WSUS Contracts in the North of England

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 184 242
Rank change year-on-year +2 +58 -62
Contract jobs citing WSUS 2 29 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.043% 0.51% 0.070%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.38% 3.44% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 20 1
10th Percentile £216 £303 -
25th Percentile £269 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £504 £500 £438
90th Percentile £569 £514 -
England median daily rate £575 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.25
Median hourly rate - - £39.73
75th Percentile - - £42.20
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £60.00 £42.21
% change year-on-year -65.00% +42.15% -18.83%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 520 842 1,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.08% 14.75% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 621 809
10th Percentile £235 £325 £250
25th Percentile £393 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £579 £638 £615
90th Percentile £644 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 51 19
10th Percentile £16.89 £17.50 £15.58
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.27 £16.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +87.50% -17.36%
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.52 £41.85
90th Percentile £80.38 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £25.71 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.29% +167.44% -10.42%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for WSUS in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North East +14 1 £180 -39.75%
North West +6 1 £575 +17.95% 2
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (50.00%) Site Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 1st Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Server Building
1 1 (50.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam