Patch Management Jobs

Patch Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 631 711
Rank change year-on-year +81 +80 +99
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 143 270 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.27% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.32% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 110 230 230
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,183
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% +1.06%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £61,000
90th Percentile £78,875 £81,375 £71,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -11.11%

All Process and 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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
England +71 139 £50,000 +17.65% 116
UK excluding London +103 86 £45,000 +5.88% 80
London +97 60 £68,000 +3.78% 48
Work from Home +161 44 £55,000 +3.29% 64
South East +78 27 £40,000 -5.88% 22
North of England +76 27 £45,000 +7.14% 9
Midlands +55 22 £55,000 +37.50% 13
West Midlands +41 15 £57,500 +65.47% 12
North West +32 13 £47,000 -21.67% 4
Yorkshire +67 9 £45,000 -2.70% 4
East of England +47 7 £55,000 +69.23% 13
North East +50 5 £32,000 -22.89% 1
East Midlands +30 5 £40,000 - 1
South West +94 3 £47,500 +5.56% 18
Scotland +124 1 £40,000 -16.67% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £50,000 - 2

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (16.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (9.79%) IIS
3 12 (8.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 76 (53.15%) Azure
2 50 (34.97%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (32.17%) AWS
4 22 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 10 (6.99%) SaaS
6 7 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (4.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 7 (4.90%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.90%) AWS KMS
6 7 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.90%) Serverless
6 7 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (4.20%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (4.20%) GCP
8 5 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (2.10%) IaaS
9 3 (2.10%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (31.47%) Firewall
2 40 (27.97%) DNS
3 37 (25.87%) DHCP
4 20 (13.99%) TCP/IP
4 20 (13.99%) WAN
5 16 (11.19%) LAN
5 16 (11.19%) SAN
6 15 (10.49%) VPN
7 12 (8.39%) SSL
8 10 (6.99%) Network Security
9 8 (5.59%) SD-WAN
9 8 (5.59%) Wireless
10 7 (4.90%) NAS
11 5 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (2.10%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (2.10%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (2.10%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (2.10%) VLAN
13 2 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.89%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.80%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.40%) Pentaho
4 2 (1.40%) Power BI
5 1 (0.70%) Looker
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.70%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Git
2 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.90%) Bitbucket Server
3 7 (4.90%) JIRA
4 3 (2.10%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.70%) GitLab
5 1 (0.70%) Maven
5 1 (0.70%) MSI
5 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.58%) Finance
3 15 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.39%) Banking
5 10 (6.99%) Law
6 9 (6.29%) Retail
7 5 (3.50%) Legal
8 4 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.10%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.10%) Automotive
9 3 (2.10%) Back Office
9 3 (2.10%) Electronics
10 2 (1.40%) Advertising
10 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Aviation
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Marketing
11 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (26.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (11.89%) Infrastructure Support
3 16 (11.19%) Security Engineer
4 15 (10.49%) IT Engineer
4 15 (10.49%) Support Engineer
5 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 10 (6.99%) Wintel Engineer
7 9 (6.29%) Analyst
7 9 (6.29%) IT Support
7 9 (6.29%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Lead
8 8 (5.59%) Support Analyst
9 7 (4.90%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (4.20%) Administrator
10 6 (4.20%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.90%) Middleware
2 6 (4.20%) GraphQL
2 6 (4.20%) REST
3 4 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.40%) SOAP
4 2 (1.40%) YAML
5 1 (0.70%) LDAP
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.19%) Management Information System
2 13 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (7.69%) Clustering
3 11 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.50%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.50%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.80%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.10%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.40%) CMDB
8 2 (1.40%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.40%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.40%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.70%) Social Network
9 1 (0.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 100 (69.93%) Windows
2 60 (41.96%) Windows Server
3 45 (31.47%) Linux
4 15 (10.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (9.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (8.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (5.59%) Ubuntu
9 7 (4.90%) Windows 10
10 5 (3.50%) Unix
10 5 (3.50%) VMS
11 4 (2.80%) Mac OS
12 3 (2.10%) Debian
13 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.70%) CentOS
13 1 (0.70%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (29.37%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (19.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (17.48%) ITIL
6 23 (16.08%) High Availability
7 19 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (12.59%) Service Delivery
9 17 (11.89%) Process Improvement
10 16 (11.19%) Virtual Environments
11 15 (10.49%) Incident Management
12 14 (9.79%) Agile
12 14 (9.79%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (9.79%) SIEM
13 13 (9.09%) Antivirus Management
13 13 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
13 13 (9.09%) Cloud Security
13 13 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (9.09%) IT Strategy
13 13 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (31.47%) PowerShell
2 30 (20.98%) SQL
3 19 (13.29%) Python
4 11 (7.69%) Bash
4 11 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 6 (4.20%) Perl
6 3 (2.10%) Groovy
6 3 (2.10%) Java
6 3 (2.10%) Ruby
7 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (17.48%) Degree
2 22 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.39%) Azure Certification
3 12 (8.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 11 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 10 (6.99%) MCSE
6 9 (6.29%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.90%) HND
8 6 (4.20%) MCSA
9 4 (2.80%) CCNA
9 4 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.80%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.10%) CCNP
10 3 (2.10%) CISSP
11 2 (1.40%) CASP
11 2 (1.40%) CISM
11 2 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.40%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.29%) SLA
3 6 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.80%) NIST
5 2 (1.40%) GDPR
5 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (51.75%) Active Directory
2 38 (26.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (13.99%) Hyper-V
4 18 (12.59%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (8.39%) Docker
7 9 (6.29%) vSphere
8 8 (5.59%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (4.20%) Firmware
10 3 (2.10%) BitLocker
11 2 (1.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (1.40%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.70%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (23.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (17.48%) Ansible
3 17 (11.89%) SCCM
4 13 (9.09%) Terraform
5 12 (8.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (7.69%) SCOM
7 10 (6.99%) NetBackup
8 9 (6.29%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (5.59%) Nessus
10 7 (4.90%) Proxmox
11 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (2.80%) Kubernetes
12 4 (2.80%) Nagios
12 4 (2.80%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.80%) Puppet
12 4 (2.80%) ZENworks
13 3 (2.10%) WSUS
14 2 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (1.40%) vRealize
14 2 (1.40%) WMI
Vendors
1 89 (62.24%) Microsoft
2 54 (37.76%) VMware
3 20 (13.99%) ServiceNow
4 19 (13.29%) Cisco
5 14 (9.79%) SolarWinds
5 14 (9.79%) Veeam
6 10 (6.99%) Meraki
7 9 (6.29%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.90%) Juniper
8 7 (4.90%) Oracle
9 6 (4.20%) Dell
10 4 (2.80%) Extreme Networks
10 4 (2.80%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.80%) Google
10 4 (2.80%) Sophos
11 3 (2.10%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.10%) McAfee
11 3 (2.10%) Proofpoint
11 3 (2.10%) Splunk
11 3 (2.10%) Synology