The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 22 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 Bradford region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 38 50 22
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -28
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 5 5 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 1.484% 1.208% 5.706%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.495% 5.952% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 14
Average salary £30,000 £27,875 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.62% +21.19%
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+1.42% +2.94%
All Operating Systems
Bradford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
91 84 88
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 27.00% 20.29% 26.43%
Number of salaries quoted 62 70 66
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £25,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +37.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,000 £21,200 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £47,500 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
West Yorkshire

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford Windows Server 2008 Salary Trend

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (72.73%) Windows Server 2003
2 16 (72.73%) VMware
3 12 (54.55%) SAN
3 12 (54.55%) MS Excel
4 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 9 (40.91%) Citrix
5 9 (40.91%) MS Exchange
5 9 (40.91%) Windows XP
6 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
7 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
7 7 (31.82%) MCP
7 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
7 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (31.82%) XenServer
8 6 (27.27%) XenApp
8 6 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2003
8 6 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (27.27%) Kaspersky
8 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (27.27%) Windows 2000 Server
8 6 (27.27%) MCSE
8 6 (27.27%) Firewall
8 6 (27.27%) CCNP
8 6 (27.27%) CCNA
8 6 (27.27%) CCA
8 6 (27.27%) Citrix Certification
8 6 (27.27%) CCEA

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 3 (13.64%) HTML
1 3 (13.64%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) MS Exchange
2 6 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2003
2 6 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (13.64%) WordPress
3 3 (13.64%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
4 2 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 12 (54.55%) MS Excel
2 4 (18.18%) MS Office
3 3 (13.64%) MS Visio
4 1 (4.545%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) SAN
2 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
3 6 (27.27%) Firewall
4 4 (18.18%) VPN
5 3 (13.64%) FTP
5 3 (13.64%) Intranet
6 1 (4.545%) SNMP
6 1 (4.545%) LAN
6 1 (4.545%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (13.64%) MS Access
General
1 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Senior Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Technical Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Senior Technical Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) IT Support
4 3 (13.64%) Server Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Windows Support Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Storage Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 1 (4.545%) Windows Server Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Server Support
6 1 (4.545%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Blackberry
1 3 (13.64%) Replication
2 1 (4.545%) Celerra
2 1 (4.545%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (72.73%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (40.91%) Windows XP
4 6 (27.27%) Windows 2000 Server
5 3 (13.64%) Windows 8
5 3 (13.64%) UNIX
6 2 (9.091%) Windows Vista
6 2 (9.091%) Windows 7
7 1 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (4.545%) HPUX
7 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.64%) Capacity Management
2 1 (4.545%) ITIL
2 1 (4.545%) Project Management
2 1 (4.545%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
1 3 (13.64%) VB
1 3 (13.64%) VBA
2 1 (4.545%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) MCP
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (27.27%) MCSE
2 6 (27.27%) CCNP
2 6 (27.27%) CCNA
2 6 (27.27%) CCA
2 6 (27.27%) Citrix Certification
2 6 (27.27%) CCEA
2 6 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.545%) MCITP
3 1 (4.545%) MCTS
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (31.82%) XenServer
3 6 (27.27%) XenApp
3 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (13.64%) VMware ESX
6 2 (9.091%) vSphere
7 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
7 1 (4.545%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) VMware
2 9 (40.91%) Citrix
3 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 6 (27.27%) Kaspersky
5 5 (22.73%) HP
6 3 (13.64%) CheckPoint
6 3 (13.64%) NetApp
7 2 (9.091%) Dell
8 1 (4.545%) Oracle
8 1 (4.545%) SAP
8 1 (4.545%) EMC
8 1 (4.545%) Cisco
8 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Familiar with programming languages, including C#, Entity Framework; MVC; JavaScript, SQL and Mark-up languages such as HTML, XML. Database and operating systems experience with SQL Server 2008,...
CMA Group
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per year
Posted: 17 May 2013