Patch Management Jobs in the Midlands

Patch Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Patch Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Patch Management over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 263 291
Rank change year-on-year +38 +28 +48
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 30 53 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.44% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.54% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 16 43 21
10th Percentile - £29,400 £30,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £31,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +14.29% -10.83%
75th Percentile £60,000 £44,125 £43,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £44,500 £71,500
England median annual salary £49,000 £42,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +15.29% -11.46% +2.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,557 9,801 8,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.69% 81.60% 96.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,634 7,163 4,442
10th Percentile £27,419 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,063 £35,000 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,374 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the Midlands

Patch Management
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Patch Management in the Midlands

Patch Management
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Patch Management in the Midlands

Patch Management
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
West Midlands +51 20 £60,000 +87.50% 7
East Midlands 0 8 £29,500 -26.25% 8
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (3.33%) nginx
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) AWS
3 9 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (30.00%) AWS KMS
3 9 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (26.67%) Amazon ELB
5 7 (23.33%) Amazon Glacier
6 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (13.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
7 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (13.33%) Serverless
8 3 (10.00%) SaaS
9 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (3.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (53.33%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) DNS
3 6 (20.00%) HTTP
4 5 (16.67%) FTP
4 5 (16.67%) SMTP
4 5 (16.67%) SSH
4 5 (16.67%) SSL
5 4 (13.33%) SAN
6 3 (10.00%) DHCP
6 3 (10.00%) VPN
7 2 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (6.67%) Network Security
7 2 (6.67%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.33%) IMAP
8 1 (3.33%) LAN
8 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (3.33%) VLAN
8 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (26.67%) Vagrant
3 6 (20.00%) Git
3 6 (20.00%) JIRA
4 4 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.33%) Maven
General
1 10 (33.33%) Law
2 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Marketing
3 5 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Legal
4 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Administrator
6 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
6 2 (6.67%) Head of IT
6 2 (6.67%) Implementation Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Software Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Software Implementation Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (6.67%) LDAP
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Clustering
2 3 (10.00%) Replication
3 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Windows
2 18 (60.00%) Linux
3 8 (26.67%) VMS
3 8 (26.67%) Windows Server
4 6 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.33%) CentOS
7 1 (3.33%) Debian
7 1 (3.33%) Mac OS X
7 1 (3.33%) Unix
7 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 10 (33.33%) DevOps
2 9 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (23.33%) Agile
4 7 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (23.33%) High Availability
5 6 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 6 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Batch Management
6 5 (16.67%) Capacity Management
6 5 (16.67%) Change Management
7 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (13.33%) Key Management
7 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
7 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (13.33%) Server Management
7 4 (13.33%) SIEM
8 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 9 (30.00%) Perl
4 8 (26.67%) Groovy
4 8 (26.67%) Shell Script
5 7 (23.33%) Java
5 7 (23.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.00%) Ruby
7 2 (6.67%) Bash
8 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) Degree
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.67%) CASP
5 2 (6.67%) CISM
5 2 (6.67%) CISSP
5 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (16.67%) SLA
2 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (10.00%) DFS Replication
4 1 (3.33%) Dovecot
4 1 (3.33%) Postfix
4 1 (3.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 6 (20.00%) Ansible
2 6 (20.00%) Nessus
3 5 (16.67%) Grafana
3 5 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 5 (16.67%) Proxmox
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (10.00%) Nagios
4 3 (10.00%) Puppet
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.67%) SCOM
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (23.33%) ServiceNow
2 4 (13.33%) Juniper
3 2 (6.67%) ArcSight
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (3.33%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Sophos
4 1 (3.33%) VMware