Patch Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Patch Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Patch Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 731 821
Rank change year-on-year +109 +90 -108
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 275 266 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.27% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 234 221 326
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,125 £38,250 £38,096
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +1.06% +0.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £72,500 £70,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% +2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Patch Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Top 17 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 8 May 2024. 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 +92 255 £42,500 -10.53% 67
UK excluding London +46 198 £42,500 +6.25% 43
Work from Home +82 76 £51,250 -2.38% 20
London +76 73 £65,525 +13.96% 27
South East +53 61 £42,500 -15.00% 13
Midlands +31 51 £40,000 +14.29% 8
North of England +36 36 £42,000 +5.00% 6
East Midlands +1 26 £40,000 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +25 25 £32,000 -8.57% 6
East of England +22 19 £42,500 +3.03% 11
Yorkshire +78 18 £46,250 +15.63% 2
South West -35 14 £37,500 -11.76% 3
North West +3 13 £60,000 +65.52% 3
Scotland -59 9 £50,000 +56.25% 3
Wales +13 5 £39,250 - 1
North East -2 5 £41,500 +3.75% 1
Northern Ireland +28 3 £90,000 - 1

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 37 (13.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.00%) IIS
4 6 (2.18%) Confluence
5 4 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 18 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.18%) Trello
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 126 (45.82%) Azure
2 90 (32.73%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (13.82%) AWS
3 38 (13.82%) Entra ID
4 11 (4.00%) OneDrive
5 8 (2.91%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (2.91%) WhatsApp
6 6 (2.18%) IaaS
6 6 (2.18%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.18%) Slack
7 5 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.45%) Dropbox
8 4 (1.45%) Google Drive
8 4 (1.45%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (0.73%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.73%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (0.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.36%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 120 (43.64%) Firewall
2 69 (25.09%) DNS
3 60 (21.82%) LAN
4 56 (20.36%) WAN
5 51 (18.55%) VPN
6 41 (14.91%) DHCP
7 37 (13.45%) TCP/IP
8 32 (11.64%) SAN
9 23 (8.36%) Network Security
9 23 (8.36%) VLAN
10 22 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (6.18%) Intrusion Detection
12 16 (5.82%) Cisco IOS
12 16 (5.82%) Wireless
13 14 (5.09%) Wireshark
14 11 (4.00%) VoIP
15 10 (3.64%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (2.91%) 802.11
16 8 (2.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.18%) Oracle Database
2 6 (2.18%) Power BI
3 3 (1.09%) MariaDB
3 3 (1.09%) MySQL
4 2 (0.73%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.55%) JIRA
General
1 72 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.55%) Finance
3 25 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.18%) Banking
5 15 (5.45%) Law
6 11 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.91%) Legal
8 7 (2.55%) Retail
8 7 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.18%) Automotive
10 4 (1.45%) Games
10 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Aviation
11 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.09%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Billing
13 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (22.55%) Analyst
2 44 (16.00%) Administrator
3 32 (11.64%) Systems Administrator
4 30 (10.91%) IT Engineer
5 28 (10.18%) Senior
6 27 (9.82%) Support Engineer
7 26 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (7.64%) Security Analyst
8 21 (7.64%) Vulnerability Analyst
9 20 (7.27%) IT Analyst
10 19 (6.91%) IT Support
11 17 (6.18%) IT Manager
12 16 (5.82%) Network Engineer
12 16 (5.82%) Security Engineer
13 15 (5.45%) IT Administrator
13 15 (5.45%) IT Systems Administrator
14 14 (5.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 12 (4.36%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 11 (4.00%) Vulnerability Manager
17 10 (3.64%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.91%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.82%) Web Services
3 2 (0.73%) .NET
3 2 (0.73%) OAuth
3 2 (0.73%) OpenID
3 2 (0.73%) SAML
4 1 (0.36%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.82%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.55%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.73%) Clustering
4 12 (4.36%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.00%) Wiki
6 10 (3.64%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.91%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.18%) Cyberattack
8 6 (2.18%) Fat Client
8 6 (2.18%) IoT
8 6 (2.18%) PKI
8 6 (2.18%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.18%) Thin Client
9 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.45%) ARM Cortex
10 4 (1.45%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 148 (53.82%) Windows
2 79 (28.73%) Windows Server
3 52 (18.91%) Linux
4 30 (10.91%) Windows 10
5 21 (7.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (6.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (5.82%) Android
8 15 (5.45%) Apple iOS
9 13 (4.73%) Mac OS
10 12 (4.36%) Unix
11 8 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (1.82%) CentOS
12 5 (1.82%) Kali Linux
12 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (1.45%) Ubuntu
13 4 (1.45%) Windows 2000
13 4 (1.45%) Windows NT
13 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.45%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.64%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (25.82%) ITIL
3 63 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (17.09%) Penetration Testing
5 42 (15.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 42 (15.27%) SIEM
6 38 (13.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 37 (13.45%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 33 (12.00%) Customer Service
9 24 (8.73%) Incident Response
10 23 (8.36%) Security Operations
11 20 (7.27%) CI/CD
11 20 (7.27%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 19 (6.91%) Service Delivery
12 19 (6.91%) Vulnerability Management
13 18 (6.55%) Computer Science
13 18 (6.55%) Data Protection
13 18 (6.55%) Service Management
14 17 (6.18%) Project Management
15 16 (5.82%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (24.36%) PowerShell
2 34 (12.36%) Python
3 29 (10.55%) SQL
4 12 (4.36%) Bash
5 11 (4.00%) Perl
6 2 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (19.27%) Degree
2 36 (13.09%) CISSP
3 25 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 23 (8.36%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (6.55%) CCNP
6 16 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.73%) CCNA
7 13 (4.73%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 11 (4.00%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.64%) CCIE
9 10 (3.64%) SC Cleared
10 9 (3.27%) CISA
10 9 (3.27%) CISM
11 8 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (2.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (2.18%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.18%) OCP
12 6 (2.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (9.09%) GDPR
3 15 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 11 (4.00%) SLA
5 10 (3.64%) GRC
6 9 (3.27%) NIST
7 8 (2.91%) NCSC
8 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.45%) COSHH
10 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.73%) QA
12 1 (0.36%) GxP
System Software
1 96 (34.91%) Active Directory
2 63 (22.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.64%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.09%) Virtual Servers
5 13 (4.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (4.73%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (4.36%) vSphere
7 11 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.82%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.73%) Docker
9 2 (0.73%) Firmware
9 2 (0.73%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (11.27%) SCCM
2 25 (9.09%) WSUS
3 17 (6.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.73%) Microsoft Clustering
4 13 (4.73%) vCenter Server
5 12 (4.36%) Ansible
6 7 (2.55%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 6 (2.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (2.18%) CSIRT
7 6 (2.18%) SCDPM
8 5 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (1.82%) Suricata
9 4 (1.45%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.45%) SCOM
9 4 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.45%) Terraform
10 2 (0.73%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.73%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 123 (44.73%) Microsoft
2 67 (24.36%) VMware
3 41 (14.91%) Cisco
4 21 (7.64%) Citrix
5 20 (7.27%) Qualys
6 15 (5.45%) Palo Alto
7 14 (5.09%) Veeam
8 13 (4.73%) Apple
8 13 (4.73%) Atlassian
9 12 (4.36%) HP
10 11 (4.00%) Meraki
10 11 (4.00%) Sophos
11 10 (3.64%) ArcSight
11 10 (3.64%) Carbon Black
11 10 (3.64%) CyberArk
11 10 (3.64%) IFS
11 10 (3.64%) McAfee
12 9 (3.27%) Juniper
13 8 (2.91%) Google
14 7 (2.55%) Dell