The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Huddersfield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 17 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 Huddersfield region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 23 19 26
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 3 6 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Huddersfield 3.704% 4.762% 7.500%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.091% 30.00% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 10
Average salary £25,500 £17,000 £25,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -32.67%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £17,000 £19,150
10% offered a salary of more than £26,300 £17,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
All Operating Systems
Huddersfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
33 20 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Huddersfield 40.74% 15.87% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 29 12 43
Average salary £27,500 £22,500 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,100 £17,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £45,000 £34,400
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 Huddersfield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Huddersfield 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 Huddersfield region.

Huddersfield Windows Server 2008 Salary Trend

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Huddersfield 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) MS Office
3 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (40.00%) Celerra
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (40.00%) HPUX
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) Dell
4 2 (40.00%) EMC
4 2 (40.00%) WAN
4 2 (40.00%) Project Management
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (40.00%) LAN
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) CLARiiON
5 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Huddersfield 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 Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) WLAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) Field Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CLARiiON
1 2 (40.00%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (40.00%) HPUX
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
5 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) XenServer
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Sage
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
You will need to have experience of supporting 200+ servers and ideally have strong experience with Windows (Server 2003/2008), Active Directory, IIS, SQL Server (2005, SQL Server...
Spring Technology
Salary: £27000.00 - £28500 per annum + 25 days Holidays
Posted: 16 May 2013