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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 501 512
Rank change year-on-year -108 +11 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 16 11 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.035% 0.040% 0.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.37% 0.30% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 20
10th Percentile £373 £162 £174
25th Percentile £467 £196 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £263 £395
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -33.54% +3.95%
75th Percentile £578 £331 £475
90th Percentile £588 £365 £585
UK median daily rate £525 £269 £390
% change year-on-year +95.35% -31.09% -5.51%

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 4,362 3,712 4,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.68% 13.53% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,810 2,480 3,246
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £313 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £656 £681 £688
UK median daily rate £469 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.41% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 225 333
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.55
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.10 £16.32
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -14.81% -36.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -41.18%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -57 13 £525 +250.00%
North West -51 1 - -
South East -69 1 £575 -
North of England -77 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 (62.50%) nginx
1 10 (62.50%) Tomcat
2 3 (18.75%) WebLogic
3 1 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) MinIO
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) HTTP
2 4 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (18.75%) DHCP
3 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.25%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (25.00%) GIS
3 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.25%) DTS
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) IT Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) IT Support
2 3 (18.75%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DBA
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Junior
3 2 (12.50%) Junior IT Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Junior IT Support
3 2 (12.50%) Junior Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) SQL DBA
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Team Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) EJB
2 3 (18.75%) Jakarta EE
2 3 (18.75%) OpenLayers
2 3 (18.75%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Java SE
3 2 (12.50%) JSON
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) JavaBeans
4 1 (6.25%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
4 2 (12.50%) Clustering
4 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Solaris
3 9 (56.25%) Linux
3 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
4 8 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (25.00%) Windows 7
7 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (6.25%) Unix
8 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) ETL
1 8 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Migration
3 5 (31.25%) Refactoring
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (18.75%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (18.75%) SDLC
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) User Experience
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 2 (12.50%) Protective Monitoring
6 1 (6.25%) Database Tuning
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) PL/SQL
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) Korn
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (43.75%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (37.50%) Docker
4 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
4 5 (31.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) SCOM
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) logstash
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) IBM
1 10 (62.50%) Oracle
2 9 (56.25%) Red Hat
2 9 (56.25%) VMware
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
4 3 (18.75%) Citrix
5 2 (12.50%) BMC
5 2 (12.50%) Remedy
6 1 (6.25%) Commvault
6 1 (6.25%) Juniper
6 1 (6.25%) Sybase