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

6 months to
15 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 416 484
Rank change year-on-year +53 +68 -89
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 216 304 418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.53% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.82% 3.28% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 223 294
10th Percentile £200 £186 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £520
90th Percentile - £700 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £554 £488 £325
% change year-on-year +13.64% +50.00% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile - £22.99 £15.85
25th Percentile £56.50 £26.48 £19.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +92.50% -40.30%
75th Percentile - £40.25 £26.54
90th Percentile - £56.70 £50.31
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 5,658 9,258 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 16.21% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,818 6,479 8,883
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.10% +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 390 404 604
10th Percentile £12.73 £14.25 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.97 £16.08
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%
75th Percentile £60.56 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +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 15 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 15 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 +39 190 £550 +7.84% 121
UK excluding London +15 149 £554 +13.64% 98
South East +73 81 £575 +27.78% 23
Work from Home +96 66 £425 -10.05% 39
London +69 58 £365 -27.00% 28
North of England +10 19 £363 -3.33% 24
Midlands +28 16 £350 +55.56% 24
Scotland +33 14 £325 +85.71% 3
West Midlands +22 13 £350 +27.27% 9
Yorkshire +23 11 £375 +11.11% 14
East of England -9 9 £650 -7.14% 16
North West +7 6 £250 -48.72% 6
South West -26 6 £220 -60.00% 9
Wales +26 4 £220 -53.19% 1
North East +10 2 £350 +137.29% 4
East Midlands +8 2 £513 +129.82% 15

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 65 (30.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (8.80%) SharePoint
3 17 (7.87%) IIS
4 4 (1.85%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.39%) WordPress
6 2 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (9.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.93%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.46%) assyst
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 82 (37.96%) Azure
2 74 (34.26%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (18.06%) Entra ID
4 18 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (7.87%) Azure Storage
5 17 (7.87%) OneDrive
6 15 (6.94%) OCI
7 8 (3.70%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.78%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.78%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.78%) WhatsApp
9 5 (2.31%) AWS
10 3 (1.39%) IaaS
11 2 (0.93%) GitHub
11 2 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.46%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.46%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.46%) GCP
12 1 (0.46%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.46%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 73 (33.80%) Firewall
2 58 (26.85%) DNS
3 50 (23.15%) DHCP
4 40 (18.52%) SAN
5 11 (5.09%) VPN
6 9 (4.17%) LAN
6 9 (4.17%) Unified Communications
7 8 (3.70%) NAS
7 8 (3.70%) WAN
8 4 (1.85%) Network Security
8 4 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (1.85%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.85%) Wireless
9 3 (1.39%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (1.39%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.93%) Internet
10 2 (0.93%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.93%) VLAN
10 2 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (20.37%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.70%) Power BI
3 4 (1.85%) Big Data
3 4 (1.85%) MySQL
4 3 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
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%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.39%) JIRA
2 2 (0.93%) 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 87 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.20%) Public Sector
3 25 (11.57%) Finance
4 12 (5.56%) Banking
5 6 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.31%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Back Office
8 2 (0.93%) Law
8 2 (0.93%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.46%) French Language
9 1 (0.46%) Legal
9 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (13.89%) Support Engineer
3 26 (12.04%) Windows Engineer
4 19 (8.80%) Build Engineer
4 19 (8.80%) Windows Build Engineer
5 17 (7.87%) Active Directory Support
6 16 (7.41%) Analyst
6 16 (7.41%) Support Analyst
7 15 (6.94%) Administrator
7 15 (6.94%) Wintel Engineer
8 14 (6.48%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (6.48%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (6.48%) Support Specialist
9 13 (6.02%) Server Engineer
10 12 (5.56%) Senior
11 11 (5.09%) Systems Administrator
12 10 (4.63%) IT Analyst
12 10 (4.63%) IT Support
12 10 (4.63%) IT Support Analyst
12 10 (4.63%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.87%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.78%) Itk
3 4 (1.85%) CSS
3 4 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.85%) HTML
3 4 (1.85%) HTML5
4 3 (1.39%) LAMP
4 3 (1.39%) Web Services
5 2 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.93%) 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 31 (14.35%) PKI
2 28 (12.96%) Data Centre
3 24 (11.11%) Replication
4 18 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (5.09%) Clustering
7 6 (2.78%) Digital Signage
7 6 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.85%) iPad
9 3 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.93%) IoT
10 2 (0.93%) iPhone
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.46%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.46%) Fat Client
11 1 (0.46%) LIMS
11 1 (0.46%) NHS
11 1 (0.46%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 207 (95.83%) Windows
2 156 (72.22%) Windows Server
3 142 (65.74%) Windows Server 2019
4 95 (43.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 70 (32.41%) Windows 10
6 62 (28.70%) Linux
7 24 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
8 19 (8.80%) Windows NT
9 14 (6.48%) Windows XP
10 10 (4.63%) CentOS
11 8 (3.70%) Windows 7
12 7 (3.24%) VMS
12 7 (3.24%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (2.78%) Debian
13 6 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (1.85%) Ubuntu
14 4 (1.85%) Unix
15 3 (1.39%) Android
15 3 (1.39%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (39.35%) ITIL
2 65 (30.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (18.98%) Service Management
4 40 (18.52%) Migration
5 38 (17.59%) Release Management
6 36 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 36 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (10.65%) DevOps
8 23 (10.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 20 (9.26%) Analytics
9 20 (9.26%) CI/CD
9 20 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (8.80%) Agile
10 19 (8.80%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (8.80%) Server Management
10 19 (8.80%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (8.33%) Identity Management
11 18 (8.33%) Log Analytics
11 18 (8.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (34.26%) PowerShell
2 31 (14.35%) SQL
3 19 (8.80%) VBScript
4 17 (7.87%) Bicep
4 17 (7.87%) C#
4 17 (7.87%) VB
5 6 (2.78%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.31%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.85%) Bash
7 4 (1.85%) C
7 4 (1.85%) C++
7 4 (1.85%) PHP
7 4 (1.85%) Python
8 3 (1.39%) Java
9 2 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (41.20%) Security Cleared
2 84 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 40 (18.52%) Degree
4 35 (16.20%) SC Cleared
5 17 (7.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (6.48%) CCNA
6 14 (6.48%) CCNP
6 14 (6.48%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.24%) MCSA
9 6 (2.78%) MCSE
9 6 (2.78%) RHCT
10 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.26%) QA
2 6 (2.78%) SLA
3 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.93%) NIST
4 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 173 (80.09%) Active Directory
2 52 (24.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (17.13%) Hyper-V
4 24 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (9.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (9.72%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (8.80%) Firmware
7 8 (3.70%) vSphere
8 7 (3.24%) XenApp
9 6 (2.78%) KVM
10 4 (1.85%) XenDesktop
11 3 (1.39%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.93%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.46%) Docker
13 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 96 (44.44%) SCCM
2 54 (25.00%) WSUS
3 41 (18.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 40 (18.52%) SCOM
5 32 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (8.80%) Sysprep
7 18 (8.33%) Kubernetes
7 18 (8.33%) vCenter Server
8 15 (6.94%) NetBackup
9 14 (6.48%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (6.02%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (1.39%) Ansible
12 3 (1.39%) Kibana
12 3 (1.39%) Nessus
12 3 (1.39%) Packer
12 3 (1.39%) Terraform
13 2 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.93%) logstash
13 2 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 122 (56.48%) Microsoft
2 60 (27.78%) VMware
3 36 (16.67%) Veeam
4 35 (16.20%) Cisco
4 35 (16.20%) HP
5 32 (14.81%) Citrix
6 29 (13.43%) EMC
7 23 (10.65%) Oracle
8 20 (9.26%) Dell
9 18 (8.33%) Juniper
10 17 (7.87%) Palo Alto
10 17 (7.87%) Red Hat
11 16 (7.41%) Symantec
12 15 (6.94%) 3PAR
13 14 (6.48%) Extreme Networks
14 13 (6.02%) Avaya
15 12 (5.56%) CheckPoint
16 7 (3.24%) ServiceNow
17 6 (2.78%) Aruba
18 4 (1.85%) Commvault
130 Windows Server 2016 jobs Nationwide