Windows Server 2008 Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Windows Server 2008 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2008 over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 433 510
Rank change year-on-year +68 +77 -62
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 20 39 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.99% 1.06% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 35 82
10th Percentile £182 £169 £163
25th Percentile £275 £351 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £401 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -5.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £550 £494 £500
90th Percentile £610 £575 £543
England median daily rate £395 £380 £388
% change year-on-year +3.95% -1.94% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £44.01
25th Percentile - - £44.77
Median hourly rate - - £46.79
75th Percentile - - £48.06
90th Percentile - - £48.37
England median hourly rate - - £36.71
% change year-on-year - - +129.41%

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 2,021 3,674 5,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.24% 14.99% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 2,675 4,024
10th Percentile £213 £210 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 58 86
10th Percentile £16.24 £18.93 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.75 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +103.89% -1.81%
75th Percentile £29.38 £63.38 £41.13
90th Percentile £61.14 £83.23 £62.75
England median hourly rate £27.00 £42.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -36.47% +88.89% +32.35%

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2008 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2008 in London

Windows Server 2008
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2008 in London

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2008 in London

Windows Server 2008
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2008 in London

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 26 July 2024. 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
West London +34 3 £159 -57.73%
Central London +41 1 £550 -
Windows Server 2008
England

Windows Server 2008
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (10.00%) Skype for Business
6 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
2 2 (10.00%) WhatsApp
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) IaaS
3 1 (5.00%) PaaS
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) DNS
2 4 (20.00%) DHCP
3 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (10.00%) Skype
4 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.00%) Firewall
5 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) Subversion
1 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Administrator
1 5 (25.00%) Server Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Junior
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Clustering
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (35.00%) Windows 7
5 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (15.00%) Linux
6 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (5.00%) OpenVMS
7 1 (5.00%) Unix
7 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) API Integration
5 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (10.00%) Data Security
5 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.00%) High Availability
5 2 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (10.00%) Proactive Maintenance
5 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (10.00%) Security Hardening
5 2 (10.00%) Storage Management
5 2 (10.00%) User Experience
6 1 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL
6 1 (5.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.00%) MCSE
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) SCCM
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) QRadar
2 2 (10.00%) SCOM
2 2 (10.00%) Tivoli
2 2 (10.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Control-M
3 1 (5.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) VMware
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix
3 2 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (10.00%) EMC
3 2 (10.00%) HP
3 2 (10.00%) Huawei
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Qualys
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Trend Micro
4 1 (5.00%) BMC
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Veeam