The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Rank 182 172 169
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -3
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 12 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.296% 0.083% 0.101%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.375% 2.419% 2.299%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 4
Average salary £30,000 £23,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.43% -11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,150 £23,000 £21,450
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £24,600 £30,550
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year
- -8.45%
All Systems Management
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
128 124 174
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 3.154% 3.420% 4.410%
Number of salaries quoted 104 108 161
Average salary £40,000 £43,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.97% -9.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £21,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £61,500 £95,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
WSUS
North West

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester WSUS Salary Trend

WSUS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WSUS across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester WSUS Salary Histogram

WSUS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Rochdale - 2 £23,500 -
WSUS
North West

WSUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 25 (89.29%) MS Exchange
1 25 (89.29%) Active Directory
2 21 (75.00%) VMware
3 20 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2010
4 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
4 18 (64.29%) DNS
5 16 (57.14%) DHCP
6 14 (50.00%) Windows
7 13 (46.43%) LAN
7 13 (46.43%) WAN
7 13 (46.43%) Cisco
7 13 (46.43%) Firewall
7 13 (46.43%) Windows Server 2003
7 13 (46.43%) vSphere
7 13 (46.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (42.86%) TCP/IP
9 11 (39.29%) SQL Server
9 11 (39.29%) IIS
9 11 (39.29%) NetApp
9 11 (39.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (32.14%) MS Excel
10 9 (32.14%) SharePoint
10 9 (32.14%) Hyper-V
11 8 (28.57%) Windows XP
11 8 (28.57%) MPLS
12 7 (25.00%) Websense
12 7 (25.00%) Internet
12 7 (25.00%) VPN
12 7 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 25 (89.29%) MS Exchange
2 20 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (39.29%) IIS
4 9 (32.14%) SharePoint
5 7 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (17.86%) Exchange Server 2000
6 5 (17.86%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (10.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 9 (32.14%) MS Excel
2 6 (21.43%) MS Office
3 2 (7.143%) Google Apps
3 2 (7.143%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (64.29%) DNS
2 16 (57.14%) DHCP
3 13 (46.43%) LAN
3 13 (46.43%) WAN
3 13 (46.43%) Firewall
4 12 (42.86%) TCP/IP
5 8 (28.57%) MPLS
6 7 (25.00%) Network Security
6 7 (25.00%) Internet
6 7 (25.00%) VPN
7 6 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (17.86%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (17.86%) NAS
8 5 (17.86%) IPsec
8 5 (17.86%) SSL
8 5 (17.86%) VoIP
9 4 (14.29%) SSH
9 4 (14.29%) DSL
10 2 (7.143%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (21.43%) Legal
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 1 (3.571%) Advertising
3 1 (3.571%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Administrator
1 9 (32.14%) Network Administrator
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.143%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.143%) Team Leader
3 2 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (7.143%) Support Team Leader
3 2 (7.143%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 2 (7.143%) Server Specialist
3 2 (7.143%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
3 2 (7.143%) Windows Server Specialist
3 2 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (3.571%) Cisco Consultant
4 1 (3.571%) IT Support
4 1 (3.571%) Test Specialist
4 1 (3.571%) Applications Support
4 1 (3.571%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (3.571%) Analyst
4 1 (3.571%) IT Consultant
4 1 (3.571%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Firmware
2 5 (17.86%) SWIFT
2 5 (17.86%) Replication
3 2 (7.143%) Clustering
3 2 (7.143%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.571%) iPhone
4 1 (3.571%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Windows
2 13 (46.43%) Windows Server 2008
2 13 (46.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (28.57%) Windows XP
4 5 (17.86%) AIX
4 5 (17.86%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (7.143%) Windows 7
5 2 (7.143%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (7.143%) Linux
5 2 (7.143%) NetWare
6 1 (3.571%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 6 (21.43%) Business Continuity
3 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (17.86%) ITIL
5 4 (14.29%) Information Security
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.143%) Change Control
6 2 (7.143%) Problem Management
6 2 (7.143%) Time Management
6 2 (7.143%) Performance Management
6 2 (7.143%) Software Deployment
7 1 (3.571%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.571%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) CCNA
1 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.29%) CCNP
3 2 (7.143%) MCSA
3 2 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.143%) MCITP
System Software
1 25 (89.29%) Active Directory
2 13 (46.43%) vSphere
3 12 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (32.14%) Hyper-V
5 6 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (14.29%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (7.143%) MetaFrame
7 2 (7.143%) XenApp
8 1 (3.571%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Tivoli
1 5 (17.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (7.143%) ZENworks
2 2 (7.143%) Backup Exec
2 2 (7.143%) SCCM
2 2 (7.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) VMware
2 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
3 13 (46.43%) Cisco
4 11 (39.29%) NetApp
5 7 (25.00%) Websense
5 7 (25.00%) IronPort
5 7 (25.00%) F5
6 6 (21.43%) HP
7 5 (17.86%) IBM
7 5 (17.86%) Juniper
7 5 (17.86%) CheckPoint
7 5 (17.86%) Veeam
7 5 (17.86%) WatchGuard
8 3 (10.71%) Citrix
9 2 (7.143%) Apple
9 2 (7.143%) Google