Patch Management Contracts in Birmingham

Patch Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 3 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.60% - 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £327
25th Percentile £463 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.27%
75th Percentile £488 - £438
90th Percentile - - £600
West Midlands median daily rate £253 £300 £400
% change year-on-year -15.67% -25.00% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 439 608 773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.45% 81.72% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 404 504
10th Percentile £163 £238 £283
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -8.65% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £581 £638
90th Percentile £689 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 43 31
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +25.57% +23.61%
75th Percentile £25.13 £47.13 £29.38
90th Percentile £35.77 £56.25 £53.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.03 £22.50 £20.97
% change year-on-year -6.56% +7.30% +24.64%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in Birmingham

Patch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in Birmingham

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) FTP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (33.33%) SSH
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Debian
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Log Aggregation
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) DFS Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Aruba
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Sophos
1 1 (33.33%) VMware