Windows Server 2008 Job Trends

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Windows Server 2008 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 768 664 718
Rank change year-on-year -104 +54 -31
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2008 16 24 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.048% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.25% 0.34% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16 17 77
10th Percentile £46,875 £30,650 £29,200
25th Percentile £48,750 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% -1.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £53,750
90th Percentile - £76,250 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +62.50% -5.88% +32.81%

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 6,384 6,972 10,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.02% 14.00% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,778 4,649 7,466
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £33,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -13.40% -7.62%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Windows Server 2008 job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows Server 2008
Salary Trend

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

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

Windows Server 2008
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2008 over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2008 in the UK

Windows Server 2008
Top 8 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 12 August 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
England -87 16 £65,000 +49.43% 12
UK excluding London -99 12 £65,000 +62.50% 3
East of England -26 6 £62,500 -
South West - 5 £65,000 - 1
Work from Home -26 4 £52,500 -14.98% 4
London -55 4 £52,500 +25.00% 10
North West -21 1 £65,000 +28.71%
North of England -54 1 £65,000 +62.50%

Windows Server 2008
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
1 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DHCP
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
1 4 (25.00%) VPN
1 4 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) MySQL
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database
1 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) DBA
1 6 (37.50%) MySQL DBA
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle DBA
1 6 (37.50%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) IT Support
2 4 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
2 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 16 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) Linux
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
1 6 (37.50%) Change Management
1 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 6 (37.50%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Software License Management
3 4 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
4 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
2 6 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Ansible
1 6 (37.50%) Progress Chef
1 6 (37.50%) Puppet
1 6 (37.50%) SCCM
1 6 (37.50%) SCOM
2 5 (31.25%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Dell
1 10 (62.50%) HP
2 6 (37.50%) IBM
2 6 (37.50%) McAfee
2 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 6 (37.50%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft