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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 35 49 43
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -6
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 37 22 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 5.606% 2.883% 3.931%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.42% 11.40% 20.38%
Number of salaries quoted 28 17 32
Average salary £33,750 £32,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.84% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,850 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £41,000 £32,250
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
All Operating Systems
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
165 193 157
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 25.00% 25.29% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 146 176 149
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +36.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,300 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £45,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
East Midlands

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Northampton -2 14 £31,500 +2.43%
Kettering - 7 £39,500 -
Wellingborough - 2 £27,250 -
Brackley - 1 £42,500 -
Corby - 1 £27,500 -
Windows Server 2008
East Midlands

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 84 (100.00%) Windows
2 46 (54.76%) SAN
3 45 (53.57%) VMware
4 44 (52.38%) SQL
5 42 (50.00%) Active Directory
6 39 (46.43%) Microsoft
7 34 (40.48%) Windows Server 2003
7 34 (40.48%) MS Exchange
8 30 (35.71%) SQL Server
8 30 (35.71%) Exchange Server 2010
9 29 (34.52%) MS Office
10 27 (32.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (32.14%) Citrix
11 25 (29.76%) SQL Server 2005
11 25 (29.76%) SQL Server 2008
12 24 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
12 24 (28.57%) Firewall
13 23 (27.38%) DTS
14 22 (26.19%) T-SQL
14 22 (26.19%) Clustering
14 22 (26.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (25.00%) Replication
15 21 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (25.00%) NAS
15 21 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
16 20 (23.81%) VLDB
17 16 (19.05%) Cisco
17 16 (19.05%) DNS
18 15 (17.86%) DHCP
18 15 (17.86%) SharePoint

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 2 (2.381%) .NET
2 1 (1.190%) ASP
2 1 (1.190%) CSS
2 1 (1.190%) Web Services
2 1 (1.190%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 34 (40.48%) MS Exchange
2 30 (35.71%) Exchange Server 2010
3 15 (17.86%) SharePoint
4 13 (15.48%) Lync
5 6 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (2.381%) IIS
7 2 (2.381%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 29 (34.52%) MS Office
2 13 (15.48%) Office 365
3 9 (10.71%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.190%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 46 (54.76%) SAN
2 24 (28.57%) Firewall
3 21 (25.00%) NAS
4 16 (19.05%) DNS
5 15 (17.86%) DHCP
6 10 (11.90%) IP Telephony
7 6 (7.143%) MPLS
8 5 (5.952%) TCP/IP
8 5 (5.952%) LAN
9 4 (4.762%) WAN
9 4 (4.762%) Internet
9 4 (4.762%) Wireless
10 2 (2.381%) OSPF
10 2 (2.381%) VPN
11 1 (1.190%) VoIP
11 1 (1.190%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 25 (29.76%) SQL Server 2005
2 25 (29.76%) SQL Server 2008
3 23 (27.38%) DTS
4 22 (26.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (23.81%) VLDB
7 6 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.190%) OLTP
8 1 (1.190%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 13 (15.48%) Back Office
2 2 (2.381%) Finance
3 1 (1.190%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Administrator
2 24 (28.57%) DBA
3 22 (26.19%) SQL DBA
4 18 (21.43%) Analyst
5 17 (20.24%) Teradata DBA
6 13 (15.48%) Architect
7 9 (10.71%) Technical Architect
7 9 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (10.71%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 7 (8.333%) Server Analyst
9 6 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (7.143%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.143%) SQL Server DBA
10 5 (5.952%) Service Analyst
10 5 (5.952%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (5.952%) Service Desk Analyst
10 5 (5.952%) Support Analyst
11 4 (4.762%) Support Engineer
11 4 (4.762%) Network Administrator
11 4 (4.762%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 22 (26.19%) Clustering
2 21 (25.00%) Replication
3 2 (2.381%) Firmware
4 1 (1.190%) FMCG
4 1 (1.190%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 84 (100.00%) Windows
2 34 (40.48%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (15.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (14.29%) Windows XP
5 11 (13.10%) Windows 7
6 10 (11.90%) Linux
7 5 (5.952%) Windows Vista
8 2 (2.381%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (2.381%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.381%) UNIX
8 2 (2.381%) Windows 8
9 1 (1.190%) Windows NT
9 1 (1.190%) Debian
9 1 (1.190%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 13 (15.48%) ITIL
3 3 (3.571%) Project Management
3 3 (3.571%) Database Security
4 2 (2.381%) Project Planning
4 2 (2.381%) Resource Management
4 2 (2.381%) Security Management
5 1 (1.190%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (1.190%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (1.190%) PRINCE2
5 1 (1.190%) CRM
5 1 (1.190%) PRINCE
5 1 (1.190%) Time Management
5 1 (1.190%) Performance Management
5 1 (1.190%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (52.38%) SQL
2 22 (26.19%) T-SQL
3 2 (2.381%) VB
4 1 (1.190%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.190%) C#
4 1 (1.190%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (32.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (17.86%) MCSE
3 13 (15.48%) CCNA
3 13 (15.48%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (15.48%) MCP
4 11 (13.10%) Degree
5 10 (11.90%) MCITP
6 8 (9.524%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (8.333%) Security Cleared
8 3 (3.571%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.381%) MCSA
10 1 (1.190%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (1.190%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.190%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.762%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (17.86%) XenDesktop
4 14 (16.67%) vSphere
4 14 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 13 (15.48%) XenServer
5 13 (15.48%) UAG
6 4 (4.762%) XenApp
7 2 (2.381%) ISA Server
7 2 (2.381%) VMware ESX
8 1 (1.190%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.190%) Samba
8 1 (1.190%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (2.381%) SCCM
2 1 (1.190%) SCOM
2 1 (1.190%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.190%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (53.57%) VMware
2 39 (46.43%) Microsoft
3 27 (32.14%) Citrix
4 16 (19.05%) Cisco
5 3 (3.571%) CheckPoint
5 3 (3.571%) NetApp
6 2 (2.381%) Nokia
6 2 (2.381%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.381%) Juniper
6 2 (2.381%) Dell
7 1 (1.190%) EMC
7 1 (1.190%) HP
7 1 (1.190%) CommVault
7 1 (1.190%) Symantec
7 1 (1.190%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.190%) Webroot
7 1 (1.190%) ProCurve
7 1 (1.190%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.190%) F5
7 1 (1.190%) Twitter
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