Patch Management Job Trends in London

Patch Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Patch Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 356 394
Rank change year-on-year +27 +38 +208
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 56 77 69
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.46% 0.44% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.49% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 49 63 65
10th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +39.53%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £48,750 £54,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -9.72% +13.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,409 15,655 18,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 92.79% 90.07% 93.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,328 9,287 14,730
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,256
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Patch Management job vacancy trend in London

Patch Management
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Patch Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Patch Management in London

Patch Management
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the London region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Central London +42 20 £77,500 +3.33% 17
East London - 3 - - 1
North London - 1 £70,000 -
West London - 1 £45,000 - 3
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 21 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) CINEMA 4D
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (37.50%) Azure
2 21 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 8 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.57%) Nutanix
5 2 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.79%) GCP
6 1 (1.79%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.79%) Serverless
6 1 (1.79%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 30 (53.57%) DNS
2 26 (46.43%) DHCP
3 24 (42.86%) LAN
3 24 (42.86%) TCP/IP
4 23 (41.07%) WAN
5 8 (14.29%) Firewall
6 6 (10.71%) Network Security
7 4 (7.14%) VLAN
8 3 (5.36%) NAS
8 3 (5.36%) SAN
8 3 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (5.36%) Wireless
9 2 (3.57%) Junos
9 2 (3.57%) NetScaler
9 2 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.79%) DMARC
10 1 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.79%) IP Telephony
10 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.79%) Power BI
1 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) MSI
General
1 32 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 27 (48.21%) Finance
3 14 (25.00%) Legal
4 9 (16.07%) Banking
5 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Advertising
7 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Law
8 1 (1.79%) Automotive
8 1 (1.79%) Avionics
8 1 (1.79%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.79%) French Language
8 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Systems Engineer
1 13 (23.21%) Windows Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Windows Systems Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) IT Support
4 6 (10.71%) Administrator
4 6 (10.71%) Linux Administrator
4 6 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (8.93%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 5 (8.93%) Security Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.14%) Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) IT Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Systems Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Technical Support
7 3 (5.36%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Wintel Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) .NET
1 2 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (1.79%) EDI
2 1 (1.79%) SOAP
2 1 (1.79%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (23.21%) Hedge funds
3 7 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 6 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (10.71%) Virtual Team
5 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.57%) CCTV
7 2 (3.57%) iPhone
7 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.57%) Replication
7 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.79%) CMDB
8 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.79%) IoT
8 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.79%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.79%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 39 (69.64%) Windows
2 24 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 16 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (19.64%) Linux
5 5 (8.93%) Android
5 5 (8.93%) Mac OS
5 5 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.36%) Apple iOS
6 3 (5.36%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.57%) VMS
8 1 (1.79%) CentOS
8 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (30.36%) Collaborative Working
3 16 (28.57%) Batch Scripting
4 15 (26.79%) Systems Engineering
4 15 (26.79%) Task Automation
5 13 (23.21%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (21.43%) ITIL
7 11 (19.64%) Incident Management
8 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (16.07%) Incident Response
10 7 (12.50%) Change Management
10 7 (12.50%) ITSM
10 7 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (12.50%) Service Management
11 6 (10.71%) DevOps
11 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (10.71%) Problem Management
11 6 (10.71%) Security Hardening
11 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (46.43%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.71%) Python
3 5 (8.93%) SQL
4 3 (5.36%) Bash
5 2 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.79%) Perl
6 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (5.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.57%) MCSE
4 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) CCNA
5 1 (1.79%) CCNP
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) CRISC
5 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.79%) MCSA
5 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (8.93%) QA
1 5 (8.93%) SLA
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (5.36%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.79%) GRC
4 1 (1.79%) SOC 1
4 1 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 17 (30.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (19.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.57%) KVM
4 2 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.79%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.79%) Docker
5 1 (1.79%) Firmware
5 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (23.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (21.43%) SCCM
4 4 (7.14%) Ansible
4 4 (7.14%) WSUS
5 3 (5.36%) NetBackup
5 3 (5.36%) SCOM
6 2 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.79%) CASB
7 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.79%) Grafana
7 1 (1.79%) Puppet
7 1 (1.79%) QRadar
7 1 (1.79%) RSA Archer
7 1 (1.79%) Terraform
7 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.79%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 38 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 19 (33.93%) VMware
3 13 (23.21%) Bloomberg
3 13 (23.21%) Reuters
4 8 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 7 (12.50%) Citrix
5 7 (12.50%) SolarWinds
6 6 (10.71%) Cisco
7 4 (7.14%) Veeam
8 3 (5.36%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (5.36%) Juniper
9 2 (3.57%) Adobe
9 2 (3.57%) Commvault
9 2 (3.57%) CyberArk
9 2 (3.57%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.57%) HP
9 2 (3.57%) NetApp
9 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.79%) Meraki
10 1 (1.79%) Splunk