Windows Server 2016 Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 141 200
Rank change year-on-year +18 +59 +14
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 88 14 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.13% 0.50% 0.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.77% 2.95% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16 13 69
10th Percentile - £25,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £29,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.83% -21.33% -10.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £52,500
90th Percentile - £60,000 £57,184
England median annual salary £42,000 £42,750 £42,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.79% +5.00%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 596 474 1,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.64% 16.77% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 383 303 1,271
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.05% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in the South West

Windows Server 2016
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Windows Server 2016
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the South West over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the South West

Windows Server 2016
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Somerset -9 31 £50,000 +69.49% 1
Wiltshire +13 30 - -
Bristol -13 15 £65,000 +8.33%
Devon - 8 £26,500 - 1
Gloucestershire -31 2 £57,500 - 2
Dorset - 2 - -
Windows Server 2016
England

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 71 (80.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.27%) IIS
2 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 81 (92.05%) Azure
2 79 (89.77%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.82%) AWS
5 2 (2.27%) IaaS
5 2 (2.27%) PaaS
6 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 73 (82.95%) DHCP
1 73 (82.95%) DNS
2 4 (4.55%) LAN
2 4 (4.55%) WAN
3 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.27%) Firewall
4 2 (2.27%) VLAN
4 2 (2.27%) VPN
4 2 (2.27%) VSAN
4 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.14%) DMZ
5 1 (1.14%) Internet
5 1 (1.14%) Network Security
5 1 (1.14%) VoIP
5 1 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (81.82%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.68%) MySQL
2 5 (5.68%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Git
General
1 73 (82.95%) Social Skills
2 72 (81.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (80.68%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (9.09%) IT Support
3 7 (7.95%) IT Support Technician
3 7 (7.95%) IT Technician
3 7 (7.95%) Support Technician
4 5 (5.68%) DBA
4 5 (5.68%) MySQL DBA
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (3.41%) Support Engineer
6 2 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (2.27%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (2.27%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (2.27%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (1.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) ICT Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) IT Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 70 (79.55%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.27%) Cyberattack
2 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 88 (100.00%) Windows
2 79 (89.77%) Windows Server
3 78 (88.64%) Linux
4 7 (7.95%) Windows 10
5 6 (6.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (5.68%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.27%) CentOS
8 2 (2.27%) CoreOS
8 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (80.68%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (79.55%) Customer Experience
2 70 (79.55%) Customer Service
2 70 (79.55%) Email Filtering
2 70 (79.55%) Kalman Filter
2 70 (79.55%) Migration
2 70 (79.55%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 70 (79.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 70 (79.55%) Web Filtering
3 7 (7.95%) Asset Management
3 7 (7.95%) IT Asset Management
4 5 (5.68%) Agile
4 5 (5.68%) CI/CD
5 3 (3.41%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (3.41%) Time Management
6 2 (2.27%) Information Security
6 2 (2.27%) ISMS
6 2 (2.27%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (2.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (2.27%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.27%) Bash
2 2 (2.27%) Python
2 2 (2.27%) SQL
3 1 (1.14%) C
Qualifications
1 71 (80.68%) Security Cleared
2 70 (79.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.14%) CCNA
3 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.14%) MCSA
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (80.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 70 (79.55%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (93.18%) Active Directory
2 73 (82.95%) Hyper-V
3 70 (79.55%) Terminal Server
4 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.68%) Ansible
1 5 (5.68%) Progress Chef
1 5 (5.68%) Puppet
2 2 (2.27%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (2.27%) SCVMM
3 1 (1.14%) Iperf
Vendors
1 81 (92.05%) Microsoft
2 75 (85.23%) VMware
3 71 (80.68%) Veeam
4 70 (79.55%) Brocade
4 70 (79.55%) Nimble Storage
4 70 (79.55%) SolarWinds
4 70 (79.55%) Splunk
4 70 (79.55%) Tanium
5 5 (5.68%) Oracle
6 2 (2.27%) McAfee
6 2 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.14%) Apple
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco
7 1 (1.14%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.14%) Google
7 1 (1.14%) Ruckus Wireless
7 1 (1.14%) SonicWALL