Patch Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Patch Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Patch Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 115 120
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +42
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.18% 0.18% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £290 - £465
25th Percentile £331 - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +3.63% +93.00%
75th Percentile £425 - £493
90th Percentile £440 - £494
UK median daily rate £500 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +12.50%

All Process & 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 1,883 1,557 1,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 83.13% 91.86% 87.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 901 1,098
10th Percentile £288 £250 £213
25th Percentile £381 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 76 67
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.59 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.30 £13.82
Median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +2.09% +6.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £25.15 £40.94
90th Percentile £77.00 £28.19 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Patch Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in Scotland

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Patch Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Patch Management

Patch Management
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 21 July 2026. 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 -3 2 £450 -10.00% 1
Glasgow - 1 £400 - 1
Dundee - 1 £275 -
Patch Management
UK

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) FinOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) HND
1 1 (25.00%) Postgraduate
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
1 1 (25.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat