Patch Management Contracts in Berkshire

Patch Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 120 112
Rank change year-on-year +34 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.43% 0.10% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.12% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £252 £386 -
25th Percentile £315 £422 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +21.88% -
75th Percentile £553 £547 -
90th Percentile £581 £579 -
South East median daily rate £425 £500 £375
% change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% +16.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,082 1,699 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.96% 88.91% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 884 994
10th Percentile £309 £227 £349
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £701
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 100 47
10th Percentile £21.81 £18.40 £19.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.25 £25.31
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.07 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% +2.25% +179.43%
75th Percentile £77.19 £71.89 £73.80
90th Percentile £88.32 £87.46 £79.61
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year -41.56% -4.04% +130.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Wokingham -8 3 £438 -27.08%
Reading - 2 £405 - 4
Patch Management
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Deskside Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Deskside Support
2 1 (20.00%) Deskside Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Android
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) SIEM
1 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (20.00%) Ticket Management
1 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Altiris
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec