Patch Management Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Patch Management
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Patch Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £231 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 - -
75th Percentile £244 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £331 £438 £300
% change year-on-year -24.29% +45.83% -31.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 299 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 91.82% 82.60% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 214 555
10th Percentile £213 £241 £313
25th Percentile £355 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £454 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -11.46% +2.50%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £600
90th Percentile £637 £646 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 6 11
10th Percentile - £18.24 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.20 £23.44 £13.37
Median hourly rate £15.91 £32.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -50.28% +95.12% +23.77%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.56 £21.75
90th Percentile - £37.37 £23.00
South East median hourly rate £22.29 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.14% +9.24% +61.54%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in Buckinghamshire

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Patch Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Patch Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Milton Keynes - 5 £238 - 2
Patch Management
South East

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau Desktop
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (40.00%) Change Control
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Email Migration
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Security Management
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Tanium
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) VMware