The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 52 61 68
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +7
Contract jobs citing WSUS 4 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.494% 0.362% 0.075%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.273% 5.128% 0.926%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £288 £225
% change year-on-year
-6.08% +27.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.75 £15.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -36.17%
All Systems Management
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
55 78 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 6.790% 7.052% 8.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 44 28
Average daily rate £375 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £185 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £16.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -21.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
WSUS
Scotland

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh WSUS Hourly Rate Trend

WSUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Veeam
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (50.00%) MCITP
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (50.00%) Handset
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Nortel
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) MCSA
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) LDAP
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) IIS
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) LDAP
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (100.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) IT Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (50.00%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) MCSA
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (50.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Veeam
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Nortel