Patch Management Jobs in England

Patch Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Patch Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Patch Management over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 588 672
Rank change year-on-year +73 +84 +138
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 170 262 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.35% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 119 232 215
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,875 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -14.14% +5.32%
75th Percentile £69,000 £62,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,625 £79,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +1.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in England

Patch Management
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in England.

Salary trend for Patch Management in England

Patch Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Patch Management in England

Patch Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
London +114 68 £66,500 -5.00% 67
Midlands +35 31 £34,000 -15.00% 50
South East +58 29 £40,000 -5.88% 74
North of England +29 23 £45,000 +8.43% 47
West Midlands +59 21 £62,500 +57.23% 31
East of England +33 13 £29,500 -30.59% 48
North West 0 12 £47,000 -21.67% 17
South West +117 11 £46,250 +23.33% 30
East Midlands +17 8 £29,500 -26.25% 17
Yorkshire +52 6 £45,000 -5.26% 22
North East +47 5 £32,000 -22.89% 8
Patch Management
UK

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 30 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.47%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.29%) IIS
4 8 (4.71%) Confluence
5 2 (1.18%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (5.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 74 (43.53%) Azure
2 60 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (31.76%) AWS
4 28 (16.47%) Entra ID
5 14 (8.24%) Amazon S3
5 14 (8.24%) AWS KMS
5 14 (8.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
7 9 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (4.71%) Amazon Glacier
9 7 (4.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 7 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (4.12%) SaaS
9 7 (4.12%) Serverless
10 6 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.35%) GCP
12 3 (1.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (29.41%) DNS
2 42 (24.71%) Firewall
3 40 (23.53%) DHCP
4 23 (13.53%) TCP/IP
4 23 (13.53%) WAN
5 19 (11.18%) LAN
6 13 (7.65%) SAN
6 13 (7.65%) SSL
7 10 (5.88%) NAS
8 8 (4.71%) HTTP
9 7 (4.12%) FTP
9 7 (4.12%) Network Security
9 7 (4.12%) SMTP
9 7 (4.12%) SSH
10 6 (3.53%) SD-WAN
10 6 (3.53%) Wireless
11 5 (2.94%) VPN
12 4 (2.35%) IP Telephony
12 4 (2.35%) SNMP
12 4 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.18%) Pentaho
6 2 (1.18%) Power BI
7 1 (0.59%) Looker
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.59%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (10.59%) Jenkins
2 16 (9.41%) Git
3 11 (6.47%) JIRA
4 10 (5.88%) Vagrant
5 7 (4.12%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (1.76%) MSI
6 3 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.18%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.59%) GitLab
8 1 (0.59%) Maven
General
1 57 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.24%) Finance
3 21 (12.35%) Law
4 17 (10.00%) Marketing
5 16 (9.41%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (8.82%) Banking
7 10 (5.88%) Back Office
8 9 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (4.12%) Legal
10 6 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.53%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.94%) Retail
12 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.76%) Advertising
13 3 (1.76%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.76%) Automotive
13 3 (1.76%) Electronics
14 1 (0.59%) Avionics
14 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (22.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (15.29%) Infrastructure Support
3 24 (14.12%) Analyst
3 24 (14.12%) Support Analyst
4 23 (13.53%) 2nd Line Support
5 20 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 18 (10.59%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 17 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 17 (10.00%) Security Engineer
8 15 (8.82%) IT Engineer
8 15 (8.82%) IT Support
9 13 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.06%) Wintel Engineer
11 11 (6.47%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.29%) Desktop Support
14 8 (4.71%) Support Technician
14 8 (4.71%) Technical Support
15 7 (4.12%) Desktop Technician
15 7 (4.12%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.12%) Middleware
1 7 (4.12%) REST
2 6 (3.53%) GraphQL
3 4 (2.35%) SOAP
4 3 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.76%) LDAP
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.59%) SAML
5 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.82%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.47%) Security Posture
3 10 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.12%) Clustering
4 7 (4.12%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.94%) Replication
7 4 (2.35%) Blackberry
7 4 (2.35%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.35%) CMDB
7 4 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.76%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.76%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.18%) Handset
9 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 112 (65.88%) Windows
2 56 (32.94%) Windows Server
3 51 (30.00%) Linux
4 20 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (8.82%) Windows 10
7 14 (8.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (7.06%) VMS
9 10 (5.88%) Ubuntu
10 9 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (4.12%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (2.94%) Unix
13 3 (1.76%) Debian
13 3 (1.76%) Mac OS
14 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.59%) CentOS
15 1 (0.59%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (25.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (21.76%) ITIL
3 36 (21.18%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (18.82%) Incident Management
5 29 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (16.47%) Disaster Recovery
6 28 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (12.35%) Cloud Security
7 21 (12.35%) High Availability
8 19 (11.18%) Process Improvement
8 19 (11.18%) Virtual Environments
9 17 (10.00%) DevOps
9 17 (10.00%) Service Delivery
10 16 (9.41%) Artificial Intelligence
10 16 (9.41%) Batch Management
10 16 (9.41%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (8.82%) Collaborative Working
11 15 (8.82%) IT Strategy
11 15 (8.82%) Kalman Filter
11 15 (8.82%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 57 (33.53%) PowerShell
2 41 (24.12%) SQL
3 26 (15.29%) Python
4 11 (6.47%) Bash
4 11 (6.47%) Shell Script
5 10 (5.88%) Groovy
5 10 (5.88%) Perl
6 8 (4.71%) Java
7 3 (1.76%) Ruby
8 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 41 (24.12%) SC Cleared
3 38 (22.35%) Degree
4 20 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (7.65%) Azure Certification
6 11 (6.47%) DV Cleared
7 10 (5.88%) HND
7 10 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (5.29%) MCSE
9 7 (4.12%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (2.94%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.35%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.76%) CISM
12 3 (1.76%) CISSP
12 3 (1.76%) MCSA
13 2 (1.18%) CASP
13 2 (1.18%) CISA
13 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (20.59%) SLA
2 12 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.94%) NIST
4 4 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.18%) GDPR
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.59%) GRC
6 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.59%) SOC 1
System Software
1 79 (46.47%) Active Directory
2 45 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (17.06%) Hyper-V
4 19 (11.18%) Docker
5 16 (9.41%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (7.65%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (4.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (4.12%) vSphere
9 4 (2.35%) DFS Replication
9 4 (2.35%) Firmware
10 3 (1.76%) BitLocker
11 2 (1.18%) Dovecot
11 2 (1.18%) Postfix
11 2 (1.18%) Squid
11 2 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.59%) KVM
12 1 (0.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 39 (22.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (12.94%) Ansible
3 21 (12.35%) SCCM
4 19 (11.18%) Terraform
5 13 (7.65%) SCOM
6 12 (7.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (7.06%) NetBackup
7 10 (5.88%) Nessus
7 10 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (5.29%) Prometheus
8 9 (5.29%) Proxmox
9 8 (4.71%) Grafana
10 5 (2.94%) Backup Exec
10 5 (2.94%) Puppet
11 4 (2.35%) Kubernetes
11 4 (2.35%) ZENworks
12 3 (1.76%) Nagios
12 3 (1.76%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.76%) WMI
12 3 (1.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 89 (52.35%) Microsoft
2 60 (35.29%) VMware
3 31 (18.24%) ServiceNow
4 24 (14.12%) Cisco
5 22 (12.94%) Veeam
6 14 (8.24%) SolarWinds
7 9 (5.29%) Meraki
8 8 (4.71%) Juniper
8 8 (4.71%) Oracle
9 7 (4.12%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.94%) Dell
11 4 (2.35%) Citrix
11 4 (2.35%) Extreme Networks
11 4 (2.35%) McAfee
12 3 (1.76%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.76%) Google
12 3 (1.76%) Proofpoint
12 3 (1.76%) Qualys
12 3 (1.76%) Sophos
13 2 (1.18%) Veritas