Patch Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Patch Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Patch Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 616 701 814
Rank change year-on-year +85 +113 -83
Permanent jobs citing Patch Management 280 279 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 239 233 339
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,443
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £70,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Patch Management 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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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% +10.53%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Patch Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Patch Management in the UK

Patch Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +94 260 £42,500 -13.27% 80
UK excluding London +44 203 £42,500 +6.25% 57
Work from Home +91 77 £52,500 - 18
London +57 73 £66,250 +10.42% 36
South East +46 61 £42,500 -5.56% 18
Midlands +24 54 £40,000 +14.29% 16
North of England +29 36 £42,000 +5.00% 7
East Midlands -2 29 £40,000 +14.29% 3
West Midlands +28 25 £37,500 +7.14% 13
East of England +18 21 £42,500 +3.03% 9
Yorkshire +80 17 £57,500 +43.75% 3
South West -32 14 £37,500 -11.76% 4
North West -7 13 £60,000 +60.00% 3
Scotland -69 9 £50,000 +49.79% 6
North East 0 6 £41,500 +3.75% 1
Wales +13 5 £39,250 -
Northern Ireland +32 3 £90,000 - 1

Patch Management
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 38 (13.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (6.07%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.64%) IIS
4 6 (2.14%) Confluence
5 4 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 18 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.14%) Trello
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (45.71%) Azure
2 90 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (14.29%) AWS
4 38 (13.57%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.29%) OneDrive
6 8 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (2.86%) WhatsApp
7 6 (2.14%) IaaS
7 6 (2.14%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.14%) Slack
8 5 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.43%) Dropbox
9 4 (1.43%) Google Drive
9 4 (1.43%) Google Sheets
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (0.71%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (0.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.36%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.36%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 122 (43.57%) Firewall
2 68 (24.29%) DNS
3 59 (21.07%) LAN
4 56 (20.00%) WAN
5 53 (18.93%) VPN
6 40 (14.29%) DHCP
7 36 (12.86%) TCP/IP
8 32 (11.43%) SAN
9 24 (8.57%) Network Security
10 23 (8.21%) VLAN
11 22 (7.86%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (6.43%) Wireless
13 16 (5.71%) Cisco IOS
13 16 (5.71%) Intrusion Detection
14 14 (5.00%) Wireshark
15 11 (3.93%) VoIP
16 10 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
16 10 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (3.21%) Internet
18 8 (2.86%) 802.11
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.14%) Oracle Database
2 6 (2.14%) Power BI
3 3 (1.07%) MariaDB
3 3 (1.07%) MySQL
4 2 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 74 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.00%) Finance
3 27 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.14%) Banking
5 18 (6.43%) Law
6 11 (3.93%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.86%) Automotive
7 8 (2.86%) Legal
8 7 (2.50%) Retail
8 7 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.43%) Games
9 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.07%) Aviation
10 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.07%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Billing
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (21.79%) Analyst
2 43 (15.36%) Administrator
3 31 (11.07%) Senior
3 31 (11.07%) Systems Administrator
4 29 (10.36%) IT Engineer
5 28 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 27 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (7.50%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 20 (7.14%) IT Analyst
8 20 (7.14%) Security Analyst
9 19 (6.79%) Security Engineer
10 18 (6.43%) IT Manager
10 18 (6.43%) IT Support
11 17 (6.07%) Network Engineer
12 16 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 14 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 14 (5.00%) IT Administrator
13 14 (5.00%) IT Systems Administrator
14 12 (4.29%) 3rd Line Support
14 12 (4.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.86%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.79%) Web Services
3 2 (0.71%) .NET
3 2 (0.71%) OAuth
3 2 (0.71%) OpenID
3 2 (0.71%) SAML
4 1 (0.36%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.21%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.43%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.36%) Clustering
4 12 (4.29%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.57%) Driving Licence
6 10 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.57%) Wiki
7 8 (2.86%) IoT
8 6 (2.14%) Cyberattack
8 6 (2.14%) Fat Client
8 6 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.14%) PKI
8 6 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.14%) Thin Client
9 5 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.43%) ARM Cortex
10 4 (1.43%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 151 (53.93%) Windows
2 81 (28.93%) Windows Server
3 55 (19.64%) Linux
4 31 (11.07%) Windows 10
5 21 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (6.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (5.36%) Android
8 14 (5.00%) Apple iOS
9 13 (4.64%) Mac OS
10 12 (4.29%) Unix
11 8 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (1.79%) CentOS
12 5 (1.79%) Kali Linux
12 5 (1.79%) Ubuntu
12 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (1.43%) Windows 2000
13 4 (1.43%) Windows NT
13 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
2 69 (24.64%) ITIL
2 69 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (16.43%) Penetration Testing
4 43 (15.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 43 (15.36%) SIEM
5 38 (13.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 37 (13.21%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 35 (12.50%) Customer Service
8 25 (8.93%) Incident Response
9 24 (8.57%) Security Operations
10 21 (7.50%) CI/CD
11 20 (7.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 19 (6.79%) Computer Science
12 19 (6.79%) Service Delivery
12 19 (6.79%) Vulnerability Management
13 18 (6.43%) Service Management
14 17 (6.07%) Data Protection
14 17 (6.07%) Incident Management
14 17 (6.07%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.29%) PowerShell
2 34 (12.14%) Python
3 31 (11.07%) SQL
4 12 (4.29%) Bash
5 10 (3.57%) Perl
6 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (18.93%) Degree
2 36 (12.86%) CISSP
3 24 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 22 (7.86%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (6.43%) CCNP
6 17 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.64%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (4.29%) CCNA
8 12 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (3.93%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.93%) DV Cleared
10 10 (3.57%) CCIE
11 9 (3.21%) CISA
11 9 (3.21%) CISM
11 9 (3.21%) SC Cleared
12 7 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (2.14%) Master's Degree
13 6 (2.14%) OCP
13 6 (2.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (8.93%) GDPR
3 15 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (4.29%) SLA
5 11 (3.93%) PCI DSS
6 10 (3.57%) GRC
7 9 (3.21%) NIST
8 8 (2.86%) NCSC
9 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (1.43%) COSHH
10 4 (1.43%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.71%) QA
12 1 (0.36%) GxP
System Software
1 94 (33.57%) Active Directory
2 62 (22.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (7.86%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
5 13 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (4.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (3.93%) vSphere
8 10 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.79%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.43%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.71%) Docker
11 2 (0.71%) Firmware
12 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (11.43%) SCCM
2 25 (8.93%) WSUS
3 18 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (5.71%) Ansible
5 15 (5.36%) Microsoft Clustering
6 13 (4.64%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 6 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (2.14%) CSIRT
8 6 (2.14%) SCDPM
9 5 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (1.79%) Suricata
9 5 (1.79%) Terraform
10 4 (1.43%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.43%) SCOM
10 4 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.71%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 124 (44.29%) Microsoft
2 66 (23.57%) VMware
3 41 (14.64%) Cisco
4 21 (7.50%) Qualys
5 19 (6.79%) Citrix
6 15 (5.36%) Palo Alto
7 14 (5.00%) Atlassian
7 14 (5.00%) Veeam
8 13 (4.64%) Apple
9 12 (4.29%) HP
10 11 (3.93%) ArcSight
10 11 (3.93%) Carbon Black
10 11 (3.93%) CyberArk
10 11 (3.93%) McAfee
10 11 (3.93%) Meraki
10 11 (3.93%) Sophos
11 10 (3.57%) IFS
12 9 (3.21%) Juniper
13 8 (2.86%) Google
14 7 (2.50%) Dell