WSUS Contracts in Reading

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring WSUS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WSUS over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WSUS 50 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.14% - 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.57% - 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 0 7
10th Percentile - - £455
25th Percentile £575 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £475
75th Percentile £608 - £584
90th Percentile - - £663
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +15.24% +10.53% +138.69%

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 175 98 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.47% 9.36% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 71 98
10th Percentile £213 £413 £309
25th Percentile £419 £531 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +25.00% +15.56%
75th Percentile £608 £716 £616
90th Percentile £650 £750 £691
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £550 £516
% change year-on-year +4.55% +6.54% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £71.14 -
25th Percentile - £72.84 £9.75
Median hourly rate - £75.69 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year - +656.85% -78.61%
75th Percentile - £78.53 £10.25
90th Percentile - £80.23 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +39.04%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in Reading

WSUS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WSUS in Reading.

Daily rate trend for WSUS in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WSUS in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (42.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 35 (70.00%) Azure
2 21 (42.00%) Azure Monitor
2 21 (42.00%) Azure Storage
2 21 (42.00%) Entra ID
2 21 (42.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (28.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 35 (70.00%) DHCP
1 35 (70.00%) DNS
1 35 (70.00%) Firewall
2 14 (28.00%) SAN
General
1 50 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (30.00%) Build Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) Windows Build Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) Windows Engineer
3 14 (28.00%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (28.00%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (28.00%) Support Specialist
4 10 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Support Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Active Directory Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Server Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure Support
9 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (42.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (42.00%) PKI
1 21 (42.00%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (28.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Windows
1 50 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 50 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 50 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 35 (70.00%) Linux
3 29 (58.00%) Windows 10
3 29 (58.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 15 (30.00%) Windows NT
5 14 (28.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) ITIL
2 36 (72.00%) Release Management
2 36 (72.00%) Service Management
3 21 (42.00%) Agile
3 21 (42.00%) Analytics
3 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (42.00%) DevOps
3 21 (42.00%) Identity Management
3 21 (42.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (42.00%) Log Analytics
3 21 (42.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 21 (42.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 21 (42.00%) RBAC
4 15 (30.00%) Customer Service
4 15 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
4 15 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (28.00%) Server Management
5 14 (28.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 21 (42.00%) Bicep
2 21 (42.00%) C#
2 21 (42.00%) VB
2 21 (42.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 50 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (70.00%) Degree
2 35 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (42.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 14 (28.00%) CCNA
4 14 (28.00%) CCNP
4 14 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 50 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (42.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 21 (42.00%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (30.00%) Firmware
4 14 (28.00%) Hyper-V
4 14 (28.00%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (100.00%) SCCM
2 35 (70.00%) SCOM
3 21 (42.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (42.00%) Kubernetes
3 21 (42.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (30.00%) Sysprep
5 14 (28.00%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (28.00%) NetBackup
5 14 (28.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (28.00%) 3PAR
2 14 (28.00%) Cisco
2 14 (28.00%) Dell
2 14 (28.00%) EMC
2 14 (28.00%) Extreme Networks
2 14 (28.00%) HP
2 14 (28.00%) Juniper
2 14 (28.00%) Oracle
2 14 (28.00%) Palo Alto
2 14 (28.00%) Symantec
2 14 (28.00%) Veeam
2 14 (28.00%) VMware