Patch Management Job Trends in the West Midlands

Patch Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Patch Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 191 174
Rank change year-on-year +24 -17 +87
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 11 8 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile - £24,900 -
25th Percentile £71,250 £35,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +83.33% -36.84%
75th Percentile £75,938 £60,625 £32,457
90th Percentile £79,875 £62,500 £44,483
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +13.68%

All Process & 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 4,341 3,795 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.62% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 1,687 2,757
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £41,563 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Patch Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Patch Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Patch Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Patch Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Patch Management

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 14 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
Birmingham +25 6 £72,500 +23.40%
Solihull +3 3 - -
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (72.73%) Confluence
2 4 (36.36%) nginx
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon ELB
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon S3
2 7 (63.64%) AWS KMS
2 7 (63.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (45.45%) Azure
5 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (36.36%) Route 53
6 3 (27.27%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
1 8 (72.73%) HTTP
2 7 (63.64%) FTP
2 7 (63.64%) SMTP
2 7 (63.64%) SSH
3 4 (36.36%) IMAP
3 4 (36.36%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) SSL
4 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Git
1 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
1 8 (72.73%) JIRA
2 7 (63.64%) Vagrant
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 4 (36.36%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Field Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) Software Packaging
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Replication
2 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (63.64%) VMS
3 6 (54.55%) Windows
4 5 (45.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Change Management
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Security
1 7 (63.64%) Configuration Management
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Server Management
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
5 1 (9.09%) Capacity Management
5 1 (9.09%) Log Aggregation
5 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
5 1 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
5 1 (9.09%) Tech Ops
5 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Groovy
2 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) Perl
5 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
2 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (36.36%) DFS Replication
3 4 (36.36%) Dovecot
3 4 (36.36%) Postfix
3 4 (36.36%) Squid
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (9.09%) Firmware
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Grafana
1 7 (63.64%) Prometheus
1 7 (63.64%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Nessus
3 4 (36.36%) Proxmox
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (9.09%) Puppet
4 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
2 4 (36.36%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (27.27%) VMware
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft