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 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 672 680 745
Rank change year-on-year +8 +65 +238
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 37 235 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% 2.38% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 16 184 170
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,475 £25,000
25th Percentile £44,063 £36,250 £28,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,463 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% +9.92% +3.45%
75th Percentile £51,250 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +10.77%

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 5,645 9,864 14,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 9.55% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,097 7,020 8,824
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WSUS in the UK

WSUS
Top 11 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 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
England -32 36 £50,000 - 34
UK excluding London +17 20 £50,000 +11.11% 31
London +94 16 £33,000 -37.14% 6
Yorkshire +53 8 £65,000 +73.33% 2
North of England +28 8 £65,000 +62.50% 4
Work from Home +7 8 £48,750 -7.14% 19
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
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 20 (54.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (10.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Azure
2 18 (48.65%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (32.43%) Entra ID
4 6 (16.22%) AWS
5 5 (13.51%) IaaS
5 5 (13.51%) PaaS
6 4 (10.81%) SaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.70%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (64.86%) DHCP
1 24 (64.86%) DNS
2 14 (37.84%) WAN
3 13 (35.14%) Firewall
3 13 (35.14%) SMTP
4 10 (27.03%) SAN
5 9 (24.32%) LAN
5 9 (24.32%) TCP/IP
5 9 (24.32%) VLAN
5 9 (24.32%) Wireless
6 8 (21.62%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (21.62%) FTP
6 8 (21.62%) IPv4
6 8 (21.62%) PBX
6 8 (21.62%) Structured Cabling
7 6 (16.22%) OSPF
8 5 (13.51%) BGP
8 5 (13.51%) MPLS
8 5 (13.51%) SD-WAN
9 4 (10.81%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) GitLab
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Advertising
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) IT Support
3 8 (21.62%) IT Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior
5 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Manager
5 5 (13.51%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Consultant
6 4 (10.81%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Desktop Support
6 4 (10.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Security Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
6 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (8.11%) Technical Support
8 2 (5.41%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Public Cloud
2 8 (21.62%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.81%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Smartcard
5 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (67.57%) Windows
2 12 (32.43%) Windows Server
3 9 (24.32%) Windows 10
4 8 (21.62%) Android
5 5 (13.51%) Linux
6 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.70%) VMS
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (27.03%) Incident Management
3 9 (24.32%) ITSM
4 8 (21.62%) Change Control
5 6 (16.22%) ITIL
5 6 (16.22%) Service Delivery
6 5 (13.51%) Customer Service
6 5 (13.51%) Line Management
6 5 (13.51%) Project Delivery
7 4 (10.81%) Commercial Awareness
7 4 (10.81%) Inventory Management
8 3 (8.11%) Network Management
8 3 (8.11%) Patch Management
8 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (5.41%) Change Management
9 2 (5.41%) Containerisation
9 2 (5.41%) IT Strategy
9 2 (5.41%) Storage Management
9 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 1 (2.70%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) PowerShell
2 7 (18.92%) SQL
3 6 (16.22%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
4 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) Degree
2 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (24.32%) CCNA
3 9 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (21.62%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.41%) CISSP
5 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) Dell Certification
6 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) MCP
6 1 (2.70%) MCSA
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 34 (91.89%) Active Directory
2 25 (67.57%) Hyper-V
3 10 (27.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (24.32%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (13.51%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (10.81%) Firmware
6 4 (10.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) SCCM
2 12 (32.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
4 6 (16.22%) FortiGate
5 4 (10.81%) Ansible
5 4 (10.81%) vCenter Server
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Nessus
6 2 (5.41%) SCOM
7 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.70%) Terraform
7 1 (2.70%) WMI
Vendors
1 30 (81.08%) Microsoft
2 23 (62.16%) VMware
3 15 (40.54%) Cisco
4 14 (37.84%) Citrix
5 9 (24.32%) Veeam
6 5 (13.51%) Draytek
6 5 (13.51%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (10.81%) Dell
7 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
8 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
8 2 (5.41%) Oracle
9 1 (2.70%) Fujitsu
9 1 (2.70%) HP
9 1 (2.70%) Juniper
9 1 (2.70%) Netskope
9 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds