WSUS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring WSUS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing WSUS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.062% - 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.67% - 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £538 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +7.50% -13.04% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.31
England median hourly rate £48.72 - £40.31
% change year-on-year - - -32.82%

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 149 118 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.23% 10.46% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 61 96
10th Percentile £213 £240 £263
25th Percentile £281 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £619 £525 £656
90th Percentile £681 £581 £738
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 24
10th Percentile £20.09 £27.38 -
25th Percentile £20.64 £29.06 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.25 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% +100.00% -65.22%
75th Percentile £67.00 £54.69 £49.00
90th Percentile - £63.13 £77.50
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.85% -42.62% +31.94%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WSUS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

WSUS job vacancy trend in the East of England

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WSUS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WSUS

WSUS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WSUS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WSUS

WSUS
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 27 December 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
Suffolk - 1 - -
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Progress
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable