The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 23 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 South Wales region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Rank 86 91 84
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 4 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 0.388% 0.102% 0.217%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.897% 1.235% 3.333%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 2
Average salary £29,000 £31,415 £46,875
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.68% -32.98%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
All Systems Management
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
58 81 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 5.626% 8.274% 6.508%
Number of salaries quoted 55 80 57
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £34,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% -5.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,200 £20,000 £29,750
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £38,250
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
WSUS
Wales

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales WSUS Salary Trend

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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cardiff - 3 £29,000 -
Caerphilly - 1 £29,000 -
WSUS
Wales

WSUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Dell
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) Symantec
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) ISA Server
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (50.00%) Veritas
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) VLAN
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (25.00%) SCCM
4 1 (25.00%) SCOM

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (50.00%) ISA Server
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (25.00%) Terminal Server
4 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
1 3 (75.00%) Dell
1 3 (75.00%) Symantec
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas
3 1 (25.00%) Kaspersky
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) 3Com