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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 371 398
Rank change year-on-year +31 +27 +189
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 48 75 63
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.37% 0.43% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.47% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 43 61 59
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £46,250 £49,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +38.89%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £95,000 £94,000
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 11,761 16,000 17,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.60% 91.06% 93.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7,425 9,431 14,292
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 24 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 24 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 +52 19 £77,500 -3.13% 3
East London - 3 - -
West London - 1 £45,000 - 2
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 18 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) CINEMA 4D
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 18 (37.50%) Azure
4 6 (12.50%) AWS
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.17%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.17%) GCP
6 2 (4.17%) PaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.08%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.08%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.08%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.08%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.08%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 25 (52.08%) DNS
2 21 (43.75%) DHCP
3 20 (41.67%) TCP/IP
4 19 (39.58%) LAN
5 18 (37.50%) WAN
6 7 (14.58%) Firewall
7 6 (12.50%) Network Security
8 4 (8.33%) VLAN
9 3 (6.25%) NAS
9 3 (6.25%) SAN
9 3 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (4.17%) Junos
10 2 (4.17%) NetScaler
10 2 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (4.17%) Wireless
11 1 (2.08%) DMARC
11 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (2.08%) IP Telephony
11 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) MSI
General
1 28 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (47.92%) Finance
3 13 (27.08%) Legal
4 6 (12.50%) Banking
5 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Advertising
7 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Law
8 1 (2.08%) Automotive
8 1 (2.08%) Dutch Language
8 1 (2.08%) French Language
8 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Systems Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Administrator
5 7 (14.58%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (10.42%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 5 (10.42%) Network Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Security Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (8.33%) Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) IT Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) IT Support
7 4 (8.33%) Systems Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Support Analyst
9 2 (4.17%) Desktop Support
9 2 (4.17%) Help Desk Analyst
9 2 (4.17%) Operations Manager
9 2 (4.17%) Support Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (2.08%) EDI
2 1 (2.08%) REST
2 1 (2.08%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (25.00%) Hedge funds
3 7 (14.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (10.42%) Onboarding
4 5 (10.42%) Virtual Team
5 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (4.17%) CCTV
7 2 (4.17%) iPhone
7 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (4.17%) Replication
7 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (2.08%) IoT
8 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
8 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
8 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.08%) Tandem
8 1 (2.08%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 32 (66.67%) Windows
2 20 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 13 (27.08%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (22.92%) Linux
5 5 (10.42%) Android
5 5 (10.42%) Mac OS
5 5 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (4.17%) CentOS
7 2 (4.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (4.17%) VMS
7 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (31.25%) Task Automation
3 14 (29.17%) Collaborative Working
3 14 (29.17%) Systems Engineering
4 13 (27.08%) Batch Scripting
5 12 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (18.75%) ITIL
6 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 8 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 8 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (14.58%) Change Management
8 7 (14.58%) Security Hardening
9 6 (12.50%) DevOps
9 6 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (12.50%) Problem Management
10 5 (10.42%) Change Control
10 5 (10.42%) Low Latency
10 5 (10.42%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.42%) Python
2 5 (10.42%) SQL
3 4 (8.33%) Bash
4 2 (4.17%) C#
4 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
3 3 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.17%) MCSE
4 2 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) CCNA
5 1 (2.08%) CCNP
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.08%) MCSA
5 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 4 (8.33%) GDPR
2 4 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.25%) SLA
4 2 (4.17%) NIST
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 29 (60.42%) Active Directory
2 14 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (14.58%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.17%) KVM
4 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.08%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.08%) Firmware
5 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (16.67%) SCCM
4 4 (8.33%) Ansible
5 2 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (4.17%) Terraform
5 2 (4.17%) WSUS
6 1 (2.08%) CASB
6 1 (2.08%) Grafana
6 1 (2.08%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.08%) QRadar
6 1 (2.08%) SCOM
6 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.08%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 35 (72.92%) Microsoft
2 16 (33.33%) VMware
3 12 (25.00%) Bloomberg
3 12 (25.00%) Reuters
4 6 (12.50%) Citrix
5 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
5 5 (10.42%) SolarWinds
6 4 (8.33%) Cisco
7 3 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (4.17%) Adobe
8 2 (4.17%) Commvault
8 2 (4.17%) CyberArk
8 2 (4.17%) Juniper
8 2 (4.17%) Palo Alto
8 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.17%) Veeam
9 1 (2.08%) Infor
9 1 (2.08%) Meraki
9 1 (2.08%) Qualys
9 1 (2.08%) Splunk