Server Patching Job Trends

Server Patching
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Server Patching skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 709 699
Rank change year-on-year +65 -10 +277
Permanent jobs citing Server Patching 7 3 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.006% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.006% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 36
10th Percentile - £43,774 £41,875
25th Percentile £29,000 £45,310 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £49,739 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% +0.35% +7.17%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,287 £57,096
90th Percentile £53,000 £57,495 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,250 £43,500 £49,565
% change year-on-year -12.07% -12.24% +27.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Server Patching 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 48,315 48,345 50,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.62% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,473 23,469 38,401
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Server Patching job vacancy trend in the UK

Server Patching
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Server Patching.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Server Patching

Server Patching
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Patching over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Server Patching in the UK

Server Patching
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Patching within the UK over the 6 months to 13 January 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 +74 6 £38,250 -23.10% 1
UK excluding London +71 6 £38,250 -12.07% 2
South West +12 3 £30,000 -31.03%
North of England - 3 £50,000 - 1
Work from Home - 3 £50,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £50,000 - 1
North West - 1 £46,500 -

Server Patching
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Resilience
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Data Encryption
1 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Patch Management
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Citrix
3 3 (42.86%) Datto
3 3 (42.86%) VMware