WSUS Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 54 66 69
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +3
Contract jobs citing WSUS 7 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.970% 0.124% 0.402%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.750% 0.855% 3.509%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £275 - £225
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category		 80 117 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 11.08% 14.48% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 57 72
Average daily rate £325 £359 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.40% +8.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £300 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £467 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Average hourly rate £43.70 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
WSUS
North West

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Crewe - 4 £275 -
WSUS
North West

WSUS
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (87.50%) SharePoint
1 7 (87.50%) DameWare
1 7 (87.50%) Retail
1 7 (87.50%) JIRA
1 7 (87.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (75.00%) Problem Management
2 6 (75.00%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 3 (37.50%) Smartcard
5 2 (25.00%) EPoS
6 1 (12.50%) Network Security
6 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (12.50%) XenServer
6 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
6 1 (12.50%) LANDesk
6 1 (12.50%) Windows
6 1 (12.50%) DHCP
6 1 (12.50%) DNS
6 1 (12.50%) SLA
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
6 1 (12.50%) Firewall
6 1 (12.50%) VMware

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (87.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) JIRA
1 7 (87.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (87.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Applications Support
1 5 (62.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (25.00%) Network Support
2 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 2 (25.00%) Server Support
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Smartcard
2 2 (25.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
1 6 (75.00%) Problem Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) DameWare
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) VMware
1 1 (12.50%) LANDesk
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