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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 204 239
Rank change year-on-year +34 +35 +20
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 7 49 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.21% 0.73% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.80% 6.40% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 46 19
10th Percentile - £53,500 -
25th Percentile - £55,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +126.92% -46.67%
75th Percentile - - £27,000
90th Percentile - - £74,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £26,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +107.55% -41.11%

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 250 766 972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.39% 11.43% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 156 592 487
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £28,525
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,253 £62,086
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -7.78% -4.48%
75th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -11.54%

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
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 14 May 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 -8 7 £50,000 -15.25% 2
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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Security Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Change Control
1 4 (57.14%) Customer Service
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) Citrix
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft