WSUS Contracts in the South East

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 108 200 231
Rank change year-on-year +92 +31 -18
Contract jobs citing WSUS 95 15 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.65% 0.26% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.09% 2.02% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 10 27
10th Percentile £475 £300 £229
25th Percentile £525 £320 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £460
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +11.41% +4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £509
90th Percentile - £604 £608
England median daily rate £575 £488 £425
% change year-on-year +17.95% +14.71% +5.59%
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 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 786 741 1,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.66% 13.08% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 543 745
10th Percentile £225 £309 £251
25th Percentile £413 £450 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £680
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.50 £48.50 £17.21
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -43.05%
75th Percentile £49.06 £73.71 £46.69
90th Percentile £52.70 £75.75 £67.63
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

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 12 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 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
Thames Valley +55 55 £605 +18.05% 11
Berkshire +42 55 £605 +15.24% 11
Hampshire +16 30 £550 -16.98% 7
Surrey +23 9 £267 -31.03% 1
West Sussex - 1 £500 -
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 27 (28.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.05%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (42.11%) Azure
2 22 (23.16%) Entra ID
2 22 (23.16%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (22.11%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (22.11%) Azure Storage
4 14 (14.74%) OCI
5 6 (6.32%) AWS
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.05%) GitHub
7 1 (1.05%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 57 (60.00%) DNS
2 44 (46.32%) DHCP
3 42 (44.21%) Firewall
4 20 (21.05%) SAN
5 8 (8.42%) TCP/IP
6 7 (7.37%) Wireless
7 5 (5.26%) VLAN
8 4 (4.21%) NAS
9 3 (3.16%) VSAN
10 2 (2.11%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (2.11%) VPN
11 1 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (1.05%) Skype
11 1 (1.05%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (4.21%) MySQL
1 4 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.05%) GitLab
1 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 53 (55.79%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.32%) Finance
3 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
3 3 (3.16%) Front Office
4 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (22.11%) Active Directory Support
1 21 (22.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (16.84%) Windows Engineer
3 15 (15.79%) Build Engineer
3 15 (15.79%) Windows Build Engineer
4 14 (14.74%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (14.74%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (14.74%) Support Engineer
4 14 (14.74%) Support Specialist
5 13 (13.68%) Wintel Engineer
6 12 (12.63%) Integration Engineer
7 10 (10.53%) Storage Engineer
8 8 (8.42%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) Active Directory Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Server Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.21%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.37%) PKI
2 22 (23.16%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (14.74%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.21%) Fat Client
4 4 (4.21%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.05%) Clustering
5 1 (1.05%) CMDB
5 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 91 (95.79%) Windows
2 87 (91.58%) Windows Server
3 58 (61.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 54 (56.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (46.32%) Linux
6 43 (45.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 33 (34.74%) Windows 10
8 15 (15.79%) Windows NT
9 14 (14.74%) Windows XP
10 7 (7.37%) Ubuntu
11 3 (3.16%) Unix
12 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (56.84%) ITIL
2 40 (42.11%) Release Management
3 37 (38.95%) Service Management
4 28 (29.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (25.26%) RBAC
6 23 (24.21%) Agile
7 22 (23.16%) DevOps
8 21 (22.11%) Analytics
8 21 (22.11%) CI/CD
8 21 (22.11%) Customer Service
8 21 (22.11%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (22.11%) Identity Management
8 21 (22.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (22.11%) Log Analytics
8 21 (22.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 21 (22.11%) Privileged Identity Management
8 21 (22.11%) Proactive Monitoring
9 19 (20.00%) Patch Management
10 17 (17.89%) Server Management
11 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 49 (51.58%) PowerShell
2 21 (22.11%) Bicep
2 21 (22.11%) C#
2 21 (22.11%) VB
2 21 (22.11%) VBScript
3 3 (3.16%) Python
3 3 (3.16%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.11%) C++
5 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (86.32%) Security Cleared
2 70 (73.68%) DV Cleared
3 41 (43.16%) SC Cleared
4 39 (41.05%) Degree
5 21 (22.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (14.74%) CCNA
6 14 (14.74%) CCNP
6 14 (14.74%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.16%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.79%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (3.16%) SLA
System Software
1 93 (97.89%) Active Directory
2 50 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (32.63%) Hyper-V
4 24 (25.26%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (25.26%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (22.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (15.79%) Firmware
7 9 (9.47%) vSphere
8 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (63.16%) SCCM
2 36 (37.89%) SCOM
3 27 (28.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (22.11%) Kubernetes
4 21 (22.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (22.11%) vCenter Server
5 15 (15.79%) Sysprep
6 14 (14.74%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (14.74%) NetBackup
7 10 (10.53%) Nessus
8 5 (5.26%) Ansible
9 4 (4.21%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (4.21%) ZABBIX
10 2 (2.11%) Terraform
11 1 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (1.05%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (1.05%) VxRail
Vendors
1 78 (82.11%) Microsoft
2 54 (56.84%) VMware
3 19 (20.00%) Veeam
4 18 (18.95%) Oracle
5 17 (17.89%) Dell
6 16 (16.84%) Cisco
6 16 (16.84%) EMC
7 15 (15.79%) Juniper
7 15 (15.79%) Symantec
8 14 (14.74%) 3PAR
8 14 (14.74%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (14.74%) HP
8 14 (14.74%) Palo Alto
9 7 (7.37%) Qualys
10 5 (5.26%) Red Hat
11 3 (3.16%) Apple
11 3 (3.16%) Avaya
11 3 (3.16%) SolarWinds
12 1 (1.05%) Genesys
12 1 (1.05%) NetApp