Windows Server 2008 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows Server 2008 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 540 490
Rank change year-on-year +66 -50 +31
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 36 34 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.092% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.07% 0.60% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 25 19 56
10th Percentile £54,100 £31,100 £26,250
25th Percentile £56,500 £34,500 £30,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.47% +6.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £59,500 £45,625 £50,063
90th Percentile - £57,500 £56,525
UK median annual salary £58,000 £41,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year +40.61% +3.13% +6.67%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,352 5,675 5,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.99% 15.36% 17.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,484 3,054 4,462
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,021 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% +0.04% -4.76%

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Windows Server 2008 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2008
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Server 2008.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2008 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2008
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
South East +41 23 £58,000 - 3
Midlands +13 10 £27,000 -28.00%
East Midlands -4 10 £27,000 -50.91%
Scotland - 2 - -
North West +29 1 £55,000 +29.41%
North of England +18 1 £55,000 +29.41%
Windows Server 2008
UK

Windows Server 2008
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 35 (97.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (61.11%) Exchange Server 2003
3 11 (30.56%) SharePoint
4 9 (25.00%) Skype for Business
5 2 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (2.78%) Apache
6 1 (2.78%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (25.00%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 9 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (2.78%) IaaS
3 1 (2.78%) PaaS
3 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (61.11%) DHCP
1 22 (61.11%) DNS
2 9 (25.00%) Skype
3 2 (5.56%) Firewall
4 1 (2.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (63.89%) Oracle Database
2 22 (61.11%) Oracle Database 10g
3 9 (25.00%) DTS
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.78%) MySQL
5 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 9 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 9 (25.00%) Retail
2 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Advertising
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (61.11%) Systems Support
2 21 (58.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 11 (30.56%) Support Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Support Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Architect
6 1 (2.78%) DBA
6 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (2.78%) IT Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) IT Support
6 1 (2.78%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) CMDB
1 9 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 9 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (61.11%) HPUX
2 22 (61.11%) Solaris
2 22 (61.11%) Unix
2 22 (61.11%) Windows 7
2 22 (61.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (5.56%) Linux
6 1 (2.78%) Android
6 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Incident Management
2 9 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 9 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 9 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 9 (25.00%) Server Management
3 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (2.78%) Agile
5 1 (2.78%) CI/CD
5 1 (2.78%) DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (2.78%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (2.78%) OWASP
5 1 (2.78%) Project Delivery
5 1 (2.78%) SDLC
5 1 (2.78%) Software Delivery
5 1 (2.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.78%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 31 (86.11%) PowerShell
2 22 (61.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (61.11%) DV Cleared
1 22 (61.11%) SC Cleared
1 22 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (61.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Nagios
1 9 (25.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) CASB
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.78%) Puppet
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 32 (88.89%) VMware
3 23 (63.89%) Oracle
4 9 (25.00%) BMC
4 9 (25.00%) Citrix
4 9 (25.00%) Darktrace
4 9 (25.00%) Google
4 9 (25.00%) Proofpoint
4 9 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 9 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 9 (25.00%) Tanium
4 9 (25.00%) Trend Micro
5 3 (8.33%) HP
6 1 (2.78%) Zscaler