WSUS Jobs in the South East

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 284 290
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 +187
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 8 94 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.078% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.05% 6.01% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5 79 57
10th Percentile £39,125 £32,500 £25,000
25th Percentile - £41,250 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +103.77% -47.00%
75th Percentile - £58,750 £68,750
90th Percentile - £59,000 £74,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £48,925 £54,250
% change year-on-year +2.20% -9.82% +20.56%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 761 1,565 1,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.46% 9.32% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 446 1,094 1,174
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £30,625
25th Percentile £40,125 £41,250 £42,155
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £66,769 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.83% -7.41% -3.57%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the South East

WSUS
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for WSUS in the South East

WSUS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the South East over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for WSUS in the South East

WSUS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Thames Valley -3 8 £50,000 -11.11% 1
Berkshire -26 7 £50,000 -11.11%
Oxfordshire +48 1 £33,750 -38.64% 1
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
2 6 (75.00%) SMTP
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (12.50%) LAN
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Change Control
1 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
1 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
1 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL
1 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) RHCE
2 1 (12.50%) RHCSA
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Citrix
3 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds