Patch Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Patch Management
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 61 84
Rank change year-on-year -22 +23 +3
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.46% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.37% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile - £566 £674
25th Percentile £575 £572 £691
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -16.07% +27.27%
75th Percentile £625 £597 £700
90th Percentile - £599 £701
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £588 £700
% change year-on-year -8.51% -16.07% +47.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 882 541 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 81.82% 92.16% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 342 505
10th Percentile £375 £354 £350
25th Percentile £458 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £538 £583
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -7.80% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £620 £651
90th Percentile £748 £669 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +7.47% -6.95% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 20 32
10th Percentile £35.22 - £15.13
25th Percentile £71.22 £14.75 £55.41
Median hourly rate £85.00 £24.13 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +252.33% -60.84% -5.41%
75th Percentile £101.92 £55.00 £75.40
90th Percentile £106.50 £59.08 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.50 £32.31 £61.60
% change year-on-year +152.24% -47.55% +2.67%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Patch Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Patch Management job vacancy trend in Reading

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Patch Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Patch Management

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Project Assurance Manager
1 4 (80.00%) Project Manager
1 4 (80.00%) Security Assurance Manager
1 4 (80.00%) Security Manager
1 4 (80.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Budget Management
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Programme Delivery
1 4 (80.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CISM
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
1 4 (80.00%) PMI Certification
1 4 (80.00%) PMP
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
1 4 (80.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) VMware