Security Patching Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Security Patching
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Security Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £65 - -
75th Percentile £69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £257 - £400
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Security Patching 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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 201 127 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 82.04% 85.81% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 72 83
10th Percentile £160 £351 £313
25th Percentile £303 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £699
90th Percentile £731 £626 £736
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 18 65
10th Percentile £33.41 £17.95 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £25.29 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.96 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.83% -31.20% +5.88%
75th Percentile £69.40 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £48.43
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £25.60
% change year-on-year +40.63% +25.00% -31.73%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Patching relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Security Patching job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Security Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) IT Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared