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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 587 673
Rank change year-on-year +46 +86 +122
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 150 258 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.35% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 105 227 212
10th Percentile £31,350 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,750 £38,651
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -10.53% +1.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £49,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +16.47% -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 45,933 73,419 85,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.08% 85.47% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 24,038 53,988 50,920
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
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 12 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 12 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 +100 60 £62,500 +2.38% 67
South East +64 28 £40,000 -5.88% 31
North of England +52 26 £45,000 +7.14% 9
Midlands +44 26 £40,000 - 12
West Midlands +53 17 £57,500 +79.69% 8
North West +2 13 £47,000 -21.67% 3
South West +102 10 £47,500 +26.67% 8
Yorkshire +60 8 £45,000 -2.70% 5
East Midlands +22 7 £40,000 - 4
North East +46 5 £32,000 -22.89% 1
East of England +31 5 £50,000 +17.65% 20
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 22 (14.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (9.33%) IIS
3 11 (7.33%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 72 (48.00%) Azure
2 52 (34.67%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (31.33%) AWS
4 27 (18.00%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.00%) Amazon S3
5 9 (6.00%) AWS KMS
5 9 (6.00%) SaaS
5 9 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (4.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 7 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.67%) Serverless
7 6 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.33%) Amazon ELB
8 5 (3.33%) Amazon Glacier
8 5 (3.33%) GCP
9 4 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (29.33%) Firewall
2 42 (28.00%) DNS
3 37 (24.67%) DHCP
4 20 (13.33%) TCP/IP
5 19 (12.67%) WAN
6 17 (11.33%) SAN
7 15 (10.00%) LAN
8 13 (8.67%) SSL
9 12 (8.00%) VPN
10 9 (6.00%) Network Security
11 8 (5.33%) NAS
11 8 (5.33%) SD-WAN
12 7 (4.67%) Wireless
13 4 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
14 3 (2.00%) HTTP
14 3 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (2.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.67%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.33%) Pentaho
5 2 (1.33%) Power BI
6 1 (0.67%) Looker
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.33%) Git
3 7 (4.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 7 (4.67%) JIRA
4 5 (3.33%) Vagrant
5 3 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.33%) MSI
7 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.67%) GitLab
7 1 (0.67%) Maven
General
1 53 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.00%) Finance
3 16 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.33%) Law
5 12 (8.00%) Banking
6 10 (6.67%) Back Office
7 8 (5.33%) Retail
8 5 (3.33%) Legal
8 5 (3.33%) Marketing
9 4 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.00%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.00%) Automotive
10 3 (2.00%) Electronics
11 2 (1.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.67%) Aviation
12 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (24.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (12.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 16 (10.67%) Security Engineer
4 14 (9.33%) Analyst
4 14 (9.33%) IT Engineer
4 14 (9.33%) Support Engineer
5 13 (8.67%) Support Analyst
6 12 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 11 (7.33%) 2nd Line Support
8 10 (6.67%) IT Support
8 10 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) Desktop Support
9 9 (6.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) Support Technician
11 7 (4.67%) Desktop Support Technician
11 7 (4.67%) Desktop Technician
11 7 (4.67%) Lead
12 6 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.67%) Middleware
2 6 (4.00%) GraphQL
2 6 (4.00%) REST
3 4 (2.67%) SOAP
4 3 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.67%) LDAP
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.67%) SAML
5 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.67%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.00%) Clustering
3 11 (7.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.67%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.67%) CMDB
8 3 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.00%) Replication
9 2 (1.33%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.33%) Handset
9 2 (1.33%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.33%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 108 (72.00%) Windows
2 58 (38.67%) Windows Server
3 46 (30.67%) Linux
4 15 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 15 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (9.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (7.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (7.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (5.33%) Ubuntu
8 7 (4.67%) VMS
9 5 (3.33%) Unix
10 3 (2.00%) Debian
10 3 (2.00%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.33%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (1.33%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.67%) CentOS
12 1 (0.67%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (21.33%) ITIL
5 27 (18.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (16.00%) High Availability
8 17 (11.33%) Incident Management
8 17 (11.33%) Process Improvement
8 17 (11.33%) Service Delivery
8 17 (11.33%) Virtual Environments
9 15 (10.00%) Cloud Security
10 14 (9.33%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (8.67%) Agile
11 13 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (8.67%) Customer Service
11 13 (8.67%) DevOps
11 13 (8.67%) Kalman Filter
11 13 (8.67%) SIEM
11 13 (8.67%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.33%) PowerShell
2 33 (22.00%) SQL
3 20 (13.33%) Python
4 11 (7.33%) Bash
4 11 (7.33%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.67%) Perl
6 5 (3.33%) Groovy
6 5 (3.33%) Java
7 3 (2.00%) Ruby
8 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (24.67%) Security Cleared
2 33 (22.00%) Degree
3 23 (15.33%) SC Cleared
4 19 (12.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 12 (8.00%) DV Cleared
6 11 (7.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (6.00%) MCSE
8 8 (5.33%) HND
9 7 (4.67%) CTC Cleared
10 6 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (2.67%) MCSA
12 3 (2.00%) AWS Certification
12 3 (2.00%) CISSP
13 2 (1.33%) CASP
13 2 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.33%) CISM
13 2 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.00%) SLA
2 11 (7.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.67%) NIST
5 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 38 (25.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (14.00%) Hyper-V
4 17 (11.33%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (8.67%) Docker
5 13 (8.67%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (6.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (5.33%) vSphere
8 5 (3.33%) Firmware
9 3 (2.00%) BitLocker
10 2 (1.33%) DFS Replication
10 2 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (14.67%) Ansible
3 18 (12.00%) SCCM
4 14 (9.33%) Terraform
5 11 (7.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (7.33%) SCOM
6 10 (6.67%) NetBackup
7 9 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (5.33%) Nessus
9 7 (4.67%) Proxmox
10 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (2.67%) Kubernetes
11 4 (2.67%) Prometheus
11 4 (2.67%) Puppet
11 4 (2.67%) ZENworks
12 3 (2.00%) Grafana
12 3 (2.00%) Nagios
12 3 (2.00%) Progress Chef
12 3 (2.00%) WMI
12 3 (2.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 89 (59.33%) Microsoft
2 54 (36.00%) VMware
3 24 (16.00%) Cisco
3 24 (16.00%) ServiceNow
4 15 (10.00%) Veeam
5 13 (8.67%) SolarWinds
6 10 (6.67%) Meraki
7 8 (5.33%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.67%) Juniper
8 7 (4.67%) Oracle
9 5 (3.33%) Dell
10 4 (2.67%) Extreme Networks
10 4 (2.67%) Sophos
11 3 (2.00%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.00%) Citrix
11 3 (2.00%) Google
11 3 (2.00%) McAfee
11 3 (2.00%) Proofpoint
11 3 (2.00%) Qualys
11 3 (2.00%) Synology