WSUS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 354 435
Rank change year-on-year +68 +81 -57
Contract jobs citing WSUS 102 93 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.39% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.36% 2.60% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 74 52
10th Percentile £356 £302 £255
25th Percentile £501 £391 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £481 £426
Median % change year-on-year +19.48% +12.97% +6.50%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £488
90th Percentile - £623 £615
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £426
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.50% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.31 £38.50 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year +4.70% +28.92% +99.08%
75th Percentile - £40.25 £52.28
90th Percentile - - £70.41
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £60.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -65.00% +11.11% +3.85%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,341 3,580 4,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.34% 14.99% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 2,624 3,015
10th Percentile £212 £282 £236
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £599
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 136 116
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.94
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.25 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £49.06 £65.00 £40.38
90th Percentile £70.63 £75.25 £51.60
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +86 87 £575 +43.75% 15
Scotland +41 5 £340 -24.44% 5
East of England +12 4 £265 -44.21% 3
South West +8 3 £450 -12.20% 5
North of England 0 2 £378 -20.53% 3
Midlands +24 1 £475 -9.52% 4
North East +15 1 £180 -39.75%
East Midlands +15 1 £475 -9.52% 2
North West +8 1 £575 +17.95% 3
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (22.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.96%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) IIS
3 1 (0.98%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (38.24%) Azure
2 21 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 17 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (16.67%) Azure Storage
5 14 (13.73%) OCI
6 3 (2.94%) AWS
6 3 (2.94%) IaaS
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.98%) GitHub
7 1 (0.98%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 58 (56.86%) DNS
2 45 (44.12%) DHCP
3 38 (37.25%) Firewall
4 22 (21.57%) SAN
5 5 (4.90%) NAS
5 5 (4.90%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.92%) VSAN
7 2 (1.96%) Skype
7 2 (1.96%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.96%) VLAN
7 2 (1.96%) Wireless
8 1 (0.98%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.98%) VPN
8 1 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (3.92%) MySQL
1 4 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.98%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.98%) GitLab
General
1 65 (63.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.94%) Front Office
4 2 (1.96%) Finance
5 1 (0.98%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (27.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (21.57%) Windows Engineer
3 21 (20.59%) Build Engineer
3 21 (20.59%) Windows Build Engineer
4 17 (16.67%) Support Specialist
5 16 (15.69%) Active Directory Support
6 15 (14.71%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (13.73%) Active Directory Specialist
8 12 (11.76%) Integration Engineer
8 12 (11.76%) Support Engineer
9 10 (9.80%) Storage Engineer
10 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (5.88%) Senior
11 6 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) 3rd Line Support
12 5 (4.90%) Server Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Wintel Engineer
13 4 (3.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 4 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.69%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.90%) .NET
3 1 (0.98%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.55%) PKI
2 17 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (13.73%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.92%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.92%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.96%) BYOD
5 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.98%) Clustering
6 1 (0.98%) CMDB
6 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (99.02%) Windows
2 92 (90.20%) Windows Server
3 59 (57.84%) Windows Server 2019
4 55 (53.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 50 (49.02%) Windows Server 2012
6 39 (38.24%) Linux
6 39 (38.24%) Windows 10
7 21 (20.59%) Windows NT
8 14 (13.73%) Windows XP
9 7 (6.86%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.94%) Apple iOS
10 3 (2.94%) Unix
11 2 (1.96%) Android
11 2 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.98%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (59.80%) ITIL
2 42 (41.18%) Release Management
3 40 (39.22%) Service Management
4 39 (38.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 29 (28.43%) Customer Service
6 26 (25.49%) Deployment Automation
7 21 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
8 20 (19.61%) Agile
8 20 (19.61%) RBAC
9 19 (18.63%) Patch Management
10 18 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (17.65%) Server Management
11 17 (16.67%) Analytics
11 17 (16.67%) DevOps
11 17 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (16.67%) Identity Management
11 17 (16.67%) Log Analytics
11 17 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 17 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
11 17 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (46.08%) PowerShell
2 18 (17.65%) C#
2 18 (17.65%) VB
3 17 (16.67%) VBScript
4 16 (15.69%) Bicep
5 3 (2.94%) Python
5 3 (2.94%) SQL
5 3 (2.94%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.96%) C++
7 1 (0.98%) Java
Qualifications
1 82 (80.39%) Security Cleared
2 64 (62.75%) DV Cleared
3 43 (42.16%) SC Cleared
4 35 (34.31%) Degree
5 18 (17.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (14.71%) CCNA
6 15 (14.71%) CCNP
6 15 (14.71%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.92%) MCSE
9 2 (1.96%) MCP
10 1 (0.98%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.59%) QA
2 5 (4.90%) SLA
3 3 (2.94%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 97 (95.10%) Active Directory
2 45 (44.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (22.55%) Hyper-V
4 23 (22.55%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (20.59%) Firmware
6 17 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (8.82%) vSphere
8 2 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (66.67%) SCCM
2 33 (32.35%) SCOM
3 25 (24.51%) vCenter Server
4 23 (22.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (20.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (20.59%) Sysprep
6 17 (16.67%) Kubernetes
7 14 (13.73%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (13.73%) NetBackup
8 6 (5.88%) Nessus
9 5 (4.90%) Ansible
10 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (3.92%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.96%) Terraform
12 1 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.98%) Norton AntiVirus
12 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.98%) VxRail
Vendors
1 83 (81.37%) Microsoft
2 51 (50.00%) VMware
3 21 (20.59%) Veeam
4 18 (17.65%) Oracle
5 17 (16.67%) Cisco
6 16 (15.69%) Dell
6 16 (15.69%) EMC
6 16 (15.69%) Symantec
7 15 (14.71%) Juniper
7 15 (14.71%) Palo Alto
8 14 (13.73%) 3PAR
8 14 (13.73%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (13.73%) HP
9 5 (4.90%) Red Hat
9 5 (4.90%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.94%) Qualys
11 2 (1.96%) Apple
11 2 (1.96%) Citrix
11 2 (1.96%) Splunk
12 1 (0.98%) Avaya