Patch Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Patch Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Patch Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.28% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 905 545 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.74% 95.78% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 365 193
10th Percentile £375 £304 £314
25th Percentile £440 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -10.64%
75th Percentile £596 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £509 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +7.24% -8.65% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £14.66 £15.05
25th Percentile - £15.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.87 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% -10.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile - £20.44 £21.50
90th Percentile - £25.15 £21.80
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.30 £18.87 £12.83
% change year-on-year -3.02% +47.08% -37.41%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Patch Management job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Control-M
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) BMC
2 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Tanium