Security Patching Job Trends in the North of England

Security Patching
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Security Patching skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 307 302
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +102
Permanent jobs citing Security Patching 3 15 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.032% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £30,850 £39,050 £32,800
25th Percentile £33,625 £40,375 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,445 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.98% -10.89% +20.00%
75th Percentile £47,125 £60,879 £57,500
90th Percentile £50,350 £75,000 £58,500
England median annual salary £43,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Security 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 in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,225 11,058 8,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.43% 78.47% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,089 6,080 6,151
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,390 £40,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in the North of England

Security Patching
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Patching.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Patching in the North of England

Security Patching
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Patching within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
North West +7 2 £50,000 -10.31% 3
Yorkshire +18 1 £30,000 -33.99% 3
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) IT Audit
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft