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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 420 418
Rank change year-on-year -40 -2 +49
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 4 12 84
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.018% 0.073% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.21% 0.61% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 60
10th Percentile £34,250 - £34,447
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +17.12% +1.83%
75th Percentile £50,625 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £51,750 - £67,968
UK median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £48,925
% change year-on-year -16.00% +2.20% -10.23%

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 1,924 1,964 2,737
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.49% 11.91% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,414 1,122 1,943
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,350 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,125 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,063 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.44% - -2.99%

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 8 August 2026.

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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) VMware