Windows Server 2016 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 281 279 373
Rank change year-on-year -2 +94 +110
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 23 66 104
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.43% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.95% 4.13% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 57 69
10th Percentile £208 £190 £163
25th Percentile £350 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -11.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £602 £608 £585
90th Percentile £615 - £616
UK median daily rate £425 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Windows Server 2016
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows Server 2016 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server 2016 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows Server 2016.

Windows Server 2016 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Windows Server 2016 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows Server 2016.

Windows Server 2016 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (34.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (17.39%) IIS
2 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
2 4 (17.39%) Skype for Business
3 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
4 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
6 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (60.87%) DNS
2 13 (56.52%) DHCP
3 7 (30.43%) Firewall
4 4 (17.39%) Skype
5 3 (13.04%) Internet
5 3 (13.04%) iSCSI
5 3 (13.04%) LAN
5 3 (13.04%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (13.04%) SAN
5 3 (13.04%) WAN
5 3 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (13.04%) Wireless
6 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.70%) Unified Communications
6 2 (8.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Administrator
2 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) VMWare Administrator
2 4 (17.39%) Wintel Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Server Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Support
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) ICT Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) PKI
2 3 (13.04%) IVR
3 2 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) IoT
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
1 23 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 15 (65.22%) Windows Server 2019
3 12 (52.17%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (30.43%) Linux
5 3 (13.04%) Android
6 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
7 1 (4.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) ITIL
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (21.74%) Migration
3 5 (21.74%) Patch Management
3 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (13.04%) BCP
4 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
4 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.04%) Information Security
4 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
4 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (8.70%) Business Strategy
5 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (8.70%) IT Strategy
5 2 (8.70%) Security Hardening
5 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (8.70%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) VBScript
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Bicep
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) Degree
5 2 (8.70%) MCSA
5 2 (8.70%) MCSE
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (86.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
2 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (26.09%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (21.74%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (13.04%) vSphere
6 1 (4.35%) Firmware
6 1 (4.35%) Terminal Services
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) WSUS
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) SCCM
2 5 (21.74%) vCenter Server
3 4 (17.39%) Terraform
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.70%) OPNET
4 2 (8.70%) Packer
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.35%) Nagios
5 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.35%) SCOM
5 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
1 12 (52.17%) VMware
2 3 (13.04%) Apple
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco
2 3 (13.04%) Citrix
3 2 (8.70%) CyberArk
3 2 (8.70%) Dell
3 2 (8.70%) Veeam
4 1 (4.35%) Commvault
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.35%) SonicWALL
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Tenable