The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 23 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 City of London 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Rank 188 - 239
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WSUS 11 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.173% - 0.060%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.081% - 1.255%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
Average daily rate £450 - £219
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 - £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 - £264
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £313 £225
% change year-on-year
-13.60% +38.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.19 £15.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
+21.25% -36.17%
All Systems Management
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
357 424 478
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 5.620% 5.386% 4.793%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 268 304
Average daily rate £400 £383 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £265 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 33
Average hourly rate £30.50 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.55% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.90 £16.60 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.60 £34.20 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
WSUS
London

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London WSUS Daily Rate Trend

WSUS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WSUS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London WSUS Daily Rate Histogram

WSUS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London WSUS Hourly Rate Trend

WSUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (90.48%) Active Directory
3 15 (71.43%) SCCM
4 13 (61.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (61.90%) Windows Server 2008
4 13 (61.90%) VMware
4 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
4 13 (61.90%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (47.62%) Symantec
6 9 (42.86%) DNS
7 8 (38.10%) DHCP
7 8 (38.10%) ITIL
7 8 (38.10%) IIS
7 8 (38.10%) Citrix
8 7 (33.33%) HP
8 7 (33.33%) SAN
8 7 (33.33%) MS Excel
8 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
8 7 (33.33%) SCOM
8 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
9 6 (28.57%) vSphere
9 6 (28.57%) DV Cleared
9 6 (28.57%) Windows 7
9 6 (28.57%) Norton AntiVirus
10 5 (23.81%) McAfee
10 5 (23.81%) MS Exchange
10 5 (23.81%) SQL
10 5 (23.81%) Hyper-V
10 5 (23.81%) Service Management
10 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 2 (9.524%) Software Packaging
2 1 (4.762%) .NET
2 1 (4.762%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) IIS
2 5 (23.81%) MS Exchange
3 3 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (9.524%) SharePoint
5 1 (4.762%) Lotus Domino
5 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 4 (19.05%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) DNS
2 8 (38.10%) DHCP
3 7 (33.33%) SAN
4 5 (23.81%) Firewall
5 4 (19.05%) LAN
6 3 (14.29%) ADSL
6 3 (14.29%) VPN
6 3 (14.29%) Wireless
7 1 (4.762%) SMS
7 1 (4.762%) WAN
7 1 (4.762%) SMTP
7 1 (4.762%) Kerberos
7 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.762%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 1 (4.762%) Investment Banking
2 1 (4.762%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (23.81%) Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Windows Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 2 (9.524%) SCCM Specialist
4 2 (9.524%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (9.524%) Windows Server Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Information Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Server Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Security Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Clustering
2 1 (4.762%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.762%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.762%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (61.90%) Windows Server 2008
2 13 (61.90%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (28.57%) Windows 7
4 3 (14.29%) Windows Vista
5 2 (9.524%) Windows 2000
5 2 (9.524%) UNIX
5 2 (9.524%) Mac OS X
6 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
6 1 (4.762%) Linux
6 1 (4.762%) Windows 8
6 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) ITIL
2 5 (23.81%) Service Management
2 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery
3 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (14.29%) ITSM
5 2 (9.524%) Change Control
5 2 (9.524%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (9.524%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (9.524%) Incident Management
5 2 (9.524%) Configuration Management
6 1 (4.762%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (4.762%) Performance Management
6 1 (4.762%) Information Security
6 1 (4.762%) Asset Management
6 1 (4.762%) Security Management
6 1 (4.762%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 1 (4.762%) C#
3 1 (4.762%) VBScript
3 1 (4.762%) VB
3 1 (4.762%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (14.29%) MCSE
5 2 (9.524%) CISM
5 2 (9.524%) CISSP
6 1 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.762%) CCNA
6 1 (4.762%) MCSA
6 1 (4.762%) MCP
6 1 (4.762%) HNC
6 1 (4.762%) Degree
6 1 (4.762%) MCDST
6 1 (4.762%) MCTS
6 1 (4.762%) MCITP
6 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.762%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (4.762%) QA
System Software
1 19 (90.48%) Active Directory
2 13 (61.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (28.57%) vSphere
4 5 (23.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (19.05%) DFS Replication
5 4 (19.05%) Terminal Services
6 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (71.43%) SCCM
2 7 (33.33%) SCOM
3 6 (28.57%) Norton AntiVirus
4 4 (19.05%) HP Data Protector
5 3 (14.29%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (9.524%) HP SIM
6 2 (9.524%) NetBackup
6 2 (9.524%) Tivoli
7 1 (4.762%) Legato
7 1 (4.762%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (4.762%) WMI
7 1 (4.762%) SCVMM
7 1 (4.762%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (4.762%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) VMware
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (47.62%) Symantec
3 8 (38.10%) Citrix
4 7 (33.33%) HP
5 5 (23.81%) McAfee
6 4 (19.05%) Veeam
6 4 (19.05%) Remedy
7 2 (9.524%) Cisco
7 2 (9.524%) Websense
7 2 (9.524%) NetIQ
7 2 (9.524%) Apple
7 2 (9.524%) Veritas
8 1 (4.762%) Compaq
8 1 (4.762%) Dell
8 1 (4.762%) EMC
8 1 (4.762%) Lotus
8 1 (4.762%) Juniper
8 1 (4.762%) Reuters
8 1 (4.762%) Bloomberg