WSUS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 338 432
Rank change year-on-year +53 +94 -54
Contract jobs citing WSUS 117 92 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.85% 2.77% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 67 56
10th Percentile £334 £334 £246
25th Percentile £492 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £444
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +12.68% +4.72%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £488
90th Percentile - £615 £559
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £438
% change year-on-year +15.00% +14.29% +3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.75 -
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +92.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £44.04 £51.25
90th Percentile - £46.31 £70.00
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 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,414 3,321 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.32% 14.63% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,779 2,384 2,997
10th Percentile £213 £279 £250
25th Percentile £390 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 115
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.24 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%
75th Percentile £52.25 £63.75 £27.75
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £51.18
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

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 12 June 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 12 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
South East +92 95 £575 +12.20% 20
Scotland +56 9 £340 +0.74% 4
South West -14 6 £450 -18.18% 3
East of England +7 3 £265 -44.21% 3
Midlands +12 2 £475 -9.52% 3
North of England -11 2 £378 -20.53% 4
West Midlands +16 1 - - 1
North East +8 1 £180 -41.94%
East Midlands +4 1 £475 -9.52% 2
North West -5 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 35 (29.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) Site Server
4 1 (0.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (36.75%) Azure
2 28 (23.93%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (20.51%) Entra ID
4 23 (19.66%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (17.95%) Azure Storage
6 14 (11.97%) OCI
7 6 (5.13%) AWS
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.85%) GitHub
9 1 (0.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 58 (49.57%) DNS
2 45 (38.46%) DHCP
3 44 (37.61%) Firewall
4 22 (18.80%) SAN
5 9 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 7 (5.98%) Wireless
7 6 (5.13%) VLAN
8 5 (4.27%) NAS
9 4 (3.42%) VSAN
10 3 (2.56%) Skype
11 2 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.71%) VPN
12 1 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.85%) FTP
12 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.42%) MySQL
2 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.85%) GitLab
1 1 (0.85%) JIRA
General
1 66 (56.41%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.13%) Finance
3 4 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.56%) Financial Institution
4 3 (2.56%) Front Office
4 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (23.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (17.95%) Active Directory Support
3 20 (17.09%) Support Specialist
4 19 (16.24%) Support Engineer
5 16 (13.68%) Windows Engineer
6 15 (12.82%) Build Engineer
6 15 (12.82%) Windows Build Engineer
6 15 (12.82%) Wintel Engineer
7 14 (11.97%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (11.97%) Azure Specialist
8 12 (10.26%) Integration Engineer
9 11 (9.40%) Infrastructure Support
10 10 (8.55%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (5.98%) Active Directory Engineer
12 7 (5.98%) Active Directory Support Engineer
13 6 (5.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 6 (5.13%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
14 5 (4.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 5 (4.27%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.95%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.27%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.93%) PKI
2 22 (18.80%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (11.97%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.42%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.42%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.71%) BYOD
5 2 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.85%) Clustering
6 1 (0.85%) CMDB
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 112 (95.73%) Windows
2 104 (88.89%) Windows Server
3 61 (52.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 57 (48.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 47 (40.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 46 (39.32%) Linux
7 35 (29.91%) Windows 10
8 15 (12.82%) Windows NT
9 14 (11.97%) Windows XP
10 7 (5.98%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
11 3 (2.56%) Unix
12 2 (1.71%) Android
12 2 (1.71%) CentOS
12 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (54.70%) ITIL
2 41 (35.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 40 (34.19%) Release Management
4 39 (33.33%) Service Management
5 28 (23.93%) Customer Service
6 24 (20.51%) RBAC
7 23 (19.66%) Agile
8 22 (18.80%) DevOps
8 22 (18.80%) Identity Management
9 21 (17.95%) Analytics
9 21 (17.95%) CI/CD
9 21 (17.95%) Deployment Automation
9 21 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (17.95%) Log Analytics
9 21 (17.95%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 21 (17.95%) Privileged Identity Management
9 21 (17.95%) Proactive Monitoring
10 20 (17.09%) Patch Management
10 20 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (14.53%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (45.30%) PowerShell
2 22 (18.80%) C#
2 22 (18.80%) VB
3 21 (17.95%) Bicep
3 21 (17.95%) VBScript
4 4 (3.42%) SQL
5 3 (2.56%) Python
5 3 (2.56%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.71%) C++
7 1 (0.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 95 (81.20%) Security Cleared
2 71 (60.68%) DV Cleared
3 52 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 42 (35.90%) Degree
5 21 (17.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (11.97%) CCNA
6 14 (11.97%) CCNP
6 14 (11.97%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (9.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (6.84%) MCSE
9 7 (5.98%) MCP
10 3 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.82%) QA
2 5 (4.27%) SLA
3 3 (2.56%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 113 (96.58%) Active Directory
2 53 (45.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (29.06%) Hyper-V
4 27 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (21.37%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (17.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (12.82%) Firmware
8 11 (9.40%) vSphere
9 1 (0.85%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (64.10%) SCCM
2 36 (30.77%) SCOM
3 27 (23.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 22 (18.80%) vCenter Server
5 21 (17.95%) Kubernetes
5 21 (17.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (12.82%) Sysprep
7 14 (11.97%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (11.97%) NetBackup
8 11 (9.40%) Nessus
9 5 (4.27%) Ansible
10 4 (3.42%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (3.42%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.71%) SCDPM
11 2 (1.71%) SCVMM
11 2 (1.71%) Terraform
12 1 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.85%) HP SIM
12 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.85%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 93 (79.49%) Microsoft
2 60 (51.28%) VMware
3 20 (17.09%) Veeam
4 19 (16.24%) Oracle
5 17 (14.53%) Cisco
5 17 (14.53%) Dell
5 17 (14.53%) Symantec
6 16 (13.68%) EMC
7 15 (12.82%) HP
7 15 (12.82%) Juniper
7 15 (12.82%) Palo Alto
8 14 (11.97%) 3PAR
8 14 (11.97%) Extreme Networks
9 7 (5.98%) Qualys
9 7 (5.98%) Red Hat
10 6 (5.13%) Citrix
11 4 (3.42%) SolarWinds
12 3 (2.56%) Apple
12 3 (2.56%) Avaya
13 2 (1.71%) Splunk