Patch Management Contracts in County Antrim

Patch Management
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 28 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 2.67% - 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% - 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £208
25th Percentile - - £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £220
75th Percentile - - £234
90th Percentile - - £236
Northern Ireland median daily rate - - £220

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 138 99 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 92.00% 75.00% 80.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 69
10th Percentile £154 £211 £164
25th Percentile £295 £345 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £515
90th Percentile £625 £663 £638
Northern Ireland median daily rate £410 £500 £406
% change year-on-year -18.00% +23.08% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +87.45% -6.98% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £25.22 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
% change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in County Antrim

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in County Antrim

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Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim 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
Belfast - 4 - - 3
Patch Management
Northern Ireland

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) IT Support
1 3 (75.00%) Support Officer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) HND
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler