Security Patching Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Security Patching
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Security Patching skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 13 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.16% - 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% - 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - £350
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 539 620 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.68% 84.58% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 406 695
10th Percentile £304 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £638
90th Percentile £650 £650 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 24 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £15.60 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.52% -17.92% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £38.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.50 £15.68 £18.00
% change year-on-year +62.63% -12.89% -10.00%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Security Patching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in Leeds

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Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in Leeds over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in Leeds

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Patching

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Entra ID
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Support Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) iPhone
1 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
1 3 (23.08%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Mac OS
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Customer Service
2 9 (69.23%) Service Delivery
2 9 (69.23%) Service Desk Management
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
3 4 (30.77%) ITSM
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (23.08%) Service Management
5 1 (7.69%) Change Management
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) ACSP
1 12 (92.31%) ACTC
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 12 (92.31%) Apple
2 12 (92.31%) Microsoft