WSUS Contracts in the South East

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 117 193 228
Rank change year-on-year +76 +35 -27
Contract jobs citing WSUS 85 18 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.54% 0.32% 0.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.84% 2.31% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 16 24
10th Percentile £475 - £223
25th Percentile £525 £300 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -16.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £608 £523 £550
90th Percentile - £563 £693
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 - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 718 780 1,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.02% 13.71% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 572 755
10th Percentile £213 £300 £250
25th Percentile £375 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +6.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £614
90th Percentile £650 £698 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.97
25th Percentile £17.91 £52.50 £20.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -10.42%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £48.00
90th Percentile £55.25 £75.75 £68.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for WSUS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the South East 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
Thames Valley +55 59 £605 +96.75% 8
Berkshire +46 58 £605 +15.24% 8
Hampshire +17 21 £525 -20.75% 6
Surrey - 4 £440 -
Oxfordshire +5 1 £350 +16.67%
West Sussex +4 1 £500 +25.00%
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (21.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (43.53%) Azure
2 17 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 17 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (18.82%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (18.82%) Azure Storage
4 14 (16.47%) OCI
5 3 (3.53%) AWS
5 3 (3.53%) IaaS
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.18%) GitHub
6 1 (1.18%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 55 (64.71%) DNS
2 42 (49.41%) DHCP
3 35 (41.18%) Firewall
4 20 (23.53%) SAN
5 4 (4.71%) NAS
5 4 (4.71%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.53%) VSAN
7 2 (2.35%) Wireless
8 1 (1.18%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.18%) Skype
8 1 (1.18%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.18%) VLAN
8 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (4.71%) MySQL
1 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) GitLab
1 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 55 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.53%) Front Office
3 2 (2.35%) Finance
3 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (24.71%) Windows Engineer
3 20 (23.53%) Build Engineer
3 20 (23.53%) Windows Build Engineer
4 16 (18.82%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (16.47%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (16.47%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (16.47%) Support Specialist
6 12 (14.12%) Integration Engineer
7 10 (11.76%) Storage Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Senior
9 5 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Server Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Wintel Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) 3rd Line Support
11 3 (3.53%) PowerShell Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.82%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.71%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.71%) PKI
2 16 (18.82%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (16.47%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.71%) Fat Client
4 4 (4.71%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.18%) Clustering
5 1 (1.18%) CMDB
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 85 (100.00%) Windows
2 81 (95.29%) Windows Server
3 57 (67.06%) Windows Server 2019
4 53 (62.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 48 (56.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 39 (45.88%) Linux
7 37 (43.53%) Windows 10
8 20 (23.53%) Windows NT
9 14 (16.47%) Windows XP
10 7 (8.24%) Ubuntu
11 3 (3.53%) Unix
12 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (63.53%) ITIL
2 40 (47.06%) Release Management
3 37 (43.53%) Service Management
4 30 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
6 24 (28.24%) Customer Service
7 20 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
8 19 (22.35%) RBAC
9 18 (21.18%) Agile
9 18 (21.18%) Patch Management
9 18 (21.18%) Server Management
10 17 (20.00%) DevOps
10 17 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
11 16 (18.82%) Analytics
11 16 (18.82%) CI/CD
11 16 (18.82%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (18.82%) Identity Management
11 16 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (18.82%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 16 (18.82%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (50.59%) PowerShell
2 16 (18.82%) Bicep
2 16 (18.82%) C#
2 16 (18.82%) VB
2 16 (18.82%) VBScript
3 3 (3.53%) Python
3 3 (3.53%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.35%) C++
5 1 (1.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (84.71%) Security Cleared
2 61 (71.76%) DV Cleared
3 36 (42.35%) SC Cleared
4 34 (40.00%) Degree
5 16 (18.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (16.47%) CCNA
6 14 (16.47%) CCNP
6 14 (16.47%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.53%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (23.53%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (3.53%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (96.47%) Active Directory
2 41 (48.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (25.88%) Hyper-V
3 22 (25.88%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (25.88%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (23.53%) Firmware
5 16 (18.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (8.24%) vSphere
7 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (65.88%) SCCM
2 31 (36.47%) SCOM
3 24 (28.24%) vCenter Server
4 22 (25.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (23.53%) Sysprep
6 19 (22.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (18.82%) Kubernetes
8 14 (16.47%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (16.47%) NetBackup
9 6 (7.06%) Nessus
10 5 (5.88%) Ansible
11 4 (4.71%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (4.71%) ZABBIX
12 2 (2.35%) Terraform
13 1 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (1.18%) Norton AntiVirus
13 1 (1.18%) VxRail
Vendors
1 73 (85.88%) Microsoft
2 45 (52.94%) VMware
3 19 (22.35%) Veeam
4 18 (21.18%) Oracle
5 16 (18.82%) Dell
5 16 (18.82%) EMC
6 15 (17.65%) Cisco
6 15 (17.65%) Juniper
6 15 (17.65%) Symantec
7 14 (16.47%) 3PAR
7 14 (16.47%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (16.47%) HP
7 14 (16.47%) Palo Alto
8 5 (5.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.53%) Qualys
9 3 (3.53%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.35%) Apple
11 1 (1.18%) NetApp
11 1 (1.18%) NETGEAR
11 1 (1.18%) Splunk