Patch Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Patch Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Patch Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.75% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £293 - -
25th Percentile £450 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.67%
75th Percentile £469 - £488
90th Percentile £499 - -
England median daily rate £425 £450 £413
% change year-on-year -5.56% +9.09% -7.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 683 667 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.59% 83.38% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 414 538
10th Percentile £221 £263 £213
25th Percentile £340 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -9.55% +6.99%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £628 £629 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Patch Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Patch Management

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Patch Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Patch Management

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Nottinghamshire - 5 £463 - 4
Leicestershire - 1 £195 - 1
Patch Management
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Head of IT
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Identity Management
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (50.00%) Line Management
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Samsung