WSUS Jobs in the Midlands

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 317 303
Rank change year-on-year +75 -14 +36
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 3 14 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.044% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.70% 1.71% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 8
10th Percentile £42,250 - £39,375
25th Percentile £43,750 £33,966 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -28.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £49,375 £45,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £49,750 £52,500 £70,875
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 429 821 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.26% 6.41% 12.54%
Number of salaries quoted 242 630 498
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £30,350
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,188
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,625
England median annual salary £69,384 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.01% -7.41% -3.57%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the Midlands

WSUS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for WSUS in the Midlands

WSUS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
West Midlands +56 2 £46,250 +15.63% 1
East Midlands +37 1 £47,500 +39.85% 2
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Master
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Netskope
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat