WSUS Jobs in the North of England

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 366 363
Rank change year-on-year +33 -3 +21
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 8 31 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.069% 0.18% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.56% 2.26% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 63
10th Percentile - £26,250 £24,900
25th Percentile £62,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile - £54,125 £62,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +5.88%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,417 1,374 2,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.28% 7.85% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 483 1,066 1,352
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,986
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,125 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.65% -7.96% -3.57%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the North of England

WSUS
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for WSUS in the North of England

WSUS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Yorkshire +60 8 £65,000 +73.33% 3
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) BGP
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) MPLS
1 5 (62.50%) OSPF
1 5 (62.50%) SD-WAN
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
1 5 (62.50%) WAN
1 5 (62.50%) Wireless
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 5 (62.50%) Incident Management
2 5 (62.50%) ITSM
2 5 (62.50%) Line Management
2 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) FortiGate
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (37.50%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (25.00%) SCCM
4 2 (25.00%) SCOM
5 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Draytek
2 5 (62.50%) Ubiquiti
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds