WSUS Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring WSUS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing WSUS 1 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.52% 5.19% -
As % of the Systems Management category 4.76% 26.92% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £360 -
Hampshire median daily rate £300 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -40.00% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - -
Median hourly rate £48.72 - -
75th Percentile £52.58 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 - £78.00

All Systems Management Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 21 26 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 10.94% 19.26% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 15
10th Percentile £402 £232 £490
25th Percentile £418 £360 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £435 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -17.14% -0.47%
75th Percentile £550 £494 £613
90th Percentile £585 £605 £633
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £45.00 - £19.32
25th Percentile £45.21 - £19.43
Median hourly rate £48.11 - £19.74
Median % change year-on-year - - -61.11%
75th Percentile £51.62 - £19.93
90th Percentile £52.20 - £19.97
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 £24.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.27% -38.75% +9.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

WSUS job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing WSUS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing WSUS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Acronis
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware