Patch Management Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Patch Management
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Patch Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.08% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £235 - -
25th Percentile £240 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £253 - -
75th Percentile £262 - -
90th Percentile £266 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £253 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 254 262 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 87.89% 85.62% 92.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 191 405
10th Percentile £229 £250 £277
25th Percentile £350 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -9.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £438 £483 £525
% change year-on-year -9.51% -7.91% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 13
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.83 £13.57
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% +28.05% +38.98%
75th Percentile - £36.19 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.12 £28.80
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +46.34% +32.26%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Patch Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Patch Management job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Patch Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Patch Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (33.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau Desktop
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau Server
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Security Patching
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) Tanium
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) VMware