The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 37 30 30
Rank change year-on-year
-7 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 10 13 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 3.425% 3.963% 2.020%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.11% 11.71% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 1
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -42.85%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £33,750
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +3.70%
All Operating Systems
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
90 111 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 30.82% 33.84% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 76 89 15
Average salary £52,500 £72,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.08% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,750 £50,500
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £70,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
London

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Windows Server 2008 Salary Trend

Windows Server 2008
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Windows Server 2008 Salary Histogram

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (92.31%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (84.62%) Finance
3 11 (84.62%) Windows 7
4 10 (76.92%) SQL
4 10 (76.92%) ITIL
5 9 (69.23%) MySQL
5 9 (69.23%) Sybase
5 9 (69.23%) Solaris
5 9 (69.23%) Linux
5 9 (69.23%) Informix
5 9 (69.23%) Nagios
5 9 (69.23%) FTP
5 9 (69.23%) ITSM
5 9 (69.23%) Red Hat
5 9 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (69.23%) Apple iOS
5 9 (69.23%) Android
5 9 (69.23%) SolarWinds
6 8 (61.54%) Incident Management
6 8 (61.54%) Problem Management
6 8 (61.54%) Change Management
7 4 (30.77%) Banking
7 4 (30.77%) MS Office
7 4 (30.77%) XML
7 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
7 4 (30.77%) MS Excel
8 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
8 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 4 (30.77%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) IIS
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Office
1 4 (30.77%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.692%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) FTP
2 2 (15.38%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 1 (7.692%) SSL
3 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.692%) LAN
3 1 (7.692%) PBX
3 1 (7.692%) WAN
3 1 (7.692%) Softphone
3 1 (7.692%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 9 (69.23%) MySQL
2 9 (69.23%) Informix
2 9 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) JIRA
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Publishing
4 1 (7.692%) Multimedia
4 1 (7.692%) Back Office
4 1 (7.692%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Support Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Service Desk Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Service Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Support
4 2 (15.38%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Graduate
5 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Integration Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Integration Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Service Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Clustering
1 1 (7.692%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (92.31%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (84.62%) Windows 7
4 9 (69.23%) Solaris
4 9 (69.23%) Linux
4 9 (69.23%) Apple iOS
4 9 (69.23%) Android
5 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
6 2 (15.38%) UNIX
7 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) ITIL
2 9 (69.23%) ITSM
3 8 (61.54%) Incident Management
3 8 (61.54%) Problem Management
3 8 (61.54%) Change Management
4 1 (7.692%) Project Management
4 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
4 1 (7.692%) Service Management
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL V3
4 1 (7.692%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (15.38%) MCSE
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.692%) MCP
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (15.38%) vSphere
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Nagios
2 1 (7.692%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Sybase
1 9 (69.23%) Red Hat
1 9 (69.23%) SolarWinds
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.692%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) Bloomberg