Windows Server 2016 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2016 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 414 485
Rank change year-on-year +51 +71 -89
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 219 296 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.85% 3.20% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 216 300
10th Percentile £200 £189 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £423
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +18.34% +5.63%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £503
90th Percentile - £700 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £552 £489 £313
% change year-on-year +12.94% +56.40% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile - £22.99 £15.85
25th Percentile £56.50 £26.48 £16.35
Median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -50.21%
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - £56.70 £27.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,687 9,251 13,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 16.16% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 6,458 8,915
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 404 594
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.08 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.74 £15.89
Median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% +21.21%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in the UK

Windows Server 2016
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2016 within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +64 193 £550 +7.32% 117
UK excluding London +21 151 £552 +12.94% 95
South East +76 82 £575 +22.67% 24
Work from Home +89 66 £425 -10.53% 42
London +73 59 £365 -27.00% 29
North of England +23 19 £363 -3.33% 26
Midlands +15 17 £350 +55.56% 17
Scotland +27 14 £325 +85.71% 3
West Midlands +24 13 £350 +27.27% 6
Yorkshire +22 11 £375 +11.11% 16
East of England -10 9 £600 -14.29% 16
North West +7 6 £250 -48.72% 7
South West -35 6 £220 -60.00% 12
Wales +23 4 £220 -53.19%
East Midlands +11 3 £475 +113.00% 11
North East +12 2 £350 +154.55% 3

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 66 (30.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (8.68%) SharePoint
3 17 (7.76%) IIS
4 4 (1.83%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.37%) WordPress
6 2 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (10.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.91%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.74%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.46%) assyst
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 83 (37.90%) Azure
2 75 (34.25%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (17.81%) Entra ID
4 18 (8.22%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (7.76%) Azure Storage
5 17 (7.76%) OneDrive
6 15 (6.85%) OCI
7 8 (3.65%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.20%) WhatsApp
9 6 (2.74%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.74%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.28%) AWS
11 4 (1.83%) IaaS
12 2 (0.91%) GitHub
12 2 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
13 1 (0.46%) Azure AKS
13 1 (0.46%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.46%) GCP
13 1 (0.46%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.46%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 75 (34.25%) Firewall
2 60 (27.40%) DNS
3 52 (23.74%) DHCP
4 40 (18.26%) SAN
5 11 (5.02%) VPN
6 10 (4.57%) LAN
6 10 (4.57%) Unified Communications
7 9 (4.11%) WAN
8 8 (3.65%) NAS
9 5 (2.28%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.83%) Network Security
10 4 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.83%) Wireless
11 3 (1.37%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (1.37%) iSCSI
11 3 (1.37%) VLAN
12 2 (0.91%) Internet
12 2 (0.91%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (20.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.65%) Power BI
3 4 (1.83%) Big Data
3 4 (1.83%) MySQL
4 3 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.37%) JIRA
2 2 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.46%) GitLab
3 1 (0.46%) Gradle
3 1 (0.46%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 89 (40.64%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.89%) Public Sector
3 25 (11.42%) Finance
4 12 (5.48%) Banking
5 6 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.28%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.91%) Back Office
8 2 (0.91%) Law
8 2 (0.91%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.46%) French Language
9 1 (0.46%) Legal
9 1 (0.46%) Local Government
9 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (27.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (14.16%) Support Engineer
3 27 (12.33%) Windows Engineer
4 19 (8.68%) Build Engineer
4 19 (8.68%) Windows Build Engineer
5 17 (7.76%) Active Directory Support
6 16 (7.31%) Analyst
6 16 (7.31%) Support Analyst
7 15 (6.85%) Administrator
8 14 (6.39%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (6.39%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (6.39%) Server Engineer
8 14 (6.39%) Support Specialist
8 14 (6.39%) Wintel Engineer
9 12 (5.48%) Senior
10 11 (5.02%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (4.57%) IT Analyst
11 10 (4.57%) IT Support
11 10 (4.57%) IT Support Analyst
11 10 (4.57%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.76%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.74%) Itk
3 4 (1.83%) CSS
3 4 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.83%) HTML
3 4 (1.83%) HTML5
4 3 (1.37%) LAMP
4 3 (1.37%) Web Services
5 2 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.91%) REST
6 1 (0.46%) jQuery
6 1 (0.46%) JSON
6 1 (0.46%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.46%) LDAP
6 1 (0.46%) Node.js
6 1 (0.46%) RESTful
6 1 (0.46%) SOAP
6 1 (0.46%) Spring
6 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.61%) PKI
2 28 (12.79%) Data Centre
3 24 (10.96%) Replication
4 18 (8.22%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (5.48%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (5.02%) Clustering
7 6 (2.74%) Digital Signage
7 6 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.83%) iPad
9 3 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.91%) IoT
10 2 (0.91%) iPhone
10 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.46%) CCTV
11 1 (0.46%) CMDB
11 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.46%) Fat Client
11 1 (0.46%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 211 (96.35%) Windows
2 160 (73.06%) Windows Server
3 143 (65.30%) Windows Server 2019
4 98 (44.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 72 (32.88%) Windows 10
6 62 (28.31%) Linux
7 24 (10.96%) Windows Server 2008
8 19 (8.68%) Windows NT
9 14 (6.39%) Windows XP
10 10 (4.57%) CentOS
11 8 (3.65%) Windows 7
12 7 (3.20%) VMS
12 7 (3.20%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (2.74%) Debian
13 6 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
14 4 (1.83%) Unix
15 3 (1.37%) Android
15 3 (1.37%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (39.27%) ITIL
2 66 (30.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (18.72%) Migration
3 41 (18.72%) Service Management
4 38 (17.35%) Release Management
5 37 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (16.44%) Customer Service
7 32 (14.61%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (10.50%) DevOps
8 23 (10.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 21 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (9.13%) Analytics
10 20 (9.13%) CI/CD
10 20 (9.13%) Server Management
11 19 (8.68%) Agile
11 19 (8.68%) Deployment Automation
11 19 (8.68%) User Acceptance Testing
12 18 (8.22%) Identity Management
12 18 (8.22%) Project Management
12 18 (8.22%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.16%) PowerShell
2 32 (14.61%) SQL
3 19 (8.68%) VBScript
4 17 (7.76%) Bicep
4 17 (7.76%) C#
4 17 (7.76%) VB
5 6 (2.74%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.28%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.83%) Bash
7 4 (1.83%) C
7 4 (1.83%) C++
7 4 (1.83%) PHP
7 4 (1.83%) Python
8 3 (1.37%) Java
9 2 (0.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (41.10%) Security Cleared
2 84 (38.36%) DV Cleared
3 40 (18.26%) Degree
4 35 (15.98%) SC Cleared
5 17 (7.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (6.39%) CCNA
6 14 (6.39%) CCNP
6 14 (6.39%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.20%) MCSA
9 6 (2.74%) MCSE
9 6 (2.74%) RHCT
10 3 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.13%) QA
2 6 (2.74%) SLA
3 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.91%) NIST
4 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 174 (79.45%) Active Directory
2 54 (24.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (17.81%) Hyper-V
4 24 (10.96%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (10.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (9.59%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (8.68%) Firmware
8 8 (3.65%) vSphere
9 7 (3.20%) XenApp
10 6 (2.74%) KVM
11 4 (1.83%) XenDesktop
12 3 (1.37%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.91%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.46%) Docker
14 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 96 (43.84%) SCCM
2 54 (24.66%) WSUS
3 41 (18.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 41 (18.72%) SCOM
4 33 (15.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (8.68%) Sysprep
6 18 (8.22%) Kubernetes
6 18 (8.22%) vCenter Server
7 15 (6.85%) NetBackup
8 14 (6.39%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (5.94%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.37%) Ansible
11 3 (1.37%) Kibana
11 3 (1.37%) Nessus
11 3 (1.37%) Packer
11 3 (1.37%) Terraform
12 2 (0.91%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.91%) logstash
12 2 (0.91%) VxRail
Vendors
1 123 (56.16%) Microsoft
2 62 (28.31%) VMware
3 36 (16.44%) Veeam
4 35 (15.98%) Cisco
4 35 (15.98%) HP
5 33 (15.07%) Citrix
6 29 (13.24%) EMC
7 24 (10.96%) Oracle
8 20 (9.13%) Dell
9 19 (8.68%) Juniper
10 17 (7.76%) Palo Alto
10 17 (7.76%) Red Hat
11 16 (7.31%) Symantec
12 15 (6.85%) 3PAR
13 14 (6.39%) Extreme Networks
14 13 (5.94%) Avaya
15 12 (5.48%) CheckPoint
16 7 (3.20%) Aruba
16 7 (3.20%) ServiceNow
17 5 (2.28%) Commvault
124 Windows Server 2016 jobs Nationwide