Windows Server 2016 Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > North of England

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 242 202
Rank change year-on-year -8 -40 +89
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 13 41 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.44% 0.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.87% 3.57% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13 26 68
10th Percentile £26,700 £32,500 £28,794
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,625 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £43,750 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.57% +30.60% -16.25%
75th Percentile £37,250 £45,000 £42,813
90th Percentile £46,450 - £49,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £38,500 £44,415
% change year-on-year +3.90% -13.32% +4.51%

All Operating Systems
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 696 1,150 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.57% 12.46% 14.93%
Number of salaries quoted 559 581 970
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £44,263
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -3.98% +2.94%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in the North of England

Windows Server 2016
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Windows Server 2016.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the North of England

Windows Server 2016
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Yorkshire -10 10 £34,500 -1.43% 5
North West +7 3 £47,500 +5.56% 3
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (84.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) Firewall
2 9 (69.23%) VLAN
2 9 (69.23%) VoIP
3 8 (61.54%) SAN
4 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 2 (15.38%) DNS
4 2 (15.38%) LAN
4 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Support Technician
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Support Technician
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Technician
3 4 (30.77%) IT Support
4 3 (23.08%) Field Support Technician
4 3 (23.08%) IT Support Technician
4 3 (23.08%) IT Technician
4 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Field Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Clustering
2 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 11 (84.62%) Windows 10
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Customer Service
2 2 (15.38%) Server Migrations
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Change Management
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL
3 1 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CCNA
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) DBS Check
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCSA
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Hyper-V
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) Plesk
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (69.23%) HP
3 8 (61.54%) Dell
3 8 (61.54%) SonicWALL
3 8 (61.54%) Supermicro
4 3 (23.08%) VMware
5 2 (15.38%) Apple
5 2 (15.38%) Draytek
6 1 (7.69%) Aruba
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco
6 1 (7.69%) Google
6 1 (7.69%) Meraki
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle
6 1 (7.69%) Ubiquiti