WSUS Job Trends in the South East

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring WSUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 292 285
Rank change year-on-year -44 -7 -74
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 3 7 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.016% 0.077% 0.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.36% 1.10% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 35
10th Percentile £32,875 £37,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,313 £45,469 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £50,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -9.91% +0.91%
75th Percentile £47,813 - £56,252
90th Percentile £50,625 - £57,425
England median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -9.09%

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 836 636 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.57% 7.02% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 678 434 679
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,065 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.07% -6.08% -1.74%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% -4.62% -

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

WSUS job vacancy trend in the South East

WSUS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WSUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WSUS

WSUS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the South East over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

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 13 September 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
Hampshire - 3 £41,250 - 2
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
1 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Antivirus Management
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) VMware