Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2016 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 430 488
Rank change year-on-year +22 +58 -141
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 620 752 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.72% 0.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.39% 4.51% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 549 605 909
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £31,125 £30,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.23% -0.61%
75th Percentile £54,500 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,450 £65,813
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £38,434
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.93% -3.92%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2016 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,126 16,679 29,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.39% 15.92% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,937 11,263 16,749
10th Percentile £25,759 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Top 17 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 26 April 2024. 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 +49 595 £42,500 +6.25% 113
UK excluding London 0 526 £40,000 +14.29% 91
Work from Home +62 207 £45,000 +5.88% 32
South East +22 169 £50,000 +58.73% 25
South West +47 105 £37,500 -11.76% 5
North of England -15 105 £35,000 -14.28% 29
London +31 85 £53,500 +1.76% 27
Midlands -1 70 £35,000 +7.69% 15
East of England +47 60 £33,000 -5.71% 13
Yorkshire +87 53 £35,000 -1.75% 10
West Midlands +14 48 £35,000 +9.38% 7
North West -60 31 £40,000 -11.11% 14
North East +10 21 £32,000 -36.00% 6
East Midlands -14 21 £37,500 +7.14% 8
Scotland -61 13 £37,500 -6.25% 2
Northern Ireland +14 3 £40,000 +23.08%
Wales +2 2 £46,250 +68.18% 2

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
1 184 (29.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (16.77%) SharePoint
3 31 (5.00%) IIS
4 21 (3.39%) Exchange Server 2010
5 20 (3.23%) Exchange Server 2013
6 18 (2.90%) Exchange Server 2007
7 14 (2.26%) Confluence
8 10 (1.61%) WordPress
9 6 (0.97%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.16%) Site Server
Applications
1 99 (15.97%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 350 (56.45%) Microsoft 365
2 326 (52.58%) Azure
3 117 (18.87%) Entra ID
4 64 (10.32%) AWS
5 58 (9.35%) OneDrive
6 47 (7.58%) Mimecast
7 20 (3.23%) SaaS
8 18 (2.90%) Azure Storage
8 18 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (2.74%) Google Workspace
10 16 (2.58%) Nutanix
11 15 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.94%) OCI
12 12 (1.94%) Power Platform
13 10 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (1.45%) GCP
14 9 (1.45%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.29%) Rubrik
16 7 (1.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 226 (36.45%) DNS
2 221 (35.65%) Firewall
3 194 (31.29%) DHCP
4 97 (15.65%) TCP/IP
5 89 (14.35%) WAN
6 76 (12.26%) VPN
7 73 (11.77%) LAN
8 67 (10.81%) SAN
8 67 (10.81%) Wireless
9 43 (6.94%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (6.45%) VoIP
11 35 (5.65%) VLAN
12 21 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
12 21 (3.39%) SD-WAN
13 19 (3.06%) NAS
13 19 (3.06%) Network Security
14 14 (2.26%) Fibre Channel
15 11 (1.77%) iSCSI
16 10 (1.61%) WLAN
17 9 (1.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (13.39%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (4.84%) MongoDB
4 24 (3.87%) MySQL
5 9 (1.45%) DB2
6 8 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.97%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.97%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.65%) Power BI
9 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.16%) NonStop SQL
10 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.90%) JIRA
2 8 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.97%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.81%) Git
5 2 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.32%) Hudson
5 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.16%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 194 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 87 (14.03%) Finance
3 28 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (2.90%) Public Sector
6 16 (2.58%) Retail
6 16 (2.58%) Telecoms
7 14 (2.26%) Legal
8 12 (1.94%) Automotive
8 12 (1.94%) Back Office
8 12 (1.94%) Law
9 11 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.97%) Aviation
12 5 (0.81%) Banking
12 5 (0.81%) Games
12 5 (0.81%) Military
13 4 (0.65%) Electronics
14 1 (0.16%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 157 (25.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 145 (23.39%) IT Engineer
3 110 (17.74%) IT Support
4 95 (15.32%) Support Engineer
5 93 (15.00%) Senior
6 69 (11.13%) IT Support Engineer
7 66 (10.65%) Administrator
7 66 (10.65%) Analyst
8 48 (7.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 44 (7.10%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 37 (5.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 33 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support
11 33 (5.32%) 3rd Line Support
11 33 (5.32%) IT Technician
12 30 (4.84%) DBA
13 29 (4.68%) Systems Administrator
