WSUS Job Trends in England

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring WSUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 588 615
Rank change year-on-year -62 +27 +88
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 40 42 215
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.049% 0.11% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.94% 0.86% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 30 16 182
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,875 £30,050
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,188 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +13.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £58,750
90th Percentile - £67,500 £59,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,244 4,879 8,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.16% 12.38% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,046 3,037 6,531
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,446 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WSUS job vacancy trend in England

WSUS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WSUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WSUS

WSUS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for WSUS in England

WSUS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London -24 12 £55,000 +46.67% 3
North of England -32 12 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Yorkshire -44 10 £53,750 -17.31% 1
East of England -13 5 £42,000 -16.00%
East Midlands -26 5 - -
Midlands -29 5 - -
South East -21 3 £52,500 +5.00% 6
South West - 2 £50,000 -
North East - 2 £32,000 -
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 13 (32.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (17.50%) SharePoint
3 6 (15.00%) IIS
4 2 (5.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 27 (67.50%) DNS
2 17 (42.50%) DHCP
2 17 (42.50%) SAN
3 11 (27.50%) LAN
3 11 (27.50%) WAN
4 7 (17.50%) Network Security
5 6 (15.00%) NAS
5 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (15.00%) VPN
6 5 (12.50%) Internet
7 4 (10.00%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (10.00%) BGP
7 4 (10.00%) MPLS
7 4 (10.00%) SD-WAN
7 4 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (10.00%) VoIP
7 4 (10.00%) VPLS
8 3 (7.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
4 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) IT Engineer
2 17 (42.50%) Support Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) IT Support
3 10 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) Senior
6 7 (17.50%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (17.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (17.50%) Field Engineer
7 6 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (12.50%) Field Service Engineer
8 5 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (12.50%) Linux Support
8 5 (12.50%) Linux Support Engineer
9 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 3 (7.50%) Wintel Engineer
11 2 (5.00%) Senior IT Engineer
11 2 (5.00%) Senior IT Support
11 2 (5.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) PKI
2 8 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (12.50%) iPad
3 5 (12.50%) PMI
4 2 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.00%) YubiKey
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 37 (92.50%) Windows
2 24 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (37.50%) Linux
4 8 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 8 (20.00%) Mac OS X
4 8 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (20.00%) Windows 10
5 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) SIEM
2 12 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (22.50%) ITIL
4 9 (22.50%) Server Management
5 8 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 6 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (15.00%) Process Improvement
7 5 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
7 5 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (10.00%) Cloud Security
8 4 (10.00%) ITSM
8 4 (10.00%) Observability
8 4 (10.00%) Proactive Maintenance
8 4 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
8 4 (10.00%) Security Patching
8 4 (10.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 12 (30.00%) Degree
4 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (12.50%) PMI Certification
6 4 (10.00%) CCNA
6 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 3 (7.50%) MCSA
8 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (2.50%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 38 (95.00%) Active Directory
2 25 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 11 (27.50%) vSphere
5 5 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (10.00%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.50%) BitLocker
7 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) SCCM
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (15.00%) VxRail
4 4 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (10.00%) Ansible
5 1 (2.50%) Nessus
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) VMware
2 21 (52.50%) Microsoft
3 13 (32.50%) Apple
4 8 (20.00%) Tenable
5 7 (17.50%) Cisco
5 7 (17.50%) Dell
5 7 (17.50%) HP
5 7 (17.50%) McAfee
6 6 (15.00%) Commvault
6 6 (15.00%) Meraki
6 6 (15.00%) Veeam
6 6 (15.00%) Zerto
7 4 (10.00%) Splunk
8 3 (7.50%) NetApp
9 2 (5.00%) Fujitsu
10 1 (2.50%) Citrix
10 1 (2.50%) Juniper
10 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.50%) Zscaler