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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 291 273
Rank change year-on-year +21 -18 +139
Permanent jobs citing Security Patching 6 19 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.061% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 11
10th Percentile - £38,900 -
25th Percentile £26,250 £40,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,750 £43,723 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.24% +24.92% -17.65%
75th Percentile £36,375 £46,757 £48,000
90th Percentile £46,050 - £54,500
England median annual salary £29,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -42.00% +17.65% -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 8,430 9,929 7,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 85.15% 80.79% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,566 4,614 5,500
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,136 £51,238 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -6.84% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,600 £82,797
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - 0.00%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Patching relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Security Patching job vacancy trend 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 11 November 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 11 November 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
Yorkshire -4 4 £27,500 -39.49% 1
North West +24 2 £50,000 +31.58% 1
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (33.33%) Drupal
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
1 2 (33.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MariaDB
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Local Government
3 2 (33.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Support Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) SOAR
3 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (33.33%) ISO 9001
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft