Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 667 734 986
Rank change year-on-year +67 +252 -190
Permanent jobs citing WSUS 230 219 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.33% 1.51% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 185 171 194
10th Percentile £29,550 £25,000 £26,925
25th Percentile £36,250 £29,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +4.65% +14.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £59,000 £78,750 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% +15.94%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,854 14,460 30,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 14.68% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,058 8,969 14,039
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%

WSUS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WSUS in the UK

WSUS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WSUS in the UK

WSUS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WSUS over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WSUS in the UK

WSUS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSUS within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
England +112 224 £50,000 +10.50% 48
UK excluding London +41 192 £45,000 +9.09% 48
Work from Home +86 120 £52,500 +5.00% 16
South East +43 90 £55,000 +107.55% 24
London +98 37 £52,500 -12.50% 3
South West +9 34 £47,500 -2.06% 8
North of England +6 32 £40,000 -11.11% 4
East of England +19 17 £32,000 -36.00% 5
Yorkshire +60 15 £37,500 -16.67% 3
Midlands -9 14 £40,000 -28.89% 5
North West -9 11 £52,500 +50.00% 1
East Midlands +2 10 £33,966 -2.95% 3
North East -8 6 £27,500 -35.29%
West Midlands 0 4 £40,000 -38.46% 2
Scotland -58 3 £28,800 -36.00% 4
Northern Ireland +27 1 - -
Wales +9 1 - - 1

WSUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 80 (34.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (22.17%) SharePoint
3 19 (8.26%) IIS
4 2 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.43%) Moodle
Applications
1 31 (13.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.87%) CATIA
3 2 (0.87%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.87%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (38.26%) Azure
1 88 (38.26%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (17.39%) Entra ID
3 17 (7.39%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (6.96%) Azure Storage
5 15 (6.52%) OneDrive
6 13 (5.65%) OCI
7 8 (3.48%) AWS
8 6 (2.61%) GCP
8 6 (2.61%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.17%) Mimecast
9 5 (2.17%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.74%) IaaS
11 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.43%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 118 (51.30%) DNS
2 103 (44.78%) Firewall
3 84 (36.52%) DHCP
4 51 (22.17%) VPN
5 50 (21.74%) WAN
6 49 (21.30%) LAN
7 41 (17.83%) Wi-Fi
8 38 (16.52%) Network Security
9 30 (13.04%) TCP/IP
9 30 (13.04%) VLAN
10 26 (11.30%) MPLS
11 22 (9.57%) SD-WAN
12 20 (8.70%) SAN
13 17 (7.39%) Remote Desktop
14 13 (5.65%) WLAN
15 9 (3.91%) NetScaler
15 9 (3.91%) Wireless
16 8 (3.48%) NAS
17 7 (3.04%) BGP
17 7 (3.04%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.43%) MySQL
3 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (2.61%) MSI
2 5 (2.17%) AdminStudio
2 5 (2.17%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.87%) Hudson
4 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 83 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.65%) Aerospace
3 12 (5.22%) Finance
3 12 (5.22%) Games
4 9 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.61%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.17%) Automotive
7 5 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.74%) Advertising
8 4 (1.74%) Banking
8 4 (1.74%) Retail
9 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (26.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (14.78%) Analyst
3 22 (9.57%) Support Specialist
4 19 (8.26%) 2nd Line Support
4 19 (8.26%) Senior
5 18 (7.83%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 17 (7.39%) IT Engineer
6 17 (7.39%) Project Manager
7 15 (6.52%) Active Directory Specialist
7 15 (6.52%) Active Directory Support
7 15 (6.52%) Azure Specialist
7 15 (6.52%) Network Manager
8 13 (5.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.22%) Data Centre Manager
9 12 (5.22%) Data Centre Project Manager
9 12 (5.22%) Infrastructure Support
9 12 (5.22%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.35%) IT Support
10 10 (4.35%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.96%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.74%) Data Centre
2 45 (19.57%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (10.43%) PKI
4 20 (8.70%) Public Cloud
5 17 (7.39%) Replication
6 13 (5.65%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.61%) IoT
8 5 (2.17%) Shadow IT
9 4 (1.74%) Clustering
10 3 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.43%) Blackberry
12 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.43%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.43%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 180 (78.26%) Windows
2 113 (49.13%) Windows Server
3 71 (30.87%) Windows Server 2016
4 69 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 65 (28.26%) Linux
6 54 (23.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 48 (20.87%) Windows 10
8 18 (7.83%) Windows XP
9 16 (6.96%) VMS
9 16 (6.96%) Windows NT
10 14 (6.09%) Unix
11 13 (5.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (4.35%) Windows 7
13 8 (3.48%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (2.17%) Windows 2000
14 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.87%) CentOS
15 2 (0.87%) OpenVMS
15 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (34.78%) ITIL
2 70 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 47 (20.43%) Customer Service
3 47 (20.43%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (16.96%) Agile
4 39 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (16.96%) Project Management
4 39 (16.96%) Service Management
5 28 (12.17%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 26 (11.30%) Patch Management
7 23 (10.00%) Service Delivery
8 21 (9.13%) Analytics
8 21 (9.13%) Disaster Recovery
8 21 (9.13%) Release Management
9 20 (8.70%) Change Management
9 20 (8.70%) Proactive Monitoring
9 20 (8.70%) Security Patching
10 19 (8.26%) Mentoring
11 18 (7.83%) Vulnerability Management
12 17 (7.39%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 75 (32.61%) PowerShell
2 29 (12.61%) SQL
3 20 (8.70%) C#
3 20 (8.70%) VB
4 15 (6.52%) Bicep
4 15 (6.52%) VBScript
5 8 (3.48%) Python
6 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 93 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 71 (30.87%) DV Cleared
3 54 (23.48%) SC Cleared
4 53 (23.04%) Degree
5 19 (8.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 17 (7.39%) CCNA
6 17 (7.39%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (6.96%) APMP
8 12 (5.22%) CCNP
9 10 (4.35%) MCSE
9 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.74%) MCP
11 4 (1.74%) MCSA
12 3 (1.30%) A+ Certification
12 3 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.83%) SLA
2 13 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.43%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) GxP
4 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 181 (78.70%) Active Directory
2 86 (37.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (26.09%) Hyper-V
4 42 (18.26%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (6.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (6.96%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (6.96%) vSphere
6 14 (6.09%) Firmware
7 9 (3.91%) Forefront TMG
7 9 (3.91%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (2.61%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.87%) Docker
9 2 (0.87%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.87%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 93 (40.43%) SCCM
2 51 (22.17%) SCOM
3 42 (18.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (10.43%) vCenter Server
5 22 (9.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (9.13%) Kubernetes
7 16 (6.96%) NetBackup
8 12 (5.22%) EMC NetWorker
9 11 (4.78%) Sysprep
10 6 (2.61%) Ansible
10 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (2.61%) Nessus
11 5 (2.17%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (2.17%) Nagios
11 5 (2.17%) OfficeScan
12 4 (1.74%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (1.30%) Grafana
14 2 (0.87%) SolarWinds Orion
15 1 (0.43%) HP SIM
15 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 154 (66.96%) Microsoft
2 104 (45.22%) VMware
3 57 (24.78%) Cisco
4 32 (13.91%) Veeam
5 24 (10.43%) Oracle
6 18 (7.83%) Apple
6 18 (7.83%) Sophos
7 17 (7.39%) HP
7 17 (7.39%) Ruckus Wireless
8 16 (6.96%) Juniper
9 15 (6.52%) Dell
10 14 (6.09%) Symantec
11 13 (5.65%) 3PAR
11 13 (5.65%) Red Hat
12 12 (5.22%) EMC
12 12 (5.22%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (5.22%) Palo Alto
13 9 (3.91%) ServiceNow
14 8 (3.48%) Citrix
15 7 (3.04%) Remedy