WSUS Contracts in the South East

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for WSUS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WSUS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 196 227
Rank change year-on-year +82 +31 -25
Contract jobs citing WSUS 86 19 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.55% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.86% 2.38% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 17 26
10th Percentile £475 - £227
25th Percentile £541 £300 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -5.88% -3.41%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £488
90th Percentile - £648 £688
England median daily rate £575 £475 £420
% change year-on-year +21.05% +13.10% +8.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £60.00 £42.21
% change year-on-year -65.00% +42.15% -18.83%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

WSUS is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 725 798 1,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.07% 13.85% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 584 780
10th Percentile £213 £302 £250
25th Percentile £370 £425 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £539 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% +7.75% +7.99%
75th Percentile £605 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 22 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.93 £13.05
25th Percentile £21.72 £49.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.67 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% +172.88% -33.85%
75th Percentile £51.88 £72.78 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.68 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +167.44% -10.42%

WSUS
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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +55 61 £605 +96.75% 8
Berkshire +52 60 £605 +15.24% 8
Hampshire +20 20 £525 -27.59% 6
Surrey - 4 £440 -
West Sussex +7 1 £500 +25.00%
Oxfordshire +1 1 £350 +16.67%
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 18 (20.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.19%) Azure
2 18 (20.93%) Entra ID
3 17 (19.77%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (19.77%) Azure Storage
3 17 (19.77%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (16.28%) OCI
5 3 (3.49%) AWS
5 3 (3.49%) IaaS
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.16%) GitHub
6 1 (1.16%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 56 (65.12%) DNS
2 43 (50.00%) DHCP
3 36 (41.86%) Firewall
4 20 (23.26%) SAN
5 4 (4.65%) NAS
5 4 (4.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.49%) VSAN
7 2 (2.33%) Wireless
8 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.16%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.16%) Skype
8 1 (1.16%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.16%) VLAN
8 1 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (4.65%) MySQL
1 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.16%) GitLab
1 1 (1.16%) JIRA
General
1 57 (66.28%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.49%) Front Office
3 2 (2.33%) Finance
3 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (25.58%) Windows Engineer
3 21 (24.42%) Build Engineer
3 21 (24.42%) Windows Build Engineer
4 16 (18.60%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (17.44%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (16.28%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (16.28%) Support Specialist
7 12 (13.95%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (11.63%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (8.14%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Senior
10 5 (5.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Server Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) PowerShell Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.60%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.65%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.58%) PKI
2 17 (19.77%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (16.28%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.65%) Fat Client
4 4 (4.65%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.16%) Clustering
5 1 (1.16%) CMDB
5 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 86 (100.00%) Windows
2 81 (94.19%) Windows Server
3 58 (67.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 54 (62.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 49 (56.98%) Windows Server 2012
6 39 (45.35%) Linux
7 38 (44.19%) Windows 10
8 21 (24.42%) Windows NT
9 14 (16.28%) Windows XP
10 7 (8.14%) Ubuntu
11 3 (3.49%) Unix
12 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (65.12%) ITIL
2 42 (48.84%) Release Management
3 39 (45.35%) Service Management
4 30 (34.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (30.23%) Deployment Automation
6 25 (29.07%) Customer Service
7 21 (24.42%) User Acceptance Testing
8 20 (23.26%) RBAC
9 19 (22.09%) Agile
10 18 (20.93%) Patch Management
10 18 (20.93%) Server Management
11 17 (19.77%) Analytics
11 17 (19.77%) DevOps
11 17 (19.77%) Identity Management
11 17 (19.77%) Log Analytics
11 17 (19.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 17 (19.77%) Privileged Identity Management
11 17 (19.77%) Proactive Monitoring
12 16 (18.60%) CI/CD
12 16 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 44 (51.16%) PowerShell
2 17 (19.77%) C#
2 17 (19.77%) VB
2 17 (19.77%) VBScript
3 16 (18.60%) Bicep
4 3 (3.49%) Python
4 3 (3.49%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.33%) C++
6 1 (1.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (84.88%) Security Cleared
2 62 (72.09%) DV Cleared
3 37 (43.02%) SC Cleared
4 34 (39.53%) Degree
5 17 (19.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (16.28%) CCNA
6 14 (16.28%) CCNP
6 14 (16.28%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.49%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.42%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (3.49%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (96.51%) Active Directory
2 40 (46.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (26.74%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (25.58%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (24.42%) Firmware
5 21 (24.42%) Hyper-V
6 17 (19.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (8.14%) vSphere
8 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (67.44%) SCCM
2 32 (37.21%) SCOM
3 24 (27.91%) vCenter Server
4 23 (26.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (24.42%) Sysprep
6 20 (23.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (19.77%) Kubernetes
8 14 (16.28%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (16.28%) NetBackup
9 6 (6.98%) Nessus
10 5 (5.81%) Ansible
11 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (4.65%) ZABBIX
12 2 (2.33%) Terraform
13 1 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (1.16%) Norton AntiVirus
13 1 (1.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 74 (86.05%) Microsoft
2 44 (51.16%) VMware
3 19 (22.09%) Veeam
4 18 (20.93%) Oracle
5 16 (18.60%) Dell
5 16 (18.60%) EMC
6 15 (17.44%) Cisco
6 15 (17.44%) Juniper
6 15 (17.44%) Symantec
7 14 (16.28%) 3PAR
7 14 (16.28%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (16.28%) HP
7 14 (16.28%) Palo Alto
8 5 (5.81%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.49%) Qualys
9 3 (3.49%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.33%) Apple
11 1 (1.16%) NetApp
11 1 (1.16%) NETGEAR
11 1 (1.16%) Splunk