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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 161 145
Rank change year-on-year +72 -16 +86
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 98 21 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.92% 0.51% 1.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.39% 2.56% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 12 16 55
10th Percentile - £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £27,598 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £30,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.38% -28.24% -32.00%
75th Percentile £55,313 £36,000 £54,000
90th Percentile £58,500 £43,750 £54,658
England median annual salary £40,000 £39,500 £43,830
% change year-on-year +1.27% -9.88% +3.13%

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 533 821 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.45% 19.76% 19.72%
Number of salaries quoted 298 504 741
10th Percentile £26,500 £10,258 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% -18.37% +8.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,375 £75,000 £78,750
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 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 15 January 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 15 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
Wiltshire +36 38 £56,250 +65.44% 2
Somerset - 36 - - 1
Bristol +23 20 £38,500 +20.31%
Gloucestershire - 4 £56,250 - 1
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 84 (85.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.16%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 90 (91.84%) Azure
2 85 (86.73%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.08%) AWS
3 4 (4.08%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.02%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 97 (98.98%) DNS
2 96 (97.96%) DHCP
3 11 (11.22%) LAN
3 11 (11.22%) WAN
4 9 (9.18%) Firewall
5 8 (8.16%) Internet
5 8 (8.16%) Kerberos
6 4 (4.08%) VSAN
7 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.02%) NAS
8 1 (1.02%) SAN
8 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (85.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Git
General
1 93 (94.90%) Social Skills
2 84 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.16%) Law
4 3 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.02%) Finance
Job Titles
1 85 (86.73%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (8.16%) Analyst
3 7 (7.14%) Support Analyst
4 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 3 (3.06%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (2.04%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (2.04%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (1.02%) Administrator
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (1.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.02%) IT Engineer
7 1 (1.02%) Virtualisation Administrator
7 1 (1.02%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 84 (85.71%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (8.16%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 98 (100.00%) Windows
1 98 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 87 (88.78%) Linux
3 12 (12.24%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (8.16%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.06%) CentOS
5 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.02%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (86.73%) Migration
2 84 (85.71%) Customer Experience
2 84 (85.71%) Customer Service
2 84 (85.71%) Email Filtering
2 84 (85.71%) Kalman Filter
2 84 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (85.71%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 84 (85.71%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 84 (85.71%) Web Filtering
3 11 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (8.16%) Data Loss Prevention
5 5 (5.10%) ITIL
6 4 (4.08%) RBAC
7 3 (3.06%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (3.06%) Time Management
8 2 (2.04%) Service Management
9 1 (1.02%) Collaborative Culture
9 1 (1.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (1.02%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.16%) VB
3 4 (4.08%) Bash
4 3 (3.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 88 (89.80%) Security Cleared
2 85 (86.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (86.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 84 (85.71%) PCI DSS
3 8 (8.16%) SLA
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 89 (90.82%) Hyper-V
3 84 (85.71%) Terminal Server
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (8.16%) WSUS
2 5 (5.10%) SCVMM
3 4 (4.08%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.02%) SCCM
Vendors
1 93 (94.90%) Microsoft
2 85 (86.73%) SolarWinds
3 84 (85.71%) Brocade
3 84 (85.71%) Nimble Storage
3 84 (85.71%) Splunk
3 84 (85.71%) Tanium
3 84 (85.71%) Veeam
3 84 (85.71%) VMware
4 5 (5.10%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.08%) McAfee