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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 466 427
Rank change year-on-year -181 -39 -25
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 46 85 143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.86% 1.92% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 60 110
10th Percentile £372 £156 £202
25th Percentile £413 £322 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £545 £431
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +26.38% +1.47%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £608
90th Percentile £555 - £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.75 - -
Median hourly rate £16.50 - -
75th Percentile £17.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.50 - -

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 5,354 4,419 5,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 13.55% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,381 2,820 3,321
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £280 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £662 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 295 255
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £16.10
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -52.10% +19.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £69.22
90th Percentile £74.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.29 £25.15 £56.20
% change year-on-year +28.39% -55.25% +32.23%

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 29 September 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 15 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 29 September 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 -172 36 £450 -18.18% 42
UK excluding London -139 26 £450 -18.18% 31
Work from Home -56 18 £450 -14.29% 14
London -88 17 £450 -16.28% 8
Midlands -36 7 £450 - 4
East Midlands -13 5 £450 - 1
North of England -73 5 £381 +17.31% 9
East of England -48 4 - - 1
Wales - 4 £425 -
North West -51 3 £450 +38.46% 9
South East -87 3 £475 -9.82% 15
Scotland -25 2 £500 +207.69% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £313 -
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
Northern Ireland -1 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 11 (23.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.52%) IIS
4 2 (4.35%) nginx
4 2 (4.35%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.17%) Confluence
5 1 (2.17%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) Entra ID
3 7 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) AWS
6 3 (6.52%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub
7 2 (4.35%) IaaS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.17%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) DNS
2 11 (23.91%) DHCP
3 4 (8.70%) Firewall
3 4 (8.70%) VPN
4 3 (6.52%) SAN
5 2 (4.35%) HTTP
5 2 (4.35%) LAN
5 2 (4.35%) Network Security
5 2 (4.35%) Skype
5 2 (4.35%) WAN
6 1 (2.17%) BGP
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.17%) DSL
6 1 (2.17%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.17%) MPLS
6 1 (2.17%) NAS
6 1 (2.17%) OSPF
6 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.17%) DTS
3 1 (2.17%) GIS
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) AdminStudio
1 2 (4.35%) GitLab
1 2 (4.35%) InstallShield
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.35%) MSI
General
1 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Consultant
2 6 (13.04%) Senior
3 4 (8.70%) Administrator
3 4 (8.70%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Active Directory Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Applications Support
5 2 (4.35%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Citrix Administrator
5 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Server Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Terraform
2 5 (10.87%) JSON
2 5 (10.87%) LDAP
3 2 (4.35%) ADO
3 2 (4.35%) EJB
3 2 (4.35%) JSP
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (4.35%) Middleware
4 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.17%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (2.17%) Java SE
4 1 (2.17%) JavaBeans
4 1 (2.17%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) PKI
2 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.70%) Clustering
3 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.52%) Replication
4 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.17%) CMDB
6 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (95.65%) Windows
2 42 (91.30%) Windows Server
3 24 (52.17%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (30.43%) Linux
5 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (4.35%) Solaris
9 1 (2.17%) CentOS
9 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (2.17%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (2.17%) Unix
9 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (26.09%) ITIL
3 10 (21.74%) Migration
4 9 (19.57%) DevOps
4 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (17.39%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 7 (15.22%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (13.04%) High Availability
7 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
7 6 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
8 5 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (10.87%) Server Migrations
9 4 (8.70%) ITSM
9 4 (8.70%) Mentoring
9 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (8.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.52%) Python
2 3 (6.52%) SQL
3 2 (4.35%) Bash
3 2 (4.35%) Go
3 2 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (2.17%) Bicep
4 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) Degree
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.35%) MCSE
6 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.17%) CCNA
7 1 (2.17%) CCNP
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.17%) NCSC
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (69.57%) Active Directory
2 18 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (19.57%) Hyper-V
4 6 (13.04%) vSphere
5 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (8.70%) Docker
6 4 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (4.35%) XenApp
7 2 (4.35%) XenDesktop
8 1 (2.17%) Firmware
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (2.17%) Terminal Services
8 1 (2.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) SCCM
2 6 (13.04%) WSUS
3 4 (8.70%) Ansible
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.52%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (6.52%) Kibana
4 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.35%) Nagios
5 2 (4.35%) SCOM
5 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (2.17%) Grafana
6 1 (2.17%) logstash
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.17%) SCVMM
6 1 (2.17%) vMotion
6 1 (2.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 33 (71.74%) Microsoft
2 22 (47.83%) VMware
3 8 (17.39%) Citrix
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle
5 3 (6.52%) Splunk
6 2 (4.35%) Commvault
6 2 (4.35%) IBM
6 2 (4.35%) Meraki
6 2 (4.35%) NetApp
6 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.17%) ForeScout
7 1 (2.17%) Juniper
7 1 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.17%) Okta
7 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.17%) Sybase
7 1 (2.17%) Zscaler