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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 298 255
Rank change year-on-year +30 -43 +184
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 21 41 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.32% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.39% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 13 27 33
10th Percentile £38,700 £28,000 £39,380
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.60% +1.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £47,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £56,000 £57,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% +5.26%

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 7,893 10,489 8,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 88.01% 80.96% 93.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,221 5,907 5,741
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,151 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Surrey +35 9 £45,000 +60.71% 2
Thames Valley -12 7 £45,000 -21.74% 7
Berkshire -5 5 £53,000 -55.83% 3
Hampshire +61 4 £75,000 +76.47% 5
Oxfordshire +23 2 £45,000 +5.88%
West Sussex - 1 £50,000 -
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 3 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) NAS
1 7 (33.33%) SAN
2 6 (28.57%) Firewall
3 5 (23.81%) IP Telephony
3 5 (23.81%) SNMP
4 2 (9.52%) DNS
4 2 (9.52%) FTP
4 2 (9.52%) HTTP
4 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
4 2 (9.52%) SMTP
4 2 (9.52%) SSH
4 2 (9.52%) WAN
4 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.76%) Network Security
5 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) MSI
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (9.52%) Vagrant
4 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Advertising
3 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) IT Support
2 7 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Penetration Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Penetration Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Blackberry
2 3 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 2 (9.52%) Clustering
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
3 2 (9.52%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Windows
2 13 (61.90%) Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (9.52%) VMS
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) Virtual Environments
3 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
3 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (33.33%) Antivirus Management
4 7 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (33.33%) High Availability
4 7 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 7 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
4 7 (33.33%) Server Building
4 7 (33.33%) Web Filtering
5 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (23.81%) Storage Management
6 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
7 3 (14.29%) Change Control
7 3 (14.29%) Change Management
7 3 (14.29%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Groovy
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Perl
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) Degree
3 7 (33.33%) HND
4 6 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 5 (23.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
7 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (4.76%) A+ Certification
7 1 (4.76%) CCSP
7 1 (4.76%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (4.76%) CISSP
7 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (4.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Active Directory
2 10 (47.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) Docker
4 2 (9.52%) DFS Replication
4 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.76%) Firmware
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) WMI
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Grafana
3 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.52%) ZENworks
4 1 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Nessus
4 1 (4.76%) Proxmox
4 1 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (47.62%) VMware
3 5 (23.81%) McAfee
3 5 (23.81%) Veeam
4 2 (9.52%) Juniper
4 2 (9.52%) Meraki
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Adobe
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) Imperva
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Qualys
5 1 (4.76%) Tenable
5 1 (4.76%) Thales
5 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro