £420
% change year-on-year -54.00% +1.19% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £31.28
25th Percentile £16.25 - £48.40
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £54.56
75th Percentile £18.75 - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £75.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 - £54.56
% change year-on-year - - +40.80%

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 4,728 5,052 6,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.23% 14.04% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,049 3,083 4,692
10th Percentile £180 £200 £182
25th Percentile £263 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.05%
75th Percentile £563 £583 £607
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £440 £440
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 206 345
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.13 £14.66
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +66.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £55.58 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £51.25 £27.25
% change year-on-year -51.22% +88.07% +21.11%

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 1 December 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 13 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 1 December 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 -56 62 £413 -12.23% 45
UK excluding London -83 44 £196 -54.00% 37
Work from Home -11 21 £375 -18.48% 6
London +8 20 £538 +53.57% 12
South East -33 18 £395 -31.30% 16
East of England -6 14 £149 -33.52% 10
South West +4 8 £475 +1.06% 4
Scotland -1 1 £163 -18.75%
Wales -10 1 £550 +43.79% 1
East Midlands -12 1 - - 3
North West -25 1 - - 2
Midlands -36 1 - - 4
North of England -51 1 - - 6

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 18 (25.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.63%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (4.23%) LiveLink
3 3 (4.23%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (21.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.13%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (16.90%) Azure
3 4 (5.63%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.63%) GitHub
3 4 (5.63%) Nutanix
4 3 (4.23%) AWS
4 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.41%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.41%) IaaS
5 1 (1.41%) OCI
5 1 (1.41%) PaaS
5 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (33.80%) DNS
2 16 (22.54%) TCP/IP
3 15 (21.13%) VPN
4 14 (19.72%) DHCP
5 11 (15.49%) Firewall
5 11 (15.49%) LAN
6 10 (14.08%) SAN
7 9 (12.68%) WAN
8 5 (7.04%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (5.63%) Skype
10 3 (4.23%) Kerberos
10 3 (4.23%) VSAN
11 1 (1.41%) BGP
11 1 (1.41%) Internet
11 1 (1.41%) MPLS
11 1 (1.41%) OSPF
11 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.41%) SSL
11 1 (1.41%) VLAN
11 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) Oracle Database
2 11 (15.49%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (11.27%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.63%) EDRMS
5 3 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) GitLab
2 2 (2.82%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.04%) Law
3 5 (7.04%) Legal
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Finance
6 2 (2.82%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.82%) Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Back Office
7 1 (1.41%) Front Office
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) IT Support
2 13 (18.31%) Analyst
2 13 (18.31%) Support Analyst
3 11 (15.49%) Technical Analyst
3 11 (15.49%) Technical Support
3 11 (15.49%) Technical Support Analyst
4 8 (11.27%) Developer
5 7 (9.86%) IT Analyst
5 7 (9.86%) IT Support Analyst
6 6 (8.45%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (8.45%) Architect
6 6 (8.45%) Help Desk Support
6 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior
7 5 (7.04%) Administrator
7 5 (7.04%) Help Desk Officer
7 5 (7.04%) Service Desk Officer
7 5 (7.04%) Service Desk Support
7 5 (7.04%) Support Officer
7 5 (7.04%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) REST
2 3 (4.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.41%) Middleware
3 1 (1.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) PKI
2 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (4.23%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.23%) Replication
4 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.41%) FMCG
5 1 (1.41%) NHS
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (90.14%) Windows
2 31 (43.66%) Windows 10
3 30 (42.25%) Windows Server
3 30 (42.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 22 (30.99%) Linux
5 15 (21.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (16.90%) Windows 7
7 11 (15.49%) AIX
7 11 (15.49%) Windows Server 2003
8 10 (14.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (11.27%) Ubuntu
10 5 (7.04%) Debian
11 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (1.41%) Android
12 1 (1.41%) CentOS
12 1 (1.41%) Unix
12 1 (1.41%) VMS
12 1 (1.41%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.94%) ITIL
2 16 (22.54%) Migration
3 14 (19.72%) Proactive Monitoring
4 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.90%) Agile
6 8 (11.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (8.45%) Customer Service
8 6 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (7.04%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 5 (7.04%) CRM
9 5 (7.04%) Data Migration
9 5 (7.04%) Data Modelling
9 5 (7.04%) DevOps
9 5 (7.04%) High Availability
9 5 (7.04%) Preventative Maintenance
9 5 (7.04%) PRINCE2
9 5 (7.04%) Server Management
10 4 (5.63%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.68%) SQL
3 7 (9.86%) Java
4 5 (7.04%) Python
5 4 (5.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.31%) Degree
4 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) CCA
6 1 (1.41%) CCNA
6 1 (1.41%) CCNP
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.41%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (36.62%) Active Directory
2 18 (25.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (18.31%) Hyper-V
4 9 (12.68%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (7.04%) Terminal Services
5 5 (7.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (7.04%) VMware NSX
6 4 (5.63%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.63%) vSphere
7 2 (2.82%) Docker
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.41%) XenApp
8 1 (1.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) vCenter Server
2 5 (7.04%) SCCM
3 4 (5.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.63%) NetBackup
3 4 (5.63%) Terraform
4 3 (4.23%) Ansible
4 3 (4.23%) WSUS
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (2.82%) VxRail
6 1 (1.41%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (1.41%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.41%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 33 (46.48%) Microsoft
2 28 (39.44%) VMware
3 20 (28.17%) Citrix
3 20 (28.17%) Oracle
4 10 (14.08%) Red Hat
5 9 (12.68%) Veeam
6 7 (9.86%) Cisco
7 6 (8.45%) IBM
7 6 (8.45%) NetApp
8 4 (5.63%) 3PAR
8 4 (5.63%) HP
8 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.63%) SolarWinds
8 4 (5.63%) Veritas
9 3 (4.23%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (2.82%) Dell
10 2 (2.82%) OpenText
11 1 (1.41%) EMC
11 1 (1.41%) Juniper
11 1 (1.41%) Symantec