13 29 (4.68%) Systems Engineer
14 28 (4.52%) Service Analyst
14 28 (4.52%) Support Specialist
15 27 (4.35%) DV Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.90%) ARM Templates
2 10 (1.61%) LAMP
3 8 (1.29%) LDAP
4 3 (0.48%) .NET
4 3 (0.48%) SAML
5 2 (0.32%) JSON
5 2 (0.32%) ServiceStack
6 1 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.16%) Kafka
6 1 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.16%) WSH
6 1 (0.16%) XML
6 1 (0.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.16%) Self-Motivation
2 43 (6.94%) Driving Licence
3 32 (5.16%) Data Centre
3 32 (5.16%) PKI
4 28 (4.52%) Replication
5 23 (3.71%) Management Information System
6 19 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.90%) Clustering
8 16 (2.58%) CCTV
8 16 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.45%) Fat Client
9 9 (1.45%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.45%) Thin Client
10 8 (1.29%) VAX
11 6 (0.97%) EMC VNX
11 6 (0.97%) Handset
11 6 (0.97%) iPad
11 6 (0.97%) Xbox
12 5 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 609 (98.23%) Windows
2 455 (73.39%) Windows Server
3 415 (66.94%) Windows Server 2019
4 292 (47.10%) Windows Server 2012
5 241 (38.87%) Windows 10
6 175 (28.23%) Linux
7 72 (11.61%) Windows Server 2008
8 56 (9.03%) CentOS
9 45 (7.26%) Windows 7
10 31 (5.00%) Ubuntu
11 24 (3.87%) Windows 8
12 19 (3.06%) Windows NT
13 18 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 17 (2.74%) Apple iOS
14 17 (2.74%) Windows XP
15 13 (2.10%) Mac OS
16 10 (1.61%) VMS
17 7 (1.13%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.81%) Windows 2000
18 5 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (32.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 166 (26.77%) ITIL
3 131 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
4 111 (17.90%) Customer Service
5 70 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
6 58 (9.35%) Project Management
7 55 (8.87%) Mentoring
8 52 (8.39%) Service Management
9 51 (8.23%) Disaster Recovery
9 51 (8.23%) Performance Monitoring
10 49 (7.90%) Time Management
11 48 (7.74%) Change Management
12 46 (7.42%) Storage Management
13 40 (6.45%) DevOps
14 37 (5.97%) User Experience
15 36 (5.81%) Line Management
16 34 (5.48%) Agile
17 33 (5.32%) Roadmaps
18 30 (4.84%) Actionable Insight
18 30 (4.84%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 214 (34.52%) PowerShell
2 86 (13.87%) SQL
3 48 (7.74%) Bash
4 25 (4.03%) VBScript
5 19 (3.06%) VB
6 17 (2.74%) C#
7 14 (2.26%) Bicep
8 10 (1.61%) Python
9 6 (0.97%) Perl
10 2 (0.32%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.16%) C++
11 1 (0.16%) Java
11 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (20.32%) Security Cleared
2 108 (17.42%) Degree
3 85 (13.71%) DV Cleared
4 63 (10.16%) SC Cleared
5 45 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 43 (6.94%) DBS Check
7 37 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (4.19%) CCNA
9 23 (3.71%) CCNP
9 23 (3.71%) MCSE
10 18 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.90%) MCSA
11 17 (2.74%) HNC
12 16 (2.58%) A+ Certification
12 16 (2.58%) Network+ Certification
13 15 (2.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 14 (2.26%) Azure Certification
15 9 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (0.48%) MCTS
16 3 (0.48%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.39%) SLA
2 10 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.13%) GDPR
4 5 (0.81%) NIST
5 3 (0.48%) PMO
5 3 (0.48%) QA
6 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.16%) NCSC
7 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 405 (65.32%) Active Directory
2 244 (39.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 191 (30.81%) Hyper-V
4 64 (10.32%) vSphere
5 42 (6.77%) VMware ESXi
6 39 (6.29%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (3.55%) Firmware
9 16 (2.58%) Terminal Services
10 9 (1.45%) Docker
11 8 (1.29%) XenApp
12 6 (0.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.81%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
15 3 (0.48%) KVM
15 3 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.32%) XenDesktop
17 1 (0.16%) DFS Replication
17 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 123 (19.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 116 (18.71%) SCCM
3 76 (12.26%) WSUS
4 53 (8.55%) vCenter Server
5 41 (6.61%) SCOM
6 34 (5.48%) Kubernetes
7 25 (4.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (2.90%) Ansible
8 18 (2.90%) EMC NetWorker
8 18 (2.90%) Terraform
9 15 (2.42%) Failover Clustering
10 14 (2.26%) Sysprep
11 13 (2.10%) Nagios
11 13 (2.10%) NetBackup
12 11 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (1.77%) McAfee ePO
13 10 (1.61%) FortiGate
13 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 8 (1.29%) EMC VPLEX
14 8 (1.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 462 (74.52%) Microsoft
2 316 (50.97%) VMware
3 104 (16.77%) Cisco
4 74 (11.94%) Citrix
5 72 (11.61%) Veeam
6 66 (10.65%) Red Hat
7 57 (9.19%) Apple
8 56 (9.03%) HP
9 47 (7.58%) Oracle
10 43 (6.94%) Sophos
11 32 (5.16%) Dell
12 31 (5.00%) Palo Alto
13 30 (4.84%) Aruba
14 29 (4.68%) Meraki
15 26 (4.19%) EMC
15 26 (4.19%) SolarWinds
16 25 (4.03%) Google
17 22 (3.55%) ConnectWise
18 21 (3.39%) Juniper
19 20 (3.23%) Barracuda Networks