WSUS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 481 531
Rank change year-on-year +22 +50 +227
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 13 111 91
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.064% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.55% 2.99% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 13 69 83
10th Percentile - £34,475 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £47,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -3.67% +14.74%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £74,250
90th Percentile - £61,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £48,925 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.20% -2.15% +11.11%

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 2,345 3,708 5,407
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.51% 10.75% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 2,673 4,174
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £42,155
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,919 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -0.74%

WSUS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WSUS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

WSUS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WSUS.

WSUS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

WSUS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WSUS over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

WSUS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) DHCP
1 12 (92.31%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 4 (30.77%) LAN
3 4 (30.77%) WAN
4 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
General
1 1 (7.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (30.77%) IT Support
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 4 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
3 4 (30.77%) Network Management
3 4 (30.77%) Patch Management
3 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (15.38%) Coaching
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) People Management
6 1 (7.69%) Application Packaging
6 1 (7.69%) Change Management
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Information Security
6 1 (7.69%) ITIL
6 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Security Patching
6 1 (7.69%) Server Management
6 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 7 (53.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCP
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
2 11 (84.62%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) SCCM
2 7 (53.85%) Ansible
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 7 (53.85%) SCOM
3 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (7.69%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
3 7 (53.85%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) VMware
5 1 (7.69%) Netskope