WSUS Job Trends in the East of England

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring WSUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 167 128
Rank change year-on-year +20 -39 +92
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 7 18 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.17% 0.50% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.21% 6.00% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 5
10th Percentile - £48,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £48,250 - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £54,250 £57,500 -
England median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.62% -4.55% +10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

WSUS falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 218 300 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.22% 8.34% 11.10%
Number of salaries quoted 179 184 189
10th Percentile £30,750 £34,114 £31,821
25th Percentile £33,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £79,625 £92,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -3.70%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WSUS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

WSUS job vacancy trend in the East of England

WSUS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WSUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WSUS

WSUS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +19 7 £51,500 +3.00%
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (100.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Skype
2 3 (42.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Aerospace
3 1 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Blackberry
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
1 3 (42.86%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) SCOM
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) HP
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) VMware