Windows Server 2008 Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server 2008 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	197	115	69
Rank change year-on-year	-82	-46
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008	570	1065	1459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.32%	2.15%	2.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category	6.42%	9.36%	13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	354	640	876
Median daily rate	£325	£325	£323
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+0.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£172	£191	£174
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£482	£450
UK excluding London median daily rate	£317	£320	£300
% change year-on-year	-0.93%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	48	66	113
Median hourly rate	£18.50	£19.75	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-6.32%	+3.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£12.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.70	£40.00	£39.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£21.00	£18.61
% change year-on-year	-16.66%	+12.87%

Windows Server 2008 is in the operating system skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	8881	11374	11222
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	20.54%	22.94%	22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted	5537	7301	6668
Median daily rate	£413	£400	£360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.12%	+11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£175	£205	£175
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£560	£550	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£350
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted	516	593	877
Median hourly rate	£16.50	£16.50	£17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	-2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£11.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£42.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.50	£16.50
% change year-on-year	-11.42%	+6.06%

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Windows Server 2008 as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Operating Systems category.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2008 in England

Windows Server 2008
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Windows Server 2008 in England

Windows Server 2008
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2008 in England

Windows Server 2008
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2008 in England

Windows Server 2008
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Windows Server 2008 in England

Windows Server 2008
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-94	191	£355	-0.28%	75
South East	-15	176	£343	+1.25%	44
South West	-9	49	£300	-4.00%	20
North West	-2	44	£300	-7.69%	30
West Midlands	-5	33	£288	-12.87%	17
Yorkshire	+8	25	£325	+8.33%	17
East of England	-33	25	£375	+7.14%	18
North East	-14	20	£198	-27.58%	2
East Midlands	-16	15	£300	-	6
Windows Server 2008 UK

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Windows Server 2008.

1	1201 (100.00%)	Windows
2	847 (70.52%)	Windows Server
3	805 (67.03%)	Active Directory
4	760 (63.28%)	Windows Server 2012
5	578 (48.13%)	VMware
6	546 (45.46%)	Microsoft
7	374 (31.14%)	Windows Server 2003
8	336 (27.98%)	VMware Infrastructure
9	326 (27.14%)	PowerShell
10	312 (25.98%)	MS Exchange
11	295 (24.56%)	DNS
12	286 (23.81%)	Windows 7
13	284 (23.65%)	Citrix
14	271 (22.56%)	SQL Server
15	253 (21.07%)	SQL

16	240 (19.98%)	Linux
17	222 (18.48%)	Security Cleared
18	220 (18.32%)	Exchange Server 2010
18	220 (18.32%)	ITIL
19	209 (17.40%)	Office 365
20	201 (16.74%)	Cisco
21	200 (16.65%)	DHCP
21	200 (16.65%)	Firewall
22	193 (16.07%)	SAN
22	193 (16.07%)	Hyper-V
23	181 (15.07%)	SCCM
23	181 (15.07%)	HP
24	177 (14.74%)	Migration
25	171 (14.24%)	Microsoft Certification
26	153 (12.74%)	LAN

Windows Server 2008
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	312 (25.98%)	MS Exchange
2	220 (18.32%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	127 (10.57%)	Exchange Server 2013
4	122 (10.16%)	Skype for Business
5	109 (9.08%)	IIS
6	107 (8.91%)	SharePoint
7	54 (4.50%)	Exchange Server 2007
8	48 (4.00%)	SharePoint 2013
9	37 (3.08%)	SharePoint 2010
10	29 (2.41%)	Exchange Server 2003
11	21 (1.75%)	Apache
12	17 (1.42%)	Office Communications Server
13	16 (1.33%)	Tomcat
14	15 (1.25%)	JBoss
15	12 (1.00%)	CMS
15	12 (1.00%)	WildFly
16	10 (0.83%)	Drupal
16	10 (0.83%)	WebLogic
16	10 (0.83%)	WordPress
17	9 (0.75%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server

Applications
1	122 (10.16%)	Microsoft Office
2	29 (2.41%)	Microsoft Excel
3	8 (0.67%)	MS Visio
4	7 (0.58%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	3 (0.25%)	Spreadsheet
6	2 (0.17%)	3ds Max
6	2 (0.17%)	Acrobat
6	2 (0.17%)	AutoCAD
6	2 (0.17%)	CINEMA 4D
6	2 (0.17%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.17%)	SketchUp
7	1 (0.083%)	Adobe Creative Suite

