Windows Server 2008 Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Windows Server 2008 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 362 381
Rank change year-on-year -78 +19 +33
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 14 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.069% 0.037% 0.050%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.83% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £408 £187 £548
25th Percentile £423 £257 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £384 £650
Median % change year-on-year +36.81% -40.96% +52.94%
75th Percentile £563 £510 £706
90th Percentile £588 £580 £733
England median daily rate £525 £581 £390
% change year-on-year -9.68% +49.04% -8.24%

All Operating Systems
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,688 1,548 2,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.30% 11.55% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,021 1,396
10th Percentile £206 £225 £228
25th Percentile £350 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -8.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £713 £738 £725
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 44 35
10th Percentile £18.10 £18.87 £18.88
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% +0.60% -35.35%
75th Percentile £32.13 £25.18 £46.75
90th Percentile £58.30 £58.93 £63.27
England median hourly rate £34.68 £24.83 £52.75
% change year-on-year +39.65% -52.93% +14.97%

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Windows Server 2008 job vacancy trend in London

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in London over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2008 in London

Windows Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Windows Server 2008
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London -19 3 £415 -
Windows Server 2008
England

Windows Server 2008
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 6 (42.86%) nginx
1 6 (42.86%) Tomcat
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (14.29%) Confluence
3 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (14.29%) WebLogic
4 1 (7.14%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (14.29%) MinIO
1 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (14.29%) DHCP
3 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (7.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (21.43%) GIS
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) DBA
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Junior
3 2 (14.29%) Junior IT Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Junior IT Support
3 2 (14.29%) Junior Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) EJB
2 2 (14.29%) Jakarta EE
2 2 (14.29%) Java SE
2 2 (14.29%) JSP
2 2 (14.29%) OpenLayers
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) JavaBeans
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Clustering
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Server
3 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (42.86%) Solaris
5 5 (35.71%) Linux
5 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (35.71%) Windows 7
6 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (21.43%) VMS
7 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (14.29%) OpenVMS
9 1 (7.14%) Unix
9 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps
1 4 (28.57%) ETL
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
2 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
2 3 (21.43%) Master Data Management
2 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Refactoring
2 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Change Management
3 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Proactive Maintenance
3 2 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Protective Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (21.43%) Python
5 2 (14.29%) Bash
5 2 (14.29%) Korn
6 1 (7.14%) Bicep
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 7 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (28.57%) Docker
4 4 (28.57%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (21.43%) SCOM
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
3 2 (14.29%) WSUS
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Kibana
4 1 (7.14%) logstash
4 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 8 (57.14%) Oracle
3 6 (42.86%) IBM
3 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
5 2 (14.29%) BMC
5 2 (14.29%) Citrix
5 2 (14.29%) Commvault
5 2 (14.29%) Remedy
5 2 (14.29%) Veeam
5 2 (14.29%) Veritas
6 1 (7.14%) Juniper