WSUS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 356 438
Rank change year-on-year +62 +82 -63
Contract jobs citing WSUS 102 91 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.39% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.42% 2.59% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 72 51
10th Percentile £354 £306 £255
25th Percentile £500 £397 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £481 £426
Median % change year-on-year +19.48% +12.97% +6.50%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £488
90th Percentile - £588 £625
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £426
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.50% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year - +28.92% +99.08%
75th Percentile - £40.25 £52.28
90th Percentile - - £70.41
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £60.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -65.00% +11.11% +3.85%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,310 3,517 4,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.28% 14.99% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,567 2,950
10th Percentile £213 £286 £237
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £595
90th Percentile £653 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 136 113
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.91
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.72% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £41.50
90th Percentile £70.60 £75.25 £51.69
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -55.19% +152.75% -42.77%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +92 86 £575 +53.33% 15
Scotland +44 6 £340 -24.44% 5
South West +1 4 £513 - 6
East of England +10 3 £265 -44.21% 3
North of England +3 2 £378 -20.53% 3
Midlands +28 1 £475 -9.52% 4
East Midlands +20 1 £475 -9.52% 2
North East +12 1 £180 -41.94%
North West -3 1 £575 +17.95% 2
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.96%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) IIS
3 1 (0.98%) Site Server
Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (37.25%) Azure
2 21 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 16 (15.69%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (15.69%) Azure Storage
5 14 (13.73%) OCI
6 4 (3.92%) AWS
7 3 (2.94%) IaaS
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.98%) GitHub
9 1 (0.98%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 56 (54.90%) DNS
2 44 (43.14%) DHCP
3 38 (37.25%) Firewall
4 22 (21.57%) SAN
5 5 (4.90%) NAS
5 5 (4.90%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.92%) VSAN
7 3 (2.94%) Skype
7 3 (2.94%) Wireless
8 2 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.96%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.96%) VLAN
8 2 (1.96%) VPN
9 1 (0.98%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (3.92%) MySQL
1 4 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.98%) GitLab
General
1 65 (63.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.94%) Front Office
4 2 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.96%) Finance
5 1 (0.98%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (27.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (20.59%) Windows Engineer
3 20 (19.61%) Build Engineer
3 20 (19.61%) Windows Build Engineer
4 18 (17.65%) Support Specialist
5 16 (15.69%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (13.73%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (13.73%) Azure Specialist
7 12 (11.76%) Support Engineer
8 11 (10.78%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (9.80%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure Support
11 7 (6.86%) Wintel Engineer
12 6 (5.88%) Senior
12 6 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (4.90%) 3rd Line Support
13 5 (4.90%) Server Engineer
14 4 (3.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.69%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.90%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.55%) PKI
2 16 (15.69%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (13.73%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.92%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.92%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.96%) BYOD
6 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.98%) Clustering
6 1 (0.98%) CMDB
6 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (99.02%) Windows
2 94 (92.16%) Windows Server
3 58 (56.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 54 (52.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 49 (48.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 40 (39.22%) Linux
6 40 (39.22%) Windows 10
7 20 (19.61%) Windows NT
8 14 (13.73%) Windows XP
9 7 (6.86%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.94%) Apple iOS
10 3 (2.94%) Unix
11 2 (1.96%) Android
11 2 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.98%) CentOS
12 1 (0.98%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (58.82%) ITIL
2 40 (39.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (39.22%) Release Management
3 39 (38.24%) Service Management
4 30 (29.41%) Customer Service
5 24 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
6 20 (19.61%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (18.63%) Agile
7 19 (18.63%) Patch Management
7 19 (18.63%) RBAC
8 18 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.65%) Server Management
9 17 (16.67%) DevOps
9 17 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
10 16 (15.69%) Analytics
10 16 (15.69%) Identity Management
10 16 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (15.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 16 (15.69%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (46.08%) PowerShell
2 17 (16.67%) C#
2 17 (16.67%) VB
3 16 (15.69%) Bicep
3 16 (15.69%) VBScript
4 4 (3.92%) SQL
5 3 (2.94%) Python
5 3 (2.94%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.96%) C++
7 1 (0.98%) Java
Qualifications
1 82 (80.39%) Security Cleared
2 63 (61.76%) DV Cleared
3 44 (43.14%) SC Cleared
4 36 (35.29%) Degree
5 16 (15.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (14.71%) CCNA
6 15 (14.71%) CCNP
6 15 (14.71%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (4.90%) MCSE
9 4 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.94%) MCP
11 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.61%) QA
2 5 (4.90%) SLA
3 3 (2.94%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 98 (96.08%) Active Directory
2 46 (45.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (23.53%) Hyper-V
4 23 (22.55%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (22.55%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (19.61%) Firmware
6 16 (15.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (8.82%) vSphere
8 2 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (65.69%) SCCM
2 32 (31.37%) SCOM
3 25 (24.51%) vCenter Server
4 22 (21.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (19.61%) Sysprep
6 19 (18.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (15.69%) Kubernetes
8 14 (13.73%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (13.73%) NetBackup
9 6 (5.88%) Nessus
10 5 (4.90%) Ansible
11 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (3.92%) ZABBIX
12 2 (1.96%) Terraform
13 1 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.98%) Norton AntiVirus
13 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.98%) VxRail
Vendors
1 83 (81.37%) Microsoft
2 52 (50.98%) VMware
3 21 (20.59%) Veeam
4 18 (17.65%) Oracle
5 17 (16.67%) Cisco
6 16 (15.69%) Dell
6 16 (15.69%) EMC
6 16 (15.69%) Symantec
7 15 (14.71%) Juniper
7 15 (14.71%) Palo Alto
8 14 (13.73%) 3PAR
8 14 (13.73%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (13.73%) HP
9 6 (5.88%) Red Hat
10 5 (4.90%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.94%) Apple
11 3 (2.94%) Citrix
11 3 (2.94%) Qualys
12 2 (1.96%) Splunk
13 1 (0.98%) Avaya