Security Patching Job Trends in Surrey

Security Patching
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Security Patching skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 105 85
Rank change year-on-year +4 -20 +95
Permanent jobs citing Security Patching 1 4 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.060% 0.32% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.35% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - £41,300
25th Percentile £37,500 £52,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +26.44% -42.00%
75th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £45,000
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £41,750 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.50% +17.65% -5.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,364 1,135 903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 81.97% 91.68% 90.21%
Number of salaries quoted 779 514 596
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,130
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.23% -3.40%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Security Patching job vacancy trend in Surrey

Security Patching
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Security Patching.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Patching within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 2 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
Redhill - 1 £40,000 -
Security Patching
South East

Security Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Technician
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Support Technician
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technician
1 1 (100.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware