WSUS Contracts in the East of England

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 77 108 121
Rank change year-on-year +31 +13 +24
Contract jobs citing WSUS 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% 0.21% 0.097%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.72% 4.12% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - - £253
25th Percentile £450 £258 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £265 £353
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -24.82% -6.00%
75th Percentile £581 £355 £423
90th Percentile £593 £405 £462
England median daily rate £525 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -8.70% +21.05% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.31 -
England median hourly rate - £21.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -65.00% +42.15%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 106 97 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.30% 5.08% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 58 201
10th Percentile £215 £188 £225
25th Percentile £338 £258 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £638
90th Percentile £600 £641 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 22
10th Percentile £30.25 - £14.25
25th Percentile £36.25 - £14.56
Median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £18.78
Median % change year-on-year +235.71% -25.45% +29.52%
75th Percentile £58.25 £20.19 £65.75
90th Percentile £64.55 £44.16 £74.50
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for WSUS in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +30 5 £500 +88.68% 5
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Skype
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Smartcard
1 2 (40.00%) YubiKey
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Nessus
4 1 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Tenable
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat