Patch Management Contracts in the North West

Patch Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 105 136 141
Rank change year-on-year +31 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 15 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.76% 0.036% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.042% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 14
10th Percentile £296 - -
25th Percentile £313 £381 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £383 £394 £577
90th Percentile £446 - £1,455
England median daily rate £413 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -15.38% +21.88% -7.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire - 7 £350 - 1
Manchester +21 5 £425 +9.68% 3
Cumbria - 3 £275 -
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (26.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) DHCP
1 8 (53.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) NAS
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) WAAS
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Administrator
1 6 (40.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 6 (40.00%) Wintel Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Clustering
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (46.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (26.67%) Linux
6 3 (20.00%) CentOS
7 2 (13.33%) AIX
7 2 (13.33%) HPUX
7 2 (13.33%) Solaris
7 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (13.33%) Unix
8 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
8 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (33.33%) High Availability
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 3 (20.00%) User Experience
4 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (13.33%) Application Packaging
5 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
5 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
5 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
5 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Change Management
6 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
6 1 (6.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Bash
1 2 (13.33%) Perl
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (46.67%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (40.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (13.33%) KVM
7 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
7 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (20.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 3 (20.00%) SCCM
2 3 (20.00%) vMotion
2 3 (20.00%) WSUS
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (13.33%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (6.67%) Nagios
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) Tanium
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds