The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 24 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 Cheltenham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 39 37 34
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 4 21 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 1.869% 5.198% 1.619%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.333% 13.82% 4.938%
Number of salaries quoted 4 21 4
Average salary £36,500 £41,500 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.04% +22.96%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £40,000 £28,600
10% offered a salary of more than £40,500 £50,000 £34,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
All Operating Systems
Cheltenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
48 152 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 22.43% 37.62% 32.79%
Number of salaries quoted 45 103 66
Average salary £42,500 £42,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.19% +12.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £34,000 £27,200
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
Gloucestershire

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheltenham Windows Server 2008 Salary Histogram

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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
3 11 (84.62%) .NET
3 11 (84.62%) XML
3 11 (84.62%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET
4 9 (69.23%) CSS
4 9 (69.23%) C#
4 9 (69.23%) HTML
4 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
4 9 (69.23%) SQL
5 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
6 7 (53.85%) Finance
6 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET 2.0
7 5 (38.46%) XPath
7 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
7 5 (38.46%) XQuery
7 5 (38.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 5 (38.46%) VB
7 5 (38.46%) IIS
7 5 (38.46%) SMTP
7 5 (38.46%) FTP
7 5 (38.46%) Mobile App
7 5 (38.46%) Mobile Application Development
8 4 (30.77%) Sphinx
8 4 (30.77%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 4 (30.77%) Dependency Injection
8 4 (30.77%) MVC
8 4 (30.77%) Scrum

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 11 (84.62%) .NET
1 11 (84.62%) XML
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET
2 9 (69.23%) CSS
2 9 (69.23%) HTML
3 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET 2.0
4 4 (30.77%) Sphinx
4 4 (30.77%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 4 (30.77%) .NET Framework
5 2 (15.38%) XSLT
5 2 (15.38%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) IIS
2 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (15.38%) SharePoint 2013
3 2 (15.38%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) SMTP
1 5 (38.46%) FTP
2 1 (7.692%) VLAN
2 1 (7.692%) Firewall
2 1 (7.692%) Wireless
2 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.692%) LAN
2 1 (7.692%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (84.62%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.692%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Database Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Applications Developer
4 4 (30.77%) .NET Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Database Developer
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.692%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (7.692%) C# Developer
6 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (7.692%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
6 1 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (7.692%) IT Support
6 1 (7.692%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.692%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Mobile Application Development
2 4 (30.77%) Dependency Injection
2 4 (30.77%) MVC
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
2 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (30.77%) Kanban
2 4 (30.77%) Web Development
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) C#
1 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) XPath
2 5 (38.46%) XQuery
2 5 (38.46%) VB
3 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) CCNA
1 1 (7.692%) MCITP
1 1 (7.692%) MCDST
1 1 (7.692%) MCSE
1 1 (7.692%) MCSA
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.692%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.692%) Citrix
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco
3 1 (7.692%) Aruba
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