WSUS Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring WSUS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 61 68
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +17
Contract jobs citing WSUS 3 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.70% 0.95% 1.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.62% 4.51% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 10
10th Percentile £493 £413 -
25th Percentile £505 £489 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% +8.47%
75th Percentile £591 £613 £584
90th Percentile £600 £628 £685
South West median daily rate £485 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +7.78% -12.20% +9.04%

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 65 133 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 15.15% 21.08% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 98 108
10th Percentile £323 £463 £469
25th Percentile £485 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £568
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +0.44% +3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £664 £690 £708
South West median daily rate £530 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.27% +4.76%

WSUS
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

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing WSUS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing WSUS

WSUS
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing WSUS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing WSUS

WSUS
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 15 September 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 +21 3 £550 -4.35% 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (33.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Skype
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Two-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Nessus
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Veeam
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds