Patch Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Patch Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 227 248
Rank change year-on-year +53 +21 +32
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 23 26 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.55% 0.33% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.41% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9 22 8
10th Percentile £52,550 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £39,750 £33,750
Median % change year-on-year +57.23% +17.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £44,500 £37,188
90th Percentile - £48,325 £43,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -14.14% +5.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,814 6,401 5,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.20% 81.10% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,573 4,665 3,155
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,350 £30,602
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the West Midlands

Patch Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Patch Management in the West Midlands

Patch Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Patch Management in the West Midlands

Patch Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Birmingham +41 15 £62,500 +48.81% 5
Solihull - 5 £57,500 - 5
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (39.13%) Confluence
2 3 (13.04%) nginx
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) Amazon S3
2 12 (52.17%) AWS KMS
2 12 (52.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon ELB
3 11 (47.83%) Azure
4 8 (34.78%) Amazon Glacier
5 7 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
7 4 (17.39%) Serverless
8 3 (13.04%) Route 53
9 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (4.35%) IaaS
10 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (65.22%) Firewall
2 11 (47.83%) DNS
3 9 (39.13%) HTTP
4 8 (34.78%) FTP
4 8 (34.78%) SMTP
4 8 (34.78%) SSH
5 5 (21.74%) SSL
6 4 (17.39%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (13.04%) DHCP
7 3 (13.04%) IMAP
8 2 (8.70%) Network Security
8 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
9 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (4.35%) LAN
9 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (4.35%) SAN
9 1 (4.35%) VLAN
9 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) Jenkins
2 11 (47.83%) Vagrant
3 9 (39.13%) Git
3 9 (39.13%) JIRA
4 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (13.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Legal
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Administrator
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
5 2 (8.70%) DBA
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) IT Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) LDAP
2 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Replication
2 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Linux
2 16 (69.57%) Windows
3 11 (47.83%) VMS
4 8 (34.78%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (34.78%) Ubuntu
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
6 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (4.35%) CentOS
7 1 (4.35%) Debian
7 1 (4.35%) Mac OS X
7 1 (4.35%) Unix
7 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
7 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 13 (56.52%) Configuration Management
3 12 (52.17%) Cloud Security
4 9 (39.13%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) Change Management
6 7 (30.43%) Agile
6 7 (30.43%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (21.74%) Capacity Management
8 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (17.39%) Key Management
8 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (17.39%) Server Management
8 4 (17.39%) SIEM
9 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
9 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
9 3 (13.04%) Validation
10 2 (8.70%) ITSM
10 2 (8.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Python
2 11 (47.83%) Groovy
3 10 (43.48%) Perl
3 10 (43.48%) PowerShell
4 8 (34.78%) Java
4 8 (34.78%) Shell Script
5 5 (21.74%) SQL
6 3 (13.04%) Ruby
7 2 (8.70%) Bash
8 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) Azure Certification
4 5 (21.74%) AWS Certification
4 5 (21.74%) Degree
5 2 (8.70%) CASP
5 2 (8.70%) CISM
5 2 (8.70%) CISSP
5 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
1 13 (56.52%) Docker
2 5 (21.74%) DFS Replication
3 4 (17.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (13.04%) Dovecot
4 3 (13.04%) Postfix
4 3 (13.04%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Terraform
2 8 (34.78%) Grafana
2 8 (34.78%) Nessus
2 8 (34.78%) Prometheus
3 7 (30.43%) Proxmox
4 6 (26.09%) Ansible
5 3 (13.04%) Nagios
5 3 (13.04%) Puppet
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
6 2 (8.70%) SCOM
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) ServiceNow
2 4 (17.39%) Juniper
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (8.70%) ArcSight
4 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.70%) Splunk
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) RedGate
5 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.35%) Sophos
5 1 (4.35%) VMware