Windows Server 2016 Jobs in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 385 391
Rank change year-on-year -136 +6 +135
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 160 588 695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.65% 0.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.37% 4.67% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 145 503 567
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £25,900
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £40,420 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +1.05% -2.44%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £59,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £42,750 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.88% - -2.44%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2016 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,752 12,583 13,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.69% 14.01% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,945 9,814 9,523
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,760 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,451
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in England.

Salary trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2016 within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +83 63 £55,000 +10.00% 25
Midlands +30 40 £35,000 - 15
West Midlands +39 35 £37,750 +21.77% 5
North of England -44 19 £35,000 -6.67% 17
South West +21 14 £32,250 -14.00% 10
South East -63 14 £42,750 -14.50% 17
Yorkshire +14 11 £32,500 -13.33% 4
East of England +1 11 £38,750 +17.42% 7
North West -20 6 £60,000 +50.00% 12
East Midlands +26 5 £32,500 -7.14% 10
North East +32 2 £34,500 +6.98% 1
Windows Server 2016
UK

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 58 (36.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (10.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.13%) IIS
4 2 (1.25%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 38 (23.75%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.88%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 106 (66.25%) Azure
2 96 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 26 (16.25%) AWS
5 13 (8.13%) Google Workspace
6 12 (7.50%) Nutanix
7 11 (6.88%) IaaS
7 11 (6.88%) OneDrive
8 7 (4.38%) Mimecast
8 7 (4.38%) PaaS
8 7 (4.38%) SaaS
9 6 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (3.13%) GCP
11 4 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.50%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (1.25%) Cloudflare
13 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (1.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 74 (46.25%) Firewall
2 69 (43.13%) DNS
3 67 (41.88%) DHCP
4 58 (36.25%) WAN
5 50 (31.25%) LAN
6 44 (27.50%) TCP/IP
7 33 (20.63%) VLAN
8 31 (19.38%) VPN
9 17 (10.63%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (10.00%) SAN
11 12 (7.50%) SD-WAN
11 12 (7.50%) VoIP
12 11 (6.88%) BGP
12 11 (6.88%) OSPF
12 11 (6.88%) WLAN
13 8 (5.00%) Wireless
14 7 (4.38%) Cisco IOS
15 6 (3.75%) Multicast
15 6 (3.75%) Network Security
16 5 (3.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.75%) DB2
3 3 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.88%) Power BI
4 2 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (1.25%) GitLab
1 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 47 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.25%) Finance
3 17 (10.63%) Retail
4 15 (9.38%) Banking
5 11 (6.88%) Automotive
6 8 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.75%) Legal
9 5 (3.13%) Games
10 3 (1.88%) Law
10 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.63%) Back Office
12 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.63%) Publishing
12 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (31.88%) Support Engineer
2 33 (20.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (18.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 30 (18.75%) IT Engineer
4 29 (18.13%) IT Support
5 24 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support
6 23 (14.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 17 (10.63%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 17 (10.63%) Analyst
8 16 (10.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
9 14 (8.75%) Infrastructure Support
10 13 (8.13%) Senior
10 13 (8.13%) Support Analyst
11 12 (7.50%) IT Analyst
11 12 (7.50%) IT Support Analyst
11 12 (7.50%) Wintel Engineer
12 11 (6.88%) Systems Engineer
13 10 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
13 10 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.75%) SAML
2 1 (0.63%) LDAP
2 1 (0.63%) REST
2 1 (0.63%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.38%) Onboarding
2 20 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 17 (10.63%) Clustering
4 16 (10.00%) Management Information System
5 15 (9.38%) Replication
6 11 (6.88%) Smartphone
7 8 (5.00%) Security Posture
8 7 (4.38%) CCTV
9 6 (3.75%) Data Centre
9 6 (3.75%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (2.50%) Fat Client
11 4 (2.50%) Thin Client
12 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
13 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.25%) Biopharmaceutical
13 2 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (1.25%) HP Storage
14 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 159 (99.38%) Windows
2 135 (84.38%) Windows Server
3 93 (58.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 66 (41.25%) Windows 10
5 54 (33.75%) Linux
6 36 (22.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (11.25%) Mac OS X
8 13 (8.13%) Ubuntu
9 11 (6.88%) Mac OS
10 10 (6.25%) Android
10 10 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (3.75%) Apple iOS
12 4 (2.50%) CentOS
13 2 (1.25%) Debian
13 2 (1.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (26.88%) ITIL
2 38 (23.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 32 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (15.63%) Mentoring
5 23 (14.38%) Infrastructure Management
6 21 (13.13%) Customer Service
7 17 (10.63%) Patch Management
8 16 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 16 (10.00%) Data Security
8 16 (10.00%) Network Design
8 16 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (8.75%) Computer Science
10 14 (8.75%) DevOps
10 14 (8.75%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (8.75%) Incident Management
11 13 (8.13%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (7.50%) Mobile Device Management
12 12 (7.50%) Process Improvement
12 12 (7.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (48.13%) PowerShell
2 26 (16.25%) SQL
3 3 (1.88%) Python
4 2 (1.25%) Bash
4 2 (1.25%) Go
5 1 (0.63%) VB
5 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (25.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 40 (25.00%) Degree
3 23 (14.38%) MCSE
4 17 (10.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (8.75%) Azure Certification
6 13 (8.13%) MCSA
7 11 (6.88%) HNC
7 11 (6.88%) HND
7 11 (6.88%) MCP
8 10 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (5.63%) A+ Certification
10 6 (3.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (3.13%) DBS Check
11 5 (3.13%) SC Cleared
11 5 (3.13%) Security Cleared
12 3 (1.88%) CCNA
12 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.25%) CCNP
13 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.63%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.38%) SLA
2 7 (4.38%) GDPR
3 4 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.25%) NIST
4 2 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 137 (85.63%) Active Directory
2 79 (49.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (26.88%) Hyper-V
4 33 (20.63%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (11.25%) XenApp
6 6 (3.75%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (3.75%) vSphere
7 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.25%) BitLocker
10 2 (1.25%) Docker
10 2 (1.25%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.63%) Firmware
11 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.63%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (19.38%) SCCM
3 15 (9.38%) NetBackup
4 13 (8.13%) SCOM
5 12 (7.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (5.00%) Ansible
7 7 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (3.75%) vCenter Server
9 5 (3.13%) Kubernetes
9 5 (3.13%) Terraform
10 4 (2.50%) ZENworks
11 2 (1.25%) Kibana
11 2 (1.25%) Nagios
11 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.63%) Autotask
12 1 (0.63%) SCVMM
12 1 (0.63%) WMI
Vendors
1 123 (76.88%) Microsoft
2 89 (55.63%) VMware
3 55 (34.38%) Cisco
4 29 (18.13%) Citrix
5 26 (16.25%) Meraki
6 23 (14.38%) Apple
6 23 (14.38%) Veeam
7 21 (13.13%) SonicWALL
8 19 (11.88%) CheckPoint
9 18 (11.25%) Fortinet
10 17 (10.63%) Ubiquiti
11 16 (10.00%) ServiceNow
12 15 (9.38%) Dell
13 14 (8.75%) SolarWinds
14 13 (8.13%) Google
15 9 (5.63%) Riverbed
16 7 (4.38%) EMC
16 7 (4.38%) NetApp
17 6 (3.75%) IBM
17 6 (3.75%) SAP