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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 118 175
Rank change year-on-year -49 +57 +50
Contract jobs citing WSUS 3 63 40
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.083% 1.48% 0.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.53% 10.05% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 53 25
10th Percentile - £262 £245
25th Percentile - £360 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £610
Median % change year-on-year - -9.84% +16.75%
75th Percentile - £608 £615
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £513
% change year-on-year - +7.32% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 564 627 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.51% 14.71% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 465 490
10th Percentile £255 £270 £205
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £573 £613 £638
90th Percentile £616 £687 £701
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 29
10th Percentile - £19.18 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £28.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £35.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.99% -36.21% +22.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.75 £71.90
90th Percentile £88.30 £54.35 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.17 £51.25
% change year-on-year -5.99% -29.43% +109.57%

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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

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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

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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

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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 22 October 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 -19 3 - - 2
WSUS
England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Server Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform