Patch Management Job Trends in Northampton

Patch Management
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Patch Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 3 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton 0.55% - 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% - 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,500 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 - £40,000
75th Percentile £41,500 - £42,500
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median annual salary £40,500 - £40,000
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 416 166 350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 75.64% 79.05% 73.84%
Number of salaries quoted 251 138 269
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,425 £24,750
25th Percentile £37,125 £32,500 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,842 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% +8.54% -18.18%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £71,250
Northamptonshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,683 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.63% +19.21% -27.27%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Patch Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Patch Management job vacancy trend in Northampton

Patch Management
Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Patch Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) IT Support
3 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) SonicWALL
2 1 (33.33%) Sophos
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) WatchGuard