Windows Server 2016 Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 99 128
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 +35
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 5 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 0.62% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.73% 4.90% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 9
10th Percentile - £206 £182
25th Percentile £300 £328 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £275
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £450 £363 £363
90th Percentile - £940 £384
England median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 183 245 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.61% 12.58% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 163 275
10th Percentile £147 £182 £170
25th Percentile £190 £250 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £559
90th Percentile £653 £695 £694
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 9
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.83 £14.71
25th Percentile £16.67 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £16.94
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +32.86% +2.64%
75th Percentile £19.01 £23.75 £18.50
90th Percentile £20.00 £48.13 £25.75
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Windows Server 2016 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the West Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the West Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the West Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warwickshire +7 5 £400 -
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) CCTV
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) Ruby
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CISSP
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On