Security Patching Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Security Patching
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Security Patching skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 164 185
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 +63
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 14 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.35% 0.024% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.029% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 8
10th Percentile - - £290
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £250 £350
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -28.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £540 - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
England median daily rate £490 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +8.89% +12.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 - £63.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Security Patching 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 3,527 3,477 4,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.07% 83.94% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,276 2,032 3,011
10th Percentile £268 £300 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £680 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 182 203
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.67 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.59 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +27.27% +36.61%
75th Percentile £36.19 £51.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.56 £69.98 £61.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +47.41%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in the North of England

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Patching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Patching

Security Patching
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Patching in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Patching in the North of England

Security Patching
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Patching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Patching

Security Patching
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 Security Patching within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Yorkshire -2 13 £400 +60.00% 3
North West - 1 £450 - 2
Security Patching
England

Security Patching
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:

Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Entra ID
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
General
1 13 (92.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Support Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) iPhone
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
1 3 (21.43%) Smartphone
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Mac OS
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Customer Service
2 10 (71.43%) Service Delivery
3 9 (64.29%) Service Desk Management
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 4 (28.57%) ITSM
5 3 (21.43%) ITIL
5 3 (21.43%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (21.43%) Service Management
6 1 (7.14%) Change Management
6 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (7.14%) Patch Management
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Analysis
6 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
6 1 (7.14%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bash
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) ACSP
1 12 (85.71%) ACTC
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) ServiceNow
2 12 (85.71%) Apple
2 12 (85.71%) Microsoft