Patch Management Job Trends in the City of London

Patch Management
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 150 157
Rank change year-on-year +24 +7 +93
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 5 17 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.24% 0.63% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.66% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5 15 10
10th Percentile £55,750 £63,500 £36,200
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +43.50% -3.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 - £105,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +60.00% -13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,841 2,588 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.50% 95.46% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,685 2,414
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,325
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Patch Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Patch Management
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Patch Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Patch Management in the City of London

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware