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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 115 143
Rank change year-on-year +7 +28 +35
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 10 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.51% 0.59% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.73% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile - £299 £309
25th Percentile - £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £319 £400
Median % change year-on-year -30.98% -20.31% -20.00%
75th Percentile £253 £370 £478
90th Percentile £273 £413 £600
England median daily rate £400 £444 £400
% change year-on-year -9.86% +10.94% -5.99%

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 1,747 2,205 2,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.28% 81.91% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,487 2,014
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.03% +4.74%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 169 102
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.41% +27.41%
75th Percentile £25.11 £33.25 £38.96
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £57.25
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

Patch Management
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

Patch Management
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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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

Patch Management
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 22 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 +6 10 £220 -30.98% 12
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
1 2 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 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 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
1 2 (20.00%) Software Packaging
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) CentOS
2 2 (20.00%) Debian
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) RBAC
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Nessus
2 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