Patch Management Contracts in the North of England

Patch Management
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Patch Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Patch Management over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 193 214
Rank change year-on-year +19 +21 -39
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 9 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.19% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.29% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 21
10th Percentile - £200 -
25th Percentile £188 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £465 £420
Median % change year-on-year -58.06% +10.71% +15.86%
75th Percentile £250 £580 £473
90th Percentile £336 £1,520 £488
England median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Patch Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,950 5,140 6,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.44% 90.62% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 3,555 4,654
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £565
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 204 268
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.85 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +50.87% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.05 £35.86
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £60.82
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%

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

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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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire +25 6 £195 -59.59% 2
North East - 2 £195 - 3
North West +16 1 £388 -13.89% 5
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 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Mobile Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) CMDB
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL
1 6 (66.67%) Service Management
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 3 (33.33%) Information Security
2 3 (33.33%) ITSM
2 3 (33.33%) Kanban
2 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GRC
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) iManage
3 1 (11.11%) Intapp