WSUS Contracts in Wiltshire

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 87 84
Rank change year-on-year +36 -3 -11
Contract jobs citing WSUS 6 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.34% 0.21% 0.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.50% 1.40% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £511 £553 £450
25th Percentile £538 £556 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +26.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £611 £644 £575
90th Percentile £613 £648 £615
South West median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +29.41%

All Systems Management Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 109 143 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 24.28% 15.15% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 120 158
10th Percentile £474 £413 £450
25th Percentile £525 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -5.22% +11.38%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £669
90th Percentile £691 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £551 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.86% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +239.62%
75th Percentile - - £106.25
90th Percentile - - £110.00
South West median hourly rate £74.35 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +85.88% -38.46% +225.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in Wiltshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WSUS in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for WSUS in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WSUS in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in Wiltshire

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Corsham +35 6 £581 -3.13% 1
WSUS
South West

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) SharePoint
1 5 (83.33%) Skype for Business
2 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) Skype
1 5 (83.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (50.00%) Service Management
2 3 (50.00%) System Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Benchmarking
3 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (83.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (16.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) Veeam
2 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) VMware