The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 21 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 East of England 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Rank 111 130 119
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -11
Contract jobs citing WSUS 9 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.413% 0.034% 0.271%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.143% 0.508% 3.415%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
Average daily rate £190 £200 £241
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -17.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £288 £225
% change year-on-year
-6.08% +27.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.19 £15.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
+21.25% -36.17%
All Systems Management
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
175 197 205
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 8.028% 6.708% 7.930%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 77 80
Average daily rate £305 £288 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.08% +35.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £90 £99 £75
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 42
Average hourly rate £19.00 £22.88 £29.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.93% -21.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.60 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.35 £35.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
WSUS
England

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cambridgeshire +14 5 - -
Essex - 2 £190 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £188 -
WSUS
England

WSUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 17 (89.47%) MS Exchange
1 17 (89.47%) Active Directory
2 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (78.95%) Exchange Server 2010
3 12 (63.16%) DNS
4 11 (57.89%) ITIL
5 10 (52.63%) Windows
5 10 (52.63%) Linux
5 10 (52.63%) DHCP
5 10 (52.63%) Symantec
6 9 (47.37%) Red Hat
6 9 (47.37%) Oracle
6 9 (47.37%) Blackberry
6 9 (47.37%) PKI
6 9 (47.37%) SCOM
6 9 (47.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (42.11%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2007
7 8 (42.11%) SQL
8 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
8 7 (36.84%) Windows 7
9 6 (31.58%) Backup Exec
10 5 (26.32%) VMware
10 5 (26.32%) HP
10 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (21.05%) Citrix
11 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
11 4 (21.05%) SCCM
11 4 (21.05%) Exchange Server 2003

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (5.263%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 17 (89.47%) MS Exchange
2 15 (78.95%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
4 4 (21.05%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (15.79%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (5.263%) Lync
6 1 (5.263%) IIS
6 1 (5.263%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Office
1 2 (10.53%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) DNS
2 10 (52.63%) DHCP
3 3 (15.79%) NetScaler
4 2 (10.53%) Network Security
4 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 2 (10.53%) SAN
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (5.263%) NAS
5 1 (5.263%) VPN
5 1 (5.263%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.263%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Systems Administrator
1 9 (47.37%) Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Server Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 1 (5.263%) Wintel Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Wintel Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Server Support
4 1 (5.263%) Systems Support
4 1 (5.263%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Server Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Systems Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Wintel Support
4 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.263%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Blackberry
1 9 (47.37%) PKI
2 3 (15.79%) Clustering
3 2 (10.53%) iPhone
3 2 (10.53%) iPad
4 1 (5.263%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 9 (47.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (36.84%) Windows 7
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (10.53%) Windows XP
5 2 (10.53%) UNIX
6 1 (5.263%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) Migration
2 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.263%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (10.53%) MCSE
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (10.53%) VCP4
System Software
1 17 (89.47%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) XenApp
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (10.53%) vCloud
4 2 (10.53%) vSphere
5 1 (5.263%) XenServer
5 1 (5.263%) XenDesktop
5 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.263%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) SCOM
2 8 (42.11%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 6 (31.58%) Backup Exec
4 4 (21.05%) SCCM
5 2 (10.53%) NetBackup
5 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (52.63%) Symantec
3 9 (47.37%) Red Hat
3 9 (47.37%) Oracle
4 5 (26.32%) VMware
4 5 (26.32%) HP
5 4 (21.05%) Citrix
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco
6 2 (10.53%) NetApp
6 2 (10.53%) McAfee
6 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.263%) Twitter
7 1 (5.263%) Dell
7 1 (5.263%) LANDesk
UK East Anglia
Working along side the council's Database Analyst in support of the council's database systems - principally Oracle, SQL Server and MS Access."... SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCEEssential:" Significant experience,...
Premier Group
Rate: £20.00 - £22.00 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
East Anglia
Network and Systems Engineer Windows Cisco Exchange LAN WAN... " Working along side the council's Database Analyst in support of the council's database systems - principally Oracle, SQL...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £20.00 - £22.00 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013