Business Applications
1	16 (1.33%)	Dynamics CRM
2	8 (0.67%)	Dynamics AX
2	8 (0.67%)	Oracle Applications
3	7 (0.58%)	Oracle 11i
4	5 (0.42%)	Oracle EBS
4	5 (0.42%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	4 (0.33%)	Dynamics GP
5	4 (0.33%)	Pegasus Opera
6	3 (0.25%)	Demantra
6	3 (0.25%)	SnowdropKCS
7	2 (0.17%)	Bankmaster
7	2 (0.17%)	Changepoint
7	2 (0.17%)	FRx
7	2 (0.17%)	Primavera
7	2 (0.17%)	Remedy ITSM
7	2 (0.17%)	Scribe Insight
7	2 (0.17%)	Teamcenter
8	1 (0.083%)	NetSuite
8	1 (0.083%)	Remedy AR System
8	1 (0.083%)	Unit4 Business World

Cloud Services
1	209 (17.40%)	Office 365
2	150 (12.49%)	Microsoft Azure
3	67 (5.58%)	Amazon AWS
4	38 (3.16%)	Azure Active Directory
5	19 (1.58%)	IaaS
6	14 (1.17%)	PaaS
7	13 (1.08%)	SaaS
8	11 (0.92%)	Mimecast
9	6 (0.50%)	GitHub
10	4 (0.33%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	2 (0.17%)	AWS OpsWorks
11	2 (0.17%)	G Suite
11	2 (0.17%)	Virtual Private Cloud
12	1 (0.083%)	Amazon CloudWatch
12	1 (0.083%)	Cloud Computing
12	1 (0.083%)	Dynamics 365
12	1 (0.083%)	Google Cloud Platform
12	1 (0.083%)	HP Helion
12	1 (0.083%)	IBM Cloud
12	1 (0.083%)	SoftLayer

Communications & Networking
1	295 (24.56%)	DNS
2	200 (16.65%)	DHCP
2	200 (16.65%)	Firewall
3	193 (16.07%)	SAN
4	153 (12.74%)	LAN
5	151 (12.57%)	WAN
6	80 (6.66%)	TCP/IP
7	75 (6.24%)	VPN
8	60 (5.00%)	Skype
9	59 (4.91%)	NAS
10	54 (4.50%)	Internet
11	49 (4.08%)	NetScaler
11	49 (4.08%)	VoIP
12	37 (3.08%)	Wi-Fi
13	35 (2.91%)	Remote Desktop
14	32 (2.66%)	Wireless
15	30 (2.50%)	SMTP
16	29 (2.41%)	LDAP
17	28 (2.33%)	VLAN
18	23 (1.92%)	HTTP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	271 (22.56%)	SQL Server
2	86 (7.16%)	SQL Server 2012
3	84 (6.99%)	SQL Server 2008
4	47 (3.91%)	SQL Server 2005
5	36 (3.00%)	MySQL
5	36 (3.00%)	Oracle Database
6	34 (2.83%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
7	30 (2.50%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	27 (2.25%)	SQL Server 2014
9	26 (2.16%)	Relational Database
10	19 (1.58%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
11	18 (1.50%)	PostgreSQL
12	15 (1.25%)	Oracle Database 10g
13	13 (1.08%)	Oracle Database 11g
13	13 (1.08%)	RDBMS
14	12 (1.00%)	Oracle Reports
15	11 (0.92%)	SQL Server 2016
16	9 (0.75%)	DB2
16	9 (0.75%)	MS Access
17	8 (0.67%)	Oracle9i Database

Development Applications
1	23 (1.92%)	MSI
2	22 (1.83%)	Jenkins
3	18 (1.50%)	Octopus Deploy
4	17 (1.42%)	Team Foundation Server
5	14 (1.17%)	Oracle Forms
5	14 (1.17%)	TeamCity
5	14 (1.17%)	Visual Studio
6	13 (1.08%)	Git (software)
7	6 (0.50%)	Oracle APEX
7	6 (0.50%)	Subversion
7	6 (0.50%)	Visual Studio Team System
8	5 (0.42%)	NUnit
9	4 (0.33%)	JIRA
9	4 (0.33%)	Metasploit
9	4 (0.33%)	MSBuild
10	3 (0.25%)	CruiseControl
10	3 (0.25%)	InstallShield
10	3 (0.25%)	Visual Studio Tools for Office
11	2 (0.17%)	Selenium
11	2 (0.17%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

General
1	141 (11.74%)	Finance
2	69 (5.75%)	Banking
3	25 (2.08%)	Retail
4	22 (1.83%)	Manufacturing
5	17 (1.42%)	Investment Banking
5	17 (1.42%)	Legal
5	17 (1.42%)	Telecoms
6	13 (1.08%)	Law
6	13 (1.08%)	Local Government
7	9 (0.75%)	Back Office
7	9 (0.75%)	Games
7	9 (0.75%)	Marketing
8	6 (0.50%)	Military
8	6 (0.50%)	Publishing
9	5 (0.42%)	Advertising
9	5 (0.42%)	Electronics
10	3 (0.25%)	Billing
11	2 (0.17%)	Financial Institution
11	2 (0.17%)	Front Office
11	2 (0.17%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	164 (13.66%)	Analyst
2	154 (12.82%)	Support Engineer
3	130 (10.82%)	Infrastructure Engineer
4	103 (8.58%)	Windows Engineer
5	101 (8.41%)	3rd Line Engineer
6	88 (7.33%)	3rd Line Support
7	78 (6.49%)	2nd Line Support
8	72 (6.00%)	Consultant
9	70 (5.83%)	Administrator
10	67 (5.58%)	Server Engineer
11	60 (5.00%)	Support Analyst
12	53 (4.41%)	Active Directory Engineer
13	51 (4.25%)	Architect
13	51 (4.25%)	DBA
14	44 (3.66%)	IT Support
14	44 (3.66%)	Wintel Engineer
15	42 (3.50%)	IT Analyst
16	41 (3.41%)	2nd Line Engineer
17	40 (3.33%)	3rd Line Support Engineer
18	39 (3.25%)	VMware Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	49 (4.08%)	.NET
2	33 (2.75%)	Web Services
3	24 (2.00%)	XML
4	16 (1.33%)	CSS
5	14 (1.17%)	ASP.NET
5	14 (1.17%)	HTML
5	14 (1.17%)	JSON
5	14 (1.17%)	Middleware
6	10 (0.83%)	YAML
7	7 (0.58%)	SAML
7	7 (0.58%)	XSLT
8	6 (0.50%)	.NET Framework
8	6 (0.50%)	jQuery
8	6 (0.50%)	WF
9	5 (0.42%)	ADSI
9	5 (0.42%)	LAMP
10	4 (0.33%)	WAP
10	4 (0.33%)	WCF
10	4 (0.33%)	XHTML
11	3 (0.25%)	XMPP

Miscellaneous
1	97 (8.08%)	Clustering
2	86 (7.16%)	Data Centre
3	74 (6.16%)	Analytical Skills
4	53 (4.41%)	Replication
5	39 (3.25%)	Management Information System
6	34 (2.83%)	Computer Science
7	30 (2.50%)	Client/Server
8	28 (2.33%)	PKI
9	20 (1.67%)	Blackberry
9	20 (1.67%)	Fat Client
9	20 (1.67%)	Thin Client
10	15 (1.25%)	Enterprise Software
11	13 (1.08%)	Video Conferencing
12	11 (0.92%)	Driving Licence
12	11 (0.92%)	Public Cloud
13	9 (0.75%)	NHS
13	9 (0.75%)	Private Cloud
14	8 (0.67%)	Virtual Team
15	7 (0.58%)	iPad
16	6 (0.50%)	iSeries

Operating Systems
1	1201 (100.00%)	Windows
2	847 (70.52%)	Windows Server
3	760 (63.28%)	Windows Server 2012
4	374 (31.14%)	Windows Server 2003
5	286 (23.81%)	Windows 7
6	240 (19.98%)	Linux
7	146 (12.16%)	Windows 10
8	96 (7.99%)	Unix
9	88 (7.33%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	62 (5.16%)	Windows 8
11	54 (4.50%)	Windows XP
12	28 (2.33%)	CentOS
12	28 (2.33%)	Windows Vista
13	27 (2.25%)	Android
14	23 (1.92%)	Solaris
15	22 (1.83%)	AIX
15	22 (1.83%)	SUSE
16	20 (1.67%)	Mac OS X
17	19 (1.58%)	Apple iOS
18	15 (1.25%)	Windows 2000 Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	220 (18.32%)	ITIL
2	177 (14.74%)	Migration
3	92 (7.66%)	Disaster Recovery
4	87 (7.24%)	Change Management
5	71 (5.91%)	Project Management
6	56 (4.66%)	DevOps
7	52 (4.33%)	Agile Software Development
8	50 (4.16%)	High Availability
9	49 (4.08%)	Configuration Management
10	46 (3.83%)	Incident Management
11	45 (3.75%)	Patch Management
11	45 (3.75%)	Problem Management
11	45 (3.75%)	Service Delivery
12	41 (3.41%)	Service Management
13	40 (3.33%)	Virtual Environments
14	36 (3.00%)	ITIL V3
15	35 (2.91%)	Business Intelligence
16	32 (2.66%)	Root Cause Analysis
17	30 (2.50%)	Capacity Management
18	29 (2.41%)	PRINCE2

