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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 357 434
Rank change year-on-year +66 +77 -58
Contract jobs citing WSUS 104 92 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.40% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.47% 2.65% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 73 54
10th Percentile £340 £306 £255
25th Percentile £500 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £426
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% +14.44% +6.50%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £480
90th Percentile - £598 £518
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year - +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 2,325 3,468 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.46% 15.07% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 2,529 2,955
10th Percentile £213 £286 £248
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 129 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -11.62%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £70.93 £75.10 £51.25
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -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 16 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 16 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 +81 86 £575 +43.75% 17
Scotland +39 7 £340 -24.44% 5
South West -4 5 £503 -8.64% 3
East of England +12 3 £265 -44.21% 4
North of England -1 2 £378 -20.53% 4
Midlands +20 1 £475 -9.52% 4
North East +10 1 £180 -41.94%
East Midlands +9 1 £475 -9.52% 3
North West 0 1 £575 +21.05% 2
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 27 (25.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.92%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) IIS
3 1 (0.96%) Site Server
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (36.54%) Azure
2 22 (21.15%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (17.31%) Entra ID
4 17 (16.35%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (16.35%) Azure Storage
5 14 (13.46%) OCI
6 5 (4.81%) AWS
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.92%) IaaS
8 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.96%) GitHub
8 1 (0.96%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 55 (52.88%) DNS
2 44 (42.31%) DHCP
3 39 (37.50%) Firewall
4 22 (21.15%) SAN
5 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.81%) NAS
7 4 (3.85%) Skype
7 4 (3.85%) VSAN
7 4 (3.85%) Wireless
8 3 (2.88%) VLAN
9 2 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.92%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.92%) VPN
10 1 (0.96%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (3.85%) MySQL
1 4 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) GitLab
General
1 67 (64.42%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.88%) Finance
3 3 (2.88%) Front Office
4 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (19.23%) Windows Engineer
3 19 (18.27%) Build Engineer
3 19 (18.27%) Support Specialist
3 19 (18.27%) Windows Build Engineer
4 17 (16.35%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (13.46%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (13.46%) Azure Specialist
6 13 (12.50%) Support Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (9.62%) Integration Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Storage Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Wintel Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
8 5 (4.81%) Senior
8 5 (4.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Server Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.35%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.81%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.04%) PKI
2 18 (17.31%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (13.46%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.85%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.85%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.92%) BYOD
6 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.96%) Clustering
6 1 (0.96%) CMDB
6 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 102 (98.08%) Windows
2 95 (91.35%) Windows Server
3 58 (55.77%) Windows Server 2019
4 54 (51.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 48 (46.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 42 (40.38%) Linux
7 40 (38.46%) Windows 10
8 19 (18.27%) Windows NT
9 14 (13.46%) Windows XP
10 7 (6.73%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
11 3 (2.88%) Unix
12 2 (1.92%) Android
12 2 (1.92%) CentOS
12 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.96%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (59.62%) ITIL
2 40 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (38.46%) Release Management
2 40 (38.46%) Service Management
3 30 (28.85%) Customer Service
4 23 (22.12%) Deployment Automation
5 20 (19.23%) Agile
5 20 (19.23%) RBAC
6 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (18.27%) User Acceptance Testing
7 18 (17.31%) DevOps
7 18 (17.31%) Patch Management
7 18 (17.31%) Proactive Monitoring
8 17 (16.35%) Analytics
8 17 (16.35%) CI/CD
8 17 (16.35%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (16.35%) Identity Management
8 17 (16.35%) Log Analytics
8 17 (16.35%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 17 (16.35%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (47.12%) PowerShell
2 18 (17.31%) C#
2 18 (17.31%) VB
3 17 (16.35%) Bicep
3 17 (16.35%) VBScript
4 5 (4.81%) SQL
5 3 (2.88%) Python
5 3 (2.88%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.92%) C++
7 1 (0.96%) Java
Qualifications
1 86 (82.69%) Security Cleared
2 65 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 47 (45.19%) SC Cleared
4 38 (36.54%) Degree
5 17 (16.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (14.42%) CCNA
6 15 (14.42%) CCNP
6 15 (14.42%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (6.73%) MCSE
9 4 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (3.85%) MCP
10 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.27%) QA
2 5 (4.81%) SLA
3 3 (2.88%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 101 (97.12%) Active Directory
2 47 (45.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 24 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (22.12%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (18.27%) Firmware
7 17 (16.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (9.62%) vSphere
9 2 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (65.38%) SCCM
2 33 (31.73%) SCOM
3 24 (23.08%) vCenter Server
4 23 (22.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (18.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (18.27%) Sysprep
6 17 (16.35%) Kubernetes
7 14 (13.46%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (13.46%) NetBackup
8 7 (6.73%) Nessus
9 5 (4.81%) Ansible
10 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (3.85%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.92%) Terraform
12 1 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.96%) Norton AntiVirus
12 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 85 (81.73%) Microsoft
2 53 (50.96%) VMware
3 21 (20.19%) Veeam
4 18 (17.31%) Cisco
4 18 (17.31%) Oracle
5 17 (16.35%) Dell
6 16 (15.38%) EMC
6 16 (15.38%) Symantec
7 15 (14.42%) Juniper
7 15 (14.42%) Palo Alto
8 14 (13.46%) 3PAR
8 14 (13.46%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (13.46%) HP
9 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
10 5 (4.81%) SolarWinds
11 4 (3.85%) Citrix
11 4 (3.85%) Qualys
12 3 (2.88%) Apple
13 2 (1.92%) Avaya
13 2 (1.92%) Splunk