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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 39 63 63
Rank change year-on-year
+24 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 117 91 118
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 4.746% 3.613% 3.498%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.46% 11.21% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 108 84 98
Average salary £31,500 £41,250 £35,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.63% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,150 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £49,700 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
757 812 983
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 30.71% 32.24% 29.14%
Number of salaries quoted 593 629 755
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
East of England

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

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

Hertfordshire Windows Server 2008 Salary Histogram

Windows Server 2008
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Welwyn Garden City -10 17 £47,500 -
Watford +18 15 £40,000 -
Rickmansworth - 15 £30,000 -
Hemel Hempstead -5 10 £31,500 -25.00%
St Albans -1 5 £25,250 -27.85%
Hertford - 5 £28,000 -
Stevenage +1 3 - -
Royston +1 3 £25,000 +11.11%
Borehamwood -11 3 £33,250 -26.11%
Letchworth - 2 £36,250 -
Broxbourne - 1 £30,500 -
Harpenden - 1 £40,000 -
Windows Server 2008
East of England

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

1 226 (100.00%) Windows
2 169 (74.78%) Windows Server 2003
3 101 (44.69%) Microsoft
4 89 (39.38%) SQL Server
5 85 (37.61%) Active Directory
6 82 (36.28%) VMware
7 69 (30.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 65 (28.76%) SQL
9 63 (27.88%) Citrix
10 61 (26.99%) Windows 7
11 58 (25.66%) MS Exchange
12 51 (22.57%) MS Excel
12 51 (22.57%) Cisco
13 49 (21.68%) Windows XP
14 48 (21.24%) Finance
15 45 (19.91%) Disaster Recovery
16 44 (19.47%) Microsoft Certification
17 43 (19.03%) TCP/IP
18 41 (18.14%) LAN
18 41 (18.14%) Migration
19 40 (17.70%) DNS
20 36 (15.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
21 35 (15.49%) Replication
21 35 (15.49%) SAN
22 33 (14.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
23 31 (13.72%) SQL Server 2008
23 31 (13.72%) Exchange Server 2010
23 31 (13.72%) MS Office
24 29 (12.83%) Linux
25 28 (12.39%) ITIL

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (3.982%) .NET
2 4 (1.770%) XML
3 3 (1.327%) Web Services
3 3 (1.327%) COM
4 2 (0.885%) DCOM
4 2 (0.885%) CSS
4 2 (0.885%) SOAP
4 2 (0.885%) XSLT
4 2 (0.885%) HTML
4 2 (0.885%) MFC
4 2 (0.885%) WSDL
4 2 (0.885%) VXML
4 2 (0.885%) Application Packaging
4 2 (0.885%) Ajax
4 2 (0.885%) jQuery
4 2 (0.885%) REST
5 1 (0.442%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 58 (25.66%) MS Exchange
2 31 (13.72%) Exchange Server 2010
3 24 (10.62%) BizTalk Server
4 20 (8.850%) Exchange Server 2007
5 17 (7.522%) IIS
6 14 (6.195%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 13 (5.752%) Exchange Server 2003
8 9 (3.982%) Apache
9 7 (3.097%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (3.097%) Tomcat
10 6 (2.655%) SharePoint
11 4 (1.770%) Lotus Notes
11 4 (1.770%) Lync
11 4 (1.770%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.885%) Office Communications Server
12 2 (0.885%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 51 (22.57%) MS Excel
2 31 (13.72%) MS Office
3 4 (1.770%) Google Apps
3 4 (1.770%) Office 365
4 1 (0.442%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.770%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 43 (19.03%) TCP/IP
2 41 (18.14%) LAN
3 40 (17.70%) DNS
4 35 (15.49%) SAN
5 27 (11.95%) DHCP
6 26 (11.50%) Firewall
7 21 (9.292%) NAS
8 19 (8.407%) WAN
9 12 (5.310%) VoIP
10 10 (4.425%) VPN
11 8 (3.540%) Broadband
12 6 (2.655%) iSCSI
13 5 (2.212%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.770%) Bluetooth
14 4 (1.770%) GPRS
14 4 (1.770%) Internet
14 4 (1.770%) 3G
14 4 (1.770%) Unified Communications
15 3 (1.327%) Network Security
15 3 (1.327%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (39.38%) SQL Server
2 36 (15.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 33 (14.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 31 (13.72%) SQL Server 2008
5 17 (7.522%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 11 (4.867%) SQL Server 2000
7 10 (4.425%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.540%) DTS
8 8 (3.540%) SQL Server 2005
9 7 (3.097%) MySQL
10 4 (1.770%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.442%) SSDT
11 1 (0.442%) OLTP
11 1 (0.442%) MS Access
11 1 (0.442%) Informix
11 1 (0.442%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (1.770%) MSI
2 3 (1.327%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.885%) Subversion
3 2 (0.885%) NUnit
3 2 (0.885%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.885%) WatiN
4 1 (0.442%) AdminStudio
General
1 48 (21.24%) Finance
2 15 (6.637%) Retail
3 12 (5.310%) Telecoms
4 11 (4.867%) Legal
5 4 (1.770%) Back Office
6 3 (1.327%) Banking
7 2 (0.885%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.885%) Law
7 2 (0.885%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (19.03%) Analyst
2 39 (17.26%) Support Engineer
3 30 (13.27%) DBA
4 29 (12.83%) Support Analyst
5 28 (12.39%) SQL DBA
6 23 (10.18%) IT Support
7 22 (9.735%) Consultant
8 20 (8.850%) Architect
9 19 (8.407%) Technical Support
10 18 (7.965%) SQL Server DBA
11 16 (7.080%) 2nd Line Support
12 15 (6.637%) 3rd Line Support
12 15 (6.637%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (5.752%) Technical Consultant
14 12 (5.310%) Desktop Support
15 11 (4.867%) Server Engineer
15 11 (4.867%) Data Analyst
15 11 (4.867%) Technical Support Analyst
15 11 (4.867%) Technical Analyst
16 9 (3.982%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.49%) Replication
2 19 (8.407%) Blackberry
3 13 (5.752%) Clustering
4 5 (2.212%) NHS
5 4 (1.770%) Computer Science
5 4 (1.770%) Open Source
6 3 (1.327%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.327%) Celerra
6 3 (1.327%) Thin Client
6 3 (1.327%) CLARiiON
6 3 (1.327%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.885%) EMC Centera
7 2 (0.885%) APACS
7 2 (0.885%) Speech Recognition
7 2 (0.885%) IVR
7 2 (0.885%) EPoS
8 1 (0.442%) iPhone
8 1 (0.442%) iSeries
8 1 (0.442%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.442%) Pocket PC
Operating Systems
1 226 (100.00%) Windows
2 169 (74.78%) Windows Server 2003
3 61 (26.99%) Windows 7
4 49 (21.68%) Windows XP
5 29 (12.83%) Linux
6 26 (11.50%) Windows Vista
7 15 (6.637%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.540%) UNIX
9 6 (2.655%) Windows 8
10 5 (2.212%) Windows 2000
11 4 (1.770%) Solaris
12 3 (1.327%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.885%) AIX
13 2 (0.885%) Windows 2000 Server
14 1 (0.442%) Android
14 1 (0.442%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.442%) Windows Mobile
14 1 (0.442%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (19.91%) Disaster Recovery
2 41 (18.14%) Migration
3 28 (12.39%) ITIL
4 16 (7.080%) CRM
5 15 (6.637%) Network Management
6 14 (6.195%) PRINCE2
7 13 (5.752%) E-Commerce
8 12 (5.310%) Agile Software Development
9 11 (4.867%) TOGAF
10 9 (3.982%) Scrum
11 8 (3.540%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (3.540%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (3.540%) Database Security
12 7 (3.097%) Project Management
12 7 (3.097%) ETL
12 7 (3.097%) Asset Management
13 6 (2.655%) Business Continuity
13 6 (2.655%) OO
14 5 (2.212%) Release Management
15 4 (1.770%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (28.76%) SQL
2 15 (6.637%) VB
3 14 (6.195%) T-SQL
4 5 (2.212%) VB.NET
5 4 (1.770%) C#
5 4 (1.770%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.885%) C++
6 2 (0.885%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.885%) PHP
7 1 (0.442%) Bash shell
7 1 (0.442%) Perl
7 1 (0.442%) VBScript
7 1 (0.442%) Java
7 1 (0.442%) Delphi
7 1 (0.442%) VB6
Qualifications
1 44 (19.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (9.735%) MCITP
2 22 (9.735%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (9.735%) MCSE
3 15 (6.637%) MCP
4 13 (5.752%) CCNA
5 12 (5.310%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (4.867%) Degree
7 10 (4.425%) MCTS
8 8 (3.540%) MCSA
9 6 (2.655%) Citrix Certification
10 5 (2.212%) Security Cleared
11 4 (1.770%) SC Cleared
12 3 (1.327%) CCEE
12 3 (1.327%) CCAA
12 3 (1.327%) CCIA
12 3 (1.327%) CCA
13 2 (0.885%) PhD
13 2 (0.885%) CCNP
13 2 (0.885%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.770%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.442%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.442%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (37.61%) Active Directory
2 69 (30.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.850%) Hyper-V
4 16 (7.080%) XenApp
5 14 (6.195%) Xen
5 14 (6.195%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (5.310%) vSphere
6 12 (5.310%) VMware ESX
7 4 (1.770%) XenServer
8 3 (1.327%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.885%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.885%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.885%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.885%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.442%) NFS
10 1 (0.442%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 15 (6.637%) SCCM
2 10 (4.425%) WSUS
2 10 (4.425%) McAfee ePO
3 9 (3.982%) Backup Exec
4 5 (2.212%) SCOM
5 4 (1.770%) NetBackup
5 4 (1.770%) WMI
5 4 (1.770%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 3 (1.327%) SCVMM
6 3 (1.327%) BladeLogic
7 2 (0.885%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.885%) Business Desktop Deployment
7 2 (0.885%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 101 (44.69%) Microsoft
2 82 (36.28%) VMware
3 63 (27.88%) Citrix
4 51 (22.57%) Cisco
5 19 (8.407%) HP
6 16 (7.080%) Red Hat
7 15 (6.637%) Oracle
8 14 (6.195%) Symantec
9 12 (5.310%) McAfee
10 6 (2.655%) Google
11 5 (2.212%) Acronis
11 5 (2.212%) Dell
11 5 (2.212%) EMC
11 5 (2.212%) Sage
12 4 (1.770%) AppSense
12 4 (1.770%) SolidWorks
12 4 (1.770%) Lotus
12 4 (1.770%) Fujitsu
13 3 (1.327%) LANDesk
13 3 (1.327%) BMC
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