Windows Server 2008 Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Windows Server 2008 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 - 185
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 2 0 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.036% - 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.54% - 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 28
10th Percentile £46,000 - £22,500
25th Percentile £47,500 - £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £33,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £42,813
90th Percentile £64,000 - £43,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £42,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year +36.47% +7.59% +16.18%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Windows Server 2008 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 368 386 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.66% 15.11% 18.24%
Number of salaries quoted 274 308 880
10th Percentile £26,650 £26,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +26.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £57,875 £58,086 £57,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,125 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Windows Server 2008 job vacancy trend in the East of England

Windows Server 2008
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Windows Server 2008.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 2 £55,000 - 4
Windows Server 2008
England

Windows Server 2008
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software License Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft