Windows Server 2016 Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 186 172
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +50
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 3 19 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.047% 0.38% 0.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.79% 3.00% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 29
10th Percentile £32,050 £37,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,375 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +34.33% -21.18%
75th Percentile £53,125 - £42,500
90th Percentile £55,750 - £45,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £39,500 £43,830
% change year-on-year +1.27% -9.88% +3.13%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 378 634 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.93% 12.54% 11.99%
Number of salaries quoted 329 345 420
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,179 £74,041 £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 West

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

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in the North West

Windows Server 2016
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Windows Server 2016
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the North West

Windows Server 2016
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cumbria - 2 £42,000 - 1
Manchester +20 1 £47,500 +5.56% 3
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Field Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Field Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Educational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Apple
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Ubiquiti
2 1 (33.33%) VMware