Windows Server 2008 Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Windows Server 2008 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 131 125
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 +36
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.16% 0.052% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.69% 0.45% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £409
25th Percentile £408 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - £427
75th Percentile £609 - £501
90th Percentile £670 - £545
London median daily rate £525 £618 £410
% change year-on-year -14.98% +50.61% -3.53%

All Operating Systems
Central London

Windows Server 2008 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 237 223 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.60% 11.57% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 158 194
10th Percentile £179 £250 £215
25th Percentile £286 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -1.44% +1.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £638
90th Percentile £706 £696 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 £24.68
25th Percentile £19.38 £22.53 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.13 £112.00
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.80 -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year -12.52% -6.85% -35.59%

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2008 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Windows Server 2008 job vacancy trend in Central London

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows Server 2008.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in Central London over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2008 in Central London

Windows Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows Server 2008.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 4 £483 -
Windows Server 2008
London

Windows Server 2008
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (50.00%) OpenVMS
3 2 (50.00%) VMS
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (25.00%) CentOS
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (25.00%) Server Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) WSUS
2 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas
3 1 (25.00%) BMC
3 1 (25.00%) Commvault
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy