Patch Management Jobs in the South East

Patch Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 318 336
Rank change year-on-year +42 +18 +118
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 35 69 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.49% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 22 60 27
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,015 £40,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £61,438 £45,000 £53,125
90th Percentile £77,375 £56,000 £60,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -14.14% +4.62%

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 9,162 14,128 11,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 89.97% 81.81% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,815 9,674 7,278
10th Percentile £28,100 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

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

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

Salary trend for Patch Management in the South East

Patch Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 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 16 July 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 +59 17 £40,000 +42.86% 4
Thames Valley +44 10 £45,000 -38.98% 13
Berkshire +21 7 £53,000 -55.83% 7
Hampshire +57 4 £75,000 +76.47% 5
West Sussex - 4 £30,000 - 2
Oxfordshire +48 3 £45,000 +63.64% 2
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 12 (34.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 5 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 5 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.57%) Serverless
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) GCP
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.86%) IaaS
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) NAS
1 11 (31.43%) SAN
2 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 7 (20.00%) SSL
3 5 (14.29%) IP Telephony
3 5 (14.29%) SNMP
4 2 (5.71%) DNS
4 2 (5.71%) FTP
4 2 (5.71%) HTTP
4 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.71%) SMTP
4 2 (5.71%) SSH
4 2 (5.71%) WAN
4 2 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) MSI
3 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (5.71%) Git
4 2 (5.71%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.71%) Vagrant
5 1 (2.86%) Burp Suite
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Advertising
3 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
3 3 (8.57%) Automotive
3 3 (8.57%) Electronics
3 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) IT Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) IT Support
2 11 (31.43%) IT Support Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Support Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Technical Support
5 3 (8.57%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Applications Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Senior
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Penetration Tester
7 1 (2.86%) Tester
7 1 (2.86%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Clustering
2 5 (14.29%) Blackberry
3 3 (8.57%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Replication
4 2 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 24 (68.57%) Windows
2 15 (42.86%) Linux
3 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.43%) Unix
4 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
4 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (8.57%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (5.71%) VMS
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 16 (45.71%) Virtual Environments
2 14 (40.00%) Antivirus Management
2 14 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
2 14 (40.00%) Web Filtering
3 13 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
4 12 (34.29%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (34.29%) High Availability
5 11 (31.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (31.43%) IT Strategy
5 11 (31.43%) Server Building
6 10 (28.57%) Agile
6 10 (28.57%) Change Control
7 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.14%) DevOps
8 6 (17.14%) Mobile Device Management
9 5 (14.29%) Storage Management
10 4 (11.43%) Change Management
10 4 (11.43%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) PowerShell
2 6 (17.14%) Python
3 5 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.71%) Groovy
5 2 (5.71%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (40.00%) Degree
3 11 (31.43%) HND
4 10 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.86%) A+ Certification
8 1 (2.86%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (2.86%) CISA
8 1 (2.86%) CISSP
8 1 (2.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (65.71%) Active Directory
2 14 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (14.29%) Docker
4 3 (8.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.71%) DFS Replication
5 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Terraform
2 4 (11.43%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) WMI
3 3 (8.57%) Grafana
3 3 (8.57%) Nessus
3 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.57%) Proxmox
4 2 (5.71%) ZENworks
5 1 (2.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (62.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (40.00%) VMware
3 5 (14.29%) McAfee
3 5 (14.29%) Veeam
4 4 (11.43%) Juniper
5 2 (5.71%) Meraki
5 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) Adobe
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle
6 1 (2.86%) Tenable