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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 713 734 720
Rank change year-on-year +21 -14 +124
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 21 156 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.28% 1.17% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18 123 157
10th Percentile £30,800 £26,250 £24,700
25th Percentile £33,563 £30,000 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £41,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +18.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68,188 £50,750 £44,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £57,250 £53,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +32.81% -16.88%

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 7,405 13,293 14,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 13.29% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,639 9,894 9,935
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,293 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% -11.82% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -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 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2008 in the UK

Windows Server 2008
Top 11 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 18 July 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 +7 20 £42,000 - 28
London +80 13 £42,000 +3.07% 4
Work from Home +53 11 £56,000 +28.00% 7
UK excluding London +30 8 £40,000 -5.88% 24
North of England +8 4 £40,000 -5.88% 1
Midlands +55 2 £46,000 +15.00% 2
East Midlands +31 2 £46,000 -18.22% 2
Yorkshire +20 2 £29,750 -38.97% 1
North West 0 2 £50,500 +114.89%
Wales +38 1 £34,000 +6.25%
East of England -1 1 - - 8

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 12 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (4.76%) IIS
4 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (38.10%) AWS
4 5 (23.81%) GCP
4 5 (23.81%) IaaS
5 4 (19.05%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (19.05%) Nutanix
5 4 (19.05%) PaaS
5 4 (19.05%) SaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Google Workspace
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (19.05%) DHCP
2 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) LAN
2 4 (19.05%) Wireless
3 3 (14.29%) DNS
3 3 (14.29%) VoIP
3 3 (14.29%) WAN
3 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (9.52%) SAN
4 2 (9.52%) VLAN
5 1 (4.76%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (4.76%) BGP
5 1 (4.76%) DMVPN
5 1 (4.76%) EIGRP
5 1 (4.76%) NAS
5 1 (4.76%) Network Security
5 1 (4.76%) Skype
5 1 (4.76%) VPN
5 1 (4.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) DTS
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) 1st Line Support
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) PowerShell Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Server Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Server Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Technician
6 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Clustering
2 4 (19.05%) Replication
3 2 (9.52%) CMDB
4 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.76%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Smartphone
4 1 (4.76%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (90.48%) Windows Server
3 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (38.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (33.33%) Windows 7
6 6 (28.57%) Windows 10
7 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (4.76%) Linux
8 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
8 1 (4.76%) Mac OS X
8 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Customer Service
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) High Availability
3 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
3 5 (23.81%) Security Hardening
4 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Application Security
5 3 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (9.52%) Identity Management
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (9.52%) Service Management
7 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.76%) Data Governance
7 1 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (4.76%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) R
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) CCNA
2 2 (9.52%) CCNP
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CCENT
3 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 13 (61.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
3 4 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.76%) vSphere
4 1 (4.76%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Nagios
3 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (61.90%) VMware
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco
4 4 (19.05%) EMC
4 4 (19.05%) Oracle
4 4 (19.05%) TOWER Software
5 3 (14.29%) Meraki
6 2 (9.52%) Citrix
6 2 (9.52%) Google
6 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
6 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.76%) Acronis
7 1 (4.76%) Apple
7 1 (4.76%) BMC
7 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
7 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.76%) HP
7 1 (4.76%) Proofpoint
7 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro
7 1 (4.76%) Ubiquiti