WSUS Contracts in the Midlands

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 159 195
Rank change year-on-year +26 +36 -49
Contract jobs citing WSUS 1 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.037% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 1.89% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £361 -
25th Percentile £450 £378 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +50.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £398
90th Percentile - - £417
England median daily rate £575 £475 £410
% change year-on-year +21.05% +15.85% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +92.50% -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £60.00 £42.21
% change year-on-year -65.00% +42.15% -18.83%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 267 424 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.88% 12.63% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 285 361
10th Percentile £189 £266 £200
25th Percentile £318 £363 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +12.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £540
90th Percentile £650 £700 £625
England median daily rate £524 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.91% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 16
10th Percentile £20.52 £17.72 £10.68
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.00 £12.88
Median hourly rate £25.77 £21.67 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% +31.33% -8.33%
75th Percentile £26.15 £40.25 £20.56
90th Percentile £40.57 £50.55 £23.75
England median hourly rate £25.74 £54.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year -52.49% +151.98% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for WSUS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
East Midlands +20 1 £475 -9.52% 3
WSUS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware