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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 42 43 49
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 183 167 131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 5.033% 5.240% 4.371%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.68% 21.58% 15.67%
Number of salaries quoted 168 127 113
Average salary £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £20,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,650 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
885 774 836
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 24.34% 24.29% 27.89%
Number of salaries quoted 729 636 706
Average salary £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,050 £20,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2008
Yorkshire

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -13 126 £28,000 -20.00%
Halifax +20 23 £32,500 +91.17%
Wakefield +4 14 £24,000 -35.65%
Pontefract -1 6 £38,000 +63.44%
Bradford +4 5 £30,000 +7.62%
Huddersfield -2 4 £26,000 +52.94%
Otley - 2 £30,000 -
Windows Server 2008
Yorkshire

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 331 (100.00%) Windows
2 253 (76.44%) Windows Server 2003
3 218 (65.86%) Microsoft
4 211 (63.75%) VMware
5 206 (62.24%) Active Directory
6 180 (54.38%) MS Exchange
7 154 (46.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 148 (44.71%) MS Excel
9 146 (44.11%) SAN
10 110 (33.23%) SQL Server
11 90 (27.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 89 (26.89%) ITIL
13 87 (26.28%) HP
14 85 (25.68%) Citrix
15 80 (24.17%) SQL
16 74 (22.36%) Exchange Server 2007
17 73 (22.05%) Firewall
18 72 (21.75%) Exchange Server 2010
19 71 (21.45%) MCSE
20 64 (19.34%) vSphere
21 63 (19.03%) DNS
22 62 (18.73%) Windows XP
23 59 (17.82%) Linux
24 58 (17.52%) MS Office
25 57 (17.22%) TCP/IP
25 57 (17.22%) Backup Exec
25 57 (17.22%) SQL Server 2005
26 56 (16.92%) Windows 7
26 56 (16.92%) XenApp
27 54 (16.31%) SQL Server 2008

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 30 (9.063%) .NET
2 11 (3.323%) .NET Framework
3 9 (2.719%) HTML
3 9 (2.719%) Web Services
4 6 (1.813%) ASP.NET
4 6 (1.813%) jQuery
4 6 (1.813%) Ajax
5 5 (1.511%) LINQ
6 3 (0.906%) EDI
6 3 (0.906%) CSS
7 2 (0.604%) XML
7 2 (0.604%) MonoRail
7 2 (0.604%) ASP.NET MVC 2
8 1 (0.302%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (0.302%) WCF
8 1 (0.302%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 180 (54.38%) MS Exchange
2 74 (22.36%) Exchange Server 2007
3 72 (21.75%) Exchange Server 2010
4 54 (16.31%) SharePoint
5 45 (13.60%) Exchange Server 2003
6 33 (9.970%) IIS
7 27 (8.157%) SharePoint 2010
8 18 (5.438%) Lync
9 17 (5.136%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 7 (2.115%) Exchange Server 2000
11 6 (1.813%) Office Communications Server
11 6 (1.813%) SharePoint Server
12 5 (1.511%) Apache
13 4 (1.208%) CMS
14 3 (0.906%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.906%) WordPress
15 2 (0.604%) Lotus Notes
15 2 (0.604%) Moodle
16 1 (0.302%) SAS
Applications
1 148 (44.71%) MS Excel
2 58 (17.52%) MS Office
3 7 (2.115%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.813%) Office 365
5 4 (1.208%) MS PowerPoint
5 4 (1.208%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 3 (0.906%) Line 500
1 3 (0.906%) Agresso
2 2 (0.604%) Bond Adapt
3 1 (0.302%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 146 (44.11%) SAN
2 73 (22.05%) Firewall
3 63 (19.03%) DNS
4 57 (17.22%) TCP/IP
5 50 (15.11%) DHCP
6 27 (8.157%) VPN
6 27 (8.157%) WAN
7 23 (6.949%) VoIP
8 21 (6.344%) NAS
8 21 (6.344%) LAN
9 15 (4.532%) FTP
10 14 (4.230%) Internet
11 13 (3.927%) Wireless
12 12 (3.625%) HTTP
12 12 (3.625%) SMTP
13 10 (3.021%) SSH
13 10 (3.021%) Unified Communications
14 9 (2.719%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (2.417%) MPLS
16 7 (2.115%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (33.23%) SQL Server
2 57 (17.22%) SQL Server 2005
3 54 (16.31%) SQL Server 2008
4 11 (3.323%) Oracle 11g
4 11 (3.323%) MySQL
5 10 (3.021%) Oracle 8/8i
5 10 (3.021%) SQL Server 2012
6 8 (2.417%) SQL Server 2000
7 6 (1.813%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.906%) MS Access
8 3 (0.906%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.302%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.302%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.302%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (6.042%) Visual Studio
2 9 (2.719%) Team Foundation Server
3 8 (2.417%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 22 (6.647%) Telecoms
2 18 (5.438%) Finance
3 10 (3.021%) Manufacturing
4 2 (0.604%) Retail
4 2 (0.604%) Billing
4 2 (0.604%) Marketing
5 1 (0.302%) Publishing
5 1 (0.302%) Legal
5 1 (0.302%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (16.01%) Analyst
2 50 (15.11%) Administrator
3 42 (12.69%) Systems Administrator
4 38 (11.48%) Support Engineer
5 37 (11.18%) Consultant
6 33 (9.970%) Support Analyst
7 29 (8.761%) Systems Engineer
8 26 (7.855%) Technical Consultant
9 24 (7.251%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 20 (6.042%) IT Support
11 18 (5.438%) 3rd Line Support
11 18 (5.438%) Technical Support
11 18 (5.438%) Team Leader
11 18 (5.438%) Technical Engineer
12 16 (4.834%) IT Administrator
12 16 (4.834%) 2nd Line Support
13 14 (4.230%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 14 (4.230%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
13 14 (4.230%) Infrastructure Team Leader
13 14 (4.230%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.18%) Clustering
2 30 (9.063%) Blackberry
3 28 (8.459%) Replication
4 18 (5.438%) Celerra
5 9 (2.719%) Fat Client
5 9 (2.719%) Thin Client
6 8 (2.417%) Client/Server
6 8 (2.417%) N-Tier
6 8 (2.417%) EqualLogic
7 5 (1.511%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.511%) NHS
8 4 (1.208%) CLARiiON
8 4 (1.208%) SaaS
9 3 (0.906%) Statistics
9 3 (0.906%) Computer Science
10 2 (0.604%) Firmware
10 2 (0.604%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.604%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.302%) Mobile Computing
11 1 (0.302%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 331 (100.00%) Windows
2 253 (76.44%) Windows Server 2003
3 62 (18.73%) Windows XP
4 59 (17.82%) Linux
5 56 (16.92%) Windows 7
6 40 (12.08%) UNIX
7 22 (6.647%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (6.647%) Windows Vista
8 18 (5.438%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (3.625%) Windows 2000
10 11 (3.323%) Windows 2000 Server
11 8 (2.417%) Debian
11 8 (2.417%) CentOS
11 8 (2.417%) Windows 8
12 5 (1.511%) HPUX
13 3 (0.906%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.604%) Android
15 1 (0.302%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.302%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.302%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (26.89%) ITIL
2 37 (11.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 29 (8.761%) Release Management
3 29 (8.761%) Migration
4 19 (5.740%) Service Delivery
5 17 (5.136%) Root Cause Analysis
6 16 (4.834%) Problem Management
6 16 (4.834%) Change Control
7 15 (4.532%) Project Management
8 13 (3.927%) E-Commerce
9 12 (3.625%) ERP
9 12 (3.625%) Incident Management
10 10 (3.021%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (3.021%) Technical Architecture
11 9 (2.719%) Supplier Management
11 9 (2.719%) Time Management
11 9 (2.719%) Business Continuity
12 8 (2.417%) Change Management
12 8 (2.417%) Capacity Management
13 7 (2.115%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (24.17%) SQL
2 24 (7.251%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.719%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.417%) PL/SQL
5 7 (2.115%) VBA
6 6 (1.813%) C#
7 5 (1.511%) VBScript
8 4 (1.208%) VB
8 4 (1.208%) Java
8 4 (1.208%) PHP
9 3 (0.906%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.604%) C
10 2 (0.604%) Python
11 1 (0.302%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (27.19%) Microsoft Certification
2 71 (21.45%) MCSE
3 45 (13.60%) MCP
4 30 (9.063%) MCITP
5 19 (5.740%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 19 (5.740%) MCSA
6 16 (4.834%) Citrix Certification
6 16 (4.834%) Degree
7 13 (3.927%) CCA
7 13 (3.927%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.927%) CCNA
8 12 (3.625%) CCNP
8 12 (3.625%) CCEA
9 11 (3.323%) MCTS
10 9 (2.719%) MCDST
11 8 (2.417%) MCAD
11 8 (2.417%) Security Cleared
12 7 (2.115%) NCDA
12 7 (2.115%) NCIE
12 7 (2.115%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.90%) SLA
2 5 (1.511%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.208%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.604%) QA
System Software
1 206 (62.24%) Active Directory
2 154 (46.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (19.34%) vSphere
4 56 (16.92%) XenApp
5 49 (14.80%) VMware ESXi
6 36 (10.88%) Hyper-V
7 30 (9.063%) XenServer
8 28 (8.459%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 19 (5.740%) VMware ESX
10 18 (5.438%) Terminal Server
11 17 (5.136%) XenDesktop
12 15 (4.532%) Terminal Services
13 8 (2.417%) Citrix Presentation Server
14 4 (1.208%) Forefront TMG
15 2 (0.604%) Xen
16 1 (0.302%) VMware Server
16 1 (0.302%) Samba
16 1 (0.302%) ISA Server
16 1 (0.302%) NFS
Systems Management
1 57 (17.22%) Backup Exec
2 39 (11.78%) Norton AntiVirus
3 35 (10.57%) SCCM
4 33 (9.970%) WSUS
5 28 (8.459%) SCOM
6 10 (3.021%) SCVMM
6 10 (3.021%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 8 (2.417%) NetBackup
8 5 (1.511%) Cacti
8 5 (1.511%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (1.511%) Nagios
9 4 (1.208%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.906%) Opalis
11 2 (0.604%) HP Data Protector
12 1 (0.302%) Puppet
12 1 (0.302%) PureDisk
12 1 (0.302%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 218 (65.86%) Microsoft
2 211 (63.75%) VMware
3 87 (26.28%) HP
4 85 (25.68%) Citrix
5 53 (16.01%) Cisco
5 53 (16.01%) Symantec
6 32 (9.668%) McAfee
7 29 (8.761%) EMC
8 28 (8.459%) NetApp
9 26 (7.855%) Veritas
10 23 (6.949%) ProCurve
11 21 (6.344%) CommVault
12 20 (6.042%) Dell
13 17 (5.136%) Red Hat
13 17 (5.136%) Juniper
14 16 (4.834%) Kaspersky
15 15 (4.532%) Oracle
16 11 (3.323%) Veeam
17 10 (3.021%) CheckPoint
18 9 (2.719%) Brocade
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