WSUS Job Trends in Yorkshire

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring WSUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 161 193
Rank change year-on-year +12 +32 +58
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 7 14 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.21% 0.31% 0.085%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.06% 4.55% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 3
10th Percentile - £33,050 £30,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £57,500
90th Percentile - £51,000 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +18.28%

All Systems Management Skills
Yorkshire

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 in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 229 308 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.85% 6.93% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 183 221 439
10th Percentile £26,250 £38,890 £30,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £48,250 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% - -3.40%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.85% -5.11%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WSUS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

WSUS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

WSUS
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing WSUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing WSUS

WSUS
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
West Yorkshire +21 7 £65,000 +73.33%
WSUS
England

WSUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) People Management
5 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 7 (100.00%) SCCM
1 7 (100.00%) SCOM
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat