Security Patching Job Trends in the South East

Security Patching
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Security Patching skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 269 271
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +115
Permanent jobs citing Security Patching 5 29 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.048% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.36% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 24 10
10th Percentile - - £40,025
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £45,000
90th Percentile - £57,500 £48,750
England median annual salary £28,000 £51,000 £41,234
% change year-on-year -45.10% +23.68% -8.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Security Patching 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 8,281 7,962 7,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.27% 88.01% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,926 3,813 5,426
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Patching relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Security Patching job vacancy trend in the South East

Security Patching
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Security Patching.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Security Patching

Security Patching
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 Security Patching within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Hampshire +24 2 - - 1
Surrey +10 1 £40,000 -27.27% 2
Thames Valley +2 1 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +2 1 - - 2
Kent - 1 - - 3
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) PBX
2 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
1 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Technician
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Technician
1 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Technician
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Wintel Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (20.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (20.00%) IVR
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) McAfee
2 1 (20.00%) VMware