The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 18 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 South Wales region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 36 36 67
Rank change year-on-year
0 +31
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 58 65 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 5.311% 6.660% 2.045%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.22% 22.97% 8.571%
Number of salaries quoted 54 65 21
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% +1.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £20,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+1.42% +2.94%
All Operating Systems
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
261 283 245
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 23.90% 29.00% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 243 236 241
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £20,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
Wales

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South Wales 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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 18 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
Cardiff -2 31 £36,000 +7.46% 2
Bridgend - 18 £22,500 -
Caerphilly - 3 £27,000 -
Newport -8 2 £30,000 -29.41% 2
Windows Server 2008
Wales

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 90 (100.00%) Windows
2 76 (84.44%) Active Directory
3 69 (76.67%) MS Exchange
4 61 (67.78%) Microsoft
5 51 (56.67%) Exchange Server 2007
6 47 (52.22%) VMware
7 44 (48.89%) Exchange Server 2010
8 40 (44.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 39 (43.33%) MS Excel
10 38 (42.22%) DNS
10 38 (42.22%) Windows Server 2003
11 29 (32.22%) SAN
12 28 (31.11%) SQL Server
12 28 (31.11%) IIS
12 28 (31.11%) Exchange Server 2003
13 26 (28.89%) TCP/IP
14 24 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (25.56%) Windows 7
16 22 (24.44%) DHCP
17 21 (23.33%) VoIP
18 19 (21.11%) ITIL
18 19 (21.11%) Advertising
19 18 (20.00%) SharePoint
19 18 (20.00%) SQL
20 17 (18.89%) Firewall
21 16 (17.78%) Finance
21 16 (17.78%) MCSE
21 16 (17.78%) Citrix
21 16 (17.78%) Windows 8
22 15 (16.67%) VPN

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 4 (4.444%) .NET
2 2 (2.222%) HTML
3 1 (1.111%) COM
3 1 (1.111%) Web Services
3 1 (1.111%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 69 (76.67%) MS Exchange
2 51 (56.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 44 (48.89%) Exchange Server 2010
4 28 (31.11%) IIS
4 28 (31.11%) Exchange Server 2003
5 18 (20.00%) SharePoint
6 13 (14.44%) Lync
7 11 (12.22%) Apache
8 10 (11.11%) Office Communications Server
9 4 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (3.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 3 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2000
11 1 (1.111%) Site Server
Applications
1 39 (43.33%) MS Excel
2 11 (12.22%) Office 365
3 9 (10.00%) MS Project
4 3 (3.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 38 (42.22%) DNS
2 29 (32.22%) SAN
3 26 (28.89%) TCP/IP
4 22 (24.44%) DHCP
5 21 (23.33%) VoIP
6 17 (18.89%) Firewall
7 15 (16.67%) VPN
8 10 (11.11%) Unified Communications
9 8 (8.889%) VLAN
10 7 (7.778%) WAN
11 6 (6.667%) LAN
12 4 (4.444%) IP Telephony
13 3 (3.333%) SMTP
13 3 (3.333%) Cisco Nexus
14 2 (2.222%) NAS
14 2 (2.222%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.11%) SQL Server
2 14 (15.56%) MySQL
3 9 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (7.778%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (3.333%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (3.333%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (2.222%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 2 (2.222%) Visual Studio
1 2 (2.222%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.111%) Wise Package Studio
2 1 (1.111%) MSI
2 1 (1.111%) InstallShield
General
1 19 (21.11%) Advertising
2 16 (17.78%) Finance
3 10 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.222%) Law
5 1 (1.111%) Back Office
5 1 (1.111%) Retail
5 1 (1.111%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (25.56%) Analyst
2 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (12.22%) Support Analyst
4 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 10 (11.11%) Implementation Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 8 (8.889%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 7 (7.778%) Administrator
8 6 (6.667%) Data Centre Engineer
9 5 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.444%) 3rd Line Support
10 4 (4.444%) Programmer
11 3 (3.333%) Junior
11 3 (3.333%) Developer
11 3 (3.333%) DBA
11 3 (3.333%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (3.333%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.333%) Senior DBA
11 3 (3.333%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Video Conferencing
1 11 (12.22%) SaaS
2 9 (10.00%) Informatics
3 6 (6.667%) Blackberry
4 3 (3.333%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.333%) Replication
4 3 (3.333%) Clustering
5 1 (1.111%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 90 (100.00%) Windows
2 40 (44.44%) Windows Server 2012
3 38 (42.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 23 (25.56%) Windows 7
5 16 (17.78%) Windows 8
6 13 (14.44%) Windows 2000
7 11 (12.22%) UNIX
8 5 (5.556%) Windows XP
9 3 (3.333%) Linux
9 3 (3.333%) Windows Mobile
9 3 (3.333%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.11%) ITIL
2 13 (14.44%) Incident Management
3 7 (7.778%) Project Management
4 5 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (4.444%) Information Security
6 3 (3.333%) Change Management
7 2 (2.222%) Quality Management
7 2 (2.222%) WFM
7 2 (2.222%) Time Management
7 2 (2.222%) Communications Security
8 1 (1.111%) Capacity Management
8 1 (1.111%) Performance Management
8 1 (1.111%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (1.111%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.111%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.00%) SQL
2 8 (8.889%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.444%) VB
3 4 (4.444%) VB.NET
3 4 (4.444%) VB6
4 3 (3.333%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.333%) VBScript
5 2 (2.222%) C#
5 2 (2.222%) Java
5 2 (2.222%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (17.78%) MCSE
3 15 (16.67%) MCSA
4 14 (15.56%) MCITP
5 9 (10.00%) Degree
6 5 (5.556%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (4.444%) MCP
7 4 (4.444%) Security Cleared
7 4 (4.444%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.333%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.333%) MCDBA
9 2 (2.222%) CCNA
9 2 (2.222%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.222%) Citrix Certification
9 2 (2.222%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.111%) CCA
10 1 (1.111%) CCAA
10 1 (1.111%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.444%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.333%) SLA
3 2 (2.222%) HIPAA
System Software
1 76 (84.44%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.22%) XenApp
3 10 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 7 (7.778%) VMware ESX
6 6 (6.667%) XenServer
7 4 (4.444%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (4.444%) Terminal Services
8 3 (3.333%) ISA Server
8 3 (3.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 3 (3.333%) VMware Server
8 3 (3.333%) vSphere
9 2 (2.222%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (2.222%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (2.222%) Terminal Server
10 1 (1.111%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 11 (12.22%) Windows Intune
2 9 (10.00%) SCCM
3 6 (6.667%) NetBackup
4 5 (5.556%) Backup Exec
4 5 (5.556%) SCOM
4 5 (5.556%) Norton AntiVirus
5 4 (4.444%) ARCserve
5 4 (4.444%) WSUS
6 1 (1.111%) Business Desktop Deployment
6 1 (1.111%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.111%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.111%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 61 (67.78%) Microsoft
2 47 (52.22%) VMware
3 16 (17.78%) Citrix
4 12 (13.33%) Cisco
5 11 (12.22%) Dell
6 10 (11.11%) Dialogic
7 7 (7.778%) HP
7 7 (7.778%) Symantec
8 5 (5.556%) NetApp
9 3 (3.333%) Apple
9 3 (3.333%) Remedy
9 3 (3.333%) McAfee
9 3 (3.333%) Sophos
9 3 (3.333%) Oracle
9 3 (3.333%) Avaya
9 3 (3.333%) Red Gate
9 3 (3.333%) AppSense
10 2 (2.222%) Verint
10 2 (2.222%) Genesys
10 2 (2.222%) Business Objects
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