The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 24 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 39 24 48
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +24
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 40 44 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 5.739% 7.899% 3.246%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.39% 28.03% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 40 42 17
Average salary £35,000 £36,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.10% +21.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,100 £27,750 £23,900
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,500 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
All Operating Systems
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
244 157 164
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 35.01% 28.19% 25.35%
Number of salaries quoted 235 128 146
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,100 £30,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £49,750 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
East of England

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 24 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
Ipswich -15 26 £37,500 +2.73%
Stowmarket +3 4 £32,500 +18.18%
Woodbridge - 1 £40,000 -
Felixstowe - 1 £40,000 -
Windows Server 2008
East of England

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 79 (100.00%) Windows
2 61 (77.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 38 (48.10%) SQL Server
4 37 (46.84%) VMware
5 36 (45.57%) MS Exchange
6 30 (37.97%) Active Directory
7 28 (35.44%) SAN
7 28 (35.44%) Exchange Server 2010
8 24 (30.38%) SQL Server 2008
9 23 (29.11%) NetApp
9 23 (29.11%) Microsoft
10 22 (27.85%) Cisco
10 22 (27.85%) .NET
11 20 (25.32%) EMC
11 20 (25.32%) Finance
11 20 (25.32%) VMware Infrastructure
12 19 (24.05%) DNS
13 15 (18.99%) C#
13 15 (18.99%) Tivoli
13 15 (18.99%) Isilon
14 14 (17.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 14 (17.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (17.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 13 (16.46%) ASP.NET
15 13 (16.46%) ITIL
16 12 (15.19%) DHCP
16 12 (15.19%) Business Continuity
16 12 (15.19%) Firewall
16 12 (15.19%) Cisco Nexus
17 11 (13.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 (27.85%) .NET
2 13 (16.46%) ASP.NET
3 11 (13.92%) jQuery
3 11 (13.92%) CSS
3 11 (13.92%) XML
4 8 (10.13%) XSLT
4 8 (10.13%) HTML
4 8 (10.13%) ASP.NET 2.0
5 6 (7.595%) WSH
6 5 (6.329%) WCF
6 5 (6.329%) LINQ
7 4 (5.063%) Silverlight
8 3 (3.797%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.532%) Apache Flex
9 2 (2.532%) NHibernate
10 1 (1.266%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.266%) WPF
10 1 (1.266%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 1 (1.266%) AppFabric
10 1 (1.266%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 36 (45.57%) MS Exchange
2 28 (35.44%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (11.39%) IIS
4 6 (7.595%) SharePoint
4 6 (7.595%) Apache
5 5 (6.329%) SharePoint 2010
5 5 (6.329%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (5.063%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (2.532%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (1.266%) MSMQ
Applications
1 9 (11.39%) MS Excel
2 4 (5.063%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.266%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 28 (35.44%) SAN
2 19 (24.05%) DNS
3 12 (15.19%) DHCP
3 12 (15.19%) Firewall
3 12 (15.19%) Cisco Nexus
4 10 (12.66%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (8.861%) VPN
5 7 (8.861%) WAN
5 7 (8.861%) LAN
6 6 (7.595%) VoIP
6 6 (7.595%) TCP/IP
7 5 (6.329%) Internet
8 2 (2.532%) CTI
8 2 (2.532%) ISDN
8 2 (2.532%) PBX
9 1 (1.266%) NAS
9 1 (1.266%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (48.10%) SQL Server
2 24 (30.38%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (17.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (10.13%) SQL Server 2000
4 8 (10.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (7.595%) Oracle 10g
5 6 (7.595%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (7.595%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (6.329%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (5.063%) OLAP
8 3 (3.797%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.329%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (5.063%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (1.266%) MSBuild
3 1 (1.266%) NUnit
General
1 20 (25.32%) Finance
2 3 (3.797%) Marketing
2 3 (3.797%) Banking
2 3 (3.797%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.266%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (17.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (15.19%) Storage Administrator
2 12 (15.19%) Administrator
3 10 (12.66%) Analyst
4 9 (11.39%) Support Analyst
5 8 (10.13%) Developer
6 6 (7.595%) .NET Developer
6 6 (7.595%) Storage Engineer
7 5 (6.329%) Infrastructure Team Leader
7 5 (6.329%) Applications Support Analyst
7 5 (6.329%) Team Leader
7 5 (6.329%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.063%) Architect
8 4 (5.063%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.063%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.797%) Lead .NET Developer
9 3 (3.797%) Lead SQL Server Developer
9 3 (3.797%) Infrastructure Technician
9 3 (3.797%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (3.797%) Lead C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Replication
2 5 (6.329%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.797%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.266%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 79 (100.00%) Windows
2 61 (77.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (13.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (12.66%) Windows 7
5 9 (11.39%) Linux
6 6 (7.595%) Windows XP
7 3 (3.797%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.797%) Windows 2000
7 3 (3.797%) Mac OS X
8 2 (2.532%) Windows Vista
9 1 (1.266%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.46%) ITIL
2 12 (15.19%) Business Continuity
3 11 (13.92%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (8.861%) Problem Management
5 6 (7.595%) Risk Management
6 5 (6.329%) Web Application Development
6 5 (6.329%) E-Commerce
6 5 (6.329%) B2B
6 5 (6.329%) B2C
7 4 (5.063%) Migration
7 4 (5.063%) Automated Testing
7 4 (5.063%) Document Management
8 3 (3.797%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (3.797%) Online Marketing
9 1 (1.266%) Incident Management
9 1 (1.266%) Data Protection
9 1 (1.266%) MVC
9 1 (1.266%) Change Management
9 1 (1.266%) Configuration Management
9 1 (1.266%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.99%) C#
2 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.595%) Java
4 2 (2.532%) SQL
4 2 (2.532%) VBScript
4 2 (2.532%) VB
5 1 (1.266%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.266%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (5.063%) MCITP
3 3 (3.797%) Degree
3 3 (3.797%) MCSE
4 2 (2.532%) CCNA
4 2 (2.532%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.532%) MCSA
4 2 (2.532%) MCP
4 2 (2.532%) MCDST
4 2 (2.532%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.266%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.797%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (37.97%) Active Directory
2 20 (25.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (17.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 5 (6.329%) vSphere
4 5 (6.329%) VMware ESX
5 4 (5.063%) XenServer
5 4 (5.063%) XenDesktop
6 3 (3.797%) XenApp
6 3 (3.797%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.532%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.532%) NFS
7 2 (2.532%) ISA Server
7 2 (2.532%) VMFS
8 1 (1.266%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 15 (18.99%) Tivoli
2 14 (17.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (7.595%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 37 (46.84%) VMware
2 23 (29.11%) NetApp
2 23 (29.11%) Microsoft
3 22 (27.85%) Cisco
4 20 (25.32%) EMC
5 15 (18.99%) Isilon
6 10 (12.66%) IBM
7 8 (10.13%) Citrix
8 7 (8.861%) Symantec
9 6 (7.595%) Oracle
10 4 (5.063%) NETGEAR
11 3 (3.797%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.797%) Red Hat
12 2 (2.532%) HP
12 2 (2.532%) Intel
12 2 (2.532%) Avaya
12 2 (2.532%) Mitel
13 1 (1.266%) Juniper
13 1 (1.266%) Dell
13 1 (1.266%) Salesforce.com
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