The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Rank 137 127 113
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -14
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 9 7 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.343% 0.332% 0.111%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.960% 5.185% 3.704%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 2
Average salary £28,000 £20,000 £34,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.00% -42.44%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
All Systems Management
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
151 135 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 5.750% 6.398% 2.988%
Number of salaries quoted 114 121 44
Average salary £32,250 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.41% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,750 £26,300 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
WSUS
West Yorkshire

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds WSUS Salary Trend

WSUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 18 (100.00%) Windows
1 18 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 18 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (88.89%) MS Excel
2 16 (88.89%) SQL Server
3 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (66.67%) SAN
3 12 (66.67%) VMware
3 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (55.56%) Change Control
4 10 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
4 10 (55.56%) NAS
4 10 (55.56%) XenApp
4 10 (55.56%) Clustering
4 10 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (55.56%) Kaspersky
4 10 (55.56%) CommVault
4 10 (55.56%) NetApp
4 10 (55.56%) Symantec
4 10 (55.56%) Norton AntiVirus
4 10 (55.56%) Blackberry
4 10 (55.56%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 10 (55.56%) Linux
4 10 (55.56%) UNIX
4 10 (55.56%) Citrix
4 10 (55.56%) VPN

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 18 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 12 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (55.56%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 16 (88.89%) MS Excel
2 2 (11.11%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) SAN
2 10 (55.56%) NAS
2 10 (55.56%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) DHCP
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 10 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
2 10 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 6 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Support Engineer
1 8 (44.44%) IT Support Engineer
1 8 (44.44%) IT Support
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Support Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Clustering
1 10 (55.56%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (55.56%) Linux
3 10 (55.56%) UNIX
4 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Change Control
2 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) MCTS
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (33.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (55.56%) XenApp
2 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (66.67%) VMware
3 10 (55.56%) Kaspersky
3 10 (55.56%) CommVault
3 10 (55.56%) NetApp
3 10 (55.56%) Symantec
3 10 (55.56%) Citrix
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco