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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 28 54 45
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -9
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 38 5 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 6.013% 1.037% 3.184%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.21% 5.495% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 36 5 17
Average salary £34,000 £25,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -27.14%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
All Operating Systems
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
145 91 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 22.94% 18.88% 23.03%
Number of salaries quoted 137 84 119
Average salary £30,750 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £24,200 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
South West

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

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

Somerset 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 Somerset 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
Bath +23 29 £35,000 +37.25%
Frome - 4 £21,000 -
Clevedon - 2 £25,250 - 1
Windows Server 2008
South West

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 63 (100.00%) Windows
2 47 (74.60%) Windows Server 2003
3 44 (69.84%) Microsoft
4 43 (68.25%) MS Excel
5 24 (38.10%) C#
5 24 (38.10%) VB.NET
5 24 (38.10%) .NET
5 24 (38.10%) Active Directory
5 24 (38.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 23 (36.51%) Business Analysis
7 21 (33.33%) IIS
8 20 (31.75%) Service Delivery
9 19 (30.16%) Finance
9 19 (30.16%) MS Exchange
10 17 (26.98%) SQL Server
10 17 (26.98%) VMware
11 14 (22.22%) Visual Studio
11 14 (22.22%) XML
12 13 (20.63%) Oracle
12 13 (20.63%) Release Management
13 11 (17.46%) SharePoint
14 10 (15.87%) MS Office
14 10 (15.87%) Linux
14 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (15.87%) TCP/IP
14 10 (15.87%) Blackberry
14 10 (15.87%) Degree
14 10 (15.87%) Firewall
15 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (14.29%) Migration

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 24 (38.10%) .NET
2 14 (22.22%) XML
Application Platforms
1 21 (33.33%) IIS
2 19 (30.16%) MS Exchange
3 11 (17.46%) SharePoint
4 9 (14.29%) IBM Notes
4 9 (14.29%) Lotus Domino
5 5 (7.937%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (4.762%) Lync
6 3 (4.762%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (3.175%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (1.587%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (1.587%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 43 (68.25%) MS Excel
2 10 (15.87%) MS Office
3 4 (6.349%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.87%) TCP/IP
1 10 (15.87%) Firewall
2 8 (12.70%) SAN
2 8 (12.70%) DHCP
2 8 (12.70%) DNS
3 7 (11.11%) WAN
4 6 (9.524%) VPN
5 5 (7.937%) LAN
6 3 (4.762%) SMTP
7 2 (3.175%) VoIP
7 2 (3.175%) WLAN
7 2 (3.175%) Intranet
7 2 (3.175%) Internet
7 2 (3.175%) Ethernet
7 2 (3.175%) Wireless
7 2 (3.175%) Network Security
7 2 (3.175%) VLAN
8 1 (1.587%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.587%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.98%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (7.937%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (3.175%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (3.175%) MySQL
4 2 (3.175%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 24 (38.10%) Team Foundation Server
2 14 (22.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (30.16%) Finance
2 2 (3.175%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.587%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Analyst
2 13 (20.63%) Configuration Manager
2 13 (20.63%) Release Manager
3 12 (19.05%) Support Analyst
4 11 (17.46%) Release Engineer
5 10 (15.87%) Configuration Engineer
6 6 (9.524%) Support Engineer
6 6 (9.524%) IT Support
7 5 (7.937%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (7.937%) Administrator
8 4 (6.349%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (4.762%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 3 (4.762%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (4.762%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.762%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (4.762%) Desktop Support
10 2 (3.175%) Business Analyst
10 2 (3.175%) Installations Engineer
10 2 (3.175%) Server Engineer
10 2 (3.175%) IT Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Blackberry
2 3 (4.762%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (3.175%) SaaS
3 2 (3.175%) iPad
3 2 (3.175%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.175%) iPhone
4 1 (1.587%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.587%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 63 (100.00%) Windows
2 47 (74.60%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (15.87%) Linux
4 8 (12.70%) Windows XP
5 7 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (9.524%) Windows 2000
7 3 (4.762%) Windows 8
7 3 (4.762%) UNIX
8 2 (3.175%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Business Analysis
2 20 (31.75%) Service Delivery
3 13 (20.63%) Release Management
4 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (14.29%) Migration
4 9 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (4.762%) ITIL
6 2 (3.175%) Process Management
6 2 (3.175%) Time Management
6 2 (3.175%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (3.175%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (3.175%) WAN Optimisation
7 1 (1.587%) Network Load Balancing
7 1 (1.587%) Product Marketing
7 1 (1.587%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.587%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.10%) C#
1 24 (38.10%) VB.NET
2 9 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (4.762%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (15.87%) Degree
2 8 (12.70%) MCSE
3 7 (11.11%) MCP
4 6 (9.524%) MCITP
5 5 (7.937%) MCSA
6 4 (6.349%) MCDST
7 2 (3.175%) HND
8 1 (1.587%) MCTS
8 1 (1.587%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.587%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.587%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.587%) CCNP
8 1 (1.587%) CCNA
8 1 (1.587%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.175%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.762%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.762%) vSphere
3 3 (4.762%) Terminal Services
4 2 (3.175%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (3.175%) XenApp
5 1 (1.587%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (9.524%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.587%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (69.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (26.98%) VMware
3 13 (20.63%) Oracle
4 9 (14.29%) Lotus
5 7 (11.11%) Citrix
6 4 (6.349%) HP
6 4 (6.349%) Cisco
6 4 (6.349%) Symantec
7 2 (3.175%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.175%) CA
7 2 (3.175%) NetApp
7 2 (3.175%) Novell
7 2 (3.175%) Remedy
7 2 (3.175%) Juniper
7 2 (3.175%) Toshiba
7 2 (3.175%) Wyse
7 2 (3.175%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.175%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.175%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.175%) Veeam
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