WSUS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring WSUS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 - 130
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing WSUS 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.17% - 0.075%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.54% - 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £72.75 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.25 - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -65.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 518 347 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.93% 13.81% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 235 247
10th Percentile £259 £263 £300
25th Percentile £408 £368 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £556 £575
90th Percentile £669 £623 £642
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 5 7
10th Percentile £22.50 - £20.64
25th Percentile £25.75 - £25.38
Median hourly rate £65.45 £21.39 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +205.98% -16.98% +21.25%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £40.57
90th Percentile £75.00 £30.16 £63.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
% change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.62%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

WSUS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WSUS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WSUS

WSUS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WSUS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WSUS

WSUS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
East Midlands - 6 - -
West Midlands - 2 £450 -
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (25.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
2 6 (75.00%) IPv4
2 6 (75.00%) IPv6
2 6 (75.00%) VLAN
3 5 (62.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) IT Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Server Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (62.50%) Virtual Team
3 2 (25.00%) Clustering
3 2 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (75.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (25.00%) Runbook
3 2 (25.00%) Server Hardening
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) XenApp
2 2 (25.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft