Patch Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Patch Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Patch Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Patch Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 136 156
Rank change year-on-year +37 +20 -31
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 13 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.67% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £320 £293 -
25th Percentile £322 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% -13.50% +60.64%
75th Percentile £413 £568 £525
90th Percentile £435 £600 £540
England median daily rate £500 £400 £440
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +3.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Patch Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,117 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.97% 88.50% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,453 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 73
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.20
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the West Midlands

Patch Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Patch Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Coventry - 8 - -
Staffordshire - 2 £350 -
Warwickshire - 2 £381 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
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 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (38.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (61.54%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (38.46%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) DNS
2 8 (61.54%) NetScaler
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Citrix Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Deployment Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Server Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) VMWare Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Fat Client
1 3 (23.08%) Thin Client
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Windows Server
3 8 (61.54%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.69%) CentOS
4 1 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Application Packaging
1 8 (61.54%) Change Management
2 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (7.69%) Change Control
3 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
3 1 (7.69%) Security Patching
3 1 (7.69%) Software Distribution
3 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) User Experience
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (61.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 8 (61.54%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (61.54%) XenApp
2 8 (61.54%) XenDesktop
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Server
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (61.54%) Citrix
2 8 (61.54%) NetApp
3 1 (7.69%) Qualys
3 1 (7.69%) Rapid7
3 1 (7.69%) VMware