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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 287 257
Rank change year-on-year +23 -30 +145
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 13 13 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.13% 0.14% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 16
10th Percentile £50,250 £29,950 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,875 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -3.23% -15.45%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £49,688
90th Percentile £60,125 £59,750 £55,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +13.68%

All Process & 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 8,305 8,027 7,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.68% 87.78% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,907 3,901 5,063
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,910 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
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 January 2026.

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 January 2026. 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
Kent - 10 £52,500 - 1
Hampshire +38 1 £72,500 +38.10% 5
Surrey 0 1 £55,000 +81.82% 1
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 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DHCP
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) NetScaler
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
1 2 (15.38%) VSAN
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) MSI
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Manager
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Support
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Support Manager
1 8 (61.54%) Support Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Windows 10
3 3 (23.08%) Linux
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Emotional Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 8 (61.54%) ITSM
1 8 (61.54%) Security Operations
1 8 (61.54%) Software Deployment
2 3 (23.08%) Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) Converged Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) IT Governance
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Preventative Maintenance
3 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
3 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
4 1 (7.69%) Application Security
4 1 (7.69%) Business Development
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.69%) OWASP
4 1 (7.69%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
1 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (15.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) vCenter Server
2 2 (15.38%) VxRail
3 1 (7.69%) WMI
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) ServiceNow
1 8 (61.54%) SolarWinds
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) Dell
3 2 (15.38%) NetApp
3 2 (15.38%) Veeam
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Adobe
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) Imperva
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Qualys
4 1 (7.69%) Thales
4 1 (7.69%) Trend Micro