WSUS Job Trends in the North West

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring WSUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 - 260
Rank change year-on-year - - -20
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 4 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.035% - 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.72% - 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 - £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile £34,250 - £60,117
90th Percentile - - £67,968
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,925
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.20% -10.23%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 552 1,098 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.82% 21.34% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 441 262 440
10th Percentile £32,750 £28,200 £29,950
25th Percentile £40,500 £40,155 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,775 £82,563
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -6.99%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

WSUS job vacancy trend in the North West

WSUS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WSUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WSUS

WSUS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. 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
Lancashire - 3 - -
Manchester - 1 £33,500 - 2
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) IT Support
1 3 (75.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
2 3 (75.00%) Antivirus Management
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Major Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Ticket Management
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Veeam
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Aruba
2 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) Dell
2 3 (75.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp
2 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) SonicWALL
3 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow