The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank5877110
Rank change year-on-year
Up+19Up+33
Matching permanent IT job ads493637131940
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.093 %3.028 %2.032 %
As % of the Operating Systems category15.32 %12.16 %8.320 %
Number of salaries quoted439632801673
Average salary£37,500£37,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35 %+5.71 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£23,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.94 %+4.61 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
322193052723318
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK26.72 %24.90 %24.42 %
Number of salaries quoted276442574319496
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Windows Server 2008
Demand Trend

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

Windows Server 2008 Demand Trend

Windows Server 2008
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 within the UK.

Windows Server 2008 Salary Trend

Windows Server 2008
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Windows Server 2008 Salary Histogram

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+194587£37,500+1.35 %
LondonUp+262094£42,500-
South EastUp+201134£37,500+7.14 %
City of LondonUp+21486£43,750+2.94 %
SurreyDown-7339£42,500+2.40 %
North WestUp+23303£32,764+4.01 %
East of EnglandUp+11283£35,500+1.42 %
YorkshireUp+15236£35,000+16.66 %
BerkshireUp+38216£35,000+5.26 %
HampshireUp+23203£35,000+16.66 %
West MidlandsUp+7191£32,500-7.14 %
South WestDown-5181£34,500+6.15 %
ManchesterUp+22164£32,500+8.33 %
West YorkshireUp+9161£35,000+14.75 %
ScotlandUp+40155£35,000-2.77 %
LeedsUp+20139£35,000+7.69 %
BuckinghamshireUp+47118£35,000-5.40 %
East MidlandsDown-3113£29,000-2.52 %
ReadingUp+2287£35,000+21.73 %
CheshireUp+484£35,000+12.00 %
StainesUp+780£46,500+12.04 %
SouthamptonUp+1079£37,500+29.31 %
WalesUp+3577£33,000-2.94 %
HertfordshireDown-1174£44,000+25.71 %
BirminghamDown-773£35,500-5.33 %
South WalesUp+2971£33,500-1.47 %
OxfordshireUp+2471£35,000-3.44 %
EssexDown-670£37,500+15.38 %
CambridgeshireUp+2365£35,000-
KentUp+3560£35,000-5.40 %

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

19521 (100.00 %)Windows
26746 (70.85 %)Windows Server 2003
35179 (54.40 %)Microsoft
45071 (53.26 %)Active Directory
54289 (45.05 %)VMware
63872 (40.67 %)MS Exchange
72809 (29.50 %)SQL Server
82630 (27.62 %)VMware Infrastructure
92620 (27.52 %)Citrix
102596 (27.27 %)MS Excel
112327 (24.44 %)SQL
122313 (24.29 %)Microsoft Certification
132066 (21.70 %)Exchange Server 2010
142025 (21.27 %)Exchange Server 2007
151964 (20.63 %)Cisco
161958 (20.57 %)Windows XP
171878 (19.72 %)SAN
181825 (19.17 %)TCP/IP
191777 (18.66 %)DNS
201764 (18.53 %)Windows 7
211688 (17.73 %)MCSE
221539 (16.16 %)IIS
231533 (16.10 %)Linux
241527 (16.04 %)Firewall
251455 (15.28 %)ITIL
261352 (14.20 %)Finance
261352 (14.20 %)Exchange Server 2003
271327 (13.94 %)MS Office
281254 (13.17 %)HP
291203 (12.64 %)Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1784 (8.234 %).NET
2398 (4.180 %)ASP.NET
3308 (3.235 %)XML
4283 (2.972 %)HTML
5272 (2.857 %)CSS
6242 (2.542 %)Web Services
7139 (1.460 %)jQuery
8128 (1.344 %).NET Framework
8128 (1.344 %)ASP
999 (1.040 %)Forefront TMG
1086 (0.903 %)WinForms
1185 (0.893 %)Ajax
1281 (0.851 %)Application Packaging
1377 (0.809 %)WCF
1474 (0.777 %)WebSphere
1565 (0.683 %)XSLT
1655 (0.578 %)COM
1747 (0.494 %)J2EE
1845 (0.473 %)Hibernate
1845 (0.473 %)ASP.NET MVC
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13872 (40.67 %)MS Exchange
22066 (21.70 %)Exchange Server 2010
32025 (21.27 %)Exchange Server 2007
41539 (16.16 %)IIS
51352 (14.20 %)Exchange Server 2003
61186 (12.46 %)SharePoint
7408 (4.285 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
8354 (3.718 %)Apache
9269 (2.825 %)SharePoint 2010
10262 (2.752 %)Lync
11140 (1.470 %)Office Communications Server
12128 (1.344 %)Tomcat
13113 (1.187 %)SharePoint Server
14105 (1.103 %)Lotus Notes
1588 (0.924 %)Exchange Server 2000
1682 (0.861 %)BizTalk Server
1754 (0.567 %)CMS
1849 (0.515 %)Amazon EC2
1945 (0.473 %)Exchange Server 5.5
2042 (0.441 %)SAS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12596 (27.27 %)MS Excel
21327 (13.94 %)MS Office
3154 (1.617 %)MS Visio
474 (0.777 %)MS PowerPoint
562 (0.651 %)Office 365
634 (0.357 %)MS Project
726 (0.273 %)InfoPath
823 (0.242 %)Photoshop
919 (0.200 %)Google Apps
1013 (0.137 %)Spreadsheet
116 (0.063 %)PowerPivot
125 (0.053 %)Acrobat
133 (0.032 %)AutoCAD
133 (0.032 %)Adobe Illustrator
142 (0.021 %)LightWave 3D
151 (0.011 %)CATIA
151 (0.011 %)Maya
151 (0.011 %)3ds Max
151 (0.011 %)CINEMA 4D
151 (0.011 %)Final Cut Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1104 (1.092 %)Dynamics CRM
230 (0.315 %)Dynamics AX
326 (0.273 %)Summit
421 (0.221 %)SoftGrid
520 (0.210 %)Dynamics NAV
610 (0.105 %)Line 500
610 (0.105 %)Agresso
610 (0.105 %)Prophet
78 (0.084 %)Sage 200
78 (0.084 %)Advent Portfolio Exchange
78 (0.084 %)Oracle Applications
87 (0.074 %)Line 50
87 (0.074 %)Aligne
87 (0.074 %)SAP ERP
95 (0.053 %)SyteLine
104 (0.042 %)assyst
104 (0.042 %)Dynamics GP
104 (0.042 %)RMDS
104 (0.042 %)Oracle Financials
104 (0.042 %)3000 Xtra
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11878 (19.72 %)SAN
21825 (19.17 %)TCP/IP
31777 (18.66 %)DNS
41527 (16.04 %)Firewall
51164 (12.23 %)DHCP
61034 (10.86 %)WAN
71027 (10.79 %)LAN
8844 (8.865 %)VPN
9662 (6.953 %)Internet
10434 (4.558 %)NAS
11421 (4.422 %)VoIP
12297 (3.119 %)VLAN
13253 (2.657 %)Wireless
14187 (1.964 %)MPLS
15182 (1.912 %)iSCSI
16177 (1.859 %)Cisco ASA
17166 (1.744 %)Network Security
18130 (1.365 %)Fibre Channel
19125 (1.313 %)NetScaler
20114 (1.197 %)FTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12809 (29.50 %)SQL Server
21083 (11.37 %)SQL Server 2008
3932 (9.789 %)SQL Server 2005
4313 (3.287 %)Oracle 8/8i
5310 (3.256 %)MySQL
6284 (2.983 %)SQL Server 2000
7258 (2.710 %)SQL Server Integration Services
8250 (2.626 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
9127 (1.334 %)Data Warehouse
10104 (1.092 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
11100 (1.050 %)DTS
1299 (1.040 %)ETL
1392 (0.966 %)Oracle 10g
1486 (0.903 %)Crystal Reports
1578 (0.819 %)Oracle 11g
1666 (0.693 %)RDBMS
1743 (0.452 %)OLAP
1835 (0.368 %)Oracle 9i
1835 (0.368 %)MS Access
1931 (0.326 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1211 (2.216 %)Visual Studio
2109 (1.145 %)Subversion
3104 (1.092 %)NUnit
496 (1.008 %)Team Foundation Server
565 (0.683 %)MSI
663 (0.662 %)TortoiseSVN
759 (0.620 %)CruiseControl
852 (0.546 %)VSS/SourceSafe
921 (0.221 %)Ant
1020 (0.210 %)Eclipse
1119 (0.200 %)WebLOAD
1218 (0.189 %)Git (software)
1317 (0.179 %)Wise Package Studio
1317 (0.179 %)TeamCity
1414 (0.147 %)LoadRunner
1511 (0.116 %)InstallShield
1511 (0.116 %)MSBuild
1610 (0.105 %)WiX
1610 (0.105 %)Selenium
178 (0.084 %)StarTeam
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11352 (14.20 %)Finance
2353 (3.708 %)Banking
3247 (2.594 %)Telecoms
4196 (2.059 %)Back Office
5184 (1.933 %)Law
6167 (1.754 %)Retail
7128 (1.344 %)Financial Institution
8125 (1.313 %)Legal
9101 (1.061 %)Marketing
1099 (1.040 %)Manufacturing
1099 (1.040 %)Front Office
1189 (0.935 %)Investment Banking
1285 (0.893 %)German Language
1376 (0.798 %)French Language
1467 (0.704 %)Advertising
1564 (0.672 %)Games
1645 (0.473 %)Publishing
1645 (0.473 %)Italian Language
1729 (0.305 %)International Banking
1729 (0.305 %)Spanish Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11757 (18.45 %)Analyst
21125 (11.82 %)Support Engineer
31093 (11.48 %)Administrator
41080 (11.34 %)Support Analyst
5769 (8.077 %)Consultant
6678 (7.121 %)Systems Administrator
7638 (6.701 %)3rd Line Support
8627 (6.585 %)Infrastructure Engineer
9512 (5.378 %)IT Support
10500 (5.252 %)Systems Engineer
11470 (4.936 %)Technical Support
12428 (4.495 %)Developer
13398 (4.180 %)2nd Line Support
14350 (3.676 %)Infrastructure Analyst
15316 (3.319 %)Server Engineer
16312 (3.277 %)Architect
17301 (3.161 %)DBA
18293 (3.077 %)Server Support
19268 (2.815 %)Network Engineer
20258 (2.710 %)Desktop Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1667 (7.006 %)Blackberry
2664 (6.974 %)Clustering
3263 (2.762 %)Replication
4223 (2.342 %)Computer Science
5214 (2.248 %)Hedge funds
6159 (1.670 %)Management Information System
7140 (1.470 %)CLARiiON
8131 (1.376 %)Thin Client
8131 (1.376 %)Fat Client
988 (0.924 %)Client/Server
1082 (0.861 %)iPhone
1181 (0.851 %)Cloud Computing
1273 (0.767 %)SaaS
1360 (0.630 %)N-Tier
1455 (0.578 %)EqualLogic
1554 (0.567 %)Open Source
1653 (0.557 %)Smartphone
1746 (0.483 %)Spread Betting
1746 (0.483 %)iPad
1843 (0.452 %)Video Conferencing
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19521 (100.00 %)Windows
26746 (70.85 %)Windows Server 2003
31958 (20.57 %)Windows XP
41764 (18.53 %)Windows 7
51533 (16.10 %)Linux
6957 (10.05 %)Windows Vista
7600 (6.302 %)UNIX
8552 (5.798 %)Windows 2000 Server
9379 (3.981 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10369 (3.876 %)Windows 2000
11250 (2.626 %)Solaris
12114 (1.197 %)CentOS
1394 (0.987 %)AIX
1488 (0.924 %)Mac OS X
1587 (0.914 %)Ubuntu
1685 (0.893 %)Debian
1769 (0.725 %)Windows NT
1848 (0.504 %)Mac OS
1946 (0.483 %)Android
2035 (0.368 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11455 (15.28 %)ITIL
2545 (5.724 %)Disaster Recovery
3464 (4.873 %)Project Management
4403 (4.233 %)Service Delivery
5337 (3.540 %)Migration
6303 (3.182 %)Change Management
7291 (3.056 %)Load Balancing
8240 (2.521 %)CRM
9239 (2.510 %)Service Management
10212 (2.227 %)Configuration Management
11200 (2.101 %)Business Intelligence
12187 (1.964 %)Problem Management
13176 (1.849 %)PRINCE2
14151 (1.586 %)Capacity Planning
15150 (1.575 %)E-Commerce
16142 (1.491 %)Change Control
17136 (1.428 %)Time Management
18133 (1.397 %)Incident Management
19115 (1.208 %)Asset Management
20113 (1.187 %)High Availability
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12327 (24.44 %)SQL
2539 (5.661 %)PowerShell
3503 (5.283 %)C#
4310 (3.256 %)VBScript
5292 (3.067 %)JavaScript
6267 (2.804 %)T-SQL
7248 (2.605 %)VB
8231 (2.426 %)Perl
9209 (2.195 %)Java
10159 (1.670 %)C
11134 (1.407 %)C++
12127 (1.334 %)PHP
13116 (1.218 %)VB.NET
14108 (1.134 %)Python
15101 (1.061 %)VBA
1693 (0.977 %)Shell Script
1778 (0.819 %)Bash shell
1859 (0.620 %)VB6
1948 (0.504 %)PL/SQL
2042 (0.441 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12313 (24.29 %)Microsoft Certification
21688 (17.73 %)MCSE
31159 (12.17 %)MCITP
4792 (8.318 %)Degree
5716 (7.520 %)Cisco Certification
6578 (6.071 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7577 (6.060 %)MCP
8573 (6.018 %)CCNA
9505 (5.304 %)MCSA
10438 (4.600 %)Citrix Certification
11382 (4.012 %)Security Cleared
12374 (3.928 %)CCA
13292 (3.067 %)MCTS
14291 (3.056 %)SC Cleared
15195 (2.048 %)CCNP
16111 (1.166 %)ITIL Certification
17107 (1.124 %)CCEA
18102 (1.071 %)CCEE
1989 (0.935 %)MCDST
2073 (0.767 %)RHCE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1498 (5.231 %)SLA
2151 (1.586 %)QA
365 (0.683 %)ISO 9001
463 (0.662 %)ISO/IEC 27001
536 (0.378 %)PCI DSS
621 (0.221 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
712 (0.126 %)BS7799
89 (0.095 %)COBIT
96 (0.063 %)ISO/IEC 20000
102 (0.021 %)TickIT
111 (0.011 %)GAAP
111 (0.011 %)DICOM
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15071 (53.26 %)Active Directory
22630 (27.62 %)VMware Infrastructure
31203 (12.64 %)Hyper-V
41039 (10.91 %)vSphere
5979 (10.28 %)XenApp
6816 (8.571 %)VMware ESX
7487 (5.115 %)XenDesktop
8396 (4.159 %)XenServer
9363 (3.813 %)VMware ESXi
10334 (3.508 %)Terminal Services
11245 (2.573 %)Citrix Presentation Server
12204 (2.143 %)ISA Server
13161 (1.691 %)Xen
14103 (1.082 %)Terminal Server
1599 (1.040 %)VMware Server
1690 (0.945 %)UAG
1785 (0.893 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1871 (0.746 %)NFS
1959 (0.620 %)MetaFrame
2029 (0.305 %)Samba
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1737 (7.741 %)SCCM
2561 (5.892 %)SCOM
3523 (5.493 %)Backup Exec
4263 (2.762 %)NetBackup
5197 (2.069 %)WSUS
6170 (1.786 %)vCenter
7120 (1.260 %)Norton AntiVirus
8108 (1.134 %)SCVMM
995 (0.998 %)MOM
1088 (0.924 %)Nagios
1178 (0.819 %)HP SIM
1271 (0.746 %)Tivoli
1363 (0.662 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1462 (0.651 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1555 (0.578 %)McAfee ePO
1644 (0.462 %)ARCserve
1741 (0.431 %)Puppet
1837 (0.389 %)HP Data Protector
1933 (0.347 %)EMC NetWorker
2029 (0.305 %)OpenView
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15179 (54.40 %)Microsoft
24289 (45.05 %)VMware
32620 (27.52 %)Citrix
41964 (20.63 %)Cisco
51254 (13.17 %)HP
6641 (6.732 %)Oracle
7541 (5.682 %)Symantec
8505 (5.304 %)Red Hat
9467 (4.905 %)NetApp
10453 (4.758 %)EMC
11401 (4.212 %)Dell
12325 (3.414 %)IBM
13220 (2.311 %)Juniper
14215 (2.258 %)Avaya
15197 (2.069 %)CheckPoint
16181 (1.901 %)Altiris
17144 (1.512 %)Veritas
18141 (1.481 %)AppSense
19124 (1.302 %)Intel
20123 (1.292 %)Apple