Patch Management Contracts in the South East

Patch Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 165 201
Rank change year-on-year +39 +36 +16
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 16 28 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.52% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.61% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 13
10th Percentile £194 £363 £205
25th Percentile £245 £383 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% +16.28%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £519
90th Percentile £575 £675 -
England median daily rate £400 £413 £400
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,732 4,582 4,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.40% 84.35% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 2,665 3,453
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 218
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -4.04% +130.23%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Patch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Patch Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Thames Valley +39 5 £438 +16.67% 6
Berkshire +34 5 £438 -10.26% 4
Hampshire +15 3 £550 +4.76% 2
Surrey +13 3 £195 -55.68% 1
West Sussex +15 2 £550 +10.00%
Kent - 2 £425 - 2
East Sussex -2 1 - -
Patch Management
England

Patch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DHCP
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Desktop Support
3 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Mobile Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Deskside Support
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Windows Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (12.50%) Solaris
4 2 (12.50%) Unix
4 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.25%) Android
5 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Service Management
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (12.50%) High Availability
3 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 2 (12.50%) ITSM
3 2 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (12.50%) Runbook
3 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (12.50%) Threat Detection
3 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bash
1 2 (12.50%) Perl
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (12.50%) vSphere
4 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (12.50%) SCOM
2 2 (12.50%) SELinux
2 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 3 (18.75%) Symantec
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) McAfee
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 2 (12.50%) Veritas
5 1 (6.25%) Altiris
5 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
5 1 (6.25%) Qualys