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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 610 727
Rank change year-on-year -36 +117 +184
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 43 223 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.83% 2.64% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15 182 164
10th Percentile £36,550 £30,050 £25,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £36,250 £30,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.02% +6.47%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +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 5,206 8,437 13,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.66% 9.84% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,036 6,548 8,479
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,400
25th Percentile £47,969 £45,000 £47,625
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 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 14 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 14 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 +99 24 £37,750 -28.10% 9
Yorkshire +70 8 £65,000 +73.33% 3
North of England +29 8 £65,000 +62.50% 6
South East +20 7 £50,000 -9.09% 10
West Midlands +51 2 £46,250 +15.63% 1
Midlands +47 2 £46,250 +15.63% 3
East of England +33 2 £52,500 +64.06% 15
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 21 (48.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (18.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (53.49%) Azure
2 22 (51.16%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (39.53%) 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%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (55.81%) DNS
2 22 (51.16%) DHCP
3 15 (34.88%) SMTP
4 14 (32.56%) PBX
4 14 (32.56%) Wireless
5 13 (30.23%) SAN
5 13 (30.23%) VLAN
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
6 12 (27.91%) WAN
7 8 (18.60%) Internet
8 7 (16.28%) LAN
8 7 (16.28%) TCP/IP
9 5 (11.63%) BGP
9 5 (11.63%) MPLS
9 5 (11.63%) OSPF
9 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 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.91%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Advertising
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
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%) Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) IT Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) IT Support Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) Support Analyst
6 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Manager
6 5 (11.63%) IT Engineer
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%) Linux Command Line
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
3 8 (18.60%) Inventory Management
3 8 (18.60%) ITIL
4 6 (13.95%) Customer Service
4 6 (13.95%) Service Delivery
5 5 (11.63%) Line Management
5 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
6 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (6.98%) Patch Management
8 2 (4.65%) Change Management
8 2 (4.65%) Containerisation
8 2 (4.65%) High Availability
8 2 (4.65%) IT Strategy
8 2 (4.65%) Storage Management
8 2 (4.65%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 1 (2.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (46.51%) PowerShell
2 10 (23.26%) Python
3 8 (18.60%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Bicep
4 1 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Degree
2 15 (34.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (30.23%) CCNA
3 13 (30.23%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (27.91%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.65%) MCP
5 2 (4.65%) MCSA
5 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) CCNP
6 1 (2.33%) CISSP
6 1 (2.33%) Dell Certification
6 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 24 (55.81%) Hyper-V
3 13 (30.23%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (30.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (20.93%) Firmware
5 8 (18.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (13.95%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (37.21%) SCCM
2 15 (34.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
4 5 (11.63%) FortiGate
4 5 (11.63%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.98%) Ansible
6 2 (4.65%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (4.65%) SCOM
7 1 (2.33%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (2.33%) Nessus
7 1 (2.33%) Terraform
7 1 (2.33%) vRealize
7 1 (2.33%) VxRail
7 1 (2.33%) WMI
Vendors
1 38 (88.37%) 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%) Dell
7 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.65%) Oracle
8 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.33%) EMC
9 1 (2.33%) Fujitsu
9 1 (2.33%) HP
9 1 (2.33%) Isilon
9 1 (2.33%) Juniper
9 1 (2.33%) McAfee
9 1 (2.33%) Netskope
9 1 (2.33%) Polycom