Windows Server 2016 Job Trends in London

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 341 413
Rank change year-on-year -19 +72 +27
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 46 64 86
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.24% 0.50% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.12% 3.52% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 45 60 80
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,625 £36,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £52,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 £62,813
90th Percentile £75,000 £91,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.66%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,474 1,816 3,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.60% 14.05% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 1,348 2,386
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,425 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,125 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in London

Windows Server 2016
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows Server 2016.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2016 in London

Windows Server 2016
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 11 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 24 (52.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (19.57%) IIS
3 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
3 5 (10.87%) Tomcat
4 4 (8.70%) Confluence
4 4 (8.70%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (8.70%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (8.70%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Acrobat
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 33 (71.74%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (69.57%) Azure
3 20 (43.48%) AWS
4 17 (36.96%) Google Workspace
5 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
6 5 (10.87%) OneDrive
6 5 (10.87%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (69.57%) DNS
2 29 (63.04%) DHCP
3 20 (43.48%) TCP/IP
3 20 (43.48%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (36.96%) LAN
4 17 (36.96%) WAN
5 16 (34.78%) VoIP
6 12 (26.09%) Firewall
7 7 (15.22%) VPN
8 1 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (2.17%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (2.17%) VLAN
8 1 (2.17%) VSAN
8 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) GitLab
1 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (10.87%) Bitbucket
3 4 (8.70%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Law
4 2 (4.35%) Legal
4 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Billing
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (60.87%) IT Support
1 28 (60.87%) Support Engineer
2 27 (58.70%) IT Engineer
2 27 (58.70%) IT Support Engineer
3 20 (43.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 20 (43.48%) 2nd Line Support
3 20 (43.48%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) 3rd Line Support
5 7 (15.22%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Developer
7 2 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Junior
7 2 (4.35%) Junior DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) Kafka
2 4 (8.70%) Middleware
3 2 (4.35%) CSS
3 2 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.17%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) CCTV
3 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.17%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 46 (100.00%) Windows
2 45 (97.83%) Windows Server
3 36 (78.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 26 (56.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 23 (50.00%) Windows 10
6 16 (34.78%) Mac OS
7 11 (23.91%) Linux
8 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (4.35%) Mac OS X
10 1 (2.17%) Android
10 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (2.17%) CentOS
10 1 (2.17%) CoreOS
10 1 (2.17%) Solaris
10 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
10 1 (2.17%) Unix
10 1 (2.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
3 7 (15.22%) DevOps
4 6 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (10.87%) Agile
5 5 (10.87%) Configuration Management
5 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (8.70%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (8.70%) Mentoring
6 4 (8.70%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (8.70%) Server Virtualisation
7 3 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (6.52%) ITSM
7 3 (6.52%) Load Balancing
7 3 (6.52%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (6.52%) Service Desk Management
7 3 (6.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 9 (19.57%) Python
3 8 (17.39%) Bash
4 4 (8.70%) SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Go
5 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.35%) VBA
5 2 (4.35%) VBScript
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) VB
6 1 (2.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) CCNA
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) MCDST
4 1 (2.17%) MCITP
4 1 (2.17%) MCSA
4 1 (2.17%) MCSE
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (84.78%) Active Directory
2 21 (45.65%) Hyper-V
3 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (15.22%) Docker
5 6 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (8.70%) vSphere
7 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (39.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (10.87%) Ansible
4 4 (8.70%) Progress Chef
4 4 (8.70%) Puppet
5 2 (4.35%) Kibana
5 2 (4.35%) Nagios
5 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.17%) Grafana
6 1 (2.17%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (2.17%) SCOM
6 1 (2.17%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 34 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 16 (34.78%) Google
2 16 (34.78%) VMware
3 7 (15.22%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.87%) Dell
4 5 (10.87%) Oracle
5 4 (8.70%) Atlassian
5 4 (8.70%) HP
6 3 (6.52%) ConnectWise
6 3 (6.52%) Splunk
7 2 (4.35%) Commvault
7 2 (4.35%) iManage
8 1 (2.17%) Adobe
8 1 (2.17%) Apple
8 1 (2.17%) Bloomberg
8 1 (2.17%) Cisco
8 1 (2.17%) CQG
8 1 (2.17%) McAfee
8 1 (2.17%) Reuters
8 1 (2.17%) Trayport