Patch Management Contracts in the North of England

Patch Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 145 176 202
Rank change year-on-year +31 +26 +10
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 21 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.22% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 16
10th Percentile £188 - -
25th Percentile £225 £188 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £195 £425
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -54.12% +7.59%
75th Percentile £355 £250 £571
90th Percentile £420 £336 £1,325
England median daily rate £413 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -15.38% +21.88% -7.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the North of England

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +31 15 £350 -9.68% 4
North East +1 3 £195 - 1
Yorkshire +4 2 £268 +37.18% 4
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (19.05%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) DHCP
1 8 (38.10%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) NAS
2 2 (9.52%) Network Security
2 2 (9.52%) SAN
3 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.76%) WAAS
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Administrator
1 6 (28.57%) VMWare Administrator
1 6 (28.57%) Wintel Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 4 (19.05%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (19.05%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Desktop Support
2 4 (19.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Mobile Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Support Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Clustering
1 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (85.71%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 7 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (23.81%) Linux
6 3 (14.29%) CentOS
7 2 (9.52%) AIX
7 2 (9.52%) HPUX
7 2 (9.52%) Solaris
7 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
7 2 (9.52%) Unix
8 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
8 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) ITIL
2 6 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (23.81%) High Availability
4 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Service Management
5 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 3 (14.29%) Resource Management
5 3 (14.29%) User Experience
5 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (9.52%) Application Packaging
6 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
6 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
6 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) Perl
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (80.95%) Active Directory
2 11 (52.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
5 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (9.52%) KVM
7 1 (4.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
7 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 4 (19.05%) SCCM
3 3 (14.29%) Ansible
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (14.29%) NetApp OnCommand
3 3 (14.29%) Puppet
3 3 (14.29%) vMotion
3 3 (14.29%) WSUS
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.76%) Nagios
5 1 (4.76%) NetBackup
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.76%) Terraform
5 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (52.38%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (9.52%) Tanium
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Commvault
5 1 (4.76%) Dell
5 1 (4.76%) HP
5 1 (4.76%) IBM
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.76%) Veritas