Windows Server 2016 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 374 484
Rank change year-on-year +99 +110 -116
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2016 70 91 142
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.57% 2.78% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 55 102
10th Percentile £199 £163 £265
25th Percentile £350 £360 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +18.42%
75th Percentile £608 £594 £565
90th Percentile - £665 £611
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £416
% change year-on-year -5.00% +20.12% +4.06%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,531 3,275 5,329
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.46% 13.50% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 2,303 3,793
10th Percentile £225 £243 £300
25th Percentile £360 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £524 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% +2.75% +10.27%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £613
90th Percentile £677 £728 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 105 131
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.14 £25.71 £19.31
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £40.70 £67.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £44.11 £22.00
% change year-on-year -48.99% +100.50% +25.71%

Windows Server 2016
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server 2016 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server 2016 trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server 2016.

Windows Server 2016 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2016
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows Server 2016 over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Windows Server 2016 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2016
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server 2016.

Windows Server 2016 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2016
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 46 (65.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.00%) IIS
3 3 (4.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) assyst
1 1 (1.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (54.29%) Azure
2 36 (51.43%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 21 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (30.00%) Azure Storage
5 4 (5.71%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.86%) AWS
6 2 (2.86%) GitHub
6 2 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.86%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.43%) IaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (57.14%) Firewall
2 27 (38.57%) DNS
3 24 (34.29%) DHCP
4 14 (20.00%) SAN
5 4 (5.71%) NAS
6 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.86%) VLAN
6 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.86%) Wireless
7 1 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.43%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.43%) FTP
7 1 (1.43%) LAN
7 1 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.43%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.71%) Big Data
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.43%) MySQL
4 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 32 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.29%) Finance
3 8 (11.43%) Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Back Office
7 1 (1.43%) French Language
7 1 (1.43%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Active Directory Support
2 18 (25.71%) Support Engineer
3 14 (20.00%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (20.00%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (20.00%) Support Specialist
4 8 (11.43%) Active Directory Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (8.57%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Administrator
8 4 (5.71%) Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Data Centre Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) IT Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Server Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.57%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.86%) REST
2 2 (2.86%) Web Services
3 1 (1.43%) CSS
3 1 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.43%) HTML
3 1 (1.43%) HTML5
3 1 (1.43%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (28.57%) PKI
3 8 (11.43%) Clustering
3 8 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 8 (11.43%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 66 (94.29%) Windows
2 44 (62.86%) Windows Server
3 39 (55.71%) Windows Server 2019
4 27 (38.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 24 (34.29%) Linux
6 10 (14.29%) Windows 10
7 4 (5.71%) VMS
7 4 (5.71%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (4.29%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.43%) CentOS
10 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) ITIL
2 22 (31.43%) CI/CD
3 21 (30.00%) DevOps
3 21 (30.00%) Identity Management
3 21 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (30.00%) Release Management
3 21 (30.00%) Service Management
4 20 (28.57%) Agile
4 20 (28.57%) Analytics
4 20 (28.57%) Log Analytics
4 20 (28.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 20 (28.57%) Privileged Identity Management
4 20 (28.57%) RBAC
5 12 (17.14%) Migration
6 10 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (12.86%) Business Continuity
7 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.14%) Change Management
8 5 (7.14%) Customer Service
8 5 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.71%) PowerShell
2 20 (28.57%) Bicep
2 20 (28.57%) C#
2 20 (28.57%) VB
2 20 (28.57%) VBScript
3 12 (17.14%) SQL
4 1 (1.43%) Bash
4 1 (1.43%) C
4 1 (1.43%) C++
4 1 (1.43%) PHP
4 1 (1.43%) Python
4 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (34.29%) Degree
1 24 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.00%) DV Cleared
2 21 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (28.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.43%) MCSE
5 1 (1.43%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) PCI DSS
1 3 (4.29%) SLA
2 2 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 23 (32.86%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (7.14%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.71%) vSphere
7 3 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.43%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (1.43%) XenApp
8 1 (1.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (60.00%) SCCM
2 25 (35.71%) SCOM
3 23 (32.86%) WSUS
4 21 (30.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 20 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (4.29%) Nessus
6 3 (4.29%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.86%) Ansible
7 2 (2.86%) Backup Exec
7 2 (2.86%) Kibana
7 2 (2.86%) logstash
7 2 (2.86%) Packer
7 2 (2.86%) SCVMM
7 2 (2.86%) Terraform
8 1 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.43%) SCDPM
8 1 (1.43%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.43%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 41 (58.57%) Microsoft
2 15 (21.43%) HP
3 14 (20.00%) Citrix
4 13 (18.57%) Cisco
5 10 (14.29%) Avaya
6 9 (12.86%) EMC
7 8 (11.43%) CheckPoint
7 8 (11.43%) VMware
8 4 (5.71%) Commvault
9 3 (4.29%) Juniper
9 3 (4.29%) Oracle
9 3 (4.29%) Qualys
10 2 (2.86%) Apple
10 2 (2.86%) Huawei
10 2 (2.86%) IBM
10 2 (2.86%) OpenText
10 2 (2.86%) SAP
10 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.86%) Trend Micro
10 2 (2.86%) Veritas