WSUS Contracts in the South East

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 193 226
Rank change year-on-year +83 +33 -9
Contract jobs citing WSUS 92 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.63% 0.32% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.04% 2.36% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 13 25
10th Percentile £475 - £225
25th Percentile £525 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £460
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -13.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £488
90th Percentile - £578 £618
England median daily rate £575 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £60.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -65.00% +60.00% -27.88%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 764 762 1,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.53% 13.44% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 557 741
10th Percentile £213 £307 £250
25th Percentile £400 £432 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £613
90th Percentile £674 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 29
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.50 £48.50 £16.11
Median hourly rate £34.25 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.70% +173.26% -37.23%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £45.00
90th Percentile £49.88 £75.75 £67.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.04% +146.16% -11.89%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for WSUS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WSUS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for WSUS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +71 57 £605 +48.92% 11
Berkshire +47 57 £605 +15.24% 11
Hampshire +19 26 £550 -16.98% 5
Surrey +22 8 £267 -31.03% 1
West Sussex +6 1 £500 +25.00%
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 26 (28.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.09%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.48%) Azure
2 21 (22.83%) Entra ID
2 21 (22.83%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (21.74%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (21.74%) Azure Storage
4 14 (15.22%) OCI
5 5 (5.43%) AWS
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.09%) GitHub
6 1 (1.09%) IaaS
6 1 (1.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 56 (60.87%) DNS
2 44 (47.83%) DHCP
3 41 (44.57%) Firewall
4 20 (21.74%) SAN
5 8 (8.70%) TCP/IP
6 6 (6.52%) Wireless
7 5 (5.43%) VLAN
8 4 (4.35%) NAS
9 3 (3.26%) VSAN
10 1 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.09%) Skype
10 1 (1.09%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (4.35%) MySQL
1 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.09%) GitLab
General
1 55 (59.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.43%) Finance
3 3 (3.26%) Financial Institution
3 3 (3.26%) Front Office
4 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (21.74%) Active Directory Support
3 18 (19.57%) Windows Engineer
4 17 (18.48%) Build Engineer
4 17 (18.48%) Windows Build Engineer
5 14 (15.22%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (15.22%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (15.22%) Support Specialist
6 13 (14.13%) Support Engineer
7 11 (11.96%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (10.87%) Storage Engineer
8 10 (10.87%) Wintel Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Active Directory Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Active Directory Support Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Server Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 3 (3.26%) PowerShell Engineer
13 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.74%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.35%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.17%) PKI
2 21 (22.83%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (15.22%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.35%) Fat Client
4 4 (4.35%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.09%) Clustering
5 1 (1.09%) CMDB
5 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 88 (95.65%) Windows
2 84 (91.30%) Windows Server
3 59 (64.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 55 (59.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (47.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 43 (46.74%) Linux
7 34 (36.96%) Windows 10
8 17 (18.48%) Windows NT
9 14 (15.22%) Windows XP
10 7 (7.61%) Ubuntu
11 3 (3.26%) Unix
12 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (59.78%) ITIL
2 41 (44.57%) Release Management
3 38 (41.30%) Service Management
4 28 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (26.09%) Customer Service
6 23 (25.00%) RBAC
7 22 (23.91%) Agile
7 22 (23.91%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (22.83%) DevOps
9 20 (21.74%) Analytics
9 20 (21.74%) CI/CD
9 20 (21.74%) Identity Management
9 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (21.74%) Log Analytics
9 20 (21.74%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 20 (21.74%) Privileged Identity Management
9 20 (21.74%) Proactive Monitoring
10 17 (18.48%) Patch Management
10 17 (18.48%) Server Management
10 17 (18.48%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (51.09%) PowerShell
2 20 (21.74%) Bicep
2 20 (21.74%) C#
2 20 (21.74%) VB
2 20 (21.74%) VBScript
3 3 (3.26%) Python
3 3 (3.26%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (1.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (85.87%) Security Cleared
2 68 (73.91%) DV Cleared
3 40 (43.48%) SC Cleared
4 38 (41.30%) Degree
5 20 (21.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (15.22%) CCNA
6 14 (15.22%) CCNP
6 14 (15.22%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.26%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.48%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (3.26%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (97.83%) Active Directory
2 46 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (30.43%) Hyper-V
4 24 (26.09%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (26.09%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (21.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (18.48%) Firmware
7 9 (9.78%) vSphere
8 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (65.22%) SCCM
2 35 (38.04%) SCOM
3 26 (28.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 22 (23.91%) vCenter Server
5 21 (22.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (21.74%) Kubernetes
7 17 (18.48%) Sysprep
8 14 (15.22%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (15.22%) NetBackup
9 10 (10.87%) Nessus
10 5 (5.43%) Ansible
11 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (4.35%) ZABBIX
12 2 (2.17%) Terraform
13 1 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (1.09%) Norton AntiVirus
13 1 (1.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 77 (83.70%) Microsoft
2 50 (54.35%) VMware
3 19 (20.65%) Veeam
4 18 (19.57%) Oracle
5 16 (17.39%) Dell
5 16 (17.39%) EMC
6 15 (16.30%) Cisco
6 15 (16.30%) Juniper
6 15 (16.30%) Symantec
7 14 (15.22%) 3PAR
7 14 (15.22%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (15.22%) HP
7 14 (15.22%) Palo Alto
8 7 (7.61%) Qualys
9 4 (4.35%) Red Hat
10 3 (3.26%) Avaya
10 3 (3.26%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.17%) Apple
12 1 (1.09%) Genesys
12 1 (1.09%) NetApp