Server Patching Jobs

Server Patching
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Server Patching skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Server Patching over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 722 873 953
Rank change year-on-year +151 +80 +249
Permanent jobs citing Server Patching 8 26 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.026% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.031% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 4 26 14
10th Percentile £48,375 £36,250 £38,950
25th Percentile £59,063 £51,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +15.18% +6.11%
75th Percentile £74,063 £57,000 £56,563
90th Percentile £74,625 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £54,500 £46,750
% change year-on-year -22.02% +16.58% +6.86%

All Process and 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 52,380 85,029 95,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.31% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 59,821 55,996
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,079 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%

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 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Patching in the UK

Server Patching
Top 5 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 17 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 +122 8 £70,000 +27.27% 7
London +116 7 £70,000 - 3
Work from Home +124 5 £71,250 +31.94%
UK excluding London +157 1 £42,500 -22.02% 6
East of England - 1 £42,500 - 2

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Unix Support
2 4 (50.00%) Linux Support
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Linux Support
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Unix Support
3 3 (37.50%) Server Support
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Linux Server Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (62.50%) Unix
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
1 7 (87.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 6 (75.00%) Server Building
3 5 (62.50%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
5 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (12.50%) Data Security
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
1 6 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (75.00%) Veritas
2 4 (50.00%) Symantec
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds