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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 418 532
Rank change year-on-year -1 +114 -173
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2016 609 754 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.76% 0.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.36% 4.73% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 533 608 872
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
75th Percentile £54,250 £53,375 £53,750
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £65,738
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -5.00%

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 13,973 15,925 30,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.99% 16.06% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,731 10,713 16,468
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +19 585 £40,000 - 113
UK excluding London -6 515 £40,000 +14.29% 90
Work from Home +41 198 £42,500 - 40
South East +3 163 £50,000 +58.73% 25
South West +41 102 £37,500 -8.54% 9
North of England 0 102 £37,500 -6.25% 22
London -14 86 £52,501 +0.00% 30
Midlands -11 74 £35,000 +7.69% 18
East of England +23 58 £33,000 +14.78% 16
Yorkshire +75 52 £37,500 +16.46% 14
West Midlands +7 52 £31,000 -3.13% 6
North West -56 30 £40,000 -11.11% 5
East Midlands -5 21 £37,500 +7.14% 12
North East +4 20 £31,000 -42.33% 3
Scotland -67 12 £37,500 -6.25% 3
Northern Ireland +14 3 £40,000 +23.08%
Wales -5 2 £46,250 +68.18%

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
1 183 (30.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 103 (16.91%) SharePoint
3 32 (5.25%) IIS
4 21 (3.45%) Exchange Server 2010
5 20 (3.28%) Exchange Server 2013
6 18 (2.96%) Exchange Server 2007
7 13 (2.13%) Confluence
8 9 (1.48%) WordPress
9 6 (0.99%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.16%) Site Server
Applications
1 96 (15.76%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 342 (56.16%) Microsoft 365
2 322 (52.87%) Azure
3 113 (18.56%) Entra ID
4 63 (10.34%) AWS
5 57 (9.36%) OneDrive
6 47 (7.72%) Mimecast
7 18 (2.96%) Azure Storage
7 18 (2.96%) SaaS
8 17 (2.79%) Google Workspace
8 17 (2.79%) Nutanix
9 15 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (1.97%) OCI
10 12 (1.97%) Power Platform
11 11 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.64%) GCP
12 10 (1.64%) IaaS
13 8 (1.31%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.15%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 231 (37.93%) DNS
2 217 (35.63%) Firewall
3 196 (32.18%) DHCP
4 101 (16.58%) TCP/IP
5 91 (14.94%) WAN
6 76 (12.48%) VPN
7 75 (12.32%) LAN
8 65 (10.67%) Wireless
9 58 (9.52%) SAN
10 47 (7.72%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (6.08%) VoIP
12 33 (5.42%) VLAN
13 22 (3.61%) Remote Desktop
14 21 (3.45%) SD-WAN
15 16 (2.63%) Network Security
16 13 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
16 13 (2.13%) NAS
17 12 (1.97%) iSCSI
18 9 (1.48%) Multicast
18 9 (1.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (13.14%) SQL Server
2 32 (5.25%) MongoDB
3 31 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.61%) MySQL
5 9 (1.48%) DB2
6 8 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.99%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.99%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.82%) Power BI
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.33%) 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 17 (2.79%) JIRA
2 8 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.99%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.82%) Git
5 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.33%) Hudson
5 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.16%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 193 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 92 (15.11%) Finance
3 27 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (2.96%) Public Sector
6 17 (2.79%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.63%) Retail
8 15 (2.46%) Legal
9 13 (2.13%) Back Office
10 11 (1.81%) Automotive
10 11 (1.81%) Law
11 9 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.99%) Aviation
14 5 (0.82%) Banking
14 5 (0.82%) Games
15 4 (0.66%) Electronics
16 2 (0.33%) Military
17 1 (0.16%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 150 (24.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 142 (23.32%) IT Engineer
3 115 (18.88%) IT Support
4 95 (15.60%) Support Engineer
5 84 (13.79%) Senior
6 70 (11.49%) IT Support Engineer
7 69 (11.33%) Administrator
8 62 (10.18%) Analyst
9 50 (8.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 45 (7.39%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 35 (5.75%) 3rd Line Support
11 35 (5.75%) IT Technician
12 32 (5.25%) DBA
13 31 (5.09%) 2nd Line Support
13 31 (5.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (4.93%) Systems Administrator
14 30 (4.93%) Systems Engineer
15 29 (4.76%) DV Cleared DBA
16 28 (4.60%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 28 (4.60%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.96%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.48%) LAMP
3 7 (1.15%) LDAP
4 3 (0.49%) SAML
5 2 (0.33%) ServiceStack
5 2 (0.33%) WSH
6 1 (0.16%) .NET
6 1 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.16%) Kafka
6 1 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.16%) XML
6 1 (0.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.18%) Self-Motivation
2 42 (6.90%) Driving Licence
3 34 (5.58%) Data Centre
4 31 (5.09%) PKI
5 29 (4.76%) Replication
6 21 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.46%) CCTV
8 15 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.97%) Clustering
10 9 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.31%) VAX
12 6 (0.99%) EMC VNX
12 6 (0.99%) Fat Client
12 6 (0.99%) Handset
12 6 (0.99%) iPad
12 6 (0.99%) Thin Client
12 6 (0.99%) Xbox
13 5 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 596 (97.87%) Windows
2 431 (70.77%) Windows Server
3 414 (67.98%) Windows Server 2019
4 285 (46.80%) Windows Server 2012
5 235 (38.59%) Windows 10
6 178 (29.23%) Linux
7 69 (11.33%) Windows Server 2008
8 58 (9.52%) CentOS
9 46 (7.55%) Windows 7
10 31 (5.09%) Ubuntu
11 22 (3.61%) Windows 8
12 21 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 20 (3.28%) Apple iOS
14 16 (2.63%) Windows XP
15 15 (2.46%) Mac OS
15 15 (2.46%) Windows NT
16 9 (1.48%) VMS
17 6 (0.99%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.99%) Unix
18 4 (0.66%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (30.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 169 (27.75%) ITIL
3 128 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (17.24%) Customer Service
5 73 (11.99%) Cybersecurity
6 61 (10.02%) Mentoring
7 60 (9.85%) Project Management
8 52 (8.54%) Change Management
8 52 (8.54%) Time Management
9 51 (8.37%) Performance Monitoring
10 49 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
11 48 (7.88%) Storage Management
12 46 (7.55%) Service Management
13 39 (6.40%) DevOps
14 38 (6.24%) User Experience
15 36 (5.91%) Line Management
16 34 (5.58%) Agile
17 33 (5.42%) Roadmaps
18 32 (5.25%) Capacity Management
18 32 (5.25%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 211 (34.65%) PowerShell
2 78 (12.81%) SQL
3 47 (7.72%) Bash
4 27 (4.43%) VBScript
5 19 (3.12%) VB
6 17 (2.79%) C#
7 14 (2.30%) Bicep
8 8 (1.31%) Python
9 6 (0.99%) Perl
10 2 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.16%) C++
11 1 (0.16%) Java
11 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 122 (20.03%) Security Cleared
2 109 (17.90%) Degree
3 81 (13.30%) DV Cleared
4 59 (9.69%) SC Cleared
5 48 (7.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (6.90%) DBS Check
7 37 (6.08%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (4.27%) CCNA
9 24 (3.94%) MCSE
10 23 (3.78%) CCNP
11 20 (3.28%) MCSA
12 18 (2.96%) HNC
13 16 (2.63%) A+ Certification
13 16 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
14 15 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (2.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 13 (2.13%) Azure Certification
16 8 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.49%) MCTS
17 3 (0.49%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.21%) SLA
2 12 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.48%) GDPR
4 6 (0.99%) NIST
5 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.49%) PMO
6 2 (0.33%) NCSC
6 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.33%) QA
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 392 (64.37%) Active Directory
2 231 (37.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 183 (30.05%) Hyper-V
4 62 (10.18%) vSphere
5 49 (8.05%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (6.24%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (3.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (2.79%) Firmware
9 16 (2.63%) Terminal Services
10 9 (1.48%) Docker
11 8 (1.31%) XenApp
12 6 (0.99%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.82%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.49%) KVM
14 3 (0.49%) NFS
14 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.33%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.33%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 117 (19.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 107 (17.57%) SCCM
3 71 (11.66%) WSUS
4 57 (9.36%) vCenter Server
5 39 (6.40%) SCOM
6 34 (5.58%) Kubernetes
7 23 (3.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (2.96%) Ansible
8 18 (2.96%) EMC NetWorker
9 15 (2.46%) Terraform
10 13 (2.13%) Nagios
10 13 (2.13%) NetBackup
11 12 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (1.81%) McAfee ePO
12 11 (1.81%) Sysprep
13 8 (1.31%) EMC VPLEX
13 8 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (1.31%) Nessus
13 8 (1.31%) SCVMM
14 7 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 449 (73.73%) Microsoft
2 307 (50.41%) VMware
3 100 (16.42%) Cisco
4 73 (11.99%) Citrix
5 70 (11.49%) Red Hat
6 69 (11.33%) Veeam
7 58 (9.52%) Apple
8 56 (9.20%) HP
9 51 (8.37%) Oracle
10 43 (7.06%) Sophos
11 34 (5.58%) Dell
12 29 (4.76%) Meraki
12 29 (4.76%) Palo Alto
13 26 (4.27%) EMC
14 25 (4.11%) Aruba
14 25 (4.11%) SolarWinds
15 24 (3.94%) Google
16 23 (3.78%) ConnectWise
17 21 (3.45%) Juniper
18 19 (3.12%) Draytek