The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 17 May 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 Cambridge 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Rank 35 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing WSUS 6 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.754% 0.239% -
As % of the Systems Management category 16.67% 5.556% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £200 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £288 £225
% change year-on-year
-6.08% +27.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.75 £15.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -36.17%
All Systems Management
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
36 18 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 10.53% 4.306% 2.800%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 5
Average daily rate £318 £290 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.48% -13.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £213 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £337
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
WSUS
Cambridgeshire

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge WSUS Hourly Rate Trend

WSUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (81.82%) Red Hat
2 9 (81.82%) Blackberry
2 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 9 (81.82%) ITIL
2 9 (81.82%) Linux
2 9 (81.82%) MS Exchange
2 9 (81.82%) PKI
2 9 (81.82%) SCOM
2 9 (81.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (81.82%) Exchange Server 2010
2 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (72.73%) DNS
4 6 (54.55%) DHCP
4 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
4 6 (54.55%) Symantec
4 6 (54.55%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 6 (54.55%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (54.55%) Backup Exec
5 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (45.45%) Windows
5 5 (45.45%) SQL
6 3 (27.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (27.27%) Citrix
6 3 (27.27%) SCCM
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (27.27%) Clustering
6 3 (27.27%) NetScaler
6 3 (27.27%) XenApp

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 Platforms
1 9 (81.82%) MS Exchange
1 9 (81.82%) Exchange Server 2010
2 6 (54.55%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (27.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
2 6 (54.55%) DHCP
3 3 (27.27%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Systems Administrator
1 9 (81.82%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Blackberry
1 9 (81.82%) PKI
2 3 (27.27%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
1 9 (81.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (27.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (27.27%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) SCOM
2 6 (54.55%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 6 (54.55%) Backup Exec
3 3 (27.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
1 9 (81.82%) Red Hat
2 6 (54.55%) Symantec
3 3 (27.27%) Citrix
4 2 (18.18%) McAfee