Patch Management Contracts in the South West

Patch Management
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Patch Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Patch Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 145 155
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -23
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 7 29 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.22% 0.79% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.88% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 9
10th Percentile £283 - £305
25th Percentile £294 £200 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £275 £440
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -37.50% +35.38%
75th Percentile £356 £325 -
90th Percentile £368 £400 -
England median daily rate £500 £400 £440
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +2.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Patch Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,642 3,282 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.87% 89.53% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 2,410 2,334
10th Percentile £220 £311 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 344 193
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.97
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Patch Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Patch Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Patch Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Gloucestershire -7 5 £325 +30.00%
Bristol +18 1 £300 -25.00% 2
Wiltshire 0 1 £350 -30.00%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAAS
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Desktop Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Desktop Support
1 4 (57.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) CMDB
1 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows 10
3 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Antivirus Management
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security
2 4 (57.14%) Line Management
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (57.14%) Preventative Maintenance
2 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) BCP
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Compliance Management
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Software Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) BEA
2 1 (14.29%) VMware