Server Patching
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Server Patching skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Server Patching over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 978 1195
Rank change year-on-year +117 +217 -315
Permanent jobs citing Server Patching 27 17 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.017% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.018% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 27 14 30
10th Percentile £38,000 £38,125 £36,828
25th Percentile £50,500 £46,000 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% +6.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £57,000 £56,563 £52,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £59,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £46,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year +17.39% +5.14% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server Patching is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Patching in the UK

Server Patching
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Server Patching.

Salary trend for Server Patching in the UK

Server Patching
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Patching over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Server Patching in the UK

Server Patching
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Patching within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +89 26 £55,000 +15.18% 5
UK excluding London +2 25 £54,000 +17.39% 4
Work from Home +79 12 £54,000 +20.00% 2
West Midlands +22 11 £54,000 - 2
Midlands +12 11 £54,000 +10.77% 2
North of England +48 10 £55,000 +28.96% 1
North West +14 10 £55,000 +28.96% 1
South East +14 3 £30,000 -35.83% 1
London +123 2 £70,000 +27.27%
Scotland -58 1 £46,000 -

Server Patching
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 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.11%) IIS
3 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) Azure
2 13 (48.15%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (33.33%) AWS
4 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) DHCP
1 14 (51.85%) DNS
2 11 (40.74%) SSL
2 11 (40.74%) TCP/IP
3 8 (29.63%) FTP
3 8 (29.63%) HTTP
3 8 (29.63%) SMTP
3 8 (29.63%) SNMP
3 8 (29.63%) SSH
3 8 (29.63%) Telnet
4 4 (14.81%) Firewall
5 3 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (11.11%) VLAN
5 3 (11.11%) VoIP
5 3 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (48.15%) SQL Server
2 10 (37.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (37.04%) RDBMS
2 10 (37.04%) Relational Database
2 10 (37.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (37.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (11.11%) MySQL
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) DBA
2 10 (37.04%) SQL DBA
3 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) IT Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) IT Support
5 3 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Administrator
7 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IT Security Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Cloud Native
2 8 (29.63%) Data Centre
2 8 (29.63%) EFT
3 3 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (55.56%) Windows
1 15 (55.56%) Windows Server
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 3 (11.11%) Windows 7
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (37.04%) Continuous Delivery
2 10 (37.04%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
3 8 (29.63%) ITIL
4 7 (25.93%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.81%) Server Management
6 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 3 (11.11%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) Server Migrations
6 3 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (7.41%) Time Management
8 1 (3.70%) Agile
8 1 (3.70%) Cyber Resilience
8 1 (3.70%) Patch Management
8 1 (3.70%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 14 (51.85%) SQL
3 10 (37.04%) T-SQL
4 3 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 17 (62.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (29.63%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) SCCM
1 8 (29.63%) vCenter Server
2 3 (11.11%) Backup Exec
3 2 (7.41%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (81.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (40.74%) VMware
3 10 (37.04%) Commvault
4 9 (33.33%) Citrix
5 8 (29.63%) Globalscape
6 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
6 3 (11.11%) Veeam