Patch Management Contracts in Scotland

Patch Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 117 159
Rank change year-on-year +5 +42 +14
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.097% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £516 £465 £93
25th Percentile £541 £468 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £483 £250
Median % change year-on-year +21.76% +93.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £641 £493 £356
90th Percentile £669 £494 £405
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,586 1,803 2,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.26% 87.19% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 1,108 1,728
10th Percentile £255 £213 £250
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% -4.16% -
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 88 64
10th Percentile £16.37 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.38 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.62 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +42.17% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £49.44 £33.13
90th Percentile £52.82 £61.28 £60.09
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in Scotland

Patch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in Scotland

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Edinburgh - 2 £500 - 6
Patch Management
UK

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CodeCommit
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) FinOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle