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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 381 393
Rank change year-on-year -150 +12 +95
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 161 588 712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.68% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.32% 4.71% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 147 514 581
10th Percentile £29,350 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £53,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £59,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 6,947 12,486 14,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.05% 14.47% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,138 9,845 9,803
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,760 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £95,000
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 17 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 17 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 +84 60 £55,000 +3.77% 29
Midlands +28 41 £35,000 - 20
West Midlands +41 37 £35,000 +12.90% 4
North of England -37 23 £40,000 +6.67% 18
South East -60 15 £45,000 -10.00% 24
South West +25 13 £35,000 -6.67% 14
Yorkshire +20 11 £32,500 -10.34% 4
East of England -2 10 £43,750 +32.58% 12
North West -22 9 £45,000 +12.50% 10
East Midlands +3 4 £40,000 +6.67% 12
North East +24 3 £35,000 +12.90% 5
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 60 (37.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (10.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.48%) IIS
4 2 (1.24%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 42 (26.09%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (8.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.86%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 105 (65.22%) Azure
2 95 (59.01%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (19.88%) Entra ID
4 24 (14.91%) AWS
5 15 (9.32%) Google Workspace
6 10 (6.21%) IaaS
6 10 (6.21%) Nutanix
6 10 (6.21%) OneDrive
7 9 (5.59%) SaaS
8 7 (4.35%) Mimecast
9 6 (3.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (3.73%) PaaS
10 5 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.11%) GCP
11 4 (2.48%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (1.24%) Cloudflare
13 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (1.24%) Rubrik
14 1 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 77 (47.83%) Firewall
2 75 (46.58%) DNS
3 73 (45.34%) DHCP
4 57 (35.40%) WAN
5 50 (31.06%) LAN
6 44 (27.33%) TCP/IP
7 37 (22.98%) VLAN
8 33 (20.50%) VPN
9 17 (10.56%) SAN
9 17 (10.56%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (8.07%) BGP
10 13 (8.07%) OSPF
10 13 (8.07%) VoIP
10 13 (8.07%) WLAN
11 12 (7.45%) SD-WAN
12 7 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (4.35%) Network Security
13 6 (3.73%) Multicast
13 6 (3.73%) NAS
13 6 (3.73%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.73%) DB2
3 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.86%) Power BI
4 2 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (1.24%) JIRA
2 1 (0.62%) GitLab
2 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.15%) Finance
3 19 (11.80%) Retail
4 14 (8.70%) Banking
5 13 (8.07%) Automotive
6 8 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.35%) Legal
8 5 (3.11%) Games
8 5 (3.11%) Law
9 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Advertising
11 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.62%) Back Office
11 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.62%) Publishing
11 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (31.68%) Support Engineer
2 32 (19.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (19.25%) IT Engineer
4 29 (18.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 24 (14.91%) IT Support
6 23 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
7 22 (13.66%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 18 (11.18%) Analyst
9 15 (9.32%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 14 (8.70%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
11 13 (8.07%) Infrastructure Support
11 13 (8.07%) Senior
11 13 (8.07%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (7.45%) Support Analyst
13 11 (6.83%) IT Analyst
13 11 (6.83%) IT Support Analyst
13 11 (6.83%) Wintel Engineer
14 10 (6.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 10 (6.21%) IT Support Engineer
15 9 (5.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.73%) SAML
2 1 (0.62%) LDAP
2 1 (0.62%) REST
2 1 (0.62%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 19 (11.80%) Driving Licence
3 18 (11.18%) Management Information System
3 18 (11.18%) Replication
4 16 (9.94%) Clustering
5 13 (8.07%) Smartphone
6 8 (4.97%) Security Posture
7 7 (4.35%) CCTV
8 6 (3.73%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.73%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (3.11%) Fat Client
9 5 (3.11%) Thin Client
10 4 (2.48%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.24%) Biopharmaceutical
12 2 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.24%) HP Storage
12 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 160 (99.38%) Windows
2 134 (83.23%) Windows Server
3 96 (59.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 67 (41.61%) Windows 10
5 56 (34.78%) Linux
6 37 (22.98%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (12.42%) Mac OS X
8 17 (10.56%) Ubuntu
9 13 (8.07%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (5.59%) Mac OS
11 8 (4.97%) Android
12 5 (3.11%) CentOS
13 4 (2.48%) Apple iOS
14 2 (1.24%) Debian
14 2 (1.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (24.84%) ITIL
2 37 (22.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (13.66%) Mentoring
5 21 (13.04%) Customer Service
6 19 (11.80%) Infrastructure Management
7 18 (11.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (11.18%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (9.94%) Patch Management
9 15 (9.32%) Collaborative Working
9 15 (9.32%) Computer Science
10 14 (8.70%) Data Security
10 14 (8.70%) Incident Management
10 14 (8.70%) Network Design
11 13 (8.07%) Business Case
11 13 (8.07%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (8.07%) Systems Engineering
12 12 (7.45%) DevOps
12 12 (7.45%) High Availability
12 12 (7.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 81 (50.31%) PowerShell
2 29 (18.01%) SQL
3 3 (1.86%) Python
4 1 (0.62%) Bash
4 1 (0.62%) C
4 1 (0.62%) C#
4 1 (0.62%) C++
4 1 (0.62%) Go
4 1 (0.62%) VB
4 1 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (25.47%) Degree
1 41 (25.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (15.53%) MCSE
3 18 (11.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 13 (8.07%) HNC
5 13 (8.07%) HND
5 13 (8.07%) MCSA
6 11 (6.83%) MCP
6 11 (6.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (5.59%) A+ Certification
8 6 (3.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared
8 6 (3.73%) Security Cleared
9 5 (3.11%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.86%) CCNA
10 3 (1.86%) CCNP
10 3 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.62%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.29%) SLA
2 5 (3.11%) GDPR
3 4 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.24%) NIST
4 2 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) NCSC
5 1 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 140 (86.96%) Active Directory
2 80 (49.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (27.95%) Hyper-V
4 33 (20.50%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (9.32%) XenApp
6 8 (4.97%) vSphere
7 6 (3.73%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (2.48%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.86%) DFS Replication
10 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (1.24%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.62%) Docker
12 1 (0.62%) Firmware
12 1 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.62%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 57 (35.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (18.63%) SCCM
3 14 (8.70%) NetBackup
4 13 (8.07%) SCOM
5 10 (6.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (5.59%) vCenter Server
7 8 (4.97%) Ansible
7 8 (4.97%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (3.73%) Kubernetes
8 6 (3.73%) Terraform
9 4 (2.48%) ZENworks
10 2 (1.24%) Autotask
11 1 (0.62%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.62%) Kibana
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.62%) Nagios
11 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.62%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.62%) VxRail
11 1 (0.62%) WMI
Vendors
1 124 (77.02%) Microsoft
2 90 (55.90%) VMware
3 55 (34.16%) Cisco
4 26 (16.15%) Citrix
5 24 (14.91%) Apple
5 24 (14.91%) Veeam
6 22 (13.66%) Meraki
7 21 (13.04%) Fortinet
8 20 (12.42%) SonicWALL
9 18 (11.18%) Dell
9 18 (11.18%) Ubiquiti
10 17 (10.56%) CheckPoint
11 16 (9.94%) ServiceNow
12 15 (9.32%) Google
13 14 (8.70%) SolarWinds
14 9 (5.59%) Riverbed
15 8 (4.97%) EMC
16 7 (4.35%) NetApp
17 6 (3.73%) IBM
17 6 (3.73%) SAP