Windows Server 2016 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 395 414
Rank change year-on-year -57 +19 +74
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 97 181 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.20% 3.31% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 142 172
10th Percentile £170 £200 £223
25th Percentile £350 £262 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% +4.44% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £575
90th Percentile £588 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 £420
% change year-on-year +12.82% +16.07% +29.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - - £23.30
25th Percentile - - £27.00
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year - +23.87% +148.65%
75th Percentile - - £56.03
90th Percentile - - £58.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £61.60 £49.73
% change year-on-year - +23.87% +148.65%

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 4,400 5,467 8,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.35% 13.95% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,827 3,629 5,711
10th Percentile £200 £200 £188
25th Percentile £313 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £626
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £473 £450
% change year-on-year -4.91% +5.17% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 337 381
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.47 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.69 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -35.29% +88.89%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £67.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.53 £39.25 £29.30
% change year-on-year -42.60% +33.96% +46.50%

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 5 August 2025.

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 15 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 5 August 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 -47 85 £550 +10.00% 63
UK excluding London -37 79 £550 +12.82% 53
East of England +25 26 £550 +34.97% 7
South East -13 24 £500 -17.36% 14
London -36 14 £400 +14.29% 13
Work from Home -18 13 £530 +6.00% 24
North of England -21 10 £350 +16.67% 6
North West -2 9 £338 +50.00% 4
South West +25 7 £575 +22.34% 14
Midlands -18 6 £400 +14.29% 12
West Midlands -7 5 £400 +14.29% 6
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
Scotland -10 3 £166 -14.74% 1
East Midlands -11 1 - - 5
Yorkshire -13 1 £400 +14.29% 2

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 (17.53%) SharePoint
2 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.15%) Skype for Business
4 3 (3.09%) IIS
5 2 (2.06%) Confluence
6 1 (1.03%) Apache
6 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.03%) WinCC
Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (5.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.74%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (20.62%) Cohesity
3 9 (9.28%) Azure
4 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.12%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.06%) AWS
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 41 (42.27%) DNS
2 32 (32.99%) SAN
3 16 (16.49%) Firewall
4 13 (13.40%) DHCP
5 11 (11.34%) VPN
6 10 (10.31%) TCP/IP
7 8 (8.25%) LAN
8 5 (5.15%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (5.15%) Skype
9 4 (4.12%) Unified Communications
9 4 (4.12%) VSAN
10 3 (3.09%) WAN
11 1 (1.03%) BGP
11 1 (1.03%) Modbus
11 1 (1.03%) MPLS
11 1 (1.03%) OSPF
11 1 (1.03%) Profibus
11 1 (1.03%) SSL
11 1 (1.03%) VLAN
11 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.03%) Git
General
1 20 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.28%) Finance
4 8 (8.25%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.22%) Legal
6 5 (5.15%) Law
6 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Banking
7 3 (3.09%) Military
8 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.03%) Local Government
9 1 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (15.46%) IT Support
2 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (11.34%) Support Engineer
3 10 (10.31%) Support Officer
4 8 (8.25%) Wintel Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) Administrator
6 6 (6.19%) Desktop Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Desktop Support
6 6 (6.19%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Help Desk Support
7 5 (5.15%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.15%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Developer
7 5 (5.15%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Technical Support
7 5 (5.15%) Technical Support Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) Apache Axis
2 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.03%) LDAP
2 1 (1.03%) SOAP
2 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) PKI
2 6 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.06%) CMDB
5 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.06%) Replication
6 1 (1.03%) CCTV
6 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.03%) SCADA
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 96 (98.97%) Windows
2 77 (79.38%) Windows Server
3 50 (51.55%) Windows Server 2019
4 29 (29.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 27 (27.84%) Windows 10
6 20 (20.62%) Linux
7 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (8.25%) Ubuntu
9 6 (6.19%) Windows 7
9 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (5.15%) AIX
10 5 (5.15%) Debian
10 5 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (5.15%) Windows 8
10 5 (5.15%) Windows XP
11 3 (3.09%) CentOS
11 3 (3.09%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (3.09%) Solaris
11 3 (3.09%) Unix
12 1 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) ITIL
2 22 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (22.68%) SIEM
3 20 (20.62%) Build Automation
3 20 (20.62%) Deployment Automation
3 20 (20.62%) Operations Management
4 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (11.34%) Patch Management
6 8 (8.25%) Agile
6 8 (8.25%) Project Delivery
6 8 (8.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (7.22%) Asset Management
7 7 (7.22%) Mentoring
7 7 (7.22%) Proactive Monitoring
7 7 (7.22%) Time Management
8 6 (6.19%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 5 (5.15%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (5.15%) High Availability
9 5 (5.15%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 5 (5.15%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.05%) PowerShell
2 12 (12.37%) SQL
3 8 (8.25%) Python
4 5 (5.15%) Java
5 4 (4.12%) C#
5 4 (4.12%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.09%) Ruby
7 1 (1.03%) Bicep
7 1 (1.03%) VB
7 1 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (52.58%) Security Cleared
2 34 (35.05%) DV Cleared
3 25 (25.77%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.28%) Degree
5 7 (7.22%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.15%) HND
7 4 (4.12%) CISSP
8 3 (3.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (2.06%) DBS Check
9 2 (2.06%) MCSE
9 2 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.03%) CCNA
10 1 (1.03%) CCNP
10 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.03%) GIAC
10 1 (1.03%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) GDPR
1 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.12%) QA
3 3 (3.09%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.03%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 64 (65.98%) Active Directory
2 40 (41.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (25.77%) Virtual Servers
4 24 (24.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 22 (22.68%) Hyper-V
6 10 (10.31%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (9.28%) vSphere
8 6 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (5.15%) Terminal Services
10 2 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (1.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (30.93%) WSUS
2 28 (28.87%) SCCM
3 21 (21.65%) Ansible
4 9 (9.28%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.12%) NetBackup
5 4 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.09%) VxRail
7 2 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.06%) NetApp OnCommand
7 2 (2.06%) vMotion
8 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.03%) SCOM
8 1 (1.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 60 (61.86%) Microsoft
2 53 (54.64%) VMware
3 25 (25.77%) NetApp
4 21 (21.65%) Splunk
5 16 (16.49%) Red Hat
6 13 (13.40%) Citrix
7 9 (9.28%) Oracle
8 6 (6.19%) Veeam
9 5 (5.15%) Canon
9 5 (5.15%) HP
10 4 (4.12%) 3PAR
10 4 (4.12%) Veritas
11 3 (3.09%) Nimble Storage
12 2 (2.06%) Atlassian
12 2 (2.06%) Cisco
12 2 (2.06%) Dell
12 2 (2.06%) EMC
12 2 (2.06%) Remedy
12 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
13 1 (1.03%) Juniper