The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 42 38 69
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +31
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 135 172 96
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 4.127% 5.038% 2.694%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.15% 19.59% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 90 112 73
Average salary £38,375 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.64% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,750 £45,000 £40,400
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
891 878 843
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 27.24% 25.72% 23.65%
Number of salaries quoted 569 586 600
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
UK

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow -23 31 £37,250 +8.75% 8
Edinburgh -8 28 £36,000 +24.13% 5
Aberdeen +6 26 £40,000 +14.28% 6
Highlands - 20 £25,000 -
Dundee -5 5 £40,995 -6.29% 2
North Lanarkshire - 3 £27,500 -
Renfrewshire +4 2 - -
Stirling +24 1 £37,500 -
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £39,250 -
Argyll and Bute - 1 - -
Windows Server 2008
UK

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 244 (100.00%) Windows
2 187 (76.64%) Windows Server 2003
3 142 (58.20%) Active Directory
4 134 (54.92%) Microsoft
5 108 (44.26%) VMware
6 95 (38.93%) MS Exchange
7 68 (27.87%) VMware Infrastructure
8 66 (27.05%) Citrix
9 54 (22.13%) SQL Server
10 50 (20.49%) DNS
11 47 (19.26%) Exchange Server 2010
12 44 (18.03%) SCCM
12 44 (18.03%) IIS
12 44 (18.03%) ITIL
12 44 (18.03%) SQL
12 44 (18.03%) MS Excel
13 43 (17.62%) Linux
14 42 (17.21%) SAN
15 41 (16.80%) Windows XP
16 38 (15.57%) DHCP
17 37 (15.16%) Microsoft Certification
17 37 (15.16%) Exchange Server 2007
18 36 (14.75%) Exchange Server 2003
18 36 (14.75%) Windows 7
19 34 (13.93%) Cisco
20 33 (13.52%) HP
21 32 (13.11%) SLA
21 32 (13.11%) XenApp
21 32 (13.11%) vSphere
22 30 (12.30%) MS Office

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 22 (9.016%) .NET
2 17 (6.967%) XML
3 11 (4.508%) ASP.NET
4 9 (3.689%) ASP
5 6 (2.459%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.639%) jQuery
6 4 (1.639%) XSLT
6 4 (1.639%) Web Services
7 3 (1.230%) DHTML
7 3 (1.230%) HTML
8 2 (0.820%) Ajax
8 2 (0.820%) WCF
8 2 (0.820%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.820%) COM
8 2 (0.820%) CSS
8 2 (0.820%) WebSphere MQ
9 1 (0.410%) Flash
9 1 (0.410%) Middleware
9 1 (0.410%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 95 (38.93%) MS Exchange
2 47 (19.26%) Exchange Server 2010
3 44 (18.03%) IIS
4 37 (15.16%) Exchange Server 2007
5 36 (14.75%) Exchange Server 2003
6 24 (9.836%) SharePoint
7 9 (3.689%) Lync
8 8 (3.279%) Site Server
9 7 (2.869%) SharePoint 2010
10 6 (2.459%) Apache
11 4 (1.639%) Office Communications Server
11 4 (1.639%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 4 (1.639%) IBM Notes
12 2 (0.820%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.820%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.820%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.820%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.410%) Lotus Domino
13 1 (0.410%) GroupWise
13 1 (0.410%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 44 (18.03%) MS Excel
2 30 (12.30%) MS Office
3 3 (1.230%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.230%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (1.230%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (0.820%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.410%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 50 (20.49%) DNS
2 42 (17.21%) SAN
3 38 (15.57%) DHCP
4 29 (11.89%) Firewall
5 27 (11.07%) TCP/IP
6 16 (6.557%) VPN
7 14 (5.738%) WAN
8 12 (4.918%) Ethernet
8 12 (4.918%) LAN
9 11 (4.508%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (4.098%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (3.689%) Internet
11 9 (3.689%) Wireless
12 8 (3.279%) MRTG
12 8 (3.279%) Wireshark
12 8 (3.279%) Cisco PIX
12 8 (3.279%) IPsec
12 8 (3.279%) WLAN
12 8 (3.279%) SNMP
12 8 (3.279%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (22.13%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.787%) SQL Server 2008
3 16 (6.557%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (3.279%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.639%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (1.639%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (1.230%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (1.230%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.820%) MS Access
8 1 (0.410%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.410%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.410%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.410%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.049%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.639%) MSI
3 3 (1.230%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.820%) NUnit
5 1 (0.410%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.410%) StarTeam
General
1 26 (10.66%) Finance
2 15 (6.148%) Advertising
3 12 (4.918%) Banking
4 7 (2.869%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.639%) Back Office
5 4 (1.639%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.230%) Publishing
6 3 (1.230%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.230%) Billing
7 2 (0.820%) Retail
7 2 (0.820%) Legal
8 1 (0.410%) Games
8 1 (0.410%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 36 (14.75%) Analyst
2 31 (12.70%) Support Engineer
3 28 (11.48%) Server Support
4 26 (10.66%) Consultant
5 23 (9.426%) Server Technician
6 20 (8.197%) Support Analyst
7 18 (7.377%) Support Technician
7 18 (7.377%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (6.967%) Technical Consultant
8 17 (6.967%) Server Support Technician
9 14 (5.738%) Administrator
9 14 (5.738%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (5.328%) Team Leader
11 11 (4.508%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (4.098%) IT Consultant
12 10 (4.098%) Technical Support
13 9 (3.689%) Server Engineer
14 8 (3.279%) Systems Support
14 8 (3.279%) Technical Analyst
15 7 (2.869%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.016%) Clustering
2 12 (4.918%) Client/Server
3 11 (4.508%) Blackberry
4 10 (4.098%) Replication
5 6 (2.459%) CLARiiON
6 4 (1.639%) Life Science
6 4 (1.639%) Informatics
6 4 (1.639%) Biotechnology
7 3 (1.230%) Computer Science
7 3 (1.230%) Celerra
7 3 (1.230%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.820%) PKI
8 2 (0.820%) Mathematics
8 2 (0.820%) CCTV
8 2 (0.820%) EMC Centera
9 1 (0.410%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.410%) Symmetrix
9 1 (0.410%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.410%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 244 (100.00%) Windows
2 187 (76.64%) Windows Server 2003
3 43 (17.62%) Linux
4 41 (16.80%) Windows XP
5 36 (14.75%) Windows 7
6 26 (10.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (5.328%) UNIX
7 13 (5.328%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (4.918%) Solaris
9 8 (3.279%) Windows Vista
9 8 (3.279%) Windows 2000
9 8 (3.279%) AIX
10 4 (1.639%) CentOS
10 4 (1.639%) Android
10 4 (1.639%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.230%) HPUX
11 3 (1.230%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (1.230%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.230%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.820%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (18.03%) ITIL
2 22 (9.016%) Migration
3 18 (7.377%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (6.557%) Service Delivery
4 16 (6.557%) Change Management
5 14 (5.738%) Project Management
6 10 (4.098%) Problem Management
6 10 (4.098%) Service Management
6 10 (4.098%) Business Continuity
7 9 (3.689%) Incident Management
8 8 (3.279%) Time Management
9 7 (2.869%) Data Migration
9 7 (2.869%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (2.459%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (2.459%) Configuration Management
11 5 (2.049%) Asset Management
12 4 (1.639%) ITIL V3
12 4 (1.639%) Performance Management
12 4 (1.639%) Release Management
12 4 (1.639%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (18.03%) SQL
2 21 (8.607%) VB
3 17 (6.967%) C#
4 16 (6.557%) Perl
5 15 (6.148%) Java
6 10 (4.098%) PowerShell
6 10 (4.098%) VB.NET
7 9 (3.689%) C
8 8 (3.279%) PHP
9 7 (2.869%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.459%) VBScript
10 6 (2.459%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.639%) Bourne shell
11 4 (1.639%) Korn
11 4 (1.639%) C++
12 3 (1.230%) PL/1
12 3 (1.230%) COBOL
12 3 (1.230%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.820%) Delphi
14 1 (0.410%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 37 (15.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (11.89%) Degree
3 22 (9.016%) MCITP
3 22 (9.016%) MCSE
4 16 (6.557%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.738%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (5.328%) CCNA