Programming Languages
1	326 (27.14%)	PowerShell
2	253 (21.07%)	SQL
3	57 (4.75%)	VBScript
4	33 (2.75%)	Python
5	31 (2.58%)	Java
6	29 (2.41%)	VB
7	24 (2.00%)	Bash Shell
8	22 (1.83%)	Perl
9	21 (1.75%)	JavaScript
10	20 (1.67%)	C#
10	20 (1.67%)	T-SQL
11	14 (1.17%)	PL/SQL
12	12 (1.00%)	PHP
13	11 (0.92%)	C
14	9 (0.75%)	VB.NET
15	7 (0.58%)	C++
16	6 (0.50%)	Shell Script
17	5 (0.42%)	Ruby
17	5 (0.42%)	VB6
18	4 (0.33%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	222 (18.48%)	Security Cleared
2	171 (14.24%)	Microsoft Certification
3	142 (11.82%)	SC Cleared
4	94 (7.83%)	MCSE
5	72 (6.00%)	DV Cleared
6	55 (4.58%)	MCSA
7	50 (4.16%)	Cisco Certification
8	47 (3.91%)	Degree
8	47 (3.91%)	MCP
9	45 (3.75%)	MCITP
10	44 (3.66%)	CCNA
11	32 (2.66%)	CCNP
12	29 (2.41%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13	24 (2.00%)	Computer Science Degree
14	17 (1.42%)	DBS Check
15	15 (1.25%)	ITIL Certification
16	12 (1.00%)	MCDBA
16	12 (1.00%)	MCTS
17	9 (0.75%)	Citrix Certification
17	9 (0.75%)	JNCIA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	52 (4.33%)	SLA
2	19 (1.58%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	13 (1.08%)	QA
4	11 (0.92%)	JSP 440
5	7 (0.58%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	7 (0.58%)	PMO
5	7 (0.58%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
6	5 (0.42%)	PCI DSS
7	4 (0.33%)	ISO 9001
8	1 (0.083%)	MiFID
8	1 (0.083%)	PMBOK
8	1 (0.083%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	805 (67.03%)	Active Directory
2	336 (27.98%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	193 (16.07%)	Hyper-V
4	134 (11.16%)	VMware ESXi
5	113 (9.41%)	XenApp
6	97 (8.08%)	vSphere
7	88 (7.33%)	XenDesktop
8	62 (5.16%)	Microsoft App-V
9	36 (3.00%)	XenServer
10	29 (2.41%)	Virtual Machines
11	21 (1.75%)	Virtual Servers
12	18 (1.50%)	DFS Replication
13	15 (1.25%)	Virtual Desktop
13	15 (1.25%)	VMware Workstation
14	13 (1.08%)	VMware Server
15	12 (1.00%)	Veritas Cluster Server
16	10 (0.83%)	UAG
17	9 (0.75%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
18	8 (0.67%)	vCloud
19	7 (0.58%)	Samba

Systems Management
1	181 (15.07%)	SCCM
2	58 (4.83%)	SCOM
3	55 (4.58%)	WSUS
4	49 (4.08%)	NetBackup
5	45 (3.75%)	Microsoft Clustering
6	29 (2.41%)	vCenter Server
7	28 (2.33%)	Ansible
7	28 (2.33%)	Puppet
8	26 (2.16%)	AirWatch
8	26 (2.16%)	Opscode Chef
9	25 (2.08%)	OpenView Configuration Management
10	23 (1.92%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
11	20 (1.67%)	BladeLogic
12	19 (1.58%)	Norton AntiVirus
13	17 (1.42%)	Backup Exec
13	17 (1.42%)	Nagios
14	15 (1.25%)	Failover Clustering
15	12 (1.00%)	McAfee ePO
15	12 (1.00%)	PowerCLI
16	11 (0.92%)	SCOrch

Vendors
1	578 (48.13%)	VMware
2	546 (45.46%)	Microsoft
3	284 (23.65%)	Citrix
4	201 (16.74%)	Cisco
5	181 (15.07%)	HP
6	113 (9.41%)	Red Hat
7	92 (7.66%)	NetApp
8	80 (6.66%)	Oracle
9	78 (6.49%)	Symantec
10	58 (4.83%)	Dell
11	50 (4.16%)	McAfee
12	41 (3.41%)	Apple
13	39 (3.25%)	EMC
14	32 (2.66%)	Veeam
15	31 (2.58%)	IBM
16	29 (2.41%)	Sophos
17	28 (2.33%)	Juniper
18	27 (2.25%)	Veritas
19	20 (1.67%)	F5
20	18 (1.50%)	MobileIron