Hybrid/Remote WSUS Job Trends

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring WSUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 444 434
Rank change year-on-year +41 -10 +230
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 12 31 64
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.074% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.67% 1.29% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 64
10th Percentile - £40,800 £46,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £51,250 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,763 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.61% +6.84% +32.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,968 £74,250
90th Percentile - £91,250 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +18.28%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

WSUS falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,797 2,407 3,715
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.12% 11.95% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 974 1,417 3,202
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £99,625 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +3.85% -3.70%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WSUS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

WSUS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

WSUS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WSUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WSUS

WSUS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WSUS over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

WSUS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) DHCP
1 12 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (33.33%) LAN
3 4 (33.33%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (33.33%) IT Support
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Support
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 4 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Network Management
3 4 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) People Management
6 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
1 7 (58.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) AWS Certification
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
1 11 (91.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) SCCM
2 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 7 (58.33%) SCOM
3 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 7 (58.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) VMware