Patch Management Contracts in Cheshire

Patch Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 7 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.56% - 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% - 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £322 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -60.00%
75th Percentile - - £250
90th Percentile £372 - £400
North West median daily rate £350 £388 £400
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in Cheshire

Patch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in Cheshire

Patch Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warrington - 7 £350 - 1
Patch Management
North West

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (42.86%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DHCP
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) WAAS
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Administrator
1 6 (85.71%) VMWare Administrator
1 6 (85.71%) Wintel Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Software Packaging
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Resource Management
3 1 (14.29%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Line Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Software Distribution
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (85.71%) Hyper-V
2 6 (85.71%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) vCenter Server
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (42.86%) NetApp OnCommand
2 3 (42.86%) vMotion
2 3 (42.86%) WSUS
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft