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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 333 414
Rank change year-on-year -36 +81 +100
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 37 62 68
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.21% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.50% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 29 48 64
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,700 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,188 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.18% +8.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £88,375
England median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +24.71% -10.53%

All Process & 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 15,204 12,340 20,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.39% 96.24% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,935 7,530 15,942
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,503
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -12.00%

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 1 April 2026.

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 1 April 2026. 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 -1 8 £78,750 -1.56%
West London -25 1 £69,119 +47.06% 1
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 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) Azure
2 18 (48.65%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (32.43%) AWS
4 10 (27.03%) Entra ID
5 6 (16.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (10.81%) GCP
6 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
7 3 (8.11%) Mimecast
8 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.41%) Cloudflare
9 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (2.70%) Datadog
9 1 (2.70%) GitHub
9 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
9 1 (2.70%) SaaS
9 1 (2.70%) Serverless
9 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (32.43%) Firewall
2 9 (24.32%) DNS
3 8 (21.62%) TCP/IP
4 7 (18.92%) DHCP
4 7 (18.92%) Network Security
4 7 (18.92%) VPN
5 3 (8.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (5.41%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (2.70%) LAN
7 1 (2.70%) SSL
7 1 (2.70%) VLAN
7 1 (2.70%) WAN
7 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) MSI
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Aviation
3 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Legal
3 3 (8.11%) Retail
4 1 (2.70%) Advertising
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Dutch Language
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) French Language
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Local Government
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Analyst
1 10 (27.03%) Security Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Security Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Network Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Wintel Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Citrix Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) IT Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Network Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) PowerShell Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Security Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Security Posture
2 3 (8.11%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Cyberattack
3 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.41%) Replication
3 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) NHS
4 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.70%) Tandem
4 1 (2.70%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 23 (62.16%) Windows
2 12 (32.43%) Windows Server
3 6 (16.22%) Linux
4 4 (10.81%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.41%) CentOS
5 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.70%) Android
6 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (35.14%) Incident Response
3 11 (29.73%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (27.03%) SIEM
5 9 (24.32%) ITIL
6 8 (21.62%) Security Operations
7 7 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (18.92%) Incident Management
7 7 (18.92%) Information Security
7 7 (18.92%) Project Management
7 7 (18.92%) Vulnerability Management
8 6 (16.22%) Application Packaging
8 6 (16.22%) Cloud Security
8 6 (16.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 5 (13.51%) Agile
9 5 (13.51%) Business Continuity
9 5 (13.51%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (13.51%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.51%) Bash
3 4 (10.81%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Degree
2 8 (21.62%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (10.81%) CISSP
4 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (8.11%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (8.11%) SSCP
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.41%) CEH
6 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) GIAC
6 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.70%) ACSP
7 1 (2.70%) CISA
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CISM
7 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) GDPR
2 10 (27.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (24.32%) NIST
4 4 (10.81%) GRC
4 4 (10.81%) PCI DSS
5 3 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (5.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) Active Directory
2 10 (27.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (13.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.41%) BitLocker
4 2 (5.41%) KVM
4 2 (5.41%) vSphere
5 1 (2.70%) Docker
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (16.22%) SCCM
3 5 (13.51%) Ansible
4 4 (10.81%) Terraform
5 2 (5.41%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (5.41%) QRadar
6 1 (2.70%) Grafana
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 30 (81.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (29.73%) VMware
3 6 (16.22%) Qualys
4 5 (13.51%) Cisco
5 3 (8.11%) Meraki
5 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.41%) Citrix
6 2 (5.41%) Sophos
6 2 (5.41%) Splunk
6 2 (5.41%) Tenable
7 1 (2.70%) Acronis
7 1 (2.70%) Apple
7 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.70%) Google
7 1 (2.70%) iManage
7 1 (2.70%) Intapp
7 1 (2.70%) N-able
7 1 (2.70%) Snow
7 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds