The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the Yorkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Rank 112 111 93
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -18
Contract jobs citing WSUS 1 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.053% 0.130% 0.168%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.565% 1.887% 1.639%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £300 £135 £170
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+122.22% -20.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £313 £225
% change year-on-year
-13.60% +38.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £18.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.19 £15.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
+21.25% -36.17%
All Systems Management
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
177 159 183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 9.380% 6.910% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 93 79
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £209 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 12
Average hourly rate £15.25 £12.16 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.38% -44.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.65 £9.68 £15.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.70 £21.45 £28.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
WSUS
England

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WSUS across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Yorkshire WSUS Jobs Demand Trend

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WSUS across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire WSUS Daily Rate Trend

WSUS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WSUS across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire WSUS Hourly Rate Trend

WSUS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
WSUS
England

WSUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing WSUS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WSUS.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (71.43%) SCCM
3 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Vista
3 4 (57.14%) SLA
3 4 (57.14%) MSI
3 4 (57.14%) Publishing
3 4 (57.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (57.14%) Windows XP
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
4 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
4 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (42.86%) VMware
4 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
4 3 (42.86%) DNS
5 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (28.57%) CA
5 2 (28.57%) Terminal Server
5 2 (28.57%) Remedy
5 2 (28.57%) McAfee
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (28.57%) IIS
5 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
5 2 (28.57%) MCSE

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing WSUS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WSUS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MSI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Server Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) Support Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Vista
2 4 (57.14%) Windows XP
2 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) MCSE
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
2 2 (28.57%) Terminal Server
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
2 4 (57.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) CA
3 2 (28.57%) Remedy
3 2 (28.57%) McAfee
3 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds