WSUS Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring WSUS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 471 428
Rank change year-on-year -110 -43 +72
Contract jobs citing WSUS 38 50 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.082% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.74% 1.25% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 43 86
10th Percentile £263 £334 £265
25th Percentile £356 £525 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +8.64%
75th Percentile £508 £575 £608
90th Percentile £695 £610 £625
UK median daily rate £438 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -20.45% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £50.69 - -
25th Percentile £59.43 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,103 4,012 3,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.03% 14.34% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,408 2,633 2,592
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £630
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 76 51
10th Percentile £21.13 £17.58 £21.05
25th Percentile £31.25 £19.75 £23.99
Median hourly rate £65.69 £34.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.21% -10.53% -27.62%
75th Percentile £74.25 £63.75 £63.50
90th Percentile £89.38 £78.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +148.94% -32.00% -31.82%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WSUS job vacancy trend in England

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WSUS

WSUS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in England over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in England

WSUS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WSUS

WSUS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WSUS in England over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for WSUS in England

WSUS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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
London -81 13 £350 -42.86% 8
South West -43 8 £560 +1.73% 2
North West -40 6 £295 -9.23% 4
North of England -56 6 £295 -9.23% 5
East of England -51 5 £450 -18.18%
Midlands - 4 £450 - 1
South East -63 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £450 -
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (52.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.53%) Confluence
3 3 (7.89%) IIS
4 2 (5.26%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 5 (13.16%) Cohesity
4 4 (10.53%) Google Workspace
5 2 (5.26%) AWS
5 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.26%) IaaS
5 2 (5.26%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.63%) Route 53
6 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (71.05%) DNS
2 14 (36.84%) DHCP
3 8 (21.05%) VPN
4 7 (18.42%) SAN
5 6 (15.79%) Firewall
5 6 (15.79%) Skype
6 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
6 4 (10.53%) VoIP
7 3 (7.89%) DMZ
7 3 (7.89%) Network Security
8 2 (5.26%) IPv4
8 2 (5.26%) IPv6
8 2 (5.26%) VLAN
9 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
9 1 (2.63%) IMAP
9 1 (2.63%) LAN
9 1 (2.63%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (2.63%) SMTP
9 1 (2.63%) SSH
9 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Front Office
5 3 (7.89%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Military
6 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Support Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) IT Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Administrator
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Wintel Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Help Desk Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) IT Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) IT Support
5 3 (7.89%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.26%) Citrix Administrator
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) JSON
1 1 (2.63%) Middleware
1 1 (2.63%) REST
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) PKI
1 8 (21.05%) Smartcard
2 6 (15.79%) Onboarding
3 5 (13.16%) Clustering
3 5 (13.16%) YubiKey
4 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.89%) Fat Client
4 3 (7.89%) Thin Client
4 3 (7.89%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.26%) Client/Server
5 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.63%) CMDB
6 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (94.74%) Windows
2 28 (73.68%) Windows Server
3 10 (26.32%) Linux
4 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (15.79%) Windows 10
5 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (7.89%) Apple iOS
7 3 (7.89%) Mac OS
7 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (5.26%) OpenVMS
8 2 (5.26%) VMS
8 2 (5.26%) Windows 7
9 1 (2.63%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (2.63%) CentOS
9 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 16 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (36.84%) ITIL
3 11 (28.95%) Service Management
4 9 (23.68%) Patch Management
5 7 (18.42%) ITSM
6 6 (15.79%) Software Deployment
7 5 (13.16%) Agile
7 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.16%) Runbook
7 5 (13.16%) Server Management
8 4 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
9 3 (7.89%) Change Management
9 3 (7.89%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 3 (7.89%) Server Hardening
9 3 (7.89%) User Experience
9 3 (7.89%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.79%) SQL
3 1 (2.63%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 12 (31.58%) DV Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 6 (15.79%) Degree
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.63%) MCSA
6 1 (2.63%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (73.68%) Active Directory
2 12 (31.58%) Hyper-V
3 11 (28.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.26%) XenApp
4 2 (5.26%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.63%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.63%) DFS Replication
5 1 (2.63%) Docker
5 1 (2.63%) Dovecot
5 1 (2.63%) Postfix
5 1 (2.63%) Squid
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (55.26%) SCCM
2 6 (15.79%) Nessus
3 5 (13.16%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (7.89%) OPNET
5 2 (5.26%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.63%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.63%) Grafana
6 1 (2.63%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.63%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.63%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.63%) SCOM
6 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.63%) vMotion
6 1 (2.63%) WMI
Vendors
1 24 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 13 (34.21%) VMware
3 12 (31.58%) Citrix
4 7 (18.42%) Cisco
5 5 (13.16%) Tenable
6 4 (10.53%) McAfee
6 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
7 3 (7.89%) Apple
7 3 (7.89%) Bloomberg
7 3 (7.89%) ION Trading
7 3 (7.89%) Reuters
8 2 (5.26%) Google
8 2 (5.26%) Oracle
8 2 (5.26%) SolarWinds
8 2 (5.26%) Tanium
8 2 (5.26%) Veeam
8 2 (5.26%) Veritas
9 1 (2.63%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.63%) Splunk