WSUS Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring WSUS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing WSUS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.28% - 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.86% - 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate - - £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 35 31 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 9.86% 8.27% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 53
10th Percentile £190 £162 £300
25th Percentile £256 £198 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £244 £530
Median % change year-on-year +21.03% -54.01% -12.58%
75th Percentile £422 £455 £638
90th Percentile £575 £591 £650
Wales median daily rate £300 £250 £525
% change year-on-year +20.00% -52.38% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £56.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +213.89%
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile £52.88 - -
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% -60.18% +253.13%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

WSUS job vacancy trend in South Wales

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing WSUS

WSUS
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing WSUS

WSUS
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Monmouthshire - 1 - - 1
Gwent - 1 - - 1
WSUS
Wales

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware