WSUS Contracts in the South West

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 137 159
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 -29
Contract jobs citing WSUS 6 22 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.65% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.39% 4.38% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 7
10th Percentile £310 £469 £185
25th Percentile £363 £506 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +18.92% +2.78%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £482
90th Percentile £578 £740 £488
England median daily rate £575 £488 £425
% change year-on-year +17.95% +14.71% +5.59%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 431 502 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.06% 14.82% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 404 370
10th Percentile £215 £325 £256
25th Percentile £425 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £690 £725 £680
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 16
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £60.03 £16.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £78.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.72% +290.00% -60.00%
75th Percentile £74.22 £79.50 £32.63
90th Percentile £76.28 £89.75 £50.49
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for WSUS in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the South West over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Wiltshire -12 4 £503 -8.64% 2
Bristol - 2 £375 -
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England

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Skype
2 1 (16.67%) FTP
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (33.33%) CentOS
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) System Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (16.67%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (16.67%) BCP
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) NsoIT
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) MCSE
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
1 2 (33.33%) SCDPM
1 2 (33.33%) SCVMM
2 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
2 1 (16.67%) HP SIM
2 1 (16.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Commvault
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Okta
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec
3 1 (16.67%) Veritas