Windows Server 2016 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 416 342
Rank change year-on-year -30 -74 -15
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 137 112 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.39% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.65% 2.30% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 72 101 452
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,375 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £57,378
UK median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% +6.25% -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,752 4,872 10,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.71% 16.95% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,817 2,961 8,135
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,050 £70,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Windows Server 2016 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2016
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
South West -9 56 £27,000 -22.86% 4
South East -12 24 £52,500 +16.67% 11
East of England 0 21 £50,000 +17.65% 2
North of England -37 19 £42,500 +6.25% 7
North West +1 11 £50,000 +11.11% 5
Wales - 10 £35,000 -
Yorkshire -56 8 £37,500 +15.38% 2
Scotland -7 6 £22,500 -43.75% 1
West Midlands -65 1 £29,500 -15.71% 1
Midlands -73 1 £29,500 -15.71% 2
Windows Server 2016
UK

Windows Server 2016
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 73 (53.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (13.14%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.65%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (3.65%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (3.65%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (2.19%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 103 (75.18%) Microsoft 365
2 100 (72.99%) Azure
3 33 (24.09%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.84%) SaaS
5 7 (5.11%) AWS
6 6 (4.38%) IaaS
6 6 (4.38%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.38%) PaaS
7 3 (2.19%) Cohesity
7 3 (2.19%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.19%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.73%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.73%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.73%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.73%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.73%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 82 (59.85%) DNS
2 78 (56.93%) DHCP
3 35 (25.55%) Firewall
4 19 (13.87%) VLAN
5 16 (11.68%) LAN
6 13 (9.49%) WAN
7 10 (7.30%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (6.57%) VPN
9 8 (5.84%) TCP/IP
10 6 (4.38%) VoIP
10 6 (4.38%) Wireless
11 5 (3.65%) WLAN
12 4 (2.92%) SAN
13 3 (2.19%) VSAN
14 1 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
14 1 (0.73%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (39.42%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (7.30%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.38%) MySQL
3 6 (4.38%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Git
General
1 86 (62.77%) Social Skills
2 56 (40.88%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.95%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (37.23%) Systems Engineer
2 37 (27.01%) IT Support
3 31 (22.63%) IT Engineer
4 27 (19.71%) Support Engineer
5 24 (17.52%) IT Support Engineer
6 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (11.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 16 (11.68%) IT Technician
8 13 (9.49%) 2nd Line Support
8 13 (9.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 12 (8.76%) IT Support Technician
9 12 (8.76%) Support Technician
10 9 (6.57%) Wintel Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) DBA
11 6 (4.38%) Oracle DBA
11 6 (4.38%) Senior
12 5 (3.65%) Junior IT Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Junior IT Support
12 5 (3.65%) Junior Support Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Remote Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 48 (35.04%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (8.76%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.65%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.19%) Clustering
5 3 (2.19%) Social Media
6 2 (1.46%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.46%) NHS
6 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.73%) PKI
7 1 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 137 (100.00%) Windows
2 124 (90.51%) Windows Server
3 65 (47.45%) Linux
4 38 (27.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 26 (18.98%) Windows Server 2012
6 21 (15.33%) Windows 10
7 17 (12.41%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (5.84%) CentOS
9 6 (4.38%) Mac OS
9 6 (4.38%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.92%) VMS
11 2 (1.46%) CoreOS
11 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.73%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (65.69%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (40.15%) Customer Service
3 52 (37.96%) Kalman Filter
3 52 (37.96%) Web Filtering
4 50 (36.50%) Migration
5 49 (35.77%) Email Filtering
6 48 (35.04%) Customer Experience
6 48 (35.04%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 48 (35.04%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 23 (16.79%) ITIL
8 22 (16.06%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (13.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (8.76%) Agile
11 10 (7.30%) Change Management
11 10 (7.30%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (6.57%) Mentoring
12 9 (6.57%) Project Delivery
13 8 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (5.84%) Disaster Recovery
14 7 (5.11%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.19%) Bash
3 2 (1.46%) Python
3 2 (1.46%) SQL
4 1 (0.73%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 68 (49.64%) Security Cleared
2 55 (40.15%) SC Cleared
3 25 (18.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (8.76%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.84%) Degree
6 7 (5.11%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.11%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (5.11%) DBS Check
7 6 (4.38%) CCNA
8 5 (3.65%) MCSA
9 4 (2.92%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.73%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.73%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (36.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 48 (35.04%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) SLA
4 2 (1.46%) GDPR
4 2 (1.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 113 (82.48%) Active Directory
2 77 (56.20%) Hyper-V
3 48 (35.04%) Terminal Server
4 33 (24.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (8.03%) vSphere
6 7 (5.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (4.38%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (13.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (8.03%) Ansible
3 9 (6.57%) vCenter Server
4 8 (5.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (5.11%) Kubernetes
5 7 (5.11%) Terraform
6 6 (4.38%) Nessus
6 6 (4.38%) Progress Chef
6 6 (4.38%) Puppet
6 6 (4.38%) SCCM
6 6 (4.38%) SCOM
7 5 (3.65%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 5 (3.65%) WSUS
8 4 (2.92%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.46%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.46%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.46%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.73%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 120 (87.59%) Microsoft
2 81 (59.12%) VMware
3 58 (42.34%) Veeam
4 53 (38.69%) SolarWinds
5 48 (35.04%) Brocade
5 48 (35.04%) Nimble Storage
5 48 (35.04%) Splunk
5 48 (35.04%) Tanium
6 13 (9.49%) HP
7 11 (8.03%) Dell
8 9 (6.57%) Red Hat
9 8 (5.84%) McAfee
10 6 (4.38%) Cisco
10 6 (4.38%) IBM
10 6 (4.38%) Oracle
11 4 (2.92%) Meraki
11 4 (2.92%) WatchGuard
12 3 (2.19%) Google
12 3 (2.19%) NetApp
12 3 (2.19%) Ubiquiti