Windows Server 2008 Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Windows Server 2008 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 202 199
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 -31
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 5 11 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.11% 0.20% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.72% 1.24% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 33
10th Percentile £352 - £158
25th Percentile £373 £190 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £300 £188
Median % change year-on-year +31.67% +60.00% -48.28%
75th Percentile £403 £478 £388
90th Percentile £409 £573 £479
England median daily rate £380 £450 £398
% change year-on-year -15.56% +13.21% -0.63%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 690 890 1,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.85% 15.91% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 620 994
10th Percentile £165 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £423
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +12.43% +12.67%
75th Percentile £529 £575 £547
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 62 80
10th Percentile - £13.24 £13.01
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.31 £15.20
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.50 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +45.21% +14.06%
75th Percentile £19.63 £43.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £32.60 £49.52 £70.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -41.33% +73.29% +23.66%

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Windows Server 2008 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2008 in the North of England

Windows Server 2008
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2008 in the North of England

Windows Server 2008
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2008 in the North of England

Windows Server 2008
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +12 3 £400 +63.27% 1
North West +12 2 £390 -28.44% 2
Windows Server 2008
England

Windows Server 2008
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) Skype
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Kaseya
3 1 (20.00%) MEDITECH
3 1 (20.00%) Proofpoint
3 1 (20.00%) Qualys
3 1 (20.00%) Sophos