WSUS Contracts in Reading

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 - 89
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WSUS 52 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.40% - 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.21% - 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 0 7
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile £575 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £625
75th Percentile £608 - £688
90th Percentile - - £715
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +15.24% -14.29% +207.79%

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 178 117 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 15.06% 11.33% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 88 107
10th Percentile £205 £425 £270
25th Percentile £213 £503 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +10.28% +19.89%
75th Percentile £608 £689 £625
90th Percentile £650 £750 £693
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -1.18% +1.19% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £56.00 -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £9.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +600.00% -83.61%
75th Percentile - £75.69 £10.25
90th Percentile - £79.10 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +7.44%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in Reading

WSUS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for WSUS in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 16 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 31 (59.62%) Azure
2 17 (32.69%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (32.69%) Azure Storage
2 17 (32.69%) Entra ID
3 16 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (26.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (59.62%) DHCP
1 31 (59.62%) DNS
1 31 (59.62%) Firewall
2 14 (26.92%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Axure RP
General
1 52 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) Build Engineer
1 21 (40.38%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (40.38%) Windows Engineer
2 16 (30.77%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (28.85%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (26.92%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (26.92%) Support Specialist
5 10 (19.23%) Storage Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Server Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (1.92%) Infrastructure Support
9 1 (1.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.77%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.69%) PKI
1 17 (32.69%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (26.92%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Windows
2 51 (98.08%) Windows Server
2 51 (98.08%) Windows Server 2016
2 51 (98.08%) Windows Server 2019
3 35 (67.31%) Windows 10
3 35 (67.31%) Windows Server 2012
4 30 (57.69%) Linux
5 21 (40.38%) Windows NT
6 14 (26.92%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) ITIL
2 38 (73.08%) Release Management
2 38 (73.08%) Service Management
3 21 (40.38%) Customer Service
3 21 (40.38%) Deployment Automation
3 21 (40.38%) User Acceptance Testing
4 17 (32.69%) Agile
4 17 (32.69%) Analytics
4 17 (32.69%) Identity Management
4 17 (32.69%) Log Analytics
4 17 (32.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 17 (32.69%) Privileged Identity Management
4 17 (32.69%) RBAC
5 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 16 (30.77%) DevOps
5 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (26.92%) Proactive Monitoring
6 14 (26.92%) Server Management
6 14 (26.92%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (59.62%) PowerShell
2 17 (32.69%) C#
2 17 (32.69%) VB
2 17 (32.69%) VBScript
3 16 (30.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 52 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 52 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (59.62%) SC Cleared
3 30 (57.69%) Degree
4 17 (32.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (26.92%) CCNA
5 14 (26.92%) CCNP
5 14 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (40.38%) QA
System Software
1 52 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (40.38%) Firmware
3 17 (32.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (32.69%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (26.92%) Hyper-V
4 14 (26.92%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (100.00%) SCCM
2 31 (59.62%) SCOM
3 21 (40.38%) Sysprep
4 17 (32.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (32.69%) Kubernetes
4 17 (32.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (26.92%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (26.92%) NetBackup
5 14 (26.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (98.08%) Microsoft
2 14 (26.92%) 3PAR
2 14 (26.92%) Cisco
2 14 (26.92%) Dell
2 14 (26.92%) EMC
2 14 (26.92%) Extreme Networks
2 14 (26.92%) HP
2 14 (26.92%) Juniper
2 14 (26.92%) Oracle
2 14 (26.92%) Palo Alto
2 14 (26.92%) Symantec
2 14 (26.92%) Veeam
2 14 (26.92%) VMware