Windows Server 2008 Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2008 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 492 495
Rank change year-on-year -116 +3 +24
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 17 15 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.037% 0.054% 0.093%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.38% 0.40% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 16
10th Percentile £372 £251 £238
25th Percentile £408 £403 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +45.31% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £658 £494
90th Percentile £585 £688 £627
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +10.53% +18.75% -0.06%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,425 3,744 4,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.69% 13.59% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,845 2,469 3,110
10th Percentile £190 £191 £200
25th Percentile £313 £306 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 240 288
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.41
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.13 £16.97
Median hourly rate £35.22 £23.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.87% -27.69% -12.96%
75th Percentile £67.25 £58.75 £68.19
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £24.83 £27.50
% change year-on-year +4.71% -9.71% -31.25%

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Windows Server 2008 job vacancy trend in England

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in England over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2008 in England

Windows Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

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 6 months to 21 August 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
London -73 14 £525 +36.81% 3
North West -46 1 - -
South East -65 1 £575 - 2
North of England -80 1 - -
Windows Server 2008
UK

Windows Server 2008
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 7 (41.18%) nginx
1 7 (41.18%) Tomcat
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (11.76%) Confluence
3 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
4 1 (5.88%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) MinIO
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) DNS
2 5 (29.41%) HTTP
3 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.88%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) GIS
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) DTS
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Lead
1 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) DBA
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) SQL DBA
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Junior
3 2 (11.76%) Junior IT Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Junior IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) Junior Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) EJB
1 3 (17.65%) Java SE
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Jakarta EE
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) JSP
2 2 (11.76%) OpenLayers
3 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) JavaBeans
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (17.65%) Clustering
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (58.82%) Windows Server
3 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (41.18%) Solaris
5 6 (35.29%) Linux
5 6 (35.29%) Windows 7
5 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (17.65%) VMS
9 2 (11.76%) OpenVMS
9 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
10 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps
1 5 (29.41%) ETL
2 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
2 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) Master Data Management
2 4 (23.53%) Migration
2 4 (23.53%) Refactoring
2 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
3 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Proactive Maintenance
4 2 (11.76%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (11.76%) User Experience
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
3 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) Bash
5 2 (11.76%) Korn
6 1 (5.88%) Bicep
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (47.06%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (29.41%) Docker
5 4 (23.53%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (23.53%) SCOM
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) NetBackup
2 2 (11.76%) WSUS
3 1 (5.88%) Kibana
3 1 (5.88%) logstash
3 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) VMware
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (52.94%) Oracle
3 7 (41.18%) IBM
4 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
5 3 (17.65%) BMC
5 3 (17.65%) Remedy
6 2 (11.76%) Citrix
6 2 (11.76%) Commvault
6 2 (11.76%) Juniper
6 2 (11.76%) Veeam
6 2 (11.76%) Veritas
7 1 (5.88%) Sybase