WSUS Contracts in the South East

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 101 202
Rank change year-on-year -44 +101 +28
Contract jobs citing WSUS 12 98 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 1.72% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.61% 12.61% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 82 7
10th Percentile £509 £360 £349
25th Percentile £532 £525 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +12.20% +6.77%
75th Percentile £621 £608 £538
90th Percentile £661 - £558
England median daily rate £550 £550 £488
% change year-on-year - +12.82% +5.69%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 460 777 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.26% 13.60% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 563 533
10th Percentile £255 £250 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £645
90th Percentile £630 £675 £705
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 19
10th Percentile - £14.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.33 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -32.12% +152.87%
75th Percentile £32.77 £48.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £46.11 £52.10 £73.97
England median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WSUS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for WSUS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the South East over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WSUS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Hampshire +5 7 £616 +12.05% 1
Thames Valley -18 5 £539 -10.91%
Berkshire -18 5 £539 -10.91%
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (41.67%) IIS
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) DNS
2 4 (33.33%) DHCP
2 4 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 4 (33.33%) SMTP
3 3 (25.00%) VSAN
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall
4 1 (8.33%) HTTP
4 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (8.33%) SSL
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Administrator
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 3 (25.00%) Server Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Clustering
2 5 (41.67%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (58.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (25.00%) Unix
5 1 (8.33%) Linux
5 1 (8.33%) Windows 7
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) Server Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Power Management
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (8.33%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (8.33%) Prototyping
4 1 (8.33%) Release Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Design
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Software Distribution
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) VB
3 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (58.33%) vSphere
3 4 (33.33%) XenApp
3 4 (33.33%) XenDesktop
4 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (25.00%) NFS
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
4 2 (16.67%) SCCM
5 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (8.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) Citrix
3 4 (33.33%) Dell
3 4 (33.33%) HP
4 3 (25.00%) Symantec
5 2 (16.67%) Juniper
5 2 (16.67%) NETGEAR
5 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 2 (16.67%) TP-LINK