Patch Management Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Patch Management
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Patch Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 50 69
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 0
Contract jobs citing Patch Management 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.75% 0.66% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.73% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £238 £327 -
25th Percentile £313 £336 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £200
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +75.00% -66.67%
75th Percentile £500 £357 £205
90th Percentile £508 £361 £276
South East median daily rate £300 £485 £400
% change year-on-year -38.14% +21.25% -23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 362 413 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 90.05% 90.17% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 287 479
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £250 £262 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £463 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -10.19% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £678 £653 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 15 35
10th Percentile £25.15 £16.07 £19.20
25th Percentile £28.25 - £45.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -60.77% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.45 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.02
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

Patch Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Patch Management job vacancy trend in Surrey

Patch Management
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Patch Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Patch Management in Surrey over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Patch Management in Surrey

Patch Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Patch Management
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Camberley - 2 £475 - 1
Leatherhead - 1 £195 -
Patch Management
South East

Patch Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) GPFS
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Mellanox
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) Solarflare
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft