WSUS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 314 440 578
Rank change year-on-year +126 +138 -128
Contract jobs citing WSUS 27 28 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.11% 0.084%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.65% 0.67% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 24
10th Percentile £264 £210 £313
25th Percentile £475 £300 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £320 £450
Median % change year-on-year +89.06% -28.89% +16.13%
75th Percentile £608 £406 £541
90th Percentile - £480 £693
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £426
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.50% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £61.13
90th Percentile - - £73.95
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £60.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -65.00% +11.11% +3.85%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,632 4,149 7,115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.83% 16.54% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 3,067 5,309
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -0.89% +9.76%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £660
90th Percentile £700 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 76 49
10th Percentile £19.98 £25.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +65.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £87.50 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -55.19% +152.75% -42.77%

WSUS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WSUS trend for jobs with a WFH option

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WSUS.

WSUS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WSUS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WSUS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

WSUS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WSUS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WSUS.

WSUS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.41%) IIS
3 1 (3.70%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.70%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (81.48%) Azure
2 18 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (59.26%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (59.26%) Azure Storage
3 16 (59.26%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.11%) AWS
4 3 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (81.48%) DHCP
1 22 (81.48%) DNS
2 20 (74.07%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.41%) Wireless
5 1 (3.70%) Internet
5 1 (3.70%) NetScaler
5 1 (3.70%) VLAN
5 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
General
1 20 (74.07%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Finance
2 2 (7.41%) Front Office
3 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (51.85%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (51.85%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (51.85%) Support Specialist
3 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) IT Support
6 1 (3.70%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) ARM Templates
2 2 (7.41%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (59.26%) PKI
1 16 (59.26%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.41%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (96.30%) Windows
2 20 (74.07%) Windows Server
3 18 (66.67%) Linux
3 18 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (62.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (7.41%) Ubuntu
5 2 (7.41%) Unix
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) ITIL
1 20 (74.07%) Release Management
2 18 (66.67%) RBAC
3 16 (59.26%) Agile
3 16 (59.26%) Analytics
3 16 (59.26%) CI/CD
3 16 (59.26%) DevOps
3 16 (59.26%) Identity Management
3 16 (59.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (59.26%) Log Analytics
3 16 (59.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 16 (59.26%) Privileged Identity Management
3 16 (59.26%) Service Management
4 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Customer Service
5 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
5 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (11.11%) Change Control
6 3 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (11.11%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) PowerShell
2 16 (59.26%) Bicep
2 16 (59.26%) C#
2 16 (59.26%) VB
2 16 (59.26%) VBScript
3 2 (7.41%) C++
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (74.07%) Degree
2 16 (59.26%) DV Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 16 (59.26%) SC Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.41%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.70%) MCSA
5 1 (3.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) ISO 9001
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (92.59%) Active Directory
2 21 (77.78%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (59.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (14.81%) vSphere
6 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (3.70%) XenApp
7 1 (3.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (70.37%) Microsoft Intune
1 19 (70.37%) SCCM
2 16 (59.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (59.26%) Kubernetes
2 16 (59.26%) SCOM
3 4 (14.81%) vCenter Server
4 2 (7.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 22 (81.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) Qualys
4 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.70%) Apple
5 1 (3.70%) Avaya
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) IronPort