Patch Management Job Trends

Patch Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Patch Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 492 623
Rank change year-on-year -7 +131 +77
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 222 164 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.40% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 136 110 237
10th Percentile £31,875 £31,475 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,625 £80,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,875 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.88% +6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,346 40,822 82,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.74% 93.29% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43,359 22,211 59,550
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Patch Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Patch Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Patch Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England -30 179 £52,500 +5.00% 42
UK excluding London +2 165 £43,875 -2.50% 30
Work from Home +69 102 £52,500 -4.55% 22
London -21 54 £70,000 +5.26% 19
Scotland +29 37 £53,750 +34.38%
South West -27 32 £42,500 -10.53% 2
South East -19 30 £52,500 +31.25% 11
Midlands -20 30 £42,500 -22.73% 6
North of England -25 28 £34,000 -24.44% 5
East Midlands -14 19 £42,500 +6.25% 4
Yorkshire -45 16 £30,750 -31.67%
North West +3 12 £42,500 -9.57% 4
West Midlands -46 11 £52,500 -12.50% 2
East of England -12 5 £41,191 -8.47% 3
Wales -26 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (12.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (9.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) IIS
Applications
1 59 (26.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.45%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 128 (57.66%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (30.63%) Entra ID
3 49 (22.07%) Azure
4 20 (9.01%) AWS
5 19 (8.56%) Power Platform
6 18 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (4.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (4.95%) Mimecast
8 7 (3.15%) GCP
9 4 (1.80%) IaaS
9 4 (1.80%) PaaS
9 4 (1.80%) SaaS
10 3 (1.35%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.90%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.90%) Serverless
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.45%) Datadog
12 1 (0.45%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (20.72%) Firewall
2 37 (16.67%) DNS
3 35 (15.77%) DHCP
4 24 (10.81%) VPN
5 22 (9.91%) Network Security
5 22 (9.91%) TCP/IP
6 12 (5.41%) SAN
6 12 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (4.95%) LAN
7 11 (4.95%) WAN
8 8 (3.60%) Internet
8 8 (3.60%) VLAN
9 5 (2.25%) Wireless
10 4 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.35%) DMZ
11 3 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (1.35%) NAS
12 2 (0.90%) 4G
12 2 (0.90%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.56%) Power BI
2 17 (7.66%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.35%) MySQL
5 2 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
General
1 130 (58.56%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.52%) Back Office
3 26 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (4.95%) Finance
6 10 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.05%) Advertising
7 9 (4.05%) Legal
8 6 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.70%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.70%) Retail
9 4 (1.80%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.35%) Aviation
10 3 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.90%) Automotive
11 2 (0.90%) Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Law
11 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 58 (26.13%) Support Engineer
2 57 (25.68%) Desktop Engineer
2 57 (25.68%) Desktop Support
3 56 (25.23%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 48 (21.62%) Site Engineer
5 39 (17.57%) Analyst
6 30 (13.51%) Security Analyst
7 22 (9.91%) Infrastructure Manager
8 21 (9.46%) Support Manager
9 20 (9.01%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 20 (9.01%) Infrastructure Support
9 20 (9.01%) Infrastructure Support Manager
10 19 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (6.31%) Administrator
12 13 (5.86%) Senior
13 12 (5.41%) IT Support
13 12 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
14 11 (4.95%) IT Support Technician
14 11 (4.95%) Support Technician
14 11 (4.95%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.11%) Security Posture
2 12 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.95%) Driving Licence
4 9 (4.05%) Clustering
5 7 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.25%) Replication
7 4 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.35%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.90%) CCTV
9 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.90%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.90%) Robotics
9 2 (0.90%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.45%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.45%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 141 (63.51%) Windows
2 82 (36.94%) Windows 10
3 32 (14.41%) Windows Server
4 20 (9.01%) Linux
5 9 (4.05%) Android
6 8 (3.60%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.80%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.90%) CentOS
8 2 (0.90%) Debian
8 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (44.14%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (38.29%) ITIL
3 73 (32.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 73 (32.88%) Software Deployment
4 63 (28.38%) Customer Service
5 61 (27.48%) Analytics
6 55 (24.77%) Ticket Management
7 54 (24.32%) Customer Experience
8 50 (22.52%) Customer Acquisition
9 44 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (18.47%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 39 (17.57%) Security Operations
12 35 (15.77%) ITSM
13 25 (11.26%) Incident Response
14 24 (10.81%) Information Security
15 23 (10.36%) Emotional Intelligence
15 23 (10.36%) Infrastructure Monitoring
15 23 (10.36%) Vulnerability Management
16 22 (9.91%) Service Delivery
16 22 (9.91%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.12%) PowerShell
2 17 (7.66%) SQL
3 6 (2.70%) Python
4 5 (2.25%) Bash
5 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.45%) COBOL
6 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 71 (31.98%) Degree
2 63 (28.38%) Security Cleared
3 59 (26.58%) SC Cleared
4 50 (22.52%) CTC Cleared
5 18 (8.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (4.95%) CompTIA CySA+
6 11 (4.95%) SSCP
7 10 (4.50%) CISSP
8 8 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.70%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.70%) CISM
11 5 (2.25%) CCNA
11 5 (2.25%) CEH
12 4 (1.80%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.35%) CCNP
13 3 (1.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 3 (1.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 2 (0.90%) ACSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (24.77%) SLA
2 34 (15.32%) GDPR
3 33 (14.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (9.91%) NIST
5 17 (7.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (6.31%) PCI DSS
7 11 (4.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 11 (4.95%) GRC
8 3 (1.35%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.45%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.45%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.45%) PMO
10 1 (0.45%) QA
10 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (29.73%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.56%) Hyper-V
3 14 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.70%) BitLocker
4 6 (2.70%) vSphere
5 4 (1.80%) Docker
5 4 (1.80%) Firmware
6 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (18.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (14.41%) SCCM
3 8 (3.60%) Ansible
4 6 (2.70%) Puppet
5 5 (2.25%) QRadar
5 5 (2.25%) Terraform
6 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.90%) Nagios
7 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.90%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.90%) VxRail
8 1 (0.45%) CASB
8 1 (0.45%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.45%) Nessus
8 1 (0.45%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 129 (58.11%) Microsoft
2 66 (29.73%) Cisco
3 30 (13.51%) ServiceNow
4 25 (11.26%) SolarWinds
5 16 (7.21%) VMware
6 12 (5.41%) Qualys
7 11 (4.95%) Citrix
7 11 (4.95%) Veeam
8 8 (3.60%) Tenable
9 7 (3.15%) Apple
9 7 (3.15%) Meraki
9 7 (3.15%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.15%) SonicWALL
10 6 (2.70%) Dell
11 5 (2.25%) Sophos
12 4 (1.80%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.35%) MobileIron
14 2 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
14 2 (0.90%) TP-LINK
14 2 (0.90%) Varonis