The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WSUS 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.323% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 3.158% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £238 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £260 £225
% change year-on-year
+13.46% +15.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.19 £15.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+7.91% -37.50%
All Systems Management
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
95 100 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 10.24% 10.70% 6.422%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 39 26
Average daily rate £315 £275 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% +27.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £165 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £320 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
Average hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.92% +170.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
WSUS
South East

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WSUS across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Buckinghamshire WSUS Jobs Demand Trend

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WSUS across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire WSUS Daily Rate Trend

WSUS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WSUS across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire WSUS Hourly Rate Trend

WSUS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
High Wycombe - - - -
WSUS
South East

WSUS
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing WSUS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WSUS.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL V3
2 3 (75.00%) Lumension
3 2 (50.00%) Process Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) ERP
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
4 1 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) Veritas
4 1 (25.00%) Middleware
4 1 (25.00%) Symantec

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing WSUS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WSUS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL V3
2 2 (50.00%) Process Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) Lumension
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec