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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 628 711
Rank change year-on-year +81 +83 +102
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 164 278 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.33% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 110 237 224
10th Percentile £31,475 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,313 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% +1.06%
75th Percentile £66,563 £62,500 £60,500
90th Percentile £77,625 £80,500 £76,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -8.57%

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 52,098 84,818 95,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.84% 85.52% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,512 59,706 56,022
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 16 May 2025.

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 16 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 +51 155 £50,000 +17.65% 132
UK excluding London +95 102 £45,000 +5.88% 80
London +95 63 £66,500 +6.40% 64
Work from Home +101 54 £55,000 +4.76% 61
South East +68 29 £40,000 -5.88% 25
Midlands +38 27 £55,000 +37.50% 14
North of England +42 26 £45,000 +5.88% 9
West Midlands +52 20 £60,000 +87.50% 7
North West +6 13 £47,000 -21.67% 2
South West +105 10 £47,500 +26.67% 8
Yorkshire +59 8 £45,000 -21.74% 6
North East +45 5 £32,000 -22.89% 2
East of England +28 5 £45,000 +5.88% 22
East Midlands +9 5 £40,000 - 7
Scotland +106 4 £40,000 -20.00% 5
Wales +34 1 - - 1
Isle of Man - 1 £50,000 -

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 25 (15.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.32%) IIS
3 11 (6.71%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.66%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) CMS
5 1 (0.61%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Magento
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 76 (46.34%) Azure
2 57 (34.76%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (32.32%) AWS
4 28 (17.07%) Entra ID
5 12 (7.32%) Amazon S3
5 12 (7.32%) AWS KMS
5 12 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (5.49%) SaaS
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon ELB
8 7 (4.27%) Amazon Glacier
8 7 (4.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 7 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.27%) Serverless
9 6 (3.66%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (3.66%) GCP
10 4 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.44%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 50 (30.49%) Firewall
2 46 (28.05%) DNS
3 38 (23.17%) DHCP
4 22 (13.41%) WAN
5 21 (12.80%) TCP/IP
6 18 (10.98%) LAN
7 17 (10.37%) SSL
8 16 (9.76%) SAN
9 11 (6.71%) VPN
10 9 (5.49%) NAS
10 9 (5.49%) Network Security
11 8 (4.88%) SD-WAN
11 8 (4.88%) SSH
11 8 (4.88%) Wireless
12 6 (3.66%) HTTP
13 5 (3.05%) FTP
13 5 (3.05%) SMTP
14 4 (2.44%) SNMP
14 4 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.98%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.83%) NonStop SQL
6 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.22%) Pentaho
6 2 (1.22%) Power BI
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.61%) Looker
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.61%) Redis
7 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.61%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (9.76%) Jenkins
2 15 (9.15%) Git
3 11 (6.71%) JIRA
4 8 (4.88%) Vagrant
5 7 (4.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.22%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.22%) MSI
8 1 (0.61%) GitLab
8 1 (0.61%) Maven
General
1 56 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.68%) Finance
3 14 (8.54%) Banking
4 13 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.32%) Law
6 11 (6.71%) Back Office
7 9 (5.49%) Retail
8 6 (3.66%) Marketing
9 5 (3.05%) Legal
9 5 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.44%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.83%) Automotive
11 3 (1.83%) Electronics
11 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.22%) Advertising
13 1 (0.61%) Avionics
13 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (23.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (12.80%) Infrastructure Support
3 16 (9.76%) Security Engineer
3 16 (9.76%) Support Engineer
4 15 (9.15%) IT Engineer
5 14 (8.54%) Analyst
5 14 (8.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 13 (7.93%) Support Analyst
7 12 (7.32%) IT Support
8 11 (6.71%) 2nd Line Support
8 11 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.71%) Wintel Engineer
9 10 (6.10%) Desktop Support
9 10 (6.10%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.10%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (5.49%) Senior
10 9 (5.49%) Support Technician
11 8 (4.88%) Desktop Support Technician
11 8 (4.88%) Desktop Technician
11 8 (4.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.88%) Middleware
2 7 (4.27%) REST
3 6 (3.66%) GraphQL
4 4 (2.44%) SOAP
5 3 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.22%) LDAP
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.61%) SAML
7 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.37%) Management Information System
2 12 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (6.10%) Clustering
3 10 (6.10%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.05%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.44%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.44%) CMDB
6 4 (2.44%) Replication
7 3 (1.83%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.83%) Tandem
8 2 (1.22%) Handset
8 2 (1.22%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.22%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 112 (68.29%) Windows
2 58 (35.37%) Windows Server
3 51 (31.10%) Linux
4 17 (10.37%) Windows 10
5 16 (9.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (9.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (7.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (6.10%) VMS
8 9 (5.49%) Ubuntu
9 5 (3.05%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (3.05%) Unix
10 3 (1.83%) Debian
10 3 (1.83%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.22%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.61%) CentOS
12 1 (0.61%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (23.78%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (21.34%) ITIL
3 35 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (17.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 28 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (13.41%) High Availability
7 20 (12.20%) Incident Management
8 19 (11.59%) Virtual Environments
9 18 (10.98%) Cloud Security
9 18 (10.98%) Process Improvement
9 18 (10.98%) Service Delivery
10 17 (10.37%) Customer Service
11 16 (9.76%) DevOps
12 15 (9.15%) Computer Science
12 15 (9.15%) IT Strategy
12 15 (9.15%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (8.54%) Agile
13 14 (8.54%) Artificial Intelligence
13 14 (8.54%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (30.49%) PowerShell
2 36 (21.95%) SQL
3 25 (15.24%) Python
4 11 (6.71%) Bash
4 11 (6.71%) Shell Script
5 10 (6.10%) Java
5 10 (6.10%) Perl
6 8 (4.88%) Groovy
7 3 (1.83%) Ruby
8 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.61%) PHP
8 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 40 (24.39%) Degree
3 28 (17.07%) SC Cleared
4 20 (12.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (7.93%) Azure Certification
6 12 (7.32%) DV Cleared
7 10 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (6.10%) MCSE
7 10 (6.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (5.49%) HND
9 8 (4.88%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (3.05%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (2.44%) MCSA
12 3 (1.83%) CISSP
13 2 (1.22%) CASP
13 2 (1.22%) CCNA
13 2 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.22%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.63%) SLA
2 12 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.44%) NIST
5 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.61%) GDPR
6 1 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (46.34%) Active Directory
2 43 (26.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (14.02%) Hyper-V
4 17 (10.37%) Docker
5 16 (9.76%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (7.93%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (5.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (4.27%) vSphere
9 4 (2.44%) Firmware
10 3 (1.83%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.83%) DFS Replication
11 2 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.61%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.61%) KVM
12 1 (0.61%) Postfix
12 1 (0.61%) Squid
12 1 (0.61%) Varnish
12 1 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.61%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (21.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (14.63%) Ansible
3 20 (12.20%) SCCM
4 18 (10.98%) Terraform
5 12 (7.32%) SCOM
6 11 (6.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (6.71%) NetBackup
7 9 (5.49%) Nessus
7 9 (5.49%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (4.88%) Proxmox
9 7 (4.27%) Prometheus
10 6 (3.66%) Grafana
11 5 (3.05%) Puppet
12 4 (2.44%) Kubernetes
12 4 (2.44%) ZENworks
13 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (1.83%) Nagios
13 3 (1.83%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.83%) WMI
14 2 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (56.10%) Microsoft
2 59 (35.98%) VMware
3 28 (17.07%) Cisco
3 28 (17.07%) ServiceNow
4 18 (10.98%) Veeam
5 13 (7.93%) SolarWinds
6 10 (6.10%) Meraki
7 8 (4.88%) Juniper
8 7 (4.27%) Oracle
8 7 (4.27%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.05%) Citrix
9 5 (3.05%) Dell
10 4 (2.44%) Extreme Networks
10 4 (2.44%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.44%) Google
10 4 (2.44%) Sophos
11 3 (1.83%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.83%) Proofpoint
11 3 (1.83%) Qualys
11 3 (1.83%) Synology