Server Patching
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Server Patching skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Server Patching over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 867 965 1174
Rank change year-on-year +98 +209 -304
Permanent jobs citing Server Patching 27 20 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.019% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.020% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 26 17 26
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £34,349
25th Percentile £50,250 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £61,500 £56,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.68% +5.56% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server Patching 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 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Server Patching
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Server Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server Patching in the UK

Server Patching
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Server Patching.

Salary trend for Server Patching in the UK

Server Patching
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Patching over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Server Patching in the UK

Server Patching
Top 10 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 24 April 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 +131 26 £55,000 +14.58% 5
UK excluding London +29 23 £54,000 +13.68% 5
Work from Home +111 11 £54,000 +2.86% 3
North of England +59 10 £55,000 +28.96% 1
North West +19 10 £55,000 +28.96% 1
West Midlands +39 9 £54,000 - 2
Midlands +9 9 £54,000 +2.86% 2
London +160 4 £70,000 +27.27%
South East +18 3 £30,000 -35.83%
Scotland -58 1 £46,000 - 1

Server Patching
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 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.11%) IIS
2 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (85.19%) Azure
2 15 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (33.33%) AWS
4 7 (25.93%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) DHCP
1 12 (44.44%) DNS
2 11 (40.74%) SSL
2 11 (40.74%) TCP/IP
3 8 (29.63%) FTP
3 8 (29.63%) HTTP
3 8 (29.63%) SMTP
3 8 (29.63%) SNMP
3 8 (29.63%) SSH
3 8 (29.63%) Telnet
4 4 (14.81%) Firewall
5 3 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (11.11%) VLAN
5 3 (11.11%) VoIP
5 3 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 10 (37.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (37.04%) RDBMS
2 10 (37.04%) Relational Database
2 10 (37.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (37.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) DBA
2 10 (37.04%) SQL DBA
3 6 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) IT Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) IT Support
5 3 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IT Security Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Cloud Native
2 9 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 8 (29.63%) EFT
4 3 (11.11%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.70%) iPhone
5 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (55.56%) Windows
2 14 (51.85%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 3 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (40.74%) Mentoring
3 10 (37.04%) Continuous Delivery
3 10 (37.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (29.63%) ITIL
5 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (11.11%) Server Migrations
6 3 (11.11%) Time Management
7 2 (7.41%) Server Management
8 1 (3.70%) Application Security
8 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (3.70%) Machine Learning
8 1 (3.70%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 1 (3.70%) Open Source
8 1 (3.70%) Patch Management
8 1 (3.70%) Project Delivery
8 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineering
8 1 (3.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) PowerShell
2 14 (51.85%) SQL
3 10 (37.04%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) JSP 440
System Software
1 17 (62.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (29.63%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (18.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.70%) Docker
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) SCCM
1 8 (29.63%) vCenter Server
2 3 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Backup Exec
3 1 (3.70%) Cacti
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) Nagios
3 1 (3.70%) Puppet
3 1 (3.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (37.04%) Citrix
2 10 (37.04%) Commvault
2 10 (37.04%) VMware
3 8 (29.63%) Globalscape
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) Veeam