Patch Management Job Trends in the South East

Patch Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Patch Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 298 233
Rank change year-on-year +39 -65 +197
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 12 20 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.12% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.22% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 21
10th Percentile £47,100 - £39,380
25th Percentile £50,000 £28,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £32,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% -30.11% -15.45%
75th Percentile £60,094 £50,625 £47,250
90th Percentile £62,975 £58,750 £54,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £48,750 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.56% -9.72% +13.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,085 8,938 6,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.82% 84.21% 92.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,942 4,651 4,747
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,525 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +3.72% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Patch Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Patch Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Patch Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the South East over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Patch Management in the South East

Patch Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
Berkshire +15 4 £53,000 -
Thames Valley +11 4 £53,000 +3.41% 1
Kent +6 4 £52,500 - 3
Surrey -2 2 £52,500 +87.50% 1
Hampshire +41 1 £72,500 +38.10% 5
West Sussex - 1 £50,000 -
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) FTP
2 2 (16.67%) HTTP
2 2 (16.67%) SMTP
2 2 (16.67%) SSH
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (16.67%) Vagrant
2 1 (8.33%) Burp Suite
2 1 (8.33%) MSI
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Support Manager
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Penetration Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (16.67%) VMS
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) ITSM
2 3 (25.00%) Change Management
2 3 (25.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (16.67%) CAD
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Servant Leadership
3 2 (16.67%) Service Management
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Groovy
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Perl
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CCSP
3 1 (8.33%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) OSCP
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) DFS Replication
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Firmware
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) SCOM
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
3 1 (8.33%) VxRail
3 1 (8.33%) WMI
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) Adobe
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) Dell
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (8.33%) Imperva
4 1 (8.33%) Juniper
4 1 (8.33%) NetApp
4 1 (8.33%) Qualys
4 1 (8.33%) Tenable
4 1 (8.33%) Thales
4 1 (8.33%) Trend Micro
4 1 (8.33%) Veeam