WSUS Jobs in England

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WSUS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WSUS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 696 943
Rank change year-on-year +58 +247 -174
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 228 206 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.68% 1.67% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 183 164 184
10th Percentile £30,100 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £25,750 £34,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% +8.97%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £59,000 £74,250 £62,500
UK median annual salary £49,463 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.92% - +17.65%

All Systems Management Skills
England

WSUS is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,515 12,370 25,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.36% 14.70% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,500 8,048 12,508
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in England

WSUS
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WSUS in England.

Salary trend for WSUS in England

WSUS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WSUS in England

WSUS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
South East +28 95 £55,250 +108.49% 18
London +93 35 £52,500 -12.50% 3
South West -2 34 £47,500 -2.06% 5
North of England +4 32 £40,000 -11.11% 3
East of England +10 17 £32,000 -36.00% 3
Yorkshire +44 15 £37,500 -16.67% 2
Midlands -12 15 £40,000 -15.79% 3
North West -13 11 £52,500 +50.00% 1
East Midlands -10 10 £33,966 -2.95% 2
North East -11 6 £27,500 -38.89%
West Midlands -21 5 £40,000 -28.89% 1
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 81 (35.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (21.49%) SharePoint
3 19 (8.33%) IIS
4 2 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) Moodle
Applications
1 33 (14.47%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.88%) CATIA
3 2 (0.88%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.88%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (39.47%) Microsoft 365
2 88 (38.60%) Azure
3 42 (18.42%) Entra ID
4 18 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
4 18 (7.89%) Azure Storage
5 15 (6.58%) OneDrive
6 13 (5.70%) OCI
7 8 (3.51%) AWS
8 7 (3.07%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.63%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.19%) GCP
10 5 (2.19%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.32%) IaaS
12 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (0.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.44%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 117 (51.32%) DNS
2 103 (45.18%) Firewall
3 84 (36.84%) DHCP
4 50 (21.93%) VPN
5 49 (21.49%) WAN
6 48 (21.05%) LAN
7 40 (17.54%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (14.47%) Network Security
9 29 (12.72%) TCP/IP
10 28 (12.28%) VLAN
11 25 (10.96%) MPLS
12 22 (9.65%) SD-WAN
13 20 (8.77%) SAN
14 16 (7.02%) Remote Desktop
15 13 (5.70%) WLAN
16 9 (3.95%) NetScaler
16 9 (3.95%) Wireless
17 8 (3.51%) NAS
18 6 (2.63%) BGP
18 6 (2.63%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.88%) Power BI
3 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.51%) MSI
2 6 (2.63%) AdminStudio
2 6 (2.63%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.88%) Hudson
4 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 87 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 15 (6.58%) Finance
3 13 (5.70%) Aerospace
4 10 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.07%) Games
7 6 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.63%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.19%) Automotive
8 5 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.75%) Advertising
9 4 (1.75%) Banking
9 4 (1.75%) Retail
10 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Front Office
11 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (13.60%) Analyst
3 23 (10.09%) Support Specialist
4 18 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
4 18 (7.89%) Senior
5 17 (7.46%) Active Directory Specialist
5 17 (7.46%) Active Directory Support
5 17 (7.46%) Azure Specialist
5 17 (7.46%) IT Engineer
6 16 (7.02%) Project Manager
7 14 (6.14%) Network Manager
8 13 (5.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (5.70%) Vulnerability Analyst
9 12 (5.26%) Data Centre Manager
9 12 (5.26%) Data Centre Project Manager
9 12 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (4.82%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (4.82%) IT Support
10 11 (4.82%) Lead
11 10 (4.39%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.89%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 44 (19.30%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (10.96%) PKI
4 20 (8.77%) Public Cloud
5 16 (7.02%) Replication
6 13 (5.70%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.63%) IoT
7 6 (2.63%) Shadow IT
8 4 (1.75%) Clustering
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.44%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.44%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.44%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 177 (77.63%) Windows
2 114 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 74 (32.46%) Windows Server 2016
4 72 (31.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 66 (28.95%) Linux
6 53 (23.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 50 (21.93%) Windows 10
8 18 (7.89%) Windows XP
9 17 (7.46%) Windows NT
10 13 (5.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (4.82%) Windows 7
12 10 (4.39%) VMS
13 9 (3.95%) Unix
14 8 (3.51%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (2.19%) Windows 2000
15 5 (2.19%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.88%) CentOS
16 2 (0.88%) OpenVMS
16 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.84%) ITIL
2 67 (29.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 51 (22.37%) Customer Service
4 44 (19.30%) Cybersecurity
5 43 (18.86%) Service Management
6 42 (18.42%) Agile
7 40 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (17.11%) Project Management
9 26 (11.40%) Patch Management
9 26 (11.40%) Release Management
10 23 (10.09%) Analytics
10 23 (10.09%) Service Delivery
10 23 (10.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 21 (9.21%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (8.77%) Mentoring
12 20 (8.77%) Proactive Monitoring
12 20 (8.77%) Security Patching
13 19 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 17 (7.46%) DevOps
14 17 (7.46%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (33.77%) PowerShell
2 29 (12.72%) SQL
3 23 (10.09%) C#
3 23 (10.09%) VB
4 17 (7.46%) Bicep
4 17 (7.46%) VBScript
5 8 (3.51%) Python
6 3 (1.32%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 94 (41.23%) Security Cleared
2 76 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 57 (25.00%) Degree
4 55 (24.12%) SC Cleared
5 21 (9.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 17 (7.46%) CCNA
6 17 (7.46%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (7.02%) APMP
8 12 (5.26%) CCNP
9 10 (4.39%) MCSE
9 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.75%) MCP
11 4 (1.75%) MCSA
12 3 (1.32%) A+ Certification
12 3 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.89%) SLA
2 14 (6.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.32%) QA
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) GxP
System Software
1 183 (80.26%) Active Directory
2 85 (37.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 41 (17.98%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (7.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (6.58%) Firmware
8 14 (6.14%) vSphere
9 9 (3.95%) Forefront TMG
9 9 (3.95%) VMware Workstation
10 8 (3.51%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.88%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.88%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.44%) Docker
12 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 94 (41.23%) SCCM
2 53 (23.25%) SCOM
3 43 (18.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (10.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 24 (10.53%) vCenter Server
5 22 (9.65%) Kubernetes
6 16 (7.02%) NetBackup
7 12 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (5.26%) Sysprep
8 6 (2.63%) Ansible
8 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (2.19%) Nagios
9 5 (2.19%) Nessus
9 5 (2.19%) OfficeScan
10 4 (1.75%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.75%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.88%) Grafana
12 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.44%) QRadar
12 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 157 (68.86%) Microsoft
2 102 (44.74%) VMware
3 54 (23.68%) Cisco
4 31 (13.60%) Veeam
5 24 (10.53%) Oracle
6 18 (7.89%) Sophos
7 17 (7.46%) HP
8 16 (7.02%) Ruckus Wireless
9 14 (6.14%) Dell
9 14 (6.14%) Juniper
9 14 (6.14%) Symantec
10 13 (5.70%) 3PAR
10 13 (5.70%) Apple
10 13 (5.70%) Red Hat
11 12 (5.26%) EMC
11 12 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
11 12 (5.26%) Palo Alto
12 10 (4.39%) ServiceNow
13 8 (3.51%) Citrix
14 7 (3.07%) Remedy