WSUS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 574 600
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 +64
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 20 198 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.051% 0.27% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.59% 3.10% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12 157 125
10th Percentile £45,125 £28,680 £25,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £34,375 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +10.77%
75th Percentile £58,125 £58,750 £55,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £49,463 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.09% +9.92% +3.45%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,370 6,380 7,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.56% 8.56% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,560 4,307 4,300
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,630
25th Percentile £41,280 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%
75th Percentile £75,054 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Yorkshire +53 8 £65,000 +73.33% 2
North of England +28 8 £65,000 +62.50% 4
South East 0 8 £50,000 -9.50% 7
Midlands +75 3 £47,500 +18.75% 4
West Midlands +56 2 £46,250 +15.63% 1
East Midlands +37 1 £47,500 +39.85% 2
East of England +31 1 £50,000 +56.25% 8
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (55.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) DHCP
1 12 (60.00%) DNS
2 10 (50.00%) Firewall
3 9 (45.00%) WAN
4 6 (30.00%) OSPF
4 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (25.00%) BGP
5 5 (25.00%) MPLS
5 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 5 (25.00%) SMTP
5 5 (25.00%) Wireless
6 4 (20.00%) LAN
7 2 (10.00%) VPN
8 1 (5.00%) CATAPAN
8 1 (5.00%) IPsec
8 1 (5.00%) SAN
8 1 (5.00%) SNMP
8 1 (5.00%) SSH
8 1 (5.00%) VoIP
8 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Advertising
2 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Smartcard
3 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (20.00%) Linux
4 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.00%) VMS
5 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 5 (25.00%) ITSM
3 5 (25.00%) Line Management
3 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Change Control
4 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (5.00%) Capacity Management
6 1 (5.00%) Cost Management
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
6 1 (5.00%) Server Management
6 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (5.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) MCP
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 19 (95.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (65.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) FortiGate
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (20.00%) Ansible
5 3 (15.00%) vCenter Server
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (10.00%) Nessus
6 2 (10.00%) SCCM
6 2 (10.00%) SCOM
7 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (5.00%) Terraform
7 1 (5.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) VMware
2 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (30.00%) Citrix
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco
4 5 (25.00%) Draytek
4 5 (25.00%) Ubiquiti
5 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (10.00%) Oracle
7 1 (5.00%) Dell
7 1 (5.00%) Netskope
7 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.00%) Veeam