Windows Server 2016 Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 114 103
Rank change year-on-year -52 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 2 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.057% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.66% 1.83% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £300 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £165
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +142.42% -52.86%
75th Percentile - £450 £261
90th Percentile - - £315
England median daily rate £450 £550 £470
% change year-on-year -18.18% +17.02% +10.59%

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 304 273 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.65% 14.97% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 202 180
10th Percentile £200 £160 £188
25th Percentile £313 £220 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £537 £540 £585
90th Percentile £588 £616 £713
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 8
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.99 £14.63
25th Percentile £46.25 £22.28 £17.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £24.83 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +154.27% +30.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70.06 £27.50 £23.10
90th Percentile £70.55 £32.00 £39.13
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -53.43% +17.70%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2016 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows Server 2016.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows Server 2016

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 12 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
Warwickshire -15 2 £450 +12.50%
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Server Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware