WSUS Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring WSUS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 78 68
Rank change year-on-year -28 -10 +21
Contract jobs citing WSUS 6 4 31
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.30% 0.40% 2.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.70% 2.34% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 24
10th Percentile - - £360
25th Percentile £575 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £600 £553 £550
% change year-on-year +8.60% +0.45% +8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - -
Median hourly rate £48.72 - -
75th Percentile £52.58 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £48.72 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 222 171 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 11.25% 17.15% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 140 203
10th Percentile £463 £411 £363
25th Percentile £513 £491 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% -0.95%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £611
90th Percentile £725 £638 £725
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.00 - £22.25
Median hourly rate £32.36 - £24.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.45%
75th Percentile £63.19 - £26.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.84 £32.77 £36.17
% change year-on-year +107.03% -9.39% -30.94%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

WSUS job vacancy trend in Hampshire

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing WSUS

WSUS
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing WSUS

WSUS
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
Portsmouth - 5 £600 -
Farnborough - 1 - - 1
WSUS
South East

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VSAN
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) IT Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) IT Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (50.00%) Web Filtering
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) NVIDIA
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk