Patch Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 565 605
Rank change year-on-year +102 +40 +6
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 114 207 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 71 168 120
10th Percentile - £31,175 £30,450
25th Percentile £28,750 £34,688 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £50,875 £47,813 £47,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £55,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +1.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Patch Management in the UK excluding London

Patch Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Midlands +61 31 £34,000 -15.00% 64
South East +57 30 £40,000 -5.88% 88
North of England +40 23 £45,000 +8.43% 61
West Midlands +53 21 £62,500 +57.23% 37
East of England +36 14 £29,500 -30.59% 58
North West +8 12 £47,000 -21.67% 25
South West +104 11 £46,250 +23.33% 37
East Midlands +24 8 £29,500 -26.25% 23
Yorkshire +50 6 £45,000 -5.26% 27
Scotland +113 5 - - 9
North East +46 5 £32,000 -22.89% 9
Wales +43 1 - - 8
Patch Management
UK

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (19.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.02%) Confluence
3 7 (6.14%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.63%) IIS
5 2 (1.75%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (31.58%) Azure
1 36 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (23.68%) AWS
3 17 (14.91%) Entra ID
4 14 (12.28%) Amazon S3
4 14 (12.28%) AWS KMS
4 14 (12.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (8.77%) Amazon ELB
6 9 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (7.02%) Amazon Glacier
8 7 (6.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 7 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.14%) Serverless
9 5 (4.39%) SaaS
10 3 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.63%) IaaS
10 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (28.07%) Firewall
2 24 (21.05%) DNS
3 17 (14.91%) SSL
4 16 (14.04%) DHCP
5 14 (12.28%) SAN
6 12 (10.53%) SSH
7 11 (9.65%) NAS
8 8 (7.02%) HTTP
9 7 (6.14%) FTP
9 7 (6.14%) SMTP
10 5 (4.39%) IP Telephony
10 5 (4.39%) SNMP
10 5 (4.39%) VPN
11 4 (3.51%) Network Security
11 4 (3.51%) SD-WAN
12 3 (2.63%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (2.63%) WAN
13 2 (1.75%) IMAP
13 2 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.77%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.39%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.77%) Vagrant
3 8 (7.02%) Git
3 8 (7.02%) JIRA
4 7 (6.14%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.63%) MSI
5 3 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.88%) Maven
General
1 43 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Law
3 17 (14.91%) Marketing
4 16 (14.04%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (7.02%) Back Office
6 6 (5.26%) Finance
6 6 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.51%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.63%) Advertising
9 3 (2.63%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.63%) Automotive
9 3 (2.63%) Electronics
9 3 (2.63%) Legal
10 2 (1.75%) Retail
11 1 (0.88%) Aviation
11 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (18.42%) 2nd Line Support
3 19 (16.67%) Analyst
3 19 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 17 (14.91%) Support Engineer
5 16 (14.04%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 16 (14.04%) Infrastructure Support
6 15 (13.16%) IT Engineer
7 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 12 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (9.65%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (9.65%) IT Support
9 11 (9.65%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (7.89%) Support Technician
11 8 (7.02%) Desktop Support
11 8 (7.02%) Desktop Support Technician
11 8 (7.02%) Desktop Technician
12 7 (6.14%) Senior
13 6 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 5 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (2.63%) LDAP
2 1 (0.88%) Middleware
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (0.88%) SAML
2 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.02%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.14%) Security Posture
3 6 (5.26%) Clustering
3 6 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.39%) Blackberry
4 5 (4.39%) Replication
4 5 (4.39%) Tandem
5 4 (3.51%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.88%) PKI
8 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 66 (57.89%) Windows
2 32 (28.07%) Linux
3 26 (22.81%) Windows Server
4 12 (10.53%) Windows 10
5 10 (8.77%) Ubuntu
5 10 (8.77%) VMS
5 10 (8.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (6.14%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (4.39%) Unix
8 4 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.75%) Debian
11 1 (0.88%) CentOS
11 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.88%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (25.44%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (22.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (17.54%) Incident Management
5 20 (17.54%) ITIL
6 19 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.79%) Customer Service
8 17 (14.91%) High Availability
9 16 (14.04%) Batch Management
9 16 (14.04%) DevOps
9 16 (14.04%) IT Strategy
9 16 (14.04%) Kalman Filter
9 16 (14.04%) Virtual Environments
9 16 (14.04%) Web Filtering
10 15 (13.16%) Cloud Security
11 14 (12.28%) Antivirus Management
12 13 (11.40%) Agile
12 13 (11.40%) Computer Science
13 12 (10.53%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.82%) SQL
2 33 (28.95%) PowerShell
3 19 (16.67%) Python
4 13 (11.40%) Java
5 11 (9.65%) Shell Script
6 10 (8.77%) Groovy
6 10 (8.77%) Perl
7 3 (2.63%) Ruby
8 2 (1.75%) Bash
9 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (48.25%) Security Cleared
2 42 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 29 (25.44%) Degree
4 11 (9.65%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.65%) HND
5 8 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (7.02%) CTC Cleared
6 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.51%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.51%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.63%) CISSP
9 2 (1.75%) CASP
9 2 (1.75%) CISM
9 2 (1.75%) MCSA
10 1 (0.88%) CEH
10 1 (0.88%) CISA
10 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.05%) SLA
2 9 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.51%) NIST
4 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 27 (23.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (15.79%) Docker
4 14 (12.28%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (9.65%) Hyper-V
6 7 (6.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (3.51%) DFS Replication
8 2 (1.75%) Dovecot
8 2 (1.75%) Postfix
8 2 (1.75%) Squid
8 2 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.88%) Firmware
9 1 (0.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (13.16%) Terraform
2 10 (8.77%) Ansible
2 10 (8.77%) Nessus
3 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (7.89%) Proxmox
4 8 (7.02%) Grafana
4 8 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.26%) Backup Exec
6 4 (3.51%) Puppet
7 3 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.63%) Nagios
7 3 (2.63%) WMI
8 2 (1.75%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.75%) SCOM
8 2 (1.75%) ZENworks
9 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.88%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (49.12%) Microsoft
2 29 (25.44%) VMware
3 13 (11.40%) Veeam
4 12 (10.53%) Cisco
5 11 (9.65%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.14%) Juniper
7 5 (4.39%) McAfee
7 5 (4.39%) Oracle
8 4 (3.51%) Meraki
9 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.63%) Sophos
10 2 (1.75%) ArcSight
10 2 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.75%) Splunk
10 2 (1.75%) Synology
10 2 (1.75%) Veritas
11 1 (0.88%) Apple
11 1 (0.88%) Google
11 1 (0.88%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.88%) Ubiquiti