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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 299 238
Rank change year-on-year +36 -61 +191
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 14 19 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.17% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.21% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 26
10th Percentile £46,300 - £39,380
25th Percentile £49,375 - £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £28,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +107.14% -39.78% -15.45%
75th Percentile £76,563 £55,000 £47,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £59,500 £53,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £54,073
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.53% +13.84%

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 7,786 9,257 7,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 87.37% 81.49% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,430 4,837 5,044
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 2 November 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 2 November 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 +18 6 £52,500 +87.50% 2
Berkshire +8 4 £53,000 - 1
Thames Valley +5 4 £53,000 -7.83% 2
Hampshire +45 3 £75,000 +42.86% 1
West Sussex - 1 £50,000 - 2
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 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) IP Telephony
1 4 (28.57%) NAS
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
1 4 (28.57%) SNMP
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) FTP
3 2 (14.29%) HTTP
3 2 (14.29%) SMTP
3 2 (14.29%) SSH
4 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) MSI
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (14.29%) Vagrant
3 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Advertising
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) IT Support
1 4 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Blackberry
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (14.29%) VMS
4 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Antivirus Management
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) IT Strategy
3 4 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (28.57%) Server Building
3 4 (28.57%) Storage Management
3 4 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
3 4 (28.57%) Web Filtering
4 3 (21.43%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) CAD
5 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Groovy
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) Degree
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (28.57%) HND
5 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
5 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
6 1 (7.14%) CCSP
6 1 (7.14%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (7.14%) CISSP
6 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (7.14%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) DFS Replication
3 2 (14.29%) Docker
4 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) WMI
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) McAfee
3 4 (28.57%) Veeam
4 2 (14.29%) Adobe
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco
5 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.14%) Imperva
5 1 (7.14%) Juniper
5 1 (7.14%) Qualys
5 1 (7.14%) Tenable
5 1 (7.14%) Thales
5 1 (7.14%) Trend Micro