Security Patching Jobs in London

Security Patching
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Security Patching skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Patching over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 506 560
Rank change year-on-year +121 +54 +253
Permanent jobs citing Security Patching 18 11 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.047% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.051% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 15 11 62
10th Percentile £38,500 £32,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £39,875 £33,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £37,500 £60,277
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% -37.79% +20.55%
75th Percentile £76,875 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £72,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +3.45%

All Process and 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 12,444 21,505 32,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.25% 91.16% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,259 15,937 23,598
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,411
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,524 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,001 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in London

Security Patching
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Patching in London.

Salary trend for Security Patching in London

Security Patching
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 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
East London - 3 £65,000 -
Central London +25 1 £85,000 +137.76%
South London - 1 £75,000 - 1
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Chatbot
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (27.78%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) SAN
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) NetScaler
2 3 (16.67%) Unified Communications
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
2 3 (16.67%) Wireless
3 2 (11.11%) DHCP
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) Softphone
4 1 (5.56%) BGP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
4 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
4 1 (5.56%) FCoE
4 1 (5.56%) Internet
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) Modbus
4 1 (5.56%) NX-OS
4 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) IT Support
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Desktop Support
2 4 (22.22%) Senior IT Support
3 3 (16.67%) Linux Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Service Operations Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Unix Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Clustering
2 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Replication
3 2 (11.11%) Handset
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.56%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (16.67%) Unix
5 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (38.89%) ITIL
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Conversational UI
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) High Availability
4 4 (22.22%) Service Management
4 4 (22.22%) User Experience
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 3 (16.67%) ITSM
5 3 (16.67%) Patch Management
5 3 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CEH
2 1 (5.56%) CISM
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
1 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
3 3 (16.67%) SCCM
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) VMware
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) Citrix
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco
4 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 3 (16.67%) EMC
5 3 (16.67%) Remedy
5 3 (16.67%) SaltStack
5 3 (16.67%) Symantec
6 2 (11.11%) Qualys
6 2 (11.11%) Wyse
7 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.56%) Veeam