Windows Server 2008 Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 308 278
Rank change year-on-year +54 -30 +7
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 2 12 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.028% 0.10% 0.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.21% 0.75% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 34
10th Percentile - £23,750 £25,375
25th Percentile - £26,250 £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +40.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile - £51,875 £33,750
90th Percentile - £58,750 £43,275
England median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +23.08% -12.16%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 968 1,592 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.69% 13.36% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 602 1,302 835
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,375 £26,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £48,563 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2008 in the Midlands

Windows Server 2008
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Windows Server 2008 in the Midlands

Windows Server 2008
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands +49 1 - - 1
East Midlands +30 1 £46,000 -20.00% 4
Windows Server 2008
England

Windows Server 2008
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) VSAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam