The first table below looks at the demand for WSUS skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Rank 188 176 141
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -35
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 16 9 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.318% 0.197% 0.839%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.863% 4.569% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 35
Average salary £30,750 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £29,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £43,750 £35,000 £38,100
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
All Systems Management
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
329 197 222
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 6.543% 4.322% 5.321%
Number of salaries quoted 260 158 188
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £61,400 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
WSUS
England

WSUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands WSUS Salary Trend

WSUS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WSUS across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham -10 13 £28,500 -18.57%
Warwickshire - 2 £45,000 -
Staffordshire - 1 £32,500 -
WSUS
England

WSUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 32 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (93.75%) Microsoft
3 25 (78.13%) VMware
4 22 (68.75%) MS Exchange
4 22 (68.75%) Citrix
5 20 (62.50%) Active Directory
6 18 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 17 (53.13%) Windows Server 2008
7 17 (53.13%) Hyper-V
8 15 (46.88%) Cisco
8 15 (46.88%) MS Excel
9 14 (43.75%) SAN
9 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
10 12 (37.50%) Symantec
10 12 (37.50%) Linux
10 12 (37.50%) SQL Server
11 11 (34.38%) Norton AntiVirus
11 11 (34.38%) Windows 7
12 10 (31.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (31.25%) MCSE
12 10 (31.25%) MCSA
12 10 (31.25%) MCITP
12 10 (31.25%) Backup Exec
13 9 (28.13%) Blackberry
13 9 (28.13%) MS Office
13 9 (28.13%) LAN
13 9 (28.13%) WAN
13 9 (28.13%) DSL
13 9 (28.13%) MPLS

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 Development
1 2 (6.250%) Application Packaging
2 1 (3.125%) COM
Application Platforms
1 22 (68.75%) MS Exchange
2 10 (31.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 5 (15.63%) IIS
3 5 (15.63%) Lotus Notes
3 5 (15.63%) Lotus Domino
4 3 (9.375%) SharePoint
5 2 (6.250%) Lync
5 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (6.250%) Apache
5 2 (6.250%) Tomcat
5 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 15 (46.88%) MS Excel
2 9 (28.13%) MS Office
3 2 (6.250%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) SAN
2 9 (28.13%) LAN
2 9 (28.13%) WAN
2 9 (28.13%) DSL
2 9 (28.13%) MPLS
3 8 (25.00%) DHCP
3 8 (25.00%) DNS
4 7 (21.88%) Firewall
5 6 (18.75%) VPN
6 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 4 (12.50%) Wireless
6 4 (12.50%) IPsec
7 2 (6.250%) Ethernet
7 2 (6.250%) FTP
7 2 (6.250%) HTTP
8 1 (3.125%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (3.125%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 2 (6.250%) Finance
1 2 (6.250%) Automotive
2 1 (3.125%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Consultant
2 6 (18.75%) Support Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 4 (12.50%) Support Team Leader
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Support Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 3 (9.375%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (9.375%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
5 3 (9.375%) Wintel Consultant
6 2 (6.250%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.250%) Desktop Support
6 2 (6.250%) Server Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Services Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (6.250%) Senior Server Engineer
6 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (6.250%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Blackberry
2 3 (9.375%) Clustering
3 2 (6.250%) Replication
3 2 (6.250%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (53.13%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (37.50%) Linux
5 11 (34.38%) Windows 7
6 2 (6.250%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) ITIL
1 8 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (9.375%) Incident Management
3 2 (6.250%) Project Management
3 2 (6.250%) PRINCE2
3 2 (6.250%) Performance Management
3 2 (6.250%) Service Delivery
3 2 (6.250%) Change Management
4 1 (3.125%) Asset Management
4 1 (3.125%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.125%) Data Security
4 1 (3.125%) Data Protection
4 1 (3.125%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (3.125%) Resource Management
4 1 (3.125%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.125%) Service Management
4 1 (3.125%) Network Architecture
4 1 (3.125%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (3.125%) Change Control
4 1 (3.125%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) VBScript
2 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.250%) Bash shell
3 2 (6.250%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.250%) SQL
4 1 (3.125%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (31.25%) MCSE
1 10 (31.25%) MCSA
1 10 (31.25%) MCITP
2 6 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (18.75%) CCNA
3 2 (6.250%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 18 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (53.13%) Hyper-V
4 8 (25.00%) vSphere
5 6 (18.75%) VMware ESX
6 4 (12.50%) XenServer
6 4 (12.50%) XenDesktop
7 2 (6.250%) Xen
8 1 (3.125%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (3.125%) XenApp
8 1 (3.125%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (3.125%) Forefront TMG
8 1 (3.125%) IAG
8 1 (3.125%) UAG
8 1 (3.125%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Norton AntiVirus
2 10 (31.25%) Backup Exec
3 8 (25.00%) ARCserve
3 8 (25.00%) Tivoli
3 8 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 6 (18.75%) SCCM
5 5 (15.63%) Zenoss
5 5 (15.63%) WhatsUp Gold
6 4 (12.50%) SCOM
7 3 (9.375%) NetBackup
8 2 (6.250%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 2 (6.250%) MOM
9 1 (3.125%) Cacti
9 1 (3.125%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (3.125%) Nagios
Vendors
1 30 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 25 (78.13%) VMware
3 22 (68.75%) Citrix
4 15 (46.88%) Cisco
5 12 (37.50%) Symantec
6 7 (21.88%) NetApp
7 6 (18.75%) McAfee
8 5 (15.63%) Sophos
8 5 (15.63%) Lotus
9 4 (12.50%) Juniper
10 3 (9.375%) HP
10 3 (9.375%) EMC
11 2 (6.250%) Veeam
11 2 (6.250%) SolarWinds
12 1 (3.125%) IBM
12 1 (3.125%) CheckPoint
West Midlands
Virtualisation Technologies (Hyper-V, Vmware) Windows Enterprise Domain Environments... AD, SCCM, DPM, WDS, WSUS... Experience of the following would be advantageous: EMC Clarion. Microsoft Lync. OSX server/client...
Experis IT
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Car - Home Based
Posted: 23 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Microsoft Exchange 2003/ 2007/ 2010,BES & ActiveSync... Firewalls (ISA, TMG, CheckPoint, PIX, ASA, UAG/ IAG) Cisco (routers & switches) Network monitoring tools (Cacti, Solarwinds or similar) WSUS, SCCM and...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £34,000 to £42,000 per annum dep on exp, plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
PSTN Gateway... HP Data protector / Arcserve... Microsoft Exchange 2003 / 2007 / 2010, Symantec Enterprise Vault. ActiveSync, Bes, MobileIron. Active Directory, GPO, DNS, DHCP, Windows 2003/ 2008 servers/ infrastructures... Win...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £28,000 to £40,000 per annum dep on exp, plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013