Windows Server 2016 Jobs

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 405 433
Rank change year-on-year -82 +28 +62
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 200 615 750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.63% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.04% 4.36% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 183 544 602
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,125 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -1.23%
75th Percentile £52,761 £54,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £59,000 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,250 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +0.63% +14.29% -8.93%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,583 14,121 16,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.62% 14.36% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,456 10,927 11,200
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,760 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,625 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2016 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2016.

Salary trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England -93 181 £42,500 - 76
UK excluding London -83 130 £40,250 +0.63% 63
London +88 68 £50,000 -6.54% 16
Work from Home +50 64 £45,000 - 34
Midlands +36 44 £35,000 - 17
West Midlands +44 41 £35,000 - 6
North of England +13 32 £42,500 +21.43% 14
North West +19 17 £45,000 +12.50% 7
South East -33 15 £45,000 -10.00% 15
South West +26 14 £34,750 -7.33% 7
Scotland +127 12 £40,000 +6.67%
Yorkshire +30 11 £32,500 -7.14% 4
East of England +7 9 £45,000 +36.36% 11
Northern Ireland +38 5 £52,500 +31.25% 1
North East +35 4 £35,000 +9.38% 4
East Midlands +32 3 £47,500 +18.75% 10

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 72 (36.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (13.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.50%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.00%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 64 (32.00%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (11.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Elite 3E
1 3 (1.50%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 132 (66.00%) Azure
2 125 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (21.00%) Entra ID
4 22 (11.00%) AWS
5 18 (9.00%) Google Workspace
6 17 (8.50%) OneDrive
7 11 (5.50%) IaaS
8 10 (5.00%) SaaS
9 9 (4.50%) Mimecast
10 7 (3.50%) Nutanix
11 6 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (2.50%) PaaS
13 4 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.00%) GCP
13 4 (2.00%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.50%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
15 2 (1.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 93 (46.50%) DNS
1 93 (46.50%) Firewall
2 89 (44.50%) DHCP
3 64 (32.00%) WAN
4 57 (28.50%) LAN
5 48 (24.00%) VLAN
6 46 (23.00%) TCP/IP
7 44 (22.00%) VPN
8 20 (10.00%) SAN
8 20 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (9.00%) VoIP
10 16 (8.00%) BGP
10 16 (8.00%) OSPF
10 16 (8.00%) WLAN
11 14 (7.00%) Wireless
12 13 (6.50%) SD-WAN
13 7 (3.50%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (3.50%) Network Security
13 7 (3.50%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (3.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.00%) DB2
3 4 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.50%) Power BI
5 2 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (3.50%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) GitLab
2 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.50%) Finance
3 22 (11.00%) Retail
4 16 (8.00%) Automotive
5 12 (6.00%) Banking
5 12 (6.00%) Law
6 9 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.50%) Legal
7 7 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Games
9 3 (1.50%) Marketing
10 2 (1.00%) Back Office
10 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.50%) Front Office
11 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (28.00%) Support Engineer
2 38 (19.00%) IT Engineer
3 36 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 33 (16.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 33 (16.50%) Analyst
5 32 (16.00%) IT Support
6 28 (14.00%) 3rd Line Support
7 25 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 20 (10.00%) Support Analyst
9 19 (9.50%) Senior
10 17 (8.50%) IT Analyst
11 16 (8.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 16 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (7.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
12 15 (7.50%) IT Support Analyst
13 14 (7.00%) 2nd Line Support
13 14 (7.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 13 (6.50%) Infrastructure Support
14 13 (6.50%) IT Support Engineer
15 11 (5.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.50%) SAML
2 1 (0.50%) EDI
2 1 (0.50%) LDAP
2 1 (0.50%) REST
2 1 (0.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.00%) Replication
2 22 (11.00%) Management Information System
2 22 (11.00%) Onboarding
3 21 (10.50%) Driving Licence
4 16 (8.00%) Smartphone
5 11 (5.50%) Clustering
6 10 (5.00%) Security Posture
7 8 (4.00%) CCTV
7 8 (4.00%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.00%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.00%) Fat Client
10 4 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.00%) Thin Client
11 3 (1.50%) HP Storage
11 3 (1.50%) iPhone
11 3 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.00%) Biopharmaceutical
12 2 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 200 (100.00%) Windows
2 155 (77.50%) Windows Server
3 122 (61.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 90 (45.00%) Windows 10
5 56 (28.00%) Linux
6 47 (23.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (11.50%) Mac OS X
8 20 (10.00%) Ubuntu
9 13 (6.50%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (3.50%) Mac OS
11 6 (3.00%) Android
12 3 (1.50%) CentOS
13 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
13 2 (1.00%) Debian
13 2 (1.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (21.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (20.00%) ITIL
3 36 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (13.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 22 (11.00%) High Availability
7 21 (10.50%) Mentoring
8 20 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 20 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
9 19 (9.50%) Infrastructure Management
10 18 (9.00%) Collaborative Working
11 17 (8.50%) ITSM
11 17 (8.50%) Time Management
12 16 (8.00%) Business Case
12 16 (8.00%) Systems Engineering
13 15 (7.50%) Data Security
13 15 (7.50%) Incident Management
13 15 (7.50%) Migration
13 15 (7.50%) Patch Management
14 14 (7.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 93 (46.50%) PowerShell
2 34 (17.00%) SQL
3 5 (2.50%) Python
4 4 (2.00%) Bash
5 1 (0.50%) C
5 1 (0.50%) C#
5 1 (0.50%) C++
5 1 (0.50%) Go
5 1 (0.50%) VB
5 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (26.00%) Degree
2 50 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (14.00%) MCSE
4 23 (11.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 16 (8.00%) HNC
5 16 (8.00%) HND
6 13 (6.50%) MCSA
7 11 (5.50%) MCP
7 11 (5.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (4.50%) A+ Certification
9 7 (3.50%) SC Cleared
9 7 (3.50%) Security Cleared
10 6 (3.00%) DBS Check
10 6 (3.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (2.50%) CCNA
11 5 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.50%) CCNP
13 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.50%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.00%) SLA
2 8 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.00%) GDPR
4 4 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.50%) PMO
6 2 (1.00%) NIST
6 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 168 (84.00%) Active Directory
2 80 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (27.00%) Hyper-V
4 28 (14.00%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (7.50%) XenApp
6 12 (6.00%) DFS Replication
7 8 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (4.00%) vSphere
8 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.50%) VMware NSX
11 2 (1.00%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.50%) Docker
12 1 (0.50%) Firmware
12 1 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 65 (32.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (13.50%) SCCM
3 15 (7.50%) NetBackup
4 11 (5.50%) SCOM
5 9 (4.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (4.50%) Ansible
5 9 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (4.00%) Kubernetes
6 8 (4.00%) Terraform
6 8 (4.00%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.00%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (2.00%) ZENworks
8 3 (1.50%) Autotask
8 3 (1.50%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.50%) Kibana
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.50%) Nessus
9 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.50%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 160 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 97 (48.50%) VMware
3 58 (29.00%) Cisco
4 25 (12.50%) Citrix
5 24 (12.00%) Apple
5 24 (12.00%) Veeam
6 23 (11.50%) Fortinet
7 22 (11.00%) Dell
7 22 (11.00%) Meraki
8 21 (10.50%) SonicWALL
8 21 (10.50%) Ubiquiti
9 18 (9.00%) Google
9 18 (9.00%) SolarWinds
10 17 (8.50%) CheckPoint
10 17 (8.50%) ServiceNow
11 9 (4.50%) EMC
11 9 (4.50%) Riverbed
12 8 (4.00%) NetApp
13 6 (3.00%) HP
13 6 (3.00%) IBM