WSUS Jobs in England

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring WSUS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WSUS over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 643 614 715
Rank change year-on-year -29 +101 +213
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 43 222 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.087% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.82% 2.63% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16 182 162
10th Percentile £33,875 £30,050 £25,000
25th Percentile £40,188 £36,250 £26,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,250 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.26% +6.47%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%

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 5,218 8,433 13,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.56% 9.75% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,045 6,531 8,304
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in England

WSUS
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for WSUS in England

WSUS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

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 19 May 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
London +97 24 £37,500 -28.57% 10
Yorkshire +58 8 £65,000 +73.33% 4
North of England +23 8 £65,000 +62.50% 7
South East +14 7 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Midlands +58 3 £47,500 +18.75% 3
West Midlands +41 2 £46,250 +15.63%
East of England +24 1 £50,000 +56.25% 14
East Midlands +15 1 £47,500 +28.44% 3
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 23 (53.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (18.60%) MS Visio
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) Azure
2 23 (53.49%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (41.86%) Entra ID
4 10 (23.26%) AWS
5 9 (20.93%) IaaS
5 9 (20.93%) PaaS
6 8 (18.60%) SaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (58.14%) DNS
2 24 (55.81%) DHCP
3 15 (34.88%) SMTP
4 14 (32.56%) PBX
5 13 (30.23%) SAN
5 13 (30.23%) VLAN
5 13 (30.23%) WAN
5 13 (30.23%) Wireless
6 12 (27.91%) Cisco IOS
6 12 (27.91%) Firewall
6 12 (27.91%) FTP
6 12 (27.91%) IPv4
6 12 (27.91%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (20.93%) TCP/IP
8 8 (18.60%) LAN
9 7 (16.28%) Internet
10 5 (11.63%) BGP
10 5 (11.63%) MPLS
10 5 (11.63%) OSPF
10 5 (11.63%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.91%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Advertising
4 1 (2.33%) Retail
4 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) IT Support
2 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (20.93%) Senior
4 8 (18.60%) Consultant
4 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 8 (18.60%) Senior Consultant
4 8 (18.60%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
5 6 (13.95%) IT Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Analyst
6 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Manager
6 5 (11.63%) IT Analyst
6 5 (11.63%) IT Support Analyst
6 5 (11.63%) Support Analyst
7 4 (9.30%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Desktop Support
7 4 (9.30%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Security Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.23%) Public Cloud
2 8 (18.60%) Private Cloud
3 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Clustering
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) PKI
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (76.74%) Windows
2 16 (37.21%) Windows Server
3 14 (32.56%) Windows 10
4 12 (27.91%) Android
5 5 (11.63%) Linux
6 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.33%) VMS
7 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (23.26%) Incident Management
2 10 (23.26%) ITSM
3 8 (18.60%) Change Control
3 8 (18.60%) Commercial Awareness
4 7 (16.28%) Inventory Management
4 7 (16.28%) ITIL
5 6 (13.95%) Customer Service
5 6 (13.95%) Service Delivery
6 5 (11.63%) Line Management
6 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
7 3 (6.98%) Patch Management
7 3 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (4.65%) Containerisation
8 2 (4.65%) IT Strategy
8 2 (4.65%) Network Management
8 2 (4.65%) Storage Management
8 2 (4.65%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 1 (2.33%) High Availability
9 1 (2.33%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (44.19%) PowerShell
2 10 (23.26%) Python
3 7 (16.28%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Bicep
4 1 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (39.53%) Degree
2 14 (32.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (27.91%) CCNA
3 12 (27.91%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (27.91%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) CISSP
5 1 (2.33%) Dell Certification
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) MCP
5 1 (2.33%) MCSA
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Master
5 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 36 (83.72%) Active Directory
2 25 (58.14%) Hyper-V
3 13 (30.23%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (30.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (18.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (16.28%) Firmware
6 5 (11.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (39.53%) SCCM
2 16 (37.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
4 5 (11.63%) FortiGate
5 4 (9.30%) vCenter Server
6 3 (6.98%) Ansible
7 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (4.65%) SCOM
8 1 (2.33%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (2.33%) Nessus
8 1 (2.33%) Terraform
8 1 (2.33%) WMI
Vendors
1 37 (86.05%) Microsoft
2 25 (58.14%) VMware
3 20 (46.51%) Cisco
4 16 (37.21%) Citrix
5 12 (27.91%) Veeam
6 5 (11.63%) Draytek
6 5 (11.63%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
8 3 (6.98%) Dell
9 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
9 2 (4.65%) Oracle
10 1 (2.33%) Fujitsu
10 1 (2.33%) HP
10 1 (2.33%) Juniper
10 1 (2.33%) Netskope
10 1 (2.33%) Polycom
10 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds