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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 25 32 37
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 19 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 10.00% 3.333% 1.478%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.68% 26.32% 7.895%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 2
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £32,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £33,750
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +3.70%
All Operating Systems
Macclesfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
77 19 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 40.53% 12.67% 18.72%
Number of salaries quoted 65 8 25
Average salary £34,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.33% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
Cheshire

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield region.

Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield 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 20 (90.91%) MS Exchange
2 20 (90.91%) Exchange Server 2010
3 19 (86.36%) Microsoft
3 19 (86.36%) Active Directory
3 19 (86.36%) Windows Server 2003
4 18 (81.82%) SharePoint
5 17 (77.27%) Exchange Server 2003
6 16 (72.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (68.18%) SAN
7 15 (68.18%) VMware
8 14 (63.64%) NetApp
8 14 (63.64%) MS Excel
9 13 (59.09%) MCP
10 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
10 12 (54.55%) IIS
10 12 (54.55%) HP
11 11 (50.00%) SCCM
12 10 (45.45%) Capacity Management
12 10 (45.45%) vSphere
12 10 (45.45%) ISA Server
12 10 (45.45%) ITIL
13 9 (40.91%) MCSE
13 9 (40.91%) VoIP
13 9 (40.91%) Cisco
13 9 (40.91%) MCITP
13 9 (40.91%) SQL Server 2008
13 9 (40.91%) SolarWinds
13 9 (40.91%) SQL Server 2005
13 9 (40.91%) SharePoint Server

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield 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 1 (4.545%) CSS3
1 1 (4.545%) HTML5
1 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.545%) CSS
1 1 (4.545%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 20 (90.91%) MS Exchange
1 20 (90.91%) Exchange Server 2010
2 18 (81.82%) SharePoint
3 17 (77.27%) Exchange Server 2003
4 12 (54.55%) IIS
5 9 (40.91%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (40.91%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 14 (63.64%) MS Excel
2 6 (27.27%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) SAN
2 9 (40.91%) VoIP
3 6 (27.27%) Firewall
3 6 (27.27%) DHCP
3 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
3 6 (27.27%) VPN
3 6 (27.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 9 (40.91%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (40.91%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Server Engineer
1 14 (63.64%) Senior Server Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) IT Support Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) IT Support
2 6 (27.27%) Support Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) .NET Developer
4 1 (4.545%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (4.545%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (4.545%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (4.545%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (86.36%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (27.27%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Capacity Management
1 10 (45.45%) ITIL
2 7 (31.82%) Change Control
2 7 (31.82%) Performance Management
3 1 (4.545%) MVC
3 1 (4.545%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.545%) C#
1 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.545%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (59.09%) MCP
3 9 (40.91%) MCSE
3 9 (40.91%) MCITP
4 8 (36.36%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 19 (86.36%) Active Directory
2 10 (45.45%) vSphere
2 10 (45.45%) ISA Server
3 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) SCCM
2 7 (31.82%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (9.091%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Microsoft
2 15 (68.18%) VMware
3 14 (63.64%) NetApp
4 12 (54.55%) HP
5 9 (40.91%) Cisco
5 9 (40.91%) SolarWinds
6 8 (36.36%) FrontRange
7 1 (4.545%) Twitter
7 1 (4.545%) Citrix
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Posted: 3 May 2013