Patch Management Contracts in Bedfordshire

Patch Management
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Patch Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Patch Management over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 13 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.51% 4.78% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 5.75% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £85 £110 -
25th Percentile £85 £204 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £86 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.00% - -
75th Percentile £88 £394 -
90th Percentile £88 £398 -
East of England median daily rate £350 £375 £298
% change year-on-year -6.67% +26.05% -23.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £83.18 £53.00 -
25th Percentile £87.19 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £91.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £91.50 £72.50 -
90th Percentile - £77.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £91.00 £50.00 £39.59
% change year-on-year +82.00% +26.30% +84.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Patch Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 212 174 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 89.83% 83.25% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 105 83
10th Percentile £185 £300 £215
25th Percentile £460 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% +5.26% -4.90%
75th Percentile £616 £575 £550
90th Percentile £654 £650 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 16 2
10th Percentile £31.76 £35.63 £55.60
25th Percentile £59.88 £50.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £56.58 £58.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.41% -3.29% +11.43%
75th Percentile £90.75 £67.50 £61.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £70.63 £62.20
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -12.79% +117.06% -3.37%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in Bedfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Luton +1 13 £86 - 3
Patch Management
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

General
1 13 (100.00%) Military
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 12 (92.31%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) GAP Analysis
1 12 (92.31%) Incident Management
1 12 (92.31%) Information Assurance
1 12 (92.31%) Key Management
1 12 (92.31%) Security Management
2 11 (84.62%) MODAF
2 11 (84.62%) SABSA
3 7 (53.85%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) JSP 440
1 13 (100.00%) NCSC
1 13 (100.00%) NIST
2 12 (92.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Firmware