Patch Management Contracts in Gloucestershire

Patch Management
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 57 51
Rank change year-on-year +25 -6 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Patch Management 5 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.82% 0.66% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 0.77% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £316 - -
25th Percentile £322 £460 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £470 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% - -
75th Percentile £361 £480 -
90th Percentile £382 - -
South West median daily rate £350 £344 £500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -31.25% +53.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 240 388 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.27% 85.84% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 211 271
10th Percentile £221 £363 £375
25th Percentile £350 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £675
90th Percentile £735 £738 £748
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 34 47
10th Percentile £15.31 £22.50 £31.80
25th Percentile £26.85 £28.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.52 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -49.98% +130.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £84.04
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +18.18%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in Gloucestershire

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Patch Management
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester +3 5 £338 -28.19% 1
Patch Management
South West

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (60.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) WAAS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) WSUS
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (40.00%) vMotion
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) VMware