WSUS Job Trends in Lancashire

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring WSUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - -26
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 6 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.37% - 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.38% - 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 - £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £62,783
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.31%
75th Percentile £42,500 - £67,968
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £40,000 - £53,750
% change year-on-year - - +5.39%

All Systems Management Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 39 504 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.42% 44.64% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 32 13 21
10th Percentile £36,275 - £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £22,625 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,500 £47,683
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -0.38% -13.30%
75th Percentile £70,938 £48,720 £67,968
90th Percentile £74,987 £55,750 £68,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £48,720 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.15% -2.56% -23.08%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

WSUS job vacancy trend in Lancashire

WSUS
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing WSUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing WSUS

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 6 (100.00%) Apache
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) VLAN
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) IT Support
1 6 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Antivirus Management
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) ITSM
1 6 (100.00%) Major Incident Management
1 6 (100.00%) SIEM
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 6 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Aruba
1 6 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 6 (100.00%) Dell
1 6 (100.00%) HP
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) NetApp
1 6 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 6 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 6 (100.00%) Veeam
1 6 (100.00%) VMware