Patch Management Contract Job Trends in Poole

Patch Management
Dorset > Poole

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Poole requiring Patch Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Poole 4.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Dorset median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Poole

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 Poole.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Poole 95.45% 90.91% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 4
10th Percentile £289 £507 £563
25th Percentile £328 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £715
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -23.08% +14.40%
75th Percentile £488 - £735
90th Percentile £510 £603 £744
Dorset median daily rate £437 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.56% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.50 -
Dorset median hourly rate £61.73 £15.50 £15.62
% change year-on-year +298.27% -0.77% -72.25%

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Poole 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware