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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 115 141
Rank change year-on-year +2 +26 +30
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.053% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.062% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £95
25th Percentile - £485 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £243
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +101.95% -40.09%
75th Percentile - £495 £343
90th Percentile - - £400
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £419
% change year-on-year -5.56% +7.46% -5.05%

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 1,459 1,617 2,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.24% 86.42% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 984 1,462
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £603 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 46 58
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.63 £13.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.96
90th Percentile £37.00 £51.50 £75.03
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

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
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
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 18 September 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 - 3 £500 - 1
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%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) 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%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
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%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) FinOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) McAfee
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam