WSUS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring WSUS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 164 131
Rank change year-on-year -35 -33 +123
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 7 37 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.18% 0.76% 1.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.45% 7.58% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4 23 60
10th Percentile £37,313 - -
25th Percentile £45,469 £48,925 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,252 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -0.48% -13.04%
75th Percentile - £56,389 £74,250
90th Percentile - £57,725 -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £48,925 £55,763
% change year-on-year +2.20% -12.26% +1.39%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 286 488 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.43% 10.01% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 162 299 435
10th Percentile £32,650 £36,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,250 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £72,813 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the Thames Valley

WSUS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing WSUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing WSUS

WSUS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for WSUS in the Thames Valley

WSUS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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
Berkshire -33 6 £50,000 -11.11% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £33,750 -
WSUS
South East

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (85.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) SMTP
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MCSE
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) RHCE
2 1 (14.29%) RHCSA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Citrix
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds