Microsoft Windows Server 2008
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2008 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 728 697 719
Rank change year-on-year -31 +22 -260
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 168 280 569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.19% 1.68% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 145 238 494
10th Percentile £24,000 £23,675 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,156 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -12.16% -7.50%
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £48,625
90th Percentile £55,000 £50,750 £58,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,250 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +20.77% -7.14% -6.67%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2008 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,079 16,671 29,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 15.93% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,884 11,238 16,744
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,398
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2008 in the UK

Windows Server 2008
Top 15 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 27 April 2024. 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 +25 160 £40,000 +23.08% 26
UK excluding London -106 122 £39,250 +20.77% 21
Work from Home +77 50 £45,000 +12.50% 12
London +152 42 £40,000 - 6
North of England +19 36 £42,500 +6.80% 2
East of England +31 28 £33,000 -22.35% 6
Yorkshire +84 26 £42,500 +25.00% 1
South East -38 20 £39,000 +23.81% 7
South West +1 19 £30,000 +15.38% 1
Midlands -19 15 £44,000 +37.50% 2
West Midlands +1 11 £36,250 +13.28% 1
North West -8 8 £23,500 -43.03% 1
East Midlands -16 4 £50,250 +32.24% 1
Scotland -63 4 £48,500 +14.12% 2
North East -5 2 £62,783 +56.96%

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 84 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2013
3 34 (20.24%) Exchange Server 2010
4 32 (19.05%) SharePoint
5 22 (13.10%) Exchange Server 2007
6 6 (3.57%) IIS
7 4 (2.38%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (2.38%) TWiki
8 3 (1.79%) Confluence
9 2 (1.19%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 43 (25.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Sage 200
1 2 (1.19%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.60%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.60%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 93 (55.36%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (32.74%) Azure
3 25 (14.88%) AWS
4 15 (8.93%) Mimecast
5 14 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.76%) GCP
7 4 (2.38%) IaaS
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.79%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.79%) Slack
8 3 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.19%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.60%) PaaS
10 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (48.21%) DNS
2 63 (37.50%) DHCP
3 61 (36.31%) Firewall
4 42 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 26 (15.48%) VLAN
6 25 (14.88%) VPN
7 23 (13.69%) SAN
8 18 (10.71%) WAN
9 15 (8.93%) LAN
10 10 (5.95%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (5.95%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (4.76%) SSL
12 7 (4.17%) Wireless
13 6 (3.57%) Skype
13 6 (3.57%) VoIP
14 3 (1.79%) HTTPS
14 3 (1.79%) xDSL
15 2 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
15 2 (1.19%) iSCSI
15 2 (1.19%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.14%) MySQL
3 2 (1.19%) MS Access
3 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (3.57%) Eclipse
2 4 (2.38%) eggPlant
3 3 (1.79%) Git
3 3 (1.79%) GitLab
3 3 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 55 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.71%) Finance
3 12 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.95%) Retail
5 9 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.17%) Automotive
6 7 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.57%) Law
7 6 (3.57%) Legal
7 6 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.38%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.60%) Back Office
9 1 (0.60%) Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Police
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (26.79%) Support Engineer
2 37 (22.02%) IT Support
3 25 (14.88%) IT Engineer
4 23 (13.69%) Analyst
4 23 (13.69%) Senior
5 18 (10.71%) IT Support Engineer
5 18 (10.71%) IT Technician
6 17 (10.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (8.93%) 2nd Line Support
8 13 (7.74%) Administrator
8 13 (7.74%) Systems Administrator
9 12 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
9 12 (7.14%) Support Analyst
10 11 (6.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 11 (6.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.36%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 9 (5.36%) Service Analyst
11 9 (5.36%) Service Desk Analyst
12 8 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
12 8 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.60%) EDI
1 1 (0.60%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.31%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (10.12%) Driving Licence
2 17 (10.12%) Replication
3 9 (5.36%) VAX
4 7 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.57%) Clustering
5 6 (3.57%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.79%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.79%) Robotics
6 3 (1.79%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.60%) CCTV
8 1 (0.60%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.60%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.60%) Life Science
8 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.60%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 168 (100.00%) Windows
2 122 (72.62%) Windows Server
3 87 (51.79%) Windows Server 2012
4 72 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 69 (41.07%) Windows 10
6 50 (29.76%) Windows 7
7 42 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 38 (22.62%) Linux
9 22 (13.10%) Windows 8
10 9 (5.36%) Windows Server 2003
11 8 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (4.17%) Android
12 7 (4.17%) Windows XP
13 5 (2.98%) Windows 2000
13 5 (2.98%) Windows NT
14 4 (2.38%) Mac OS X
14 4 (2.38%) Unix
15 3 (1.79%) CentOS
15 3 (1.79%) Debian
15 3 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (32.14%) ITIL
2 38 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (19.05%) Customer Service
4 28 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (12.50%) ITSM
6 20 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (10.71%) Kalman Filter
7 18 (10.71%) Service Delivery
8 17 (10.12%) Collaborative Working
9 16 (9.52%) Batch Scripting
9 16 (9.52%) Cryptography
9 16 (9.52%) Data Loss Prevention
9 16 (9.52%) Migration
10 15 (8.93%) Time Management
11 13 (7.74%) Service Management
12 12 (7.14%) Project Management
13 11 (6.55%) Project Delivery
14 10 (5.95%) Mentoring
15 9 (5.36%) Agile
15 9 (5.36%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 42 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (8.93%) SQL
3 11 (6.55%) VBScript
4 3 (1.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (16.67%) Degree
2 23 (13.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (11.31%) MCSA
4 16 (9.52%) CREST Certified
5 14 (8.33%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.38%) MCSE
6 4 (2.38%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.79%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.95%) SLA
2 4 (2.38%) QA
3 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 106 (63.10%) Active Directory
2 63 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (26.79%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.55%) Terminal Services
5 10 (5.95%) XenApp
6 8 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.79%) KVM
8 2 (1.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (1.19%) NFS
8 2 (1.19%) vSphere
8 2 (1.19%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.60%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (6.55%) SCCM
3 8 (4.76%) EMC VPLEX
3 8 (4.76%) Nagios
3 8 (4.76%) WSUS
4 6 (3.57%) NetBackup
5 5 (2.98%) SCOM
6 4 (2.38%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.79%) Backup Exec
7 3 (1.79%) Terraform
8 1 (0.60%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.60%) Control-M
8 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.60%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.60%) SafeCom
8 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (60.71%) Microsoft
2 89 (52.98%) VMware
3 38 (22.62%) Cisco
4 19 (11.31%) Citrix
4 19 (11.31%) Veeam
5 16 (9.52%) Bloomberg
5 16 (9.52%) FactSet
5 16 (9.52%) MobileIron
5 16 (9.52%) Refinitiv
6 11 (6.55%) Red Hat
7 10 (5.95%) EMC
7 10 (5.95%) Sophos
8 9 (5.36%) Veritas
9 8 (4.76%) Aruba
9 8 (4.76%) Centreon
9 8 (4.76%) Sybase
10 7 (4.17%) HP
11 6 (3.57%) Avaya
11 6 (3.57%) Dell
11 6 (3.57%) Epicor