WSUS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 595 660
Rank change year-on-year +21 +65 -89
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 189 156 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.96% 2.02% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 154 125 150
10th Percentile £28,590 £25,000 £25,875
25th Percentile £34,068 £25,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +1.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £59,000 £67,500 £58,125
UK median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +5.88% +6.25%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,387 7,716 10,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.07% 12.80% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,368 4,418 6,615
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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 +57 89 £55,000 +107.55% 15
South West -8 32 £45,000 -7.22% 5
North of England +7 31 £40,000 -11.11% 3
Midlands +5 17 £40,000 -28.89% 4
East of England +26 15 £32,000 -36.00% 5
Yorkshire +55 13 £37,500 -16.67% 1
North West +5 12 £52,500 +50.00% 2
East Midlands -5 12 £40,000 +14.29% 2
North East -5 6 £27,500 -35.29%
West Midlands +10 5 £40,000 -38.46% 2
Scotland -63 3 £28,800 -36.00% 5
Northern Ireland +30 1 - -
Wales +12 1 - -
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 46 (24.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 12 (6.35%) IIS
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Moodle
Applications
1 20 (10.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.06%) CATIA
3 2 (1.06%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.06%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (43.92%) Azure
2 62 (32.80%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (21.16%) Entra ID
4 16 (8.47%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (8.47%) OneDrive
5 14 (7.41%) Azure Storage
6 13 (6.88%) OCI
7 9 (4.76%) AWS
7 9 (4.76%) GCP
8 7 (3.70%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.17%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.65%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.06%) IaaS
12 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 93 (49.21%) DNS
2 79 (41.80%) Firewall
3 65 (34.39%) DHCP
4 36 (19.05%) Network Security
5 33 (17.46%) VPN
6 31 (16.40%) LAN
7 30 (15.87%) WAN
8 28 (14.81%) TCP/IP
9 26 (13.76%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (10.58%) SD-WAN
11 19 (10.05%) SAN
12 15 (7.94%) VLAN
13 13 (6.88%) WLAN
14 8 (4.23%) NAS
14 8 (4.23%) Wireless
15 7 (3.70%) MPLS
15 7 (3.70%) NetScaler
16 5 (2.65%) GSM
16 5 (2.65%) PABX
16 5 (2.65%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.12%) AdminStudio
1 4 (2.12%) InstallShield
1 4 (2.12%) MSI
2 2 (1.06%) Hudson
3 1 (0.53%) JIRA
General
1 58 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.29%) Games
3 7 (3.70%) Aerospace
3 7 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.65%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.12%) Advertising
6 4 (2.12%) Automotive
6 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.59%) Finance
7 3 (1.59%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.59%) Retail
8 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (31.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (14.81%) Analyst
3 23 (12.17%) Support Specialist
4 17 (8.99%) 2nd Line Support
4 17 (8.99%) Network Manager
5 16 (8.47%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 15 (7.94%) Infrastructure Support
6 15 (7.94%) IT Engineer
7 14 (7.41%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (7.41%) Active Directory Support
7 14 (7.41%) Azure Specialist
8 12 (6.35%) Senior
8 12 (6.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Lead
10 9 (4.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 9 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
10 9 (4.76%) IT Support
10 9 (4.76%) Server Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.41%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.69%) Self-Motivation
2 33 (17.46%) Data Centre
3 20 (10.58%) PKI
4 15 (7.94%) Replication
5 11 (5.82%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.12%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.12%) Shadow IT
7 3 (1.59%) IoT
7 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.06%) Clustering
8 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 160 (84.66%) Windows
2 104 (55.03%) Windows Server
3 67 (35.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 63 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 55 (29.10%) Linux
6 46 (24.34%) Windows Server 2012
7 39 (20.63%) Windows 10
8 17 (8.99%) Windows XP
9 16 (8.47%) Windows NT
10 12 (6.35%) Unix
10 12 (6.35%) VMS
11 9 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (3.17%) Windows 7
13 5 (2.65%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (2.12%) Windows 2000
14 4 (2.12%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (1.06%) CentOS
15 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (38.10%) ITIL
2 69 (36.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 42 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 38 (20.11%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (18.52%) Service Management
7 26 (13.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 25 (13.23%) Patch Management
9 21 (11.11%) Project Management
10 20 (10.58%) Agile
10 20 (10.58%) Analytics
10 20 (10.58%) Security Patching
10 20 (10.58%) Service Delivery
11 19 (10.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
12 18 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
12 18 (9.52%) Release Management
13 17 (8.99%) Change Management
14 16 (8.47%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 16 (8.47%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 69 (36.51%) PowerShell
2 18 (9.52%) C#
2 18 (9.52%) VB
3 15 (7.94%) SQL
4 14 (7.41%) Bicep
4 14 (7.41%) VBScript
5 7 (3.70%) Python
6 3 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 64 (33.86%) DV Cleared
3 47 (24.87%) SC Cleared
4 46 (24.34%) Degree
5 18 (9.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 16 (8.47%) CCNA
6 16 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (6.35%) CCNP
8 7 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.70%) MCSE
8 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.12%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.12%) MCP
9 4 (2.12%) MCSA
10 3 (1.59%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.52%) SLA
2 12 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) GxP
System Software
1 144 (76.19%) Active Directory
2 56 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (19.05%) Hyper-V
4 23 (12.17%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (8.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (7.41%) Firmware
6 14 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (6.88%) vSphere
8 4 (2.12%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.59%) Forefront TMG
9 3 (1.59%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (1.06%) Docker
10 2 (1.06%) VMware Server
10 2 (1.06%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 86 (45.50%) SCCM
2 42 (22.22%) SCOM
3 39 (20.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (12.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 22 (11.64%) vCenter Server
6 18 (9.52%) Kubernetes
7 13 (6.88%) NetBackup
8 12 (6.35%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (6.35%) Sysprep
9 7 (3.70%) Ansible
10 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 5 (2.65%) Nagios
11 5 (2.65%) OfficeScan
12 3 (1.59%) Nessus
12 3 (1.59%) PaperCut
12 3 (1.59%) SmoothWall
13 2 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (1.06%) Grafana
13 2 (1.06%) SolarWinds Orion
14 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 118 (62.43%) Microsoft
2 69 (36.51%) VMware
3 34 (17.99%) Cisco
4 27 (14.29%) Veeam
5 19 (10.05%) Oracle
6 18 (9.52%) Sophos
7 15 (7.94%) Apple
7 15 (7.94%) HP
7 15 (7.94%) Juniper
8 14 (7.41%) Dell
9 13 (6.88%) Symantec
10 12 (6.35%) 3PAR
10 12 (6.35%) EMC
10 12 (6.35%) Extreme Networks
10 12 (6.35%) Palo Alto
11 10 (5.29%) Red Hat
12 8 (4.23%) ServiceNow
13 6 (3.17%) CheckPoint
13 6 (3.17%) Fortinet
13 6 (3.17%) Meraki