WSUS Contracts in England

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WSUS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WSUS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 569 684
Rank change year-on-year +152 +115 -105
Contract jobs citing WSUS 118 94 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.71% 1.19% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 64 63
10th Percentile £259 £300 £218
25th Percentile £456 £345 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £520
90th Percentile - £638 £625
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 £36.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £60.00 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +100.92% -42.57%
75th Percentile £36.84 £61.13 £42.82
90th Percentile £39.45 £64.50 £43.94
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £60.00 £39.73
% change year-on-year -65.00% +51.04% -23.61%

All Systems Management Skills
England

WSUS is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,348 7,914 11,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.76% 15.66% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,145 5,780 8,321
10th Percentile £250 £350 £361
25th Percentile £409 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £675
90th Percentile £700 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 186 161
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.02 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.73 £25.18 £15.25
Median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%
75th Percentile £50.19 £73.74 £42.20
90th Percentile £70.38 £82.50 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in England

WSUS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WSUS in England.

Daily rate trend for WSUS in England

WSUS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WSUS in England.

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WSUS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WSUS in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +86 81 £575 +43.75% 17
London +109 26 £284 -12.69% 3
East of England +19 4 £265 -24.82% 3
South West +8 4 £525 -4.55% 1
North of England +6 2 £378 -20.53% 4
Midlands +18 1 £475 +25.00% 4
North East +17 1 £180 -39.75% 1
East Midlands +15 1 £475 -9.52% 2
North West -2 1 £575 +17.95% 3
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (22.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.54%) IIS
3 3 (2.54%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.85%) Site Server
Applications
1 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (34.75%) Azure
2 26 (22.03%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (15.25%) Entra ID
4 16 (13.56%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (13.56%) Azure Storage
5 13 (11.02%) OCI
6 8 (6.78%) AWS
7 3 (2.54%) IaaS
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.69%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.85%) GitHub
9 1 (0.85%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 60 (50.85%) DNS
2 46 (38.98%) DHCP
3 37 (31.36%) Firewall
4 22 (18.64%) SAN
5 9 (7.63%) Wireless
6 7 (5.93%) Internet
6 7 (5.93%) TCP/IP
7 6 (5.08%) NAS
7 6 (5.08%) VSAN
8 3 (2.54%) Skype
8 3 (2.54%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.69%) VLAN
9 2 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.85%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.85%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.85%) VPN
10 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.39%) MySQL
2 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.54%) JIRA
2 1 (0.85%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.85%) GitLab
General
1 65 (55.08%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.54%) Finance
5 3 (2.54%) Front Office
6 1 (0.85%) Advertising
6 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 29 (24.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (20.34%) Windows Engineer
3 21 (17.80%) Build Engineer
3 21 (17.80%) Windows Build Engineer
4 15 (12.71%) Active Directory Support
4 15 (12.71%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (11.86%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (11.86%) Support Specialist
6 12 (10.17%) Integration Engineer
6 12 (10.17%) Support Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Storage Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Senior
9 6 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Analyst
10 5 (4.24%) Desktop Analyst
10 5 (4.24%) Desktop Support
10 5 (4.24%) Desktop Support Analyst
10 5 (4.24%) Support Analyst
11 4 (3.39%) 3rd Line Support
11 4 (3.39%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.71%) ARM Templates
2 7 (5.93%) Software Packaging
3 6 (5.08%) .NET
4 1 (0.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.49%) PKI
2 16 (13.56%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (11.02%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.24%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.39%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.39%) NHS
5 4 (3.39%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.54%) Clustering
7 2 (1.69%) BYOD
7 2 (1.69%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.85%) CMDB
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (96.61%) Windows
2 89 (75.42%) Windows Server
3 60 (50.85%) Windows Server 2019
4 55 (46.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 52 (44.07%) Windows Server 2012
6 41 (34.75%) Windows 10
7 38 (32.20%) Linux
8 21 (17.80%) Windows NT
9 13 (11.02%) Windows XP
10 7 (5.93%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.54%) Apple iOS
11 3 (2.54%) Unix
11 3 (2.54%) Windows 7
11 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.69%) Android
13 1 (0.85%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (54.24%) ITIL
2 45 (38.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (36.44%) Release Management
4 41 (34.75%) Service Management
5 26 (22.03%) Customer Service
6 25 (21.19%) Deployment Automation
7 21 (17.80%) Patch Management
7 21 (17.80%) User Acceptance Testing
8 20 (16.95%) Agile
8 20 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (16.10%) RBAC
10 17 (14.41%) Analytics
10 17 (14.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 17 (14.41%) Server Management
11 16 (13.56%) DevOps
11 16 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (13.56%) Identity Management
11 16 (13.56%) Log Analytics
11 16 (13.56%) Privileged Identity Management
11 16 (13.56%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 56 (47.46%) PowerShell
2 17 (14.41%) C#
2 17 (14.41%) VB
3 16 (13.56%) VBScript
4 15 (12.71%) Bicep
5 7 (5.93%) SQL
6 3 (2.54%) Python
6 3 (2.54%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.69%) C++
8 1 (0.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 76 (64.41%) Security Cleared
2 61 (51.69%) DV Cleared
3 38 (32.20%) SC Cleared
4 37 (31.36%) Degree
5 18 (15.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (11.86%) CCNA
6 14 (11.86%) CCNP
6 14 (11.86%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.39%) MCSE
9 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.69%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.85%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.80%) QA
2 5 (4.24%) SLA
3 3 (2.54%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 96 (81.36%) Active Directory
2 44 (37.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (22.88%) Firmware
4 24 (20.34%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (20.34%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (16.95%) Hyper-V
6 16 (13.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (8.47%) vSphere
8 3 (2.54%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.54%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.85%) XenApp
10 1 (0.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 70 (59.32%) SCCM
2 31 (26.27%) SCOM
3 26 (22.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (21.19%) vCenter Server
5 23 (19.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (17.80%) Sysprep
7 16 (13.56%) Kubernetes
8 14 (11.86%) NetBackup
9 13 (11.02%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (5.08%) Ansible
10 6 (5.08%) Nessus
11 4 (3.39%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (3.39%) ZABBIX
12 2 (1.69%) Terraform
13 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.85%) Norton AntiVirus
13 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.85%) Puppet
13 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.85%) WMI
Vendors
1 96 (81.36%) Microsoft
2 54 (45.76%) VMware
3 23 (19.49%) Veeam
4 18 (15.25%) Cisco
4 18 (15.25%) Oracle
5 16 (13.56%) Dell
5 16 (13.56%) EMC
6 15 (12.71%) Symantec
7 14 (11.86%) HP
7 14 (11.86%) Juniper
7 14 (11.86%) Palo Alto
8 13 (11.02%) 3PAR
8 13 (11.02%) Extreme Networks
9 8 (6.78%) SolarWinds
10 5 (4.24%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.54%) Qualys
11 3 (2.54%) Splunk
12 2 (1.69%) Apple
12 2 (1.69%) Atlassian
12 2 (1.69%) Citrix