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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 493 492
Rank change year-on-year -110 -1 +45
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 19 12 33
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.042% 0.043% 0.099%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.44% 0.32% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 18
10th Percentile £376 £185 £171
25th Percentile £464 £251 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -6.25% +2.56%
75th Percentile £584 £507 £475
90th Percentile £588 £579 £606
UK median daily rate £525 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +40.00% -6.25% -5.88%

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 4,363 3,759 4,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.62% 13.53% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,796 2,502 3,163
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £313 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -5.64% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £471 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.78% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 231 296
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.46
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.13 £16.77
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -20.00% -32.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £24.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year +7.38% -11.93% -35.88%

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 3 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 3 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 -52 16 £525 +36.81% 1
North West -56 1 - -
South East -70 1 £575 -
North of England -75 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 10 (52.63%) nginx
1 10 (52.63%) Tomcat
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
3 2 (10.53%) Confluence
4 1 (5.26%) Exchange Server 2013
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) MinIO
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) DNS
1 6 (31.58%) HTTP
2 3 (15.79%) DHCP
2 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.26%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (21.05%) GIS
3 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
4 2 (10.53%) Power BI
5 1 (5.26%) DTS
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Lead
2 4 (21.05%) Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) DBA
3 3 (15.79%) IT Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) IT Support
3 3 (15.79%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) SQL DBA
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Junior
4 2 (10.53%) Junior IT Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Junior IT Support
4 2 (10.53%) Junior Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) EJB
2 3 (15.79%) Jakarta EE
2 3 (15.79%) OpenLayers
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
3 2 (10.53%) Java SE
3 2 (10.53%) JSON
3 2 (10.53%) Middleware
4 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.26%) JavaBeans
4 1 (5.26%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.79%) Clustering
4 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (57.89%) Windows Server
3 10 (52.63%) Solaris
3 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (47.37%) Linux
5 8 (42.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (31.58%) Windows 7
7 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
10 1 (5.26%) OpenVMS
10 1 (5.26%) Unix
10 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) ETL
1 8 (42.11%) Master Data Management
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Migration
3 5 (26.32%) Refactoring
3 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Proactive Maintenance
5 3 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) SDLC
5 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) User Experience
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 2 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) PL/SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) Python
5 1 (5.26%) Korn
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 8 (42.11%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (31.58%) Docker
4 5 (26.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (21.05%) SCOM
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (10.53%) Terraform
4 1 (5.26%) Kibana
4 1 (5.26%) logstash
4 1 (5.26%) NetBackup
4 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) VMware
2 11 (57.89%) Oracle
3 10 (52.63%) IBM
4 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
4 9 (47.37%) Red Hat
5 3 (15.79%) BMC
5 3 (15.79%) Citrix
5 3 (15.79%) Remedy
6 2 (10.53%) Commvault
6 2 (10.53%) Juniper
7 1 (5.26%) Sybase
7 1 (5.26%) Veeam
7 1 (5.26%) Veritas