WSUS Contracts in Berkshire

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring WSUS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WSUS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 66 111
Rank change year-on-year -19 +45 +13
Contract jobs citing WSUS 8 58 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.68% 2.92% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.19% 23.97% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 54 3
10th Percentile £513 - £355
25th Percentile £514 £575 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £605 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.98% +15.24% -16.00%
75th Percentile £549 £608 £538
90th Percentile £572 - -
South East median daily rate £533 £575 £400
% change year-on-year -7.39% +43.75% -5.88%

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

WSUS falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 154 242 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.13% 12.20% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 179 142
10th Percentile £400 £205 £363
25th Percentile £450 £275 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £675
90th Percentile £675 £632 £750
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £50.53
25th Percentile - - £58.91
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.41% -6.21%
75th Percentile - - £75.56
90th Percentile - - £81.98
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for WSUS in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham - 7 £533 -
WSUS
South East

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (62.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) NetScaler
2 5 (62.50%) SMTP
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Support
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Support Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Subject Matter Expert
1 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) PKI
2 5 (62.50%) Clustering
3 2 (25.00%) CMDB
4 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (25.00%) Data Reconciliation
2 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Log Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) RBAC
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) VB
4 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) vSphere
2 5 (62.50%) XenApp
2 5 (62.50%) XenDesktop
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (37.50%) SCCM
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 5 (62.50%) Dell
2 5 (62.50%) HP
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) BMC
3 2 (25.00%) Remedy