7 12 (4.918%) MCTS
7 12 (4.918%) MCSA
8 7 (2.869%) SC Cleared
9 6 (2.459%) CCA
9 6 (2.459%) Citrix Certification
10 4 (1.639%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.639%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.820%) CCAA
11 2 (0.820%) Server+ Certification
11 2 (0.820%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.820%) CCNP
12 1 (0.410%) CCDA
12 1 (0.410%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.11%) SLA
System Software
1 142 (58.20%) Active Directory
2 68 (27.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (13.11%) XenApp
3 32 (13.11%) vSphere
4 28 (11.48%) Hyper-V
5 14 (5.738%) VMware ESX
6 13 (5.328%) XenServer
7 10 (4.098%) XenDesktop
8 5 (2.049%) Terminal Server
8 5 (2.049%) Terminal Services
9 4 (1.639%) Samba
10 3 (1.230%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (1.230%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 3 (1.230%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.820%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.820%) Forefront TMG
11 2 (0.820%) NFS
12 1 (0.410%) ISA Server
12 1 (0.410%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.410%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 44 (18.03%) SCCM
2 22 (9.016%) SCOM
3 17 (6.967%) WSUS
4 7 (2.869%) Tivoli
4 7 (2.869%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 7 (2.869%) Backup Exec
5 6 (2.459%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 5 (2.049%) McAfee ePO
7 4 (1.639%) SCVMM
7 4 (1.639%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 4 (1.639%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.230%) DameWare
9 1 (0.410%) Legato
9 1 (0.410%) MOM
9 1 (0.410%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.410%) WMI
9 1 (0.410%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.410%) Business Desktop Deployment
9 1 (0.410%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 134 (54.92%) Microsoft
2 108 (44.26%) VMware
3 66 (27.05%) Citrix
4 34 (13.93%) Cisco
5 33 (13.52%) HP
6 17 (6.967%) Symantec
7 16 (6.557%) EMC
8 14 (5.738%) CommVault
9 11 (4.508%) Dell
9 11 (4.508%) Juniper
9 11 (4.508%) Oracle
10 10 (4.098%) Red Hat
11 9 (3.689%) McAfee
12 8 (3.279%) NetApp
13 5 (2.049%) Sun
13 5 (2.049%) IBM
13 5 (2.049%) Lotus
14 4 (1.639%) Lumension
14 4 (1.639%) JBoss
15 3 (1.230%) Apple
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
The Lead Engineer will require the experience of the following: - Windows 2003/2008 Server, Windows XP and Windows 7 (64 bit) - Implementation of AD/GPOs/Security clampdown... - Knowledge...
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
Posted: 18 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
SQL Server versions 2005, 2008 and 2012 - Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012 - Application Support - -T-SQLThe ideal candidate would have a good background knowledge in SQL server...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £20000.00 - £26000.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Dundee, Scotland
This role requires an enthusiastic and passionate IT professional who enjoys working with clients and striving to provide the best of support. The role is very much customer...
greywood
Salary: £24000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 7 June 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Infrastructure / Systems Engineer - Edinburgh- £35,000- £40,000 + Benefits Support / Systems Administrator/ Infrastructure Engineer / Server Engineer/ Systems Administrator / Support Engineer / Linux and Windows Systems Engineer/ Systems Engineer required...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
1st /2nd/3rd Line Queries.- SQL Server versions 2005, 2008 and 2012 - Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012 - Application SupportThe ideal candidate would have a good background knowledge...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £18000.00 - £24000.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 29 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Net Talent
Posted: 13 June 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 18 June 2013
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
ADIL
Salary: Unspecified Competitive salary and benefits package
Posted: 11 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
Sand Resources
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
Posted: 18 June 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
Posted: 18 June 2013
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