Windows Server 2008 Jobs

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 730 711
Rank change year-on-year +70 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 32 166 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.17% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.49% 1.17% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 28 143 237
10th Percentile £29,750 £24,000 £23,650
25th Percentile £31,063 £30,000 £29,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +23.08% -12.16%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £72,750 £55,000 £51,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +8.97% +20.00% -7.14%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,568 14,138 16,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.62% 14.36% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,449 10,938 11,195
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2008 in the UK

Windows Server 2008
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Server 2008 in the UK

Windows Server 2008
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2008 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2008 in the UK

Windows Server 2008
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +48 32 £42,000 +5.00% 19
London +89 20 £42,000 +3.07% 6
Work from Home +159 13 £60,000 +33.33% 7
UK excluding London +100 12 £42,500 +8.97% 15
North of England +58 9 £42,500 -
North West +29 5 £42,500 +80.85%
Yorkshire +54 4 £29,000 -31.76%
Midlands +69 2 - - 1
West Midlands +41 2 - - 1
East of England +31 1 - - 7

Windows Server 2008
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (59.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (15.63%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.13%) CMS
5 1 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) AWS
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) IaaS
4 3 (9.38%) Nutanix
4 3 (9.38%) OneDrive
4 3 (9.38%) PaaS
4 3 (9.38%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) LAN
2 7 (21.88%) DHCP
2 7 (21.88%) DNS
3 6 (18.75%) Firewall
4 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
4 5 (15.63%) VLAN
5 4 (12.50%) IPv4
6 3 (9.38%) VoIP
6 3 (9.38%) WAN
7 2 (6.25%) SAN
7 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (6.25%) Wireless
8 1 (3.13%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (3.13%) BGP
8 1 (3.13%) DMVPN
8 1 (3.13%) EIGRP
8 1 (3.13%) NAS
8 1 (3.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Retail
5 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Support Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) 1st Line Support
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) IT Manager
5 3 (9.38%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (9.38%) IT Technical Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Server Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Project Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Windows Server Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Clustering
2 3 (9.38%) Fat Client
2 3 (9.38%) Replication
2 3 (9.38%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.13%) CMDB
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Windows
2 28 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 18 (56.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (40.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (34.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (28.13%) Windows 10
7 8 (25.00%) Windows 7
8 5 (15.63%) Linux
9 4 (12.50%) Unix
10 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (3.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Customer Service
2 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (28.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) Application Security
6 4 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) High Availability
6 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 4 (12.50%) Security Hardening
7 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (9.38%) Migration
7 3 (9.38%) Network Management
7 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Software Testing
8 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (3.13%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 1 (3.13%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 8 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) FoxPro (VFP)
3 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 4 (12.50%) CCNA
3 4 (12.50%) CCNP
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) CCENT
5 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) SLA
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (65.63%) Active Directory
2 12 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 4 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.13%) vSphere
5 1 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) SCCM
4 1 (3.13%) SCOM
4 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (37.50%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Cisco
4 5 (15.63%) Veeam
5 4 (12.50%) EMC
6 3 (9.38%) Acronis
6 3 (9.38%) Apple
6 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
6 3 (9.38%) Oracle
6 3 (9.38%) TOWER Software
6 3 (9.38%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (3.13%) Citrix
7 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
7 1 (3.13%) Dell
7 1 (3.13%) Google
7 1 (3.13%) HP
7 1 (3.13%) Meraki
7 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.13%) SAP
7 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow