Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 626 624 864
Rank change year-on-year -2 +240 +7
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 152 140 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.17% 1.56% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 82 121 246
10th Percentile £34,900 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,813 £48,750 £33,986
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.28% +43.08%
75th Percentile £56,525 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £89,625 £74,250 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +38.46%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 7,013 8,955 23,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 15.06% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,963 6,883 12,170
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,925 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,056 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the UK

WSUS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WSUS in the UK

WSUS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for WSUS in the UK

WSUS
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 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
England -20 152 £50,000 -9.09% 27
UK excluding London -50 114 £50,000 -9.09% 29
South East -57 47 £50,000 -9.09% 11
North of England -2 35 £45,000 +28.57% 6
London +23 34 £62,000 +12.73% 4
Work from Home +4 31 £58,763 +6.84% 30
East of England -27 20 £50,000 +17.65% 3
Yorkshire +39 14 £45,000 +11.11% 3
North East - 11 - -
North West -17 10 £52,500 +50.00% 3
South West -1 7 £87,500 +94.44% 1
Midlands -38 5 - - 3
West Midlands -40 4 - - 3
East Midlands -28 1 - -

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 55 (36.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (19.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.97%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 29 (19.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.32%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 79 (51.97%) Microsoft 365
2 53 (34.87%) Azure
3 22 (14.47%) Entra ID
4 10 (6.58%) AWS
4 10 (6.58%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (6.58%) Azure Storage
5 4 (2.63%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.97%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.66%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 69 (45.39%) DNS
2 58 (38.16%) DHCP
3 47 (30.92%) Firewall
4 30 (19.74%) WAN
5 27 (17.76%) VPN
6 25 (16.45%) LAN
7 22 (14.47%) SAN
8 16 (10.53%) TCP/IP
9 14 (9.21%) VLAN
10 9 (5.92%) VoIP
11 7 (4.61%) BGP
11 7 (4.61%) MPLS
11 7 (4.61%) OSPF
11 7 (4.61%) SD-WAN
12 6 (3.95%) FTP
12 6 (3.95%) Skype
12 6 (3.95%) WLAN
13 5 (3.29%) IPv4
13 5 (3.29%) PBX
13 5 (3.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.45%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.92%) MySQL
3 4 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (6.58%) MSI
2 9 (5.92%) AdminStudio
2 9 (5.92%) InstallShield
3 3 (1.97%) JIRA
General
1 59 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.05%) Finance
3 12 (7.89%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.92%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (5.92%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.63%) Back Office
7 4 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.63%) Publishing
7 4 (2.63%) Retail
8 3 (1.97%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.97%) Aviation
8 3 (1.97%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Automotive
9 1 (0.66%) Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (22.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (11.84%) Senior
3 17 (11.18%) IT Engineer
4 13 (8.55%) Administrator
4 13 (8.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (8.55%) Support Specialist
5 12 (7.89%) Systems Engineer
6 11 (7.24%) Systems Administrator
6 11 (7.24%) Windows Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) Active Directory Specialist
7 10 (6.58%) Active Directory Support
7 10 (6.58%) Analyst
7 10 (6.58%) Azure Specialist
7 10 (6.58%) Customer Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) Customer Service Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Applications Packager
8 9 (5.92%) Desktop Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) SC Cleared Application Packager
8 9 (5.92%) Support Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.58%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.11%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (11.84%) Enterprise Storage
3 15 (9.87%) Data Centre
4 14 (9.21%) PKI
5 12 (7.89%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (5.92%) Shadow IT
7 7 (4.61%) FPGA
8 6 (3.95%) Management Information System
9 5 (3.29%) BYOD
9 5 (3.29%) Driving Licence
9 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.63%) Replication
11 3 (1.97%) Clustering
12 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
12 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.32%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.66%) Derivative
13 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 130 (85.53%) Windows
2 86 (56.58%) Windows Server
3 55 (36.18%) Windows 10
4 52 (34.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 50 (32.89%) Linux
6 47 (30.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (9.21%) Windows 7
9 11 (7.24%) Android
9 11 (7.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (6.58%) Windows NT
11 7 (4.61%) Ubuntu
12 2 (1.32%) CentOS
12 2 (1.32%) Debian
12 2 (1.32%) SUSE
13 1 (0.66%) Windows 2000
13 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.66%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (47.37%) ITIL
2 51 (33.55%) Customer Service
3 40 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 34 (22.37%) Service Management
5 28 (18.42%) Release Management
6 26 (17.11%) Incident Management
7 25 (16.45%) Agile
8 22 (14.47%) Software Deployment
9 20 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (12.50%) Application Packaging
11 15 (9.87%) DevOps
12 14 (9.21%) Application Virtualisation
13 13 (8.55%) ITSM
13 13 (8.55%) Patch Management
14 12 (7.89%) Defect Management
14 12 (7.89%) Migration
14 12 (7.89%) Product Management
14 12 (7.89%) Project Management
14 12 (7.89%) Supply Chain Management
15 11 (7.24%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (32.89%) PowerShell
2 22 (14.47%) SQL
3 19 (12.50%) C#
3 19 (12.50%) VB
4 15 (9.87%) VBScript
5 14 (9.21%) Python
6 12 (7.89%) Java
7 10 (6.58%) Bicep
8 9 (5.92%) Bash
9 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (30.26%) Degree
2 43 (28.29%) Security Cleared
3 38 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 38 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 22 (14.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (7.89%) Dell Certification
5 12 (7.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 12 (7.89%) MCSA
6 9 (5.92%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (5.26%) CCNA
7 8 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.29%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.32%) CCNP
9 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.32%) MCSE
10 1 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) QA
2 3 (1.97%) SLA
3 2 (1.32%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.66%) GDPR
4 1 (0.66%) GxP
4 1 (0.66%) PMO
System Software
1 130 (85.53%) Active Directory
2 49 (32.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (20.39%) Hyper-V
4 26 (17.11%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (13.16%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (7.89%) Firmware
7 10 (6.58%) Microsoft App-V
7 10 (6.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (3.95%) VMware NSX
9 5 (3.29%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (2.63%) BitLocker
10 4 (2.63%) vCloud
11 3 (1.97%) vSphere
12 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.66%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 57 (37.50%) SCCM
2 19 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (10.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (7.89%) Kubernetes
5 11 (7.24%) Grafana
5 11 (7.24%) SCOM
5 11 (7.24%) ZABBIX
6 9 (5.92%) Sysprep
7 7 (4.61%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (2.63%) Backup Exec
9 4 (2.63%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.63%) Nessus
9 4 (2.63%) vRealize
10 2 (1.32%) Ansible
10 2 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.32%) Terraform
10 2 (1.32%) WMI
11 1 (0.66%) DatAdvantage
11 1 (0.66%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 125 (82.24%) Microsoft
2 76 (50.00%) VMware
3 38 (25.00%) Cisco
4 18 (11.84%) Citrix
4 18 (11.84%) Veeam
5 14 (9.21%) Dell
6 13 (8.55%) HP
7 12 (7.89%) Fujitsu
7 12 (7.89%) Juniper
7 12 (7.89%) Red Hat
8 11 (7.24%) NetApp
9 10 (6.58%) Autodesk
9 10 (6.58%) ServiceNow
10 8 (5.26%) Veritas
11 7 (4.61%) Apple
11 7 (4.61%) Commvault
11 7 (4.61%) IBM
11 7 (4.61%) Remedy
12 5 (3.29%) Altiris
13 4 (2.63%) F5