The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bolton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Bolton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 35 17 21
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +4
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 5 21 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 4.065% 15.44% 1.667%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% 41.18% 2.941%
Number of salaries quoted 1 21 1
Average salary £15,500 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-61.25% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £33,750
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +3.70%
All Operating Systems
Bolton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
30 51 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 24.39% 37.50% 56.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23 51 34
Average salary £29,250 £37,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.94% +23.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £15,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,250 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
Manchester

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Bolton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Bolton Windows Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2008
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Bolton region.

Bolton Windows Server 2008 Salary Trend

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton region citing Windows Server 2008 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Windows Server 2008.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (40.00%) SQL
6 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (30.00%) OLAP
6 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
6 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (30.00%) C#
6 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (30.00%) Tcl
6 3 (30.00%) Validation
6 3 (30.00%) Replication
6 3 (30.00%) VMware
6 3 (30.00%) Clustering
6 3 (30.00%) Google
6 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (30.00%) Fredhopper
7 2 (20.00%) Google Apps
7 2 (20.00%) Office 365

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton region citing Windows Server 2008 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Windows Server 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (10.00%) SAS
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Google Apps
1 2 (20.00%) Office 365
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) MPLS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) WLAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (30.00%) OLAP
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) DBA
2 2 (20.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Network Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
1 3 (30.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (10.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Tcl
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) NFS
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (10.00%) XenApp
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) WSUS
1 2 (20.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Fredhopper
3 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Sophos
4 1 (10.00%) Fujitsu
Bolton, Lancashire
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Bolton, Lancashire
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bens
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