Patch Management Jobs in the Thames Valley

Patch Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 236 255
Rank change year-on-year +69 +19 +6
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 9 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.29% 0.075% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.088% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile - £35,625 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,688 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.98% +13.46% +96.97%
75th Percentile £47,500 £97,188 £68,750
90th Percentile - £110,875 £74,750
South East median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +5.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,902 5,700 5,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.07% 85.11% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 3,989 3,139
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,938 £38,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,587 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,688 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the Thames Valley

Patch Management
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Patch Management in the Thames Valley

Patch Management
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire +45 4 - - 1
Oxfordshire +41 3 £45,000 +63.64%
Buckinghamshire - 2 £45,000 -
Patch Management
South East

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (44.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
2 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) SSL
3 2 (22.22%) Internet
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security
3 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
1 2 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Ubuntu
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Capacity Management
3 4 (44.44%) Key Management
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Compliance Audit
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Nessus
2 4 (44.44%) Proxmox
3 2 (22.22%) ZENworks
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Juniper
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
2 2 (22.22%) Meraki
2 2 (22.22%) VMware