WSUS Jobs in England

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WSUS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WSUS over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 610 733 915
Rank change year-on-year +123 +182 -180
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 228 210 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.67% 1.53% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 187 164 177
10th Percentile £30,300 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £28,625 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £78,750 £62,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +5.88% +6.25%

All Systems Management Skills
England

WSUS is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,542 13,683 24,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.99% 14.86% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,646 8,586 12,718
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,103 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in England

WSUS
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WSUS in England.

Salary trend for WSUS in England

WSUS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WSUS in England

WSUS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +53 90 £55,000 +107.55% 15
London +106 41 £52,500 -14.98% 5
South West -10 32 £45,000 -7.22% 5
North of England +18 31 £40,000 -11.11% 3
Midlands +20 18 £40,000 -15.79% 4
East of England +27 15 £32,000 -36.00% 3
Yorkshire +70 13 £37,500 -16.67%
North West +9 12 £52,500 +50.00% 3
East Midlands -3 12 £40,000 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +21 6 £40,000 -28.89% 2
North East -9 6 £27,500 -35.29%
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 79 (34.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (23.25%) SharePoint
3 20 (8.77%) IIS
4 3 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) Moodle
Applications
1 27 (11.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.88%) CATIA
3 2 (0.88%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.88%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (40.79%) Azure
2 89 (39.04%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (19.74%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (7.02%) Azure Storage
4 16 (7.02%) OneDrive
5 13 (5.70%) OCI
6 9 (3.95%) AWS
6 9 (3.95%) GCP
7 7 (3.07%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.63%) IaaS
8 6 (2.63%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.19%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.88%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.88%) PaaS
11 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 123 (53.95%) DNS
2 106 (46.49%) Firewall
3 89 (39.04%) DHCP
4 53 (23.25%) VPN
5 51 (22.37%) LAN
6 50 (21.93%) WAN
7 45 (19.74%) Wi-Fi
8 34 (14.91%) Network Security
8 34 (14.91%) VLAN
9 30 (13.16%) TCP/IP
10 26 (11.40%) MPLS
11 22 (9.65%) SAN
12 20 (8.77%) SD-WAN
13 19 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
14 13 (5.70%) WLAN
15 10 (4.39%) NetScaler
16 9 (3.95%) NAS
16 9 (3.95%) Wireless
17 5 (2.19%) iSCSI
17 5 (2.19%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.19%) MSI
2 4 (1.75%) AdminStudio
2 4 (1.75%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.88%) Hudson
4 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 80 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.70%) Aerospace
3 10 (4.39%) Finance
4 7 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.07%) Games
4 7 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.19%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.75%) Advertising
7 4 (1.75%) Automotive
7 4 (1.75%) Banking
7 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.75%) Retail
8 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.44%) Front Office
9 1 (0.44%) Military
9 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (27.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (12.72%) Analyst
3 24 (10.53%) Support Specialist
4 22 (9.65%) Senior
5 19 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
7 17 (7.46%) IT Engineer
7 17 (7.46%) Network Manager
8 16 (7.02%) Infrastructure Support
9 14 (6.14%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (6.14%) Active Directory Support
9 14 (6.14%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (6.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.70%) Vulnerability Analyst
11 12 (5.26%) Data Centre Manager
11 12 (5.26%) Data Centre Project Manager
12 11 (4.82%) Systems Engineer
13 10 (4.39%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 10 (4.39%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
13 10 (4.39%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.02%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.63%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.93%) Data Centre
2 38 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (9.65%) PKI
4 18 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 18 (7.89%) Replication
5 14 (6.14%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.63%) IoT
7 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.75%) Shadow IT
8 3 (1.32%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.88%) Clustering
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.44%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.44%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.44%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 180 (78.95%) Windows
2 121 (53.07%) Windows Server
3 74 (32.46%) Windows Server 2016
4 70 (30.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 65 (28.51%) Linux
6 57 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 48 (21.05%) Windows 10
8 17 (7.46%) Windows NT
8 17 (7.46%) Windows XP
9 13 (5.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (4.82%) VMS
11 9 (3.95%) Unix
11 9 (3.95%) Windows 7
12 7 (3.07%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (1.75%) Windows 2000
13 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.88%) CentOS
14 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.88%) OpenVMS
14 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (33.33%) ITIL
2 73 (32.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 47 (20.61%) Customer Service
4 43 (18.86%) Cybersecurity
5 40 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (17.54%) Project Management
6 39 (17.11%) Agile
7 37 (16.23%) Service Management
8 25 (10.96%) Patch Management
9 23 (10.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (10.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 22 (9.65%) Service Delivery
11 20 (8.77%) Analytics
11 20 (8.77%) Mentoring
11 20 (8.77%) Security Patching
12 19 (8.33%) PRINCE2
13 18 (7.89%) Performance Monitoring
13 18 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (7.89%) Proactive Monitoring
13 18 (7.89%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 27 (11.84%) SQL
3 18 (7.89%) C#
3 18 (7.89%) VB
4 14 (6.14%) Bicep
4 14 (6.14%) VBScript
5 7 (3.07%) Python
6 3 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 71 (31.14%) DV Cleared
3 50 (21.93%) Degree
4 45 (19.74%) SC Cleared
5 18 (7.89%) CCNA
5 18 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (7.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 16 (7.02%) APMP
7 12 (5.26%) CCNP
8 9 (3.95%) MCSE
8 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.75%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.75%) MCP
10 4 (1.75%) MCSA
10 4 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.32%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.33%) SLA
2 14 (6.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) GxP
System Software
1 185 (81.14%) Active Directory
2 90 (39.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (27.63%) Hyper-V
4 46 (20.18%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (7.46%) Firmware
5 17 (7.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (7.02%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (7.02%) vSphere
7 9 (3.95%) Forefront TMG
7 9 (3.95%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (2.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.88%) Docker
10 2 (0.88%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.88%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 87 (38.16%) SCCM
2 50 (21.93%) SCOM
3 44 (19.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (11.40%) vCenter Server
5 23 (10.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 18 (7.89%) Kubernetes
7 16 (7.02%) NetBackup
8 13 (5.70%) Sysprep
9 12 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
10 7 (3.07%) Ansible
11 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 6 (2.63%) Nessus
12 5 (2.19%) Nagios
12 5 (2.19%) OfficeScan
13 4 (1.75%) McAfee ePO
14 3 (1.32%) PaperCut
14 3 (1.32%) SmoothWall
15 2 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (0.88%) PowerCLI
15 2 (0.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 154 (67.54%) Microsoft
2 106 (46.49%) VMware
3 60 (26.32%) Cisco
4 34 (14.91%) Veeam
5 24 (10.53%) Oracle
6 19 (8.33%) Ruckus Wireless
7 18 (7.89%) HP
7 18 (7.89%) Sophos
8 15 (6.58%) Dell
8 15 (6.58%) Juniper
9 14 (6.14%) 3PAR
9 14 (6.14%) Apple
9 14 (6.14%) Red Hat
9 14 (6.14%) Symantec
10 13 (5.70%) Palo Alto
11 12 (5.26%) EMC
11 12 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
12 10 (4.39%) Citrix
13 8 (3.51%) ServiceNow
14 7 (3.07%) Meraki