Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 660 749 992
Rank change year-on-year +89 +243 -228
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 237 222 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.38% 1.44% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 190 169 195
10th Percentile £29,925 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,000
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 £60,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £78,750 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +1.25% +6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,961 15,465 27,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 14.78% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,202 9,470 14,208
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,675 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the UK

WSUS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WSUS in the UK

WSUS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WSUS in the UK

WSUS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +131 231 £52,500 +16.67% 32
UK excluding London +55 194 £45,000 +11.11% 36
Work from Home +123 129 £52,500 +5.00% 9
South East +71 91 £55,000 +107.55% 17
London +108 41 £52,500 -13.22% 3
South West +21 32 £45,000 -7.22% 1
North of England +14 31 £40,000 -11.11% 4
Midlands +14 19 £40,000 -15.79% 4
East of England +24 16 £32,000 -36.00% 3
Yorkshire +66 13 £37,500 -16.67%
North West +5 12 £52,500 +50.00% 3
East Midlands -4 12 £40,000 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +22 7 £41,250 -13.16% 2
North East -5 6 £27,500 -38.89% 1
Scotland -64 3 £28,800 -36.00% 7
Northern Ireland +31 1 - - 1
Wales +13 1 - -

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 80 (33.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 55 (23.21%) SharePoint
3 20 (8.44%) IIS
4 3 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.42%) Moodle
Applications
1 28 (11.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.84%) CATIA
3 2 (0.84%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.84%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (39.66%) Azure
2 90 (37.97%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (19.41%) Entra ID
4 17 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (6.75%) Azure Storage
5 16 (6.75%) OneDrive
6 13 (5.49%) OCI
7 9 (3.80%) AWS
7 9 (3.80%) GCP
8 7 (2.95%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.53%) IaaS
9 6 (2.53%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.11%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.84%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.84%) PaaS
12 1 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (0.42%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 124 (52.32%) DNS
2 106 (44.73%) Firewall
3 89 (37.55%) DHCP
4 53 (22.36%) VPN
5 50 (21.10%) LAN
6 49 (20.68%) WAN
7 45 (18.99%) Wi-Fi
8 39 (16.46%) Network Security
9 34 (14.35%) VLAN
10 29 (12.24%) TCP/IP
11 26 (10.97%) MPLS
12 23 (9.70%) SAN
13 20 (8.44%) SD-WAN
14 19 (8.02%) Remote Desktop
15 13 (5.49%) WLAN
16 10 (4.22%) NAS
16 10 (4.22%) NetScaler
17 9 (3.80%) Wireless
18 6 (2.53%) BGP
18 6 (2.53%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.11%) MSI
2 4 (1.69%) AdminStudio
2 4 (1.69%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.84%) Hudson
4 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 81 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.49%) Aerospace
3 12 (5.06%) Games
4 10 (4.22%) Finance
5 7 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.11%) Automotive
7 5 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.69%) Advertising
8 4 (1.69%) Banking
8 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Retail
10 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (27.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (14.35%) Analyst
3 25 (10.55%) Support Specialist
4 24 (10.13%) Senior
5 19 (8.02%) 2nd Line Support
5 19 (8.02%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.59%) IT Engineer
6 18 (7.59%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 17 (7.17%) Infrastructure Support
7 17 (7.17%) Network Manager
8 16 (6.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.91%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (5.91%) Active Directory Support
9 14 (5.91%) Azure Specialist
10 12 (5.06%) Data Centre Manager
10 12 (5.06%) Data Centre Project Manager
11 11 (4.64%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 11 (4.64%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
11 11 (4.64%) Systems Engineer
12 10 (4.22%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.75%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.53%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (21.52%) Data Centre
2 43 (18.14%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (9.70%) PKI
4 18 (7.59%) Public Cloud
4 18 (7.59%) Replication
5 14 (5.91%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.53%) IoT
7 4 (1.69%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.69%) Shadow IT
7 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.84%) Clustering
9 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.42%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.42%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.42%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 190 (80.17%) Windows
2 125 (52.74%) Windows Server
3 76 (32.07%) Windows Server 2016
4 73 (30.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 66 (27.85%) Linux
6 61 (25.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 52 (21.94%) Windows 10
8 19 (8.02%) Windows NT
9 18 (7.59%) Windows XP
10 17 (7.17%) VMS
11 14 (5.91%) Unix
12 13 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (3.80%) Windows 7
14 8 (3.38%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (2.11%) Windows 2000
15 5 (2.11%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (1.27%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.84%) CentOS
17 2 (0.84%) OpenVMS
17 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (33.33%) ITIL
2 76 (32.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 48 (20.25%) Customer Service
3 48 (20.25%) Cybersecurity
4 40 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (16.88%) Project Management
5 39 (16.46%) Agile
6 38 (16.03%) Service Management
7 28 (11.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 26 (10.97%) Patch Management
9 24 (10.13%) Disaster Recovery
10 22 (9.28%) Service Delivery
11 21 (8.86%) Change Management
12 20 (8.44%) Analytics
12 20 (8.44%) Mentoring
12 20 (8.44%) Security Patching
13 19 (8.02%) PRINCE2
14 18 (7.59%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (7.59%) Release Management
14 18 (7.59%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (30.80%) PowerShell
2 27 (11.39%) SQL
3 18 (7.59%) C#
3 18 (7.59%) VB
4 14 (5.91%) Bicep
4 14 (5.91%) VBScript
5 7 (2.95%) Python
6 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (39.24%) Security Cleared
2 72 (30.38%) DV Cleared
3 51 (21.52%) Degree
4 50 (21.10%) SC Cleared
5 18 (7.59%) CCNA
5 18 (7.59%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (7.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 16 (6.75%) APMP
7 12 (5.06%) CCNP
8 9 (3.80%) MCSE
8 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.69%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.69%) MCP
10 4 (1.69%) MCSA
10 4 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.27%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.44%) SLA
2 14 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) GxP
System Software
1 188 (79.32%) Active Directory
2 94 (39.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (27.43%) Hyper-V
4 47 (19.83%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (7.59%) Firmware
6 17 (7.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (7.17%) vSphere
7 16 (6.75%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (3.80%) Forefront TMG
8 9 (3.80%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (2.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (1.27%) Docker
12 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.84%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.84%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 93 (39.24%) SCCM
2 51 (21.52%) SCOM
3 45 (18.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (10.97%) vCenter Server
5 23 (9.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (8.02%) Kubernetes
7 16 (6.75%) NetBackup
8 14 (5.91%) Sysprep
9 12 (5.06%) EMC NetWorker
10 7 (2.95%) Ansible
10 7 (2.95%) Nessus
11 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 5 (2.11%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (2.11%) Nagios
12 5 (2.11%) OfficeScan
13 3 (1.27%) Grafana
13 3 (1.27%) PaperCut
13 3 (1.27%) SmoothWall
13 3 (1.27%) SolarWinds Orion
14 2 (0.84%) vRealize
Vendors
1 158 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 110 (46.41%) VMware
3 61 (25.74%) Cisco
4 34 (14.35%) Veeam
5 24 (10.13%) Oracle
6 19 (8.02%) Apple
6 19 (8.02%) Ruckus Wireless
7 18 (7.59%) Sophos
8 17 (7.17%) HP
8 17 (7.17%) Juniper
9 15 (6.33%) Dell
10 14 (5.91%) 3PAR
10 14 (5.91%) Red Hat
10 14 (5.91%) Symantec
11 13 (5.49%) Palo Alto
12 12 (5.06%) EMC
12 12 (5.06%) Extreme Networks
13 10 (4.22%) Citrix
14 8 (3.38%) Meraki
14 8 (3.38%) SolarWinds