Patch Management Contracts in Manchester

Patch Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 95 112
Rank change year-on-year +21 +17 +23
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.066% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.076% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £323 - £479
25th Percentile £356 £381 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £570
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -32.02% +42.50%
75th Percentile £481 £394 £1,650
90th Percentile £507 - -
North West median daily rate £350 £388 £400
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in Manchester

Patch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in Manchester

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in Manchester

Patch Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in Manchester

Patch Management
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton - 1 £300 -
Patch Management
North West

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Tanium
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds