Security Patching Job Trends in London

Security Patching
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Security Patching skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 397 425
Rank change year-on-year +39 +28 +166
Permanent jobs citing Security Patching 16 31 18
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.11% 0.20% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8 24 17
10th Percentile £58,250 £44,875 £35,150
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +71.05% -30.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £81,250 £53,750
90th Percentile - £83,875 £84,000
England median annual salary £28,000 £52,500 £40,617
% change year-on-year -46.67% +29.26% -9.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Security Patching 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 12,365 14,682 16,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.68% 94.64% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,912 8,070 13,469
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,125 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Security Patching job vacancy trend in London

Security Patching
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Patching.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Patching in London

Security Patching
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Patching within the London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 +37 2 £52,500 +5.00%
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
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 3 (18.75%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (43.75%) Datadog
3 7 (43.75%) IaaS
3 7 (43.75%) PaaS
3 7 (43.75%) SaaS
4 4 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (18.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
1 11 (68.75%) VPN
2 8 (50.00%) DHCP
2 8 (50.00%) DNS
2 8 (50.00%) SAN
2 8 (50.00%) VLAN
2 8 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (25.00%) Network Security
4 3 (18.75%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Chocolatey
2 3 (18.75%) Git
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) IT Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Senior
2 7 (43.75%) Senior IT Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Administrator
4 4 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (25.00%) Wintel Administrator
4 4 (25.00%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Platform Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (6.25%) Unix Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Ubuntu
3 3 (18.75%) VMS
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (50.00%) ITIL
3 8 (50.00%) ITSM
4 7 (43.75%) Analytical Thinking
4 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
4 7 (43.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (43.75%) Migration
5 6 (37.50%) Change Management
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
6 3 (18.75%) GitOps
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Network Management
8 1 (6.25%) Acceptance Criteria
8 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
8 1 (6.25%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 7 (43.75%) Azure Certification
2 7 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (43.75%) SCCM
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Argo
2 3 (18.75%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (18.75%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Istio
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) linkerd
2 3 (18.75%) Mesos
2 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) VMware
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) AppDynamics
3 7 (43.75%) Dynatrace
3 7 (43.75%) Tenable
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Symantec