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 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 114 127 159
Rank change year-on-year +13 +32 +11
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.090% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.10% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £465 £77
25th Percentile £663 £468 £101
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £483 £155
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% +211.01% +14.00%
75th Percentile £688 £493 £221
90th Percentile - £494 £254
UK median daily rate £425 £483 £400
% change year-on-year -11.92% +20.63% -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 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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
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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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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) SLA