WSUS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 574 676
Rank change year-on-year -3 +102 -75
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 203 154 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.17% 2.18% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 158 122 154
10th Percentile £29,025 £25,000 £26,075
25th Percentile £34,750 £25,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% +24.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £68,750 £58,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +20.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,405 7,071 10,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.00% 12.80% 14.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,276 4,232 6,602
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,438 £43,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +2.63% +5.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +7.69%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WSUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WSUS in the UK excluding London

WSUS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +13 101 £55,500 +109.43% 20
South West -15 34 £47,500 -2.06% 3
North of England -14 32 £40,000 -11.11% 4
East of England -1 16 £32,000 -36.00% 3
Midlands -36 16 £40,000 -28.89% 3
Yorkshire +50 15 £37,500 -16.67% 2
North West -31 11 £52,500 +50.00% 2
East Midlands -22 10 £33,966 -38.24% 2
West Midlands -16 6 £40,000 -28.89% 1
North East -18 6 £27,500 -38.89%
Scotland -69 2 - - 4
Northern Ireland +20 1 - -
Wales +13 1 - - 1
WSUS
UK

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 54 (26.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (12.81%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.91%) IIS
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) Moodle
Applications
1 27 (13.30%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.99%) CATIA
3 2 (0.99%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.99%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (42.36%) Azure
2 70 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (21.18%) Entra ID
4 20 (9.85%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (9.36%) Azure Storage
6 15 (7.39%) OneDrive
7 13 (6.40%) OCI
8 8 (3.94%) AWS
9 7 (3.45%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.96%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.46%) GCP
11 5 (2.46%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (47.29%) DNS
2 84 (41.38%) Firewall
3 68 (33.50%) DHCP
4 35 (17.24%) Network Security
5 34 (16.75%) VPN
6 32 (15.76%) LAN
6 32 (15.76%) WAN
7 28 (13.79%) TCP/IP
8 25 (12.32%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (10.84%) SD-WAN
10 19 (9.36%) SAN
11 13 (6.40%) WLAN
12 12 (5.91%) VLAN
13 9 (4.43%) MPLS
13 9 (4.43%) NAS
14 8 (3.94%) Wireless
15 7 (3.45%) NetScaler
16 5 (2.46%) iSCSI
16 5 (2.46%) PABX
16 5 (2.46%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.99%) Power BI
3 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (4.43%) MSI
2 8 (3.94%) AdminStudio
2 8 (3.94%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.99%) Hudson
4 1 (0.49%) JIRA
General
1 75 (36.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.91%) Finance
3 11 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.93%) Games
5 8 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.45%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.97%) Advertising
8 4 (1.97%) Automotive
9 3 (1.48%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.48%) Retail
10 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (29.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (15.27%) Analyst
3 22 (10.84%) Support Specialist
4 19 (9.36%) Active Directory Specialist
4 19 (9.36%) Active Directory Support
4 19 (9.36%) Azure Specialist
5 16 (7.88%) 2nd Line Support
5 16 (7.88%) IT Engineer
5 16 (7.88%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 14 (6.90%) Network Manager
7 11 (5.42%) IT Support
7 11 (5.42%) Lead
7 11 (5.42%) Senior
7 11 (5.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.93%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.93%) Team Leader
9 9 (4.43%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (4.43%) Server Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) PowerShell Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) SC Cleared Application Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.36%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (26.11%) Self-Motivation
2 32 (15.76%) Data Centre
3 26 (12.81%) PKI
4 16 (7.88%) Replication
5 11 (5.42%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.94%) Shadow IT
7 4 (1.97%) Clustering
7 4 (1.97%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.48%) IoT
9 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.49%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 168 (82.76%) Windows
2 107 (52.71%) Windows Server
3 70 (34.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 67 (33.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 58 (28.57%) Linux
6 46 (22.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 45 (22.17%) Windows 10
8 17 (8.37%) Windows XP
9 15 (7.39%) Windows NT
10 12 (5.91%) Unix
11 11 (5.42%) VMS
12 10 (4.93%) Windows 7
13 9 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (2.46%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (1.97%) Windows 2000
15 4 (1.97%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.99%) CentOS
16 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (40.89%) ITIL
2 63 (31.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 50 (24.63%) Customer Service
4 45 (22.17%) Service Management
5 41 (20.20%) Cybersecurity
6 38 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (15.76%) Agile
7 32 (15.76%) Release Management
8 26 (12.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 25 (12.32%) Analytics
9 25 (12.32%) Patch Management
9 25 (12.32%) Project Management
10 21 (10.34%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 21 (10.34%) Service Delivery
11 20 (9.85%) Proactive Monitoring
11 20 (9.85%) Security Patching
12 19 (9.36%) CI/CD
12 19 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (9.36%) Log Analytics
12 19 (9.36%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 79 (38.92%) PowerShell
2 27 (13.30%) C#
2 27 (13.30%) VB
3 19 (9.36%) Bicep
3 19 (9.36%) VBScript
4 18 (8.87%) SQL
5 8 (3.94%) Python
6 3 (1.48%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 94 (46.31%) Security Cleared
2 73 (35.96%) DV Cleared
3 62 (30.54%) SC Cleared
4 59 (29.06%) Degree
5 23 (11.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 16 (7.88%) CCNA
6 16 (7.88%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.91%) CCNP
8 9 (4.43%) MCSE
8 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.97%) MCP
10 4 (1.97%) MCSA
11 3 (1.48%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.87%) SLA
2 13 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.46%) QA
4 1 (0.49%) GDPR
4 1 (0.49%) GxP
System Software
1 155 (76.35%) Active Directory
2 57 (28.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (16.75%) Hyper-V
4 25 (12.32%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (9.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (9.36%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (6.40%) Firmware
7 12 (5.91%) vSphere
8 9 (4.43%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.48%) Forefront TMG
9 3 (1.48%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.99%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.99%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 96 (47.29%) SCCM
2 47 (23.15%) SCOM
3 42 (20.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (12.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 24 (11.82%) Kubernetes
6 22 (10.84%) vCenter Server
7 13 (6.40%) NetBackup
8 12 (5.91%) EMC NetWorker
9 11 (5.42%) Sysprep
10 6 (2.96%) Ansible
10 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 5 (2.46%) Nagios
11 5 (2.46%) OfficeScan
12 4 (1.97%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.99%) Grafana
13 2 (0.99%) Nessus
14 1 (0.49%) DatAdvantage
14 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.49%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
14 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 133 (65.52%) Microsoft
2 74 (36.45%) VMware
3 33 (16.26%) Cisco
4 28 (13.79%) Veeam
5 19 (9.36%) Oracle
6 18 (8.87%) Sophos
7 15 (7.39%) Apple
7 15 (7.39%) HP
8 13 (6.40%) Dell
8 13 (6.40%) Juniper
8 13 (6.40%) Symantec
9 12 (5.91%) 3PAR
9 12 (5.91%) EMC
9 12 (5.91%) Extreme Networks
9 12 (5.91%) Palo Alto
9 12 (5.91%) ServiceNow
10 10 (4.93%) Red Hat
11 9 (4.43%) Autodesk
12 7 (3.45%) Remedy
13 6 (2.96%) CheckPoint