Patch Management Jobs in the South West

Patch Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 278 247
Rank change year-on-year +107 -31 +48
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 10 14 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.15% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.18% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 17
10th Percentile £45,250 £35,125 £27,800
25th Percentile £45,625 £36,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -11.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
90th Percentile - £53,975 £50,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% +1.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,343 7,748 6,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.28% 83.55% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,939 5,564 3,572
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 West

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the South West

Patch Management
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Patch Management in the South West

Patch Management
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Bristol +53 4 £47,500 +26.67% 3
Somerset +12 3 - - 1
Wiltshire - 3 - - 2
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Entra ID
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Back Office
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Desktop Support
1 7 (70.00%) Desktop Support Technician
1 7 (70.00%) Desktop Technician
1 7 (70.00%) Support Technician
2 3 (30.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (70.00%) Analytics
2 7 (70.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (70.00%) Customer Acquisition
2 7 (70.00%) Customer Experience
2 7 (70.00%) Customer Service
2 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 7 (70.00%) Software Deployment
2 7 (70.00%) Ticket Management
3 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (20.00%) Network Design
4 2 (20.00%) OWASP
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) CTC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) SLA
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco