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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 425 377
Rank change year-on-year -137 -48 +38
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 75 99 224
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.34% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.60% 2.42% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 69 174
10th Percentile £161 £208 £203
25th Percentile £406 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £597
90th Percentile £640 £613 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £552
% change year-on-year +8.82% -23.01% +12.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.50
Median hourly rate - - £61.60
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £61.60
% change year-on-year - - +60.00%

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 4,683 4,093 5,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.83% 13.96% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,035 2,689 3,886
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £320 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -6.84%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £588
90th Percentile £655 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £432 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -3.94% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 184 394
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.15 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.09 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% +9.13% -42.66%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.88 £22.50
% change year-on-year +107.65% +1.67% -24.11%

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 6 May 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 16 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 6 May 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 -117 64 £463 +2.78% 33
UK excluding London -133 47 £463 +8.82% 28
London -46 21 £475 +18.75% 12
Work from Home -46 14 £488 +31.76% 13
East of England -26 11 £173 -68.64% 2
South East -60 11 £600 +14.29% 14
Midlands -65 10 £450 +12.50% 3
East Midlands - 8 £450 - 1
North of England -78 6 £300 -14.29% 5
South West -41 4 £508 -13.62% 1
Yorkshire -56 3 £344 -8.39%
North West -61 3 £300 -14.29% 4
Scotland -3 2 £319 +59.38% 4
Wales -19 2 £546 +49.66%
West Midlands -59 2 £450 +12.50% 2
Northern Ireland -1 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 12 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (9.33%) nginx
2 7 (9.33%) SharePoint
2 7 (9.33%) Tomcat
3 4 (5.33%) IIS
3 4 (5.33%) WebLogic
4 3 (4.00%) Apache
4 3 (4.00%) SAS
5 2 (2.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (29.33%) Azure
3 10 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.67%) AWS
4 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.67%) GCP
4 2 (2.67%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.33%) MinIO
5 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.00%) DHCP
2 17 (22.67%) DNS
3 10 (13.33%) Firewall
4 7 (9.33%) HTTP
5 6 (8.00%) SAN
5 6 (8.00%) WAN
6 5 (6.67%) LAN
6 5 (6.67%) NetScaler
7 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
8 3 (4.00%) BIG-IP
8 3 (4.00%) Kerberos
8 3 (4.00%) VPN
8 3 (4.00%) VSAN
9 2 (2.67%) Skype
9 2 (2.67%) VLAN
10 1 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (1.33%) DSL
10 1 (1.33%) Internet
10 1 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.33%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (9.33%) Oracle Database
3 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.00%) GIS
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.33%) DTS
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.33%) Power BI
6 1 (1.33%) Power Query
6 1 (1.33%) QlikView
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) AdminStudio
1 2 (2.67%) InstallShield
1 2 (2.67%) MSI
2 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.33%) Finance
4 3 (4.00%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Back Office
6 1 (1.33%) Electronics
6 1 (1.33%) Front Office
6 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Legal
6 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Publishing
6 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (14.67%) Architect
3 10 (13.33%) Analyst
4 9 (12.00%) Support Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (9.33%) Senior
6 7 (9.33%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (9.33%) Technical Support
6 7 (9.33%) Technical Support Analyst
7 6 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (6.67%) Administrator
8 5 (6.67%) Citrix Support
9 4 (5.33%) IT Support
9 4 (5.33%) Lead
9 4 (5.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Lead Architect
10 3 (4.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (4.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) EJB
1 4 (5.33%) JSP
2 3 (4.00%) Java SE
2 3 (4.00%) JSON
2 3 (4.00%) Middleware
2 3 (4.00%) OpenLayers
3 2 (2.67%) ADO
3 2 (2.67%) LDAP
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.33%) Java EE
4 1 (1.33%) JavaBeans
4 1 (1.33%) JDBC
4 1 (1.33%) ODBC
4 1 (1.33%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Client/Server
1 7 (9.33%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.33%) Clustering
3 4 (5.33%) PKI
4 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.00%) Replication
4 3 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) iPhone
6 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 75 (100.00%) Windows
2 60 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 39 (52.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 23 (30.67%) Linux
5 16 (21.33%) Windows 10
6 12 (16.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (14.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (12.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (10.67%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (9.33%) Solaris
10 7 (9.33%) Windows 7
11 6 (8.00%) Ubuntu
12 2 (2.67%) AIX
13 1 (1.33%) Android
13 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
13 1 (1.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (17.33%) ITIL
3 12 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (13.33%) Migration
5 8 (10.67%) Change Management
6 7 (9.33%) CI/CD
6 7 (9.33%) DevOps
6 7 (9.33%) ETL
6 7 (9.33%) ITSM
6 7 (9.33%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (9.33%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (8.00%) Agile
7 6 (8.00%) High Availability
7 6 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (8.00%) Refactoring
7 6 (8.00%) Test Automation
8 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.67%) PowerShell
2 15 (20.00%) SQL
3 6 (8.00%) Java
3 6 (8.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (5.33%) Python
5 1 (1.33%) Bicep
5 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (38.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.67%) Degree
4 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.67%) CCA
5 5 (6.67%) Citrix Certification
5 5 (6.67%) MCSE
5 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) QA
1 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (49.33%) Active Directory
2 31 (41.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (18.67%) Hyper-V
3 14 (18.67%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (17.33%) vSphere
5 9 (12.00%) Docker
6 8 (10.67%) VMware NSX
7 7 (9.33%) XenApp
7 7 (9.33%) XenDesktop
8 5 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (5.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (2.67%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (28.00%) SCCM
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (8.00%) WSUS
4 5 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (6.67%) SCVMM
4 5 (6.67%) vCenter Server
5 4 (5.33%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (5.33%) Terraform
6 3 (4.00%) Ansible
6 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (2.67%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (2.67%) SCOM
8 1 (1.33%) Kibana
8 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.33%) logstash
8 1 (1.33%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.33%) vMotion
8 1 (1.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (57.33%) Microsoft
2 39 (52.00%) VMware
3 14 (18.67%) Citrix
4 13 (17.33%) Oracle
5 10 (13.33%) Red Hat
6 9 (12.00%) IBM
7 7 (9.33%) Veeam
8 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.00%) Dell
9 3 (4.00%) F5
9 3 (4.00%) NetApp
9 3 (4.00%) NVIDIA
10 2 (2.67%) Cisco
10 2 (2.67%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.67%) HP
10 2 (2.67%) McAfee
10 2 (2.67%) Veritas
11 1 (1.33%) Google
11 1 (1.33%) Infoblox
11 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds