WSUS Job Trends in the Midlands

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring WSUS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 279 226
Rank change year-on-year +47 -53 +92
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 1 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.018% 0.050% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.22% 0.84% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £52,325
25th Percentile £46,250 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £75,000
90th Percentile - - £77,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,463 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.09% -10.07% +18.28%

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 462 593 648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.25% 5.91% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 290 349 494
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,900 £30,181
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,188 £66,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -5.30% +0.99% -6.64%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WSUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WSUS

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 17 September 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
East Midlands +31 1 £47,500 -
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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware