WSUS Jobs with Work from Home 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 457 676
Rank change year-on-year -7 +219 -30
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 30 63 136
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.10% 1.64% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 20 63 107
10th Percentile £40,800 £46,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,763 £55,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +32.53% +10.67%
75th Percentile £67,968 £72,125 £59,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £74,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +13.40% +45.86%

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 2,732 3,841 11,266
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.98% 15.71% 18.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 3,161 6,624
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,157
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,716 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,056 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

WSUS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WSUS trend for jobs with a WFH option

WSUS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing WSUS over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

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 13 (43.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 10 (33.33%) Azure
3 10 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (33.33%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 18 (60.00%) DNS
2 17 (56.67%) DHCP
3 13 (43.33%) Firewall
4 3 (10.00%) VLAN
4 3 (10.00%) VPN
5 2 (6.67%) LAN
5 2 (6.67%) VoIP
5 2 (6.67%) WAN
5 2 (6.67%) WLAN
6 1 (3.33%) FTP
6 1 (3.33%) SSH
6 1 (3.33%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.33%) Back Office
3 4 (13.33%) Publishing
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Senior
2 10 (33.33%) Active Directory Specialist
2 10 (33.33%) Active Directory Support
2 10 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
2 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Support Specialist
3 5 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Desktop Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) IT Administrator
6 2 (6.67%) IT Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.67%) Service Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) PKI
1 10 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.67%) Smartphone
5 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (43.33%) Linux
3 13 (43.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 12 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (6.67%) Android
5 2 (6.67%) CentOS
5 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.33%) Windows 2000
6 1 (3.33%) Windows NT
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) DevOps
1 15 (50.00%) ITIL
2 10 (33.33%) Agile
2 10 (33.33%) Analytics
2 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 10 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 10 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
2 10 (33.33%) RBAC
2 10 (33.33%) Release Management
2 10 (33.33%) Service Management
3 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
3 7 (23.33%) Software Deployment
4 5 (16.67%) Coaching
5 4 (13.33%) Application Packaging
6 3 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 2 (6.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (33.33%) Bicep
2 10 (33.33%) C#
2 10 (33.33%) VB
2 10 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Degree
1 14 (46.67%) DV Cleared
1 14 (46.67%) SC Cleared
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) CCNA
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (13.33%) BitLocker
4 4 (13.33%) vCloud
4 4 (13.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (70.00%) SCCM
2 15 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 11 (36.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (36.67%) SCOM
4 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 4 (13.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Adobe
3 2 (6.67%) Apple
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) Carbon Black
4 1 (3.33%) Centreon