WSUS Contract Job Trends in the South East

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 141 106
Rank change year-on-year -58 -35 +95
Contract jobs citing WSUS 7 14 86
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.12% 0.47% 1.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.02% 3.95% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 74
10th Percentile £374 £502 £475
25th Percentile £485 £513 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £533 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -7.39% +43.75%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £608
90th Percentile - £651 -
England median daily rate £450 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +21.05%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -65.00%

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 689 354 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.75% 11.82% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 263 513
10th Percentile £279 £322 £213
25th Percentile £400 £430 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% -12.04%
75th Percentile £592 £589 £606
90th Percentile £714 £663 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 16
10th Percentile £42.05 £20.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £21.98 £21.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £23.99 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +171.00% -49.51% -19.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £25.99 £51.88
90th Percentile £78.40 £27.20 £66.25
England median hourly rate £57.63 £28.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +102.22% +10.62% -55.19%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

WSUS job vacancy trend in the South East

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WSUS

WSUS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WSUS

WSUS
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 6 May 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
Hampshire -25 7 £600 +9.59% 1
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) VSAN
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) SNMP
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) IT Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
4 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Antivirus Management
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
1 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (42.86%) Web Filtering
2 2 (28.57%) Security Patching
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) Server Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) VMware NSX
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Backup Exec
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 1 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
1 1 (14.29%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) NVIDIA
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
4 1 (14.29%) Acronis
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) McAfee
4 1 (14.29%) Splunk
4 1 (14.29%) Symantec