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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 172 210
Rank change year-on-year -4 +38 +22
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 5 2 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.079% 0.067% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.59% 0.91% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile - £48,000 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £52,500 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +64.06% -36.00%
75th Percentile £43,000 £56,250 £33,500
90th Percentile £48,700 £57,000 £43,750
England median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +16.67%

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 193 220 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.06% 7.38% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 146 167 321
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,938 £77,250 £92,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,384 £60,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +14.68% -10.37%

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
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for WSUS in the East of England

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 9 May 2026. 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 - 5 £42,000 -
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 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Cohesity
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Server Building
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) NetApp
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Fujitsu