Windows Server 2016 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2016 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 420 491
Rank change year-on-year +48 +71 -80
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 220 296 413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.82% 3.24% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 216 292
10th Percentile £200 £189 £159
25th Percentile £294 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £423
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +19.53% +5.63%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £503
90th Percentile - £700 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £490 £325
% change year-on-year +12.24% +50.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile - £22.12 £15.80
25th Percentile £56.50 £26.48 £16.24
Median hourly rate £61.60 £32.49 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.60% +62.45% -52.76%
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - £60.81 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £32.49 £20.00
% change year-on-year +89.60% +62.45% -

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2016 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,755 9,141 13,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.46% 16.11% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,897 6,372 8,891
10th Percentile £185 £189 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £717 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.41% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 393 583
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.79 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% +56.25% +21.21%

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 27 May 2024.

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 16 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 27 May 2024. 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 +55 195 £538 +3.61% 131
UK excluding London +22 156 £550 +12.24% 110
South East +70 84 £575 +15.00% 42
Work from Home +94 67 £425 -10.53% 48
London +64 56 £356 -29.46% 33
North of England +31 19 £363 -3.33% 19
Midlands +26 17 £350 +55.56% 16
Scotland +26 14 £325 +92.59% 3
West Midlands +23 13 £350 +27.27% 8
Yorkshire +21 11 £375 +7.14% 14
East of England -8 10 £588 -16.07% 19
South West -35 8 £220 -60.00% 13
North West +25 6 £250 -51.81% 2
Wales +17 4 £220 -53.19%
East Midlands +13 3 £475 +113.00% 8
North East +12 2 £350 +154.55% 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 67 (30.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (9.55%) SharePoint
3 15 (6.82%) IIS
4 4 (1.82%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.36%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.91%) WordPress
7 1 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.91%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.45%) assyst
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 85 (38.64%) Azure
2 74 (33.64%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (19.09%) Entra ID
4 21 (9.55%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (8.64%) Azure Storage
6 16 (7.27%) OneDrive
7 15 (6.82%) OCI
8 8 (3.64%) WhatsApp
9 7 (3.18%) AWS
9 7 (3.18%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.73%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.73%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.82%) IaaS
12 2 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.91%) GitHub
12 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
13 1 (0.45%) Azure AKS
13 1 (0.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 1 (0.45%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 77 (35.00%) Firewall
2 60 (27.27%) DNS
3 52 (23.64%) DHCP
4 38 (17.27%) SAN
5 10 (4.55%) LAN
5 10 (4.55%) Unified Communications
5 10 (4.55%) VPN
6 9 (4.09%) WAN
7 7 (3.18%) NAS
7 7 (3.18%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.27%) VLAN
8 5 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (2.27%) Wireless
9 4 (1.82%) Network Security
10 3 (1.36%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (1.36%) Skype
11 2 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.91%) Internet
11 2 (0.91%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.91%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (20.91%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.18%) Power BI
3 5 (2.27%) MySQL
4 4 (1.82%) Big Data
4 4 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.82%) JIRA
2 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.45%) GitLab
4 1 (0.45%) Gradle
4 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 89 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.45%) Public Sector
3 27 (12.27%) Finance
4 11 (5.00%) Banking
5 7 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.36%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.91%) Back Office
8 2 (0.91%) Law
8 2 (0.91%) Retail
9 1 (0.45%) French Language
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Local Government
9 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (26.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (15.91%) Support Engineer
3 25 (11.36%) Windows Engineer
4 18 (8.18%) Active Directory Support
4 18 (8.18%) Build Engineer
4 18 (8.18%) Windows Build Engineer
5 16 (7.27%) Analyst
5 16 (7.27%) Support Analyst
6 15 (6.82%) Administrator
7 14 (6.36%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (6.36%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (6.36%) Support Specialist
8 13 (5.91%) Server Engineer
8 13 (5.91%) Wintel Engineer
9 12 (5.45%) Applications Engineer
9 12 (5.45%) Senior
10 11 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
11 10 (4.55%) IT Support
11 10 (4.55%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.18%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.73%) Itk
3 5 (2.27%) CSS
3 5 (2.27%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (2.27%) HTML
3 5 (2.27%) HTML5
4 3 (1.36%) Web Services
5 2 (0.91%) LAMP
5 2 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.91%) REST
6 1 (0.45%) jQuery
6 1 (0.45%) JSON
6 1 (0.45%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.45%) LDAP
6 1 (0.45%) Node.js
6 1 (0.45%) RESTful
6 1 (0.45%) SOAP
6 1 (0.45%) Spring
6 1 (0.45%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.00%) PKI
2 29 (13.18%) Data Centre
3 22 (10.00%) Replication
4 20 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (5.00%) Clustering
5 11 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.73%) Digital Signage
6 6 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.82%) iPad
8 2 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.91%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.91%) IoT
8 2 (0.91%) iPhone
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.45%) CCTV
9 1 (0.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 210 (95.45%) Windows
2 163 (74.09%) Windows Server
3 143 (65.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 95 (43.18%) Windows Server 2012
5 70 (31.82%) Windows 10
6 64 (29.09%) Linux
7 24 (10.91%) Windows Server 2008
8 18 (8.18%) Windows NT
9 14 (6.36%) Windows XP
10 11 (5.00%) CentOS
11 7 (3.18%) VMS
11 7 (3.18%) Windows 7
11 7 (3.18%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (2.73%) Debian
12 6 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (1.82%) Unix
14 3 (1.36%) Android
14 3 (1.36%) Mac OS
14 3 (1.36%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (39.09%) ITIL
2 63 (28.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (18.64%) Migration
3 41 (18.64%) Service Management
4 38 (17.27%) Release Management
5 37 (16.82%) Customer Service
5 37 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (14.09%) Disaster Recovery
7 24 (10.91%) DevOps
7 24 (10.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 22 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (9.55%) Analytics
9 21 (9.55%) CI/CD
9 21 (9.55%) Server Management
10 20 (9.09%) Agile
10 20 (9.09%) Identity Management
11 19 (8.64%) Log Analytics
12 18 (8.18%) Deployment Automation
12 18 (8.18%) RBAC
12 18 (8.18%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 32 (14.55%) SQL
3 20 (9.09%) VBScript
4 18 (8.18%) Bicep
4 18 (8.18%) C#
4 18 (8.18%) VB
5 8 (3.64%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.73%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.27%) Bash
7 5 (2.27%) PHP
7 5 (2.27%) Python
8 4 (1.82%) C
8 4 (1.82%) C++
8 4 (1.82%) Java
9 3 (1.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (40.45%) Security Cleared
2 83 (37.73%) DV Cleared
3 42 (19.09%) Degree
4 35 (15.91%) SC Cleared
5 18 (8.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (6.36%) CCNA
6 14 (6.36%) CCNP
6 14 (6.36%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.18%) MCSA
9 6 (2.73%) MCSE
9 6 (2.73%) RHCT
10 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.64%) QA
2 6 (2.73%) SLA
3 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.91%) NIST
4 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 171 (77.73%) Active Directory
2 57 (25.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (19.09%) Hyper-V
4 27 (12.27%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (10.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 23 (10.45%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (8.18%) Firmware
7 10 (4.55%) vSphere
8 6 (2.73%) KVM
8 6 (2.73%) XenApp
9 3 (1.36%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.36%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.91%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.45%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 1 (0.45%) Docker
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 95 (43.18%) SCCM
2 57 (25.91%) WSUS
3 41 (18.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 41 (18.64%) SCOM
4 30 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (8.64%) Kubernetes
6 18 (8.18%) Sysprep
6 18 (8.18%) vCenter Server
7 15 (6.82%) NetBackup
8 14 (6.36%) EMC NetWorker
9 10 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (2.27%) Nessus
12 3 (1.36%) Ansible
12 3 (1.36%) Kibana
12 3 (1.36%) Packer
12 3 (1.36%) SCVMM
12 3 (1.36%) Terraform
13 2 (0.91%) logstash
13 2 (0.91%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 129 (58.64%) Microsoft
2 64 (29.09%) VMware
3 35 (15.91%) HP
4 34 (15.45%) Cisco
4 34 (15.45%) Veeam
5 32 (14.55%) Citrix
6 28 (12.73%) EMC
7 25 (11.36%) Oracle
8 20 (9.09%) Dell
9 19 (8.64%) Juniper
10 18 (8.18%) Red Hat
11 17 (7.73%) Symantec
12 16 (7.27%) Palo Alto
13 15 (6.82%) 3PAR
14 14 (6.36%) Avaya
14 14 (6.36%) Extreme Networks
15 11 (5.00%) CheckPoint
16 7 (3.18%) ServiceNow
17 6 (2.73%) Aruba
17 6 (2.73%) Commvault