Windows Server 2008 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 370 327
Rank change year-on-year +17 -43 -56
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 35 83 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.35% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.08% 1.84% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 62 139
10th Percentile £153 £193 £159
25th Percentile £256 £353 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +23.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £475 £600 £429
90th Percentile £538 £699 £505
UK median daily rate £380 £428 £400
% change year-on-year -11.21% +7.00% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £20.00
25th Percentile - - £24.21
Median hourly rate - - £28.41
75th Percentile - - £34.21
90th Percentile - - £54.40
UK median hourly rate - - £28.41
% change year-on-year - - +65.29%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,234 4,512 5,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 19.20% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,159 3,126 3,833
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £259 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 337 455
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.47 £15.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.38 £60.70 £49.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.43%

Windows Server 2008
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2008 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2008 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2008
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2008 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2008 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2008
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2008 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2008 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2008
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +6 17 £475 -24.00% 10
Scotland +40 6 £325 -27.13%
Midlands +26 5 £200 -44.83% 3
North of England +17 5 £395 +31.67% 1
Yorkshire +19 3 £400 +33.33% 1
North West +17 2 £390 -28.44%
West Midlands +14 2 £200 -36.00% 2
East Midlands +19 1 £160 -57.33% 1
South West -8 1 £700 +47.37%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Windows Server 2008
UK

Windows Server 2008
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (17.14%) IIS
3 4 (11.43%) nginx
4 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.86%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.86%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.86%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Sage X3
2 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Stack
3 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.86%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) DNS
2 14 (40.00%) Firewall
3 13 (37.14%) DHCP
4 8 (22.86%) Wireless
5 5 (14.29%) WAN
6 4 (11.43%) SAN
7 3 (8.57%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (8.57%) LAN
7 3 (8.57%) Network Security
7 3 (8.57%) Skype
7 3 (8.57%) VPN
8 2 (5.71%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
8 2 (5.71%) VSAN
9 1 (2.86%) NetScaler
9 1 (2.86%) PBX
9 1 (2.86%) PSTN
9 1 (2.86%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications
9 1 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
2 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.86%) Electronics
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Field Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.71%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Service Desk Support
6 2 (5.71%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) EDI
2 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.57%) CCTV
3 3 (8.57%) Clustering
4 2 (5.71%) BYOD
4 2 (5.71%) iPad
4 2 (5.71%) iPhone
4 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) NHS
4 2 (5.71%) PDA
4 2 (5.71%) PKI
4 2 (5.71%) Smartphone
4 2 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.86%) CMDB
5 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 19 (54.29%) Windows Server
4 18 (51.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (48.57%) Windows 10
6 16 (45.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (31.43%) Linux
8 10 (28.57%) Windows 7
9 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (17.14%) CentOS
10 6 (17.14%) Debian
11 3 (8.57%) Android
11 3 (8.57%) Mac OS
11 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (8.57%) Ubuntu
12 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
12 2 (5.71%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (17.14%) Customer Service
2 6 (17.14%) ITIL
2 6 (17.14%) Time Management
3 4 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (11.43%) Migration
4 3 (8.57%) Coaching
4 3 (8.57%) IT Strategy
4 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.57%) Project Management
5 2 (5.71%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (5.71%) Mentoring
5 2 (5.71%) People Management
5 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (5.71%) Roadmaps
5 2 (5.71%) Strategic Planning
6 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (2.86%) Inventory Management
6 1 (2.86%) Server Migrations
6 1 (2.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.43%) VBScript
4 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) MCSA
1 6 (17.14%) MCSE
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (17.14%) RHCT
2 4 (11.43%) DBS Check
2 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 20 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (17.14%) KVM
5 5 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (11.43%) VMware NSX
6 4 (11.43%) XenApp
7 2 (5.71%) Terminal Services
7 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (2.86%) DFS Replication
8 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) SCCM
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.43%) vCenter Server
3 3 (8.57%) PaperCut
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (5.71%) VxRail
4 2 (5.71%) WSUS
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (71.43%) VMware
2 18 (51.43%) Microsoft
3 10 (28.57%) Citrix
4 9 (25.71%) Red Hat
5 4 (11.43%) HP
5 4 (11.43%) Ivanti
5 4 (11.43%) Symantec
5 4 (11.43%) Veeam
6 3 (8.57%) Aruba
6 3 (8.57%) Cisco
6 3 (8.57%) Dell
6 3 (8.57%) EMC
6 3 (8.57%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (8.57%) Sage
6 3 (8.57%) WatchGuard
7 2 (5.71%) Intel
7 2 (5.71%) Splunk
8 1 (2.86%) MEDITECH
8 1 (2.86%) Proofpoint
8 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds