Patch Management Contracts in the Midlands

Patch Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 101 120 158
Rank change year-on-year +19 +38 +35
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 10 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.52% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.57% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile - £320 £309
25th Percentile - £322 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £350 £413
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -15.15% -
75th Percentile £424 £413 £504
90th Percentile £552 £435 £600
England median daily rate £413 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -15.38% +21.88% -7.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +11 10 £210 -40.00% 12
Patch Management
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (40.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) SSL
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) VLAN
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
1 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Release Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) CentOS
3 2 (20.00%) Debian
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (20.00%) Log Aggregation
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (20.00%) Security Patching
2 2 (20.00%) Server Management
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Validation
2 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Nessus
1 2 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Sophos
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Aruba