Windows Server 2016 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2016 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 399 486
Rank change year-on-year +44 +87 -91
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 196 251 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.80% 3.29% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 187 247
10th Percentile £210 £223 £159
25th Percentile £350 £369 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £608 £600 £500
90th Percentile - £700 £580
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £413
% change year-on-year - +21.21% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile - £22.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £56.50 £26.48 £17.35
Median hourly rate £61.60 £27.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.15% +35.00% -42.86%
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - £56.70 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £27.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +128.15% +35.00% -55.73%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2016 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,164 7,622 10,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.77% 16.20% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,456 5,352 7,467
10th Percentile £188 £194 £175
25th Percentile £310 £329 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 360 497
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.53 £18.22 £15.80
Median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

Windows Server 2016
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2016 in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2016 in England

Windows Server 2016
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
South East +67 85 £605 +34.44% 27
London +48 57 £350 -30.00% 16
Midlands +16 19 £350 +55.56% 13
North of England +18 17 £300 -20.00% 24
West Midlands +20 13 £350 +27.27% 7
East of England -15 10 £588 -16.07% 13
Yorkshire +18 9 £350 -6.67% 12
South West -42 7 £298 -45.91% 13
North West +12 5 £250 -33.33% 7
East Midlands +4 5 £475 +113.00% 6
North East +9 3 £300 +118.18% 5
Windows Server 2016
UK

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 62 (31.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (10.20%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.08%) IIS
4 3 (1.53%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (1.53%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (1.02%) WordPress
6 1 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 16 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.02%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 78 (39.80%) Azure
2 65 (33.16%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (19.90%) Entra ID
4 24 (12.24%) Azure Monitor
5 22 (11.22%) Azure Storage
6 14 (7.14%) OCI
7 11 (5.61%) OneDrive
8 8 (4.08%) WhatsApp
9 6 (3.06%) AWS
9 6 (3.06%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.06%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.04%) IaaS
11 2 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.02%) GitHub
11 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.51%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.51%) GCP
12 1 (0.51%) PaaS
12 1 (0.51%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 77 (39.29%) Firewall
2 62 (31.63%) DNS
3 54 (27.55%) DHCP
4 37 (18.88%) SAN
5 11 (5.61%) VPN
6 10 (5.10%) Unified Communications
7 8 (4.08%) WAN
8 7 (3.57%) LAN
8 7 (3.57%) TCP/IP
8 7 (3.57%) VLAN
9 5 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.55%) Wireless
10 4 (2.04%) NAS
11 3 (1.53%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (1.53%) Skype
12 2 (1.02%) Internet
12 2 (1.02%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.02%) Network Security
12 2 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.90%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.06%) Power BI
3 5 (2.55%) MySQL
4 4 (2.04%) Big Data
4 4 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.53%) JIRA
2 2 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.51%) GitLab
3 1 (0.51%) Gradle
3 1 (0.51%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.51%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.51%) MSI
3 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (40.31%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.29%) Finance
2 28 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.12%) Banking
4 6 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
5 3 (1.53%) Local Government
6 2 (1.02%) Law
6 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.51%) Back Office
7 1 (0.51%) Legal
7 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (26.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (18.88%) Support Engineer
3 21 (10.71%) Active Directory Support
3 21 (10.71%) Windows Engineer
4 16 (8.16%) Administrator
5 15 (7.65%) Build Engineer
5 15 (7.65%) Windows Build Engineer
6 14 (7.14%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (7.14%) Senior
6 14 (7.14%) Support Specialist
7 13 (6.63%) Applications Engineer
7 13 (6.63%) Systems Administrator
8 12 (6.12%) Server Engineer
9 11 (5.61%) Wintel Engineer
10 10 (5.10%) Analyst
10 10 (5.10%) Applications Support
10 10 (5.10%) Applications Support Engineer
10 10 (5.10%) Storage Engineer
10 10 (5.10%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.71%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.06%) Itk
3 5 (2.55%) CSS
3 5 (2.55%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (2.55%) HTML
3 5 (2.55%) HTML5
4 2 (1.02%) LAMP
4 2 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.51%) jQuery
5 1 (0.51%) JSON
5 1 (0.51%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.51%) LDAP
5 1 (0.51%) Node.js
5 1 (0.51%) RESTful
5 1 (0.51%) SOAP
5 1 (0.51%) Spring
5 1 (0.51%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.51%) Swagger
5 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.88%) PKI
2 25 (12.76%) Data Centre
3 23 (11.73%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (10.20%) Replication
5 12 (6.12%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (5.10%) Clustering
7 6 (3.06%) Digital Signage
7 6 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.04%) iPad
8 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.02%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.02%) iPhone
9 2 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.51%) CMDB
10 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 188 (95.92%) Windows
2 151 (77.04%) Windows Server
3 134 (68.37%) Windows Server 2019
4 83 (42.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 63 (32.14%) Linux
6 61 (31.12%) Windows 10
7 15 (7.65%) Windows NT
8 14 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
8 14 (7.14%) Windows XP
9 7 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (3.57%) VMS
10 6 (3.06%) CentOS
10 6 (3.06%) Windows 7
11 5 (2.55%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (2.04%) Ubuntu
12 4 (2.04%) Unix
13 3 (1.53%) Android
13 3 (1.53%) Mac OS
14 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
14 2 (1.02%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (38.78%) ITIL
2 55 (28.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 40 (20.41%) Service Management
4 38 (19.39%) Release Management
5 36 (18.37%) Migration
6 35 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (16.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (14.29%) Customer Service
9 27 (13.78%) DevOps
9 27 (13.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 25 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (12.24%) CI/CD
12 23 (11.73%) Agile
12 23 (11.73%) Analytics
12 23 (11.73%) Identity Management
13 22 (11.22%) Log Analytics
14 21 (10.71%) Privileged Identity Management
14 21 (10.71%) RBAC
14 21 (10.71%) Server Management
15 18 (9.18%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (43.88%) PowerShell
2 27 (13.78%) SQL
3 23 (11.73%) VBScript
4 21 (10.71%) Bicep
4 21 (10.71%) C#
4 21 (10.71%) VB
5 8 (4.08%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.06%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.55%) Bash
7 5 (2.55%) PHP
7 5 (2.55%) Python
8 4 (2.04%) C
8 4 (2.04%) C++
8 4 (2.04%) Java
9 3 (1.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (45.92%) Security Cleared
2 84 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 46 (23.47%) Degree
4 38 (19.39%) SC Cleared
5 21 (10.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (7.14%) CCNA
6 14 (7.14%) CCNP
6 14 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.51%) HNC
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.51%) MCSA
10 1 (0.51%) MCSE
10 1 (0.51%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.16%) QA
2 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.53%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.02%) NIST
3 2 (1.02%) SLA
4 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 149 (76.02%) Active Directory
2 52 (26.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (17.35%) Hyper-V
4 30 (15.31%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (13.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 22 (11.22%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (7.65%) Firmware
8 9 (4.59%) vSphere
9 4 (2.04%) XenApp
10 3 (1.53%) VMware NSX
11 2 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (1.02%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.02%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.51%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.51%) Docker
12 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 87 (44.39%) SCCM
2 57 (29.08%) WSUS
3 44 (22.45%) SCOM
4 40 (20.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 32 (16.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (11.73%) Kubernetes
7 18 (9.18%) vCenter Server
8 15 (7.65%) NetBackup
8 15 (7.65%) Sysprep
9 14 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
10 11 (5.61%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (3.06%) Nessus
12 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (1.53%) Ansible
13 3 (1.53%) Kibana
13 3 (1.53%) Packer
13 3 (1.53%) Terraform
14 2 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (1.02%) logstash
14 2 (1.02%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 121 (61.73%) Microsoft
2 57 (29.08%) VMware
3 32 (16.33%) HP
3 32 (16.33%) Veeam
4 30 (15.31%) Cisco
5 29 (14.80%) EMC
6 23 (11.73%) Citrix
6 23 (11.73%) Oracle
7 19 (9.69%) Juniper
8 17 (8.67%) Dell
8 17 (8.67%) Symantec
9 16 (8.16%) Palo Alto
10 15 (7.65%) 3PAR
10 15 (7.65%) Avaya
11 14 (7.14%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (7.14%) Red Hat
12 12 (6.12%) CheckPoint
13 6 (3.06%) Aruba
13 6 (3.06%) Commvault
13 6 (3.06%) SolarWinds
110 Windows Server 2016 jobs Nationwide