The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Rank 105 95 61
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -34
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 13 5 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.765% 0.337% 2.232%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.028% 5.747% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 30
Average salary £28,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.57% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £29,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £36,725 £35,000 £37,600
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
All Systems Management
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
144 87 117
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 8.471% 5.870% 8.705%
Number of salaries quoted 120 82 108
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
WSUS
West Midlands

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WSUS across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Birmingham WSUS Jobs Demand Trend

WSUS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WSUS across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham WSUS Salary Trend

WSUS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WSUS across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham WSUS Salary Histogram

WSUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing WSUS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WSUS.

1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (94.74%) Microsoft
3 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
4 14 (73.68%) Cisco
5 12 (63.16%) MS Exchange
5 12 (63.16%) VMware
5 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
6 11 (57.89%) Citrix
7 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2003
7 10 (52.63%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 9 (47.37%) DSL
8 9 (47.37%) MPLS
8 9 (47.37%) Blackberry
8 9 (47.37%) LAN
8 9 (47.37%) WAN
8 9 (47.37%) MS Office
8 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
8 9 (47.37%) Windows 7
9 8 (42.11%) Problem Management
9 8 (42.11%) MS Excel
10 7 (36.84%) SAN
11 6 (31.58%) VPN
12 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
13 4 (21.05%) XenDesktop
13 4 (21.05%) Juniper
13 4 (21.05%) VMware ESX
13 4 (21.05%) Firewall
13 4 (21.05%) IPsec
13 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
13 4 (21.05%) Linux

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing WSUS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WSUS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 12 (63.16%) MS Exchange
2 10 (52.63%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (15.79%) IIS
3 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
4 2 (10.53%) Lync
4 2 (10.53%) Apache
4 2 (10.53%) Tomcat
5 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (47.37%) MS Office
2 8 (42.11%) MS Excel
3 2 (10.53%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) DSL
1 9 (47.37%) MPLS
1 9 (47.37%) LAN
1 9 (47.37%) WAN
2 7 (36.84%) SAN
3 6 (31.58%) VPN
4 4 (21.05%) Firewall
4 4 (21.05%) IPsec
4 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
5 3 (15.79%) DHCP
5 3 (15.79%) DNS
5 3 (15.79%) Wireless
6 2 (10.53%) Ethernet
6 2 (10.53%) FTP
6 2 (10.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Support Analyst
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Support Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Team Leader
3 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 3 (15.79%) Support Team Leader
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
4 2 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Service Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support
4 2 (10.53%) Services Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Network Support
5 1 (5.263%) Support Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Blackberry
2 3 (15.79%) Clustering
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 2 (10.53%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (47.37%) Windows 7
5 4 (21.05%) Linux
6 2 (10.53%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Problem Management
2 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
2 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
2 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
2 2 (10.53%) Change Management
2 2 (10.53%) Project Management
2 2 (10.53%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.263%) Data Security
3 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.263%) Service Management
3 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.263%) Resource Management
3 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.263%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (5.263%) Capacity Management
3 1 (5.263%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Bash shell
1 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.263%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.263%) CCNA
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
2 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
4 4 (21.05%) XenDesktop
4 4 (21.05%) VMware ESX
5 3 (15.79%) XenServer
6 2 (10.53%) Xen
7 1 (5.263%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 1 (5.263%) Nagios
2 1 (5.263%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.263%) Backup Exec
2 1 (5.263%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (5.263%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (5.263%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (5.263%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (94.74%) Microsoft
2 14 (73.68%) Cisco
3 12 (63.16%) VMware
4 11 (57.89%) Citrix
5 4 (21.05%) Juniper
6 2 (10.53%) Veeam
6 2 (10.53%) HP
6 2 (10.53%) EMC
7 1 (5.263%) Symantec
7 1 (5.263%) NetApp
7 1 (5.263%) IBM
7 1 (5.263%) McAfee
7 1 (5.263%) SolarWinds