Patch Management Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Patch Management
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Patch Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.12% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +242.86%
East of England median daily rate £286 - £350
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 638 307 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 78.96% 85.04% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 146 297
10th Percentile £260 £306 £246
25th Percentile £413 £413 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £428
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +21.35% -18.57%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £609
90th Percentile £738 £675 £725
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.90% +5.16% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 96 258
10th Percentile £16.42 £27.96 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £47.50 £38.12
Median hourly rate £22.68 £65.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.51% +19.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £77.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £81.50
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -60.00% +44.28% +43.85%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Patch Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Patch Management job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Server Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware