Windows Server 2008 Jobs in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2008 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2008 over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 684 699
Rank change year-on-year +33 +15 +9
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 24 151 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.36% 1.21% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22 125 183
10th Percentile £29,825 £23,850 £23,500
25th Percentile £32,125 £30,000 £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +23.08% -12.16%
75th Percentile £58,750 £47,500 £40,875
90th Percentile £76,250 £56,150 £49,750
UK median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +23.08% -13.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,721 12,450 14,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.82% 14.39% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,899 9,802 9,730
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,759 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2008 in England

Windows Server 2008
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in England.

Salary trend for Windows Server 2008 in England

Windows Server 2008
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2008 in England

Windows Server 2008
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. 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
London +96 16 £42,000 +1.20% 8
North of England +27 6 £40,250 -5.29% 6
Yorkshire +48 3 £32,000 -24.71%
North West -4 3 £42,500 +80.85% 6
Midlands +46 1 £46,000 +2.22% 2
East Midlands +27 1 £46,000 -20.00% 1
East of England +15 1 - - 7
Windows Server 2008
UK

Windows Server 2008
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (29.17%) AWS
4 5 (20.83%) IaaS
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (16.67%) GCP
5 4 (16.67%) Nutanix
5 4 (16.67%) PaaS
5 4 (16.67%) SaaS
6 2 (8.33%) Google Workspace
7 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) LAN
1 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (20.83%) DHCP
3 4 (16.67%) DNS
3 4 (16.67%) Firewall
4 3 (12.50%) VLAN
4 3 (12.50%) VoIP
4 3 (12.50%) WAN
4 3 (12.50%) Wireless
5 2 (8.33%) IPv4
5 2 (8.33%) SAN
5 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.17%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (4.17%) BGP
6 1 (4.17%) DMVPN
6 1 (4.17%) EIGRP
6 1 (4.17%) NAS
6 1 (4.17%) Network Security
6 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Military
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Support Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) 1st Line Support
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) PowerShell Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Server Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Server Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Applications Support
5 2 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Clustering
2 4 (16.67%) Replication
3 2 (8.33%) Fat Client
3 2 (8.33%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.17%) CMDB
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (29.17%) Windows 7
7 6 (25.00%) Windows 10
8 3 (12.50%) Linux
9 2 (8.33%) Unix
10 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
10 1 (4.17%) Mac OS X
10 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Customer Service
2 8 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) High Availability
3 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
3 5 (20.83%) Security Hardening
4 4 (16.67%) Application Security
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.33%) Business Continuity
6 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (8.33%) ITIL
6 2 (8.33%) Network Management
6 2 (8.33%) Software Testing
7 1 (4.17%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 1 (4.17%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (12.50%) CCNA
2 3 (12.50%) CCNP
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CCENT
3 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) SLA
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.17%) vSphere
4 1 (4.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco
4 4 (16.67%) EMC
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 4 (16.67%) TOWER Software
5 2 (8.33%) Acronis
5 2 (8.33%) Apple
5 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.33%) Meraki
5 2 (8.33%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (8.33%) Veeam
6 1 (4.17%) Citrix
6 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) HP
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat