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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 334 377
Rank change year-on-year +63 +43 +63
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 28 61 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.36% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.43% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 19 57 20
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £36,025
25th Percentile £34,375 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,250 £55,938
90th Percentile £66,500 £57,600 £66,375
England median annual salary £49,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +16.47% -10.53% +1.35%

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 8,656 14,162 13,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.84% 84.47% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,247 9,859 7,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +66 14 £40,000 -25.93% 1
Thames Valley +66 8 £45,000 -38.98% 6
Berkshire +45 4 - - 4
West Sussex - 4 £30,000 -
Oxfordshire +36 3 £45,000 +63.64% 3
Hampshire +50 2 £75,000 +76.47% 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £45,000 -
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 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 4 (14.29%) AWS KMS
2 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Serverless
2 4 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) NAS
1 8 (28.57%) SAN
1 8 (28.57%) SSL
2 6 (21.43%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) IP Telephony
3 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.14%) SNMP
3 2 (7.14%) WAN
3 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.57%) Internet
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (7.14%) MSI
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Aerospace
2 3 (10.71%) Automotive
2 3 (10.71%) Electronics
2 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.14%) Advertising
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) IT Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
3 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) IT Support
3 8 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Support
5 3 (10.71%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (7.14%) Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.57%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Clustering
2 3 (10.71%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (10.71%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.71%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (7.14%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Linux
3 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 4 (14.29%) Unix
4 4 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
3 12 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (39.29%) Antivirus Management
4 11 (39.29%) Kalman Filter
4 11 (39.29%) Web Filtering
5 10 (35.71%) Change Control
5 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (32.14%) High Availability
6 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 8 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (28.57%) IT Strategy
7 8 (28.57%) Server Building
8 6 (21.43%) Agile
8 6 (21.43%) Mobile Device Management
9 5 (17.86%) DevOps
10 4 (14.29%) Capacity Management
10 4 (14.29%) Key Management
10 4 (14.29%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) Degree
2 9 (32.14%) DV Cleared
3 8 (28.57%) HND
3 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.57%) CISA
6 1 (3.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) ISO 9001
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.29%) Docker
3 4 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Ansible
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 4 (14.29%) Nessus
2 4 (14.29%) Proxmox
3 2 (7.14%) WMI
3 2 (7.14%) ZENworks
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (39.29%) VMware
3 4 (14.29%) Juniper
4 2 (7.14%) McAfee
4 2 (7.14%) Meraki
4 2 (7.14%) Veeam
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco
5 1 (3.57%) Fortinet