WSUS Jobs in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 11 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 132 250
Rank change year-on-year -28 +118 -11
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 37 69 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 1.87% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.84% 11.20% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 23 67 11
10th Percentile £46,785 £51,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £48,925 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -18.52% +110.94%
75th Percentile £56,252 £56,525 £73,750
90th Percentile £56,525 £74,250 -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +72.13%

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 472 616 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.93% 16.69% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 275 439 501
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,065
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.12% -8.23%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WSUS in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for WSUS in the Thames Valley

WSUS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 November 2024.

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 11 November 2024. 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 -14 33 £53,126 -3.41% 1
Buckinghamshire -6 4 £27,500 -43.30%
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 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 3 (8.11%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (27.03%) Azure Monitor
2 10 (27.03%) Azure Storage
2 10 (27.03%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.11%) OneDrive
3 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (40.54%) DHCP
1 15 (40.54%) DNS
2 14 (37.84%) Firewall
3 4 (10.81%) LAN
3 4 (10.81%) WAN
4 3 (8.11%) Softphone
5 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) MSI
2 9 (24.32%) AdminStudio
2 9 (24.32%) InstallShield
General
1 37 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (56.76%) Finance
3 9 (24.32%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Active Directory Specialist
1 10 (27.03%) Active Directory Support
1 10 (27.03%) Azure Specialist
1 10 (27.03%) Support Specialist
2 9 (24.32%) Applications Packager
2 9 (24.32%) Build Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared Application Packager
2 9 (24.32%) Windows Build Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (8.11%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (8.11%) IT Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Administrator
5 1 (2.70%) Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) IT Administrator
5 1 (2.70%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 19 (51.35%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (27.03%) PKI
3 9 (24.32%) Shadow IT
4 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (91.89%) Windows
2 24 (64.86%) Windows Server
3 20 (54.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 19 (51.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (48.65%) Windows 10
6 10 (27.03%) Linux
7 9 (24.32%) Windows 7
7 9 (24.32%) Windows NT
7 9 (24.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) ITIL
1 28 (75.68%) Release Management
1 28 (75.68%) Service Management
2 22 (59.46%) Customer Service
3 19 (51.35%) Agile
4 10 (27.03%) Analytics
4 10 (27.03%) Application Packaging
4 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.03%) DevOps
4 10 (27.03%) Identity Management
4 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (27.03%) Log Analytics
4 10 (27.03%) Migration
4 10 (27.03%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 10 (27.03%) Privileged Identity Management
4 10 (27.03%) RBAC
5 9 (24.32%) Application Virtualisation
5 9 (24.32%) Deployment Automation
5 9 (24.32%) ITSM
5 9 (24.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) C#
1 19 (51.35%) PowerShell
1 19 (51.35%) VB
2 10 (27.03%) Bicep
2 10 (27.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (78.38%) DV Cleared
1 29 (78.38%) SC Cleared
1 29 (78.38%) Security Cleared
2 19 (51.35%) Degree
3 10 (27.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) QA
System Software
1 34 (91.89%) Active Directory
2 14 (37.84%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (35.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (27.03%) Microsoft App-V
4 10 (27.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (24.32%) Firmware
6 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.70%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 29 (78.38%) SCCM
2 10 (27.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 10 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (27.03%) SCOM
3 9 (24.32%) Sysprep
4 4 (10.81%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.70%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 31 (83.78%) Microsoft
2 14 (37.84%) VMware
3 10 (27.03%) Autodesk
4 9 (24.32%) ServiceNow
5 7 (18.92%) Cisco
6 3 (8.11%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (8.11%) IBM
6 3 (8.11%) Veeam
7 1 (2.70%) Citrix
7 1 (2.70%) SAP
7 1 (2.70%) Veritas