Patch Management Job Trends in Staffordshire

Patch Management
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Patch Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - -31
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.085% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - -
75th Percentile £33,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £72,500 £41,750
% change year-on-year -31.03% +73.65% +28.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 745 505 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 63.30% 69.08% 81.87%
Number of salaries quoted 559 211 483
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,580 £28,119
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £40,060
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +6.09% -7.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £51,800 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.18% -1.33% -

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Patch Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Patch Management job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Patch Management
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Patch Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 9 August 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £32,500 -
Patch Management
West Midlands

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Service Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) VMware