Patch Management Job Trends in Cambridge

Patch Management
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Patch Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 6 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.48% - 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - -
75th Percentile £33,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £32,500 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +21.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Patch Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 888 338 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 71.67% 93.11% 77.44%
Number of salaries quoted 710 223 280
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £28,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £98,200 £72,000 £85,250
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% -

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Patch Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Patch Management job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Patch Management
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Patch Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) ICT Support
1 5 (83.33%) ICT Support Technician
1 5 (83.33%) ICT Technician
1 5 (83.33%) Security Technician
1 5 (83.33%) Support Technician
2 1 (16.67%) Audit Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Audit Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (83.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (83.33%) Budgeting
2 5 (83.33%) Security Operations
2 5 (83.33%) SIEM
2 5 (83.33%) Telehealth
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Auditing